Establishing a brewery necessitates a holistic approach, encompassing facility planning, brewing processes, brewery equipment selection, safety regulations, environmental compliance, and market positioning. With extensive expertise in the food and beverage brewing equipment sector, Tiantai adheres rigorously to industry standards and leverages years of practical experience in brewery project execution. We have compiled a comprehensive brewery equipment list and essential considerations for brewery construction to provide professional and thorough guidance for your project.
I. Brewery Equipment List
From an equipment layout perspective, breweries require the following systems for equipment installation:
Raw Material System
Raw Material Storage System: Ensures safe storage and quantitative transfer of brewing raw materials.
Malt Milling Equipment: Performs destoning, iron removal, and dust removal of raw materials, controlling malt particle size.
Brewhouse System
Brewhouse System: The wort production stage, encompassing mashing, lautering, boiling (kettle), and whirlpool processes.
Spent Grain Handling System: Facilitates rapid collection, temporary storage, and conveyance of spent grains post-filtration.
Plate and Frame Heat Exchanger: Cools the boiled wort.
Beer Fermentation System
Fermenter: Provides precise temperature and pressure control for beer fermentation.
Yeast Propagation: Cultivates high-activity, premium yeast strains.
Yeast Recovery: Enables the efficient recycling of yeast.
Beer Filtration System
Centrifugal Filtration: Effectively separates yeast and cold break from the beer.
Diatomite Filtration: Removes fine impurities from beer using a DE coating.
Membrane Filtration: Meets high-precision filtration requirements, with a range of membrane pore sizes available to meet production needs.
Beer Filling and Packaging System
Filling Machine: Accommodates diverse packaging formats, including glass bottles, tin cans, aluminum cans, and kegs.
Packaging Machine: Completes labeling and case packing for bottles/cans/kegs, enabling automated packaging processes.
Auxiliary Equipment System
Steam System: Provides a stable heat source for production processes and sterilization of various piping systems.
Compressed Air System: Meets the pneumatic control demands of equipment and, after treatment, can be utilized in production processes such as fermentation and filling.
Refrigeration System: Fulfills temperature control, cooling, and sterilization requirements throughout food and beverage processing.
Water Treatment System: Efficiently executes multi-stage purification processes tailored to different raw water qualities.
COā System: Supplies a clean and stable source of COā for carbonation and filling of beer and carbonated beverages.
Wastewater Treatment System: Effectively removes various pollutants, ensuring compliance with core control indicators such as COD and BODā .
II. Considerations for Building a Brewery
Establishing a brewery is more than just acquiring equipment; it’s a systematic engineering project. Here are the key steps and considerations from preliminary planning to late-stage operations:
Full Process Layout Design
Smooth Logistics: The layout must follow the sequence of “raw material intakeāproductionāpackagingāfinished product output” to avoid logistical backflows and minimize personnel and material handling distances.
Scalability: Scientifically reserve space for production expansion and equipment upgrades, balancing current production adaptability with long-term development flexibility.
Zonal Protection: The fermentation area should be separated from the brewing area to prevent cross-contamination and production risks, ensuring the stability and safety of the production process.
Site and Energy
Site Selection: Comprehensively consider the logistics costs associated with the plant’s location, balancing transportation efficiency with operational economics.
Water and Power Supply: Sufficient industrial water, steam (or electric heating systems), and a stable power supply are essential.
Safety and Compliance
Fire and Explosion Prevention: Breweries must be equipped with fire alarms, extinguishers, and ventilation systems, and conduct regular fire drills.
Environmental Emissions: Wastewater treatment facilities are required to prevent forced shutdowns due to non-compliant wastewater discharge.
Quality Control: Establish a comprehensive system for raw material inspection, process monitoring, and finished product testing to prevent contamination and quality incidents.
Time and Supply Chain Management
Construction Schedule: The construction period is typically long and requires advanced timeline planning. Particularly for equipment delivery and installation, close communication with suppliers is crucial, allowing ample time for installation and commissioning. As a professional equipment manufacturer, Tiantai proactively collaborates with clients on overall project planning, precisely defining timelines for equipment production, logistics, on-site installation, and commissioning. We clarify responsibilities and deadlines for each phase, assigning dedicated project managers for end-to-end tracking and real-time communication with clients and all project stakeholders. This allows us to anticipate and mitigate potential schedule risks related to logistics, site readiness, and construction coordination. For equipment installation and commissioning, we allocate sufficient flexible periods and deploy experienced technical teams for on-site services to efficiently advance the entire installation, commissioning, and trial production process, ensuring precise equipment deployment and on-time production startup. This maximizes project construction pace, making clients’ schedules more controllable and efficient.
Equipment Selection: Choose appropriate equipment scales (e.g., brewhouse and fermentation tank volumes) based on projected production capacity. The equipment configurations for craft breweries and breweries differ. Tiantai’s professional engineers provide one-on-one service throughout the process, developing tailored equipment configuration plans based on client investment budgets and site layouts. This customized approach ensures that equipment selection is hassle-free, highly compatible, and closely aligned with actual production needs.
Personnel and Training
Professional Talent: Recruit brewers with relevant brewing experience.
Skills Training: Ensure operators are proficient in equipment operating procedures and hygiene standards to minimize quality defects caused by human error.
Building a brewery is a “high investment, high return” project. Entrepreneurs are advised to:
Conduct Market Research First: Clearly define your product positioning (craft brewery or large-scale industrial brewery).
Seek Professional Consultants: Collaborate with experienced equipment suppliers and design institutes to optimize the process flow.
Through systematic planning and rigorous execution, a brewery can achieve a smooth startup and maintain long-term, stable operations.
We can customize high-quality brewing equipment to meet the different needs of craft breweries and industrial breweries, providing full-service support from equipment selection and customized production to installation and commissioning. If you have any questions about brewery construction, equipment selection, or other related matters, please feel free to contact us. Tiantai’s professional team will be happy to answer your questions.
