Custom Brewery Solutions

Building turnkey breweries is what we do best. Just ask our customers.

From 1/2 BBL to 30 BBL setups, we’ll do the work to specify and integrate all of the necessary pieces to put together your brewery. Our solutions are designed to be flexible to suit the needs of the business plan, the brewer, and the building.

Check out our Brewery Builder to get started building your turnkey brewing system today. We’ll help you design your brewery around the following components:

• Grain Handling
• Heating System – Electric, Steam, or Direct Fire
• Brew House Tanks
• Brew House Controls
• Pumps
• Glycol & Plate Chillers
• Cellar Tanks
• Cellar Controls

For more information on turnkey brewing systems, check out our webinar presented at the Virtual Brewers Conference:
Turnkey Brew Houses – VBC2020 Webinar

Choosing the right tanks to complement your brew house and controls is critical to our turnkey systems. We work closely with Stout Tanks and Kettles out of Portland, Oregon to match each brew house setup to your needs and controls. You’ll get all the upgraded features you’d expect from your tank supplier, but with the option to customize based on your controls, brewery setup, space constraints, and brewing style.

The source of heat is the heart of your brew house. Whether electric, steam, or direct/indirect fire is the best for your brewery depends on a range of factors. Your brew house size, the available utilities, and the initial and ongoing costs all need to be considered when deciding on a heat source. Check out our VBC2020 Webinar on selecting the heat source for your brewery, or keep reading for an overview.

Since 2003, we’ve been pioneers in electric brewing. Our turnkey electric systems are available in up to 15 BBL brew houses with varying levels of automation to fit your style and budget. Why electric? (visit our blog for more on electric brewing.) You might be used to brewing on a direct fire or steam system, but electric brewing has many advantages:
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• Electric heating is nearly 100% efficient. Because the heating element is submersed in the strike water or wort, all of the heat energy is transmitted directly to the liquid, not lost to heating your brewery
• Electric heating enables a compact and flexible design, great for small spaces
• Low equipment and installation costs
• Precise control for a high level of repeatability and automation
• No carbon emissions at the brewery

Steam systems are widely used for brewing systems of all sizes. We offer turnkey steam brew houses up to 30bbl with varying levels of automation. The steam systems have many advantages:
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• Go-to heat source for larger brew houses
• Flexible design for tank placement
• Higher efficiency (compared to direct fire)
• Larger heating surface area than a direct fire system
• Higher level of automation and repeatability than a direct fire system
• Ideal for spaces with limited electrical power

Our turnkey systems include low-pressure boiler sized from 5 HP to 40 HP to meet your steam demands, and come with optional return/feed unit and blow down separator to provide a full steam solution.

A lot of brewers want a more traditional heat source, and Direct (up to 10 BBL) and Indirect Fire (up to 15 BBL) systems are a great choice. Ideal where the requirements for electric or steam hear are not available, and because they don’t require a boiler, they come with a lower up-front equipment and installation cost compared to steam.

Contact us for a consultation as you start planning your brewery, and one of our Sales Systems Specialist will help you decide which heat source is right for you.

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