Is any mid size brewery willing to share ideas and/or methods that they may have for automating yeast pulls? We spend hours and hours of manpower having a brewer watch yeast come from the bottom of the cylindroconical fermenter into a spent yeast container. It's is such a maddening waste of time! Seems like there must be methods for automating this simple process but I am at a loss to come up with a concrete, practical way of doing it. Can anyone offer suggestions for methods of automating yeast pulls from a concial?
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I remembered seeing this a while back. Avery brewing made a way to transfer cone to cone by weight and track the weight real time for proper pitching rates. Maybe this helps?
Thank You For Your Attention Dan Strevey, Cellar Manager Avery Brewing Company dan@averybrewing.com Questions? But Does it Work? The short answer, Yes quite well!! Using our IPA as a data set, target pitch rate of 2.8x10^7, and n=6 Avg. 2.31x10^7 SD. 4.40x10^6 Vs. our previous
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Matt
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Yes, I remember attending that seminar at the Denver CBC last year. I'm not looking for advice on pitching but for how to automate the disposal of yeast from a conical. I like the idea of a automated peristaltic pump. I'm looking into that now. Thank you Philip!Patrick Broderick
Brewmaster
North Coast Brewing Co.
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Originally posted by Patrick Broderick View PostIs any mid size brewery willing to share ideas and/or methods that they may have for automating yeast pulls? We spend hours and hours of manpower having a brewer watch yeast come from the bottom of the cylindroconical fermenter into a spent yeast container. It's is such a maddening waste of time! Seems like there must be methods for automating this simple process but I am at a loss to come up with a concrete, practical way of doing it. Can anyone offer suggestions for methods of automating yeast pulls from a concial?I hope I encouraged you!
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Optical / haze units can work pretty well, but -
Have a look at Aber instruments as well. Probably more expensive than a simple haze measuring device, but if you really want accurate viable yeast cell count, then the Aber stuff is virtually unbeatable. You still need to use PD pumps, and ideally with a flow meter as well, but they are now producing a unit for smaller breweries rather than the big guys I used to work with / for.
Details here - http://www.aber-instruments.co.uk/pr...-yeast-monitordick
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