Craft brewing

Add our expertise and professional brewing equipment to your energy for craft brewing. Alfa Laval can help you on your unique craft brewing journey and overcome challenges. It may be the need for quality consistency, growing production target , or whether you could, actually, be doing something better? Finally, getting new equipment installed right the first time around. We have the right craft brewing equipment as well as the experience, knowledge, and shared passion to help you.

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Amazing, stand-out beers

  • Solutions for all craft brewers, by those who know their trade
  • Proven track record of improved yield and reduced water and energy consumption
  • Flexibility to enable you to quickly tap into new trends in craft brewing
  • A global service network of craft brewing specialists to support you with brewing equipment, systems and expertise.
Our proven craft brewing equipment and solutions, from individual components and process modules to turn-key projects, are designed and manufactured for independent local craft beer producers and global craft breweries to improve beer quality, optimize production and reduce costs and environmental impacts. By enabling tight control over your brewing and your costs, we can help you make amazing, stand-out beers.

Craft brewing process

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Diagrama de flujo del proceso de elaboración de cerveza artesanal
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Eliminate the challenges in the brewing process with our brewing equipment 

Improving operations is an everyday fact of life for brewers, all the way from the brewhouse to packaging. Incremental improvements to wort yields, beer loss or water usage can amount to significant savings over the long term. See how our brewing process expertise, solutions and individual components for each process block help avoid and overcome common issues in the brewing process.

 

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Brewhouse

Recover wort, reduce waste, save energy and improve brewhouse efficiency and hygiene.

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Coldblock

Recover beer, shorten beer fermentation and maturation time, improve yeast management, sampling and more in the coldblock.

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Filtering and treatment

Avoid spoilage, improve beer quality and diversify your products.

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Preparation of lines & Cleaning

Optimize cleaning and preparation of lines.

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Craft beer brewing

The craft of making beer blends complex processes with creative artistry. Bridging the gap between brewing theory and practical craft brewing comes from the experience to spot signs of trouble and the know-how to respond to them. This is where combining expertise can yield benefits stretching from the brewhouse to packaging. Issues can be controllable and avoidable, given the right brewing equipment and the right application. See our process knowledge and craft brewing solutions.

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Happy brewers

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According to Art Oestrike, president at Jackie O's, "Barrel ageing beers is a fickle business. You take this big, beautiful imperial stout or barley wine and throw it into a freshly dumped bourbon barrel and let it sit in our warehouse. A year and a half after packaging it, they start to turn sour. They don't taste good."

Watch the video to hear how Flexitherm Mini 'flipped the barrel aging programme on its head'.

 

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When quality comes first

Discover well-designed solutions for craft brewers.

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