A brewhouse made of glass

SUCCESS IS CALCULABLE

The guesthouse brewery "Bierhalle" in Warsaw was established by end of 2005 and within shortest time it has been developing into the most successful Polish guesthouse brewery.

In such a way as to enable them in May 2006 to icrease the yerarly output up to 5.500 hl by additional delivery of fermenting- and storage tanks from Joh. Albrecht.

The outstanding success was mainly reached due to a well directed site selection by our customer and further as a result of previous decision to use the unique, patented glass brewhouse from JOH. ALBRECHT erreicht.

Requests of the restaurant owners

For over two decades the company Joh. ALBRECHT has been one of the pioneers in developing custom-made breweries and has planned, constructed and successfully put in operation more than 75 copper and stainless steel brewhouses world-wide. Yet, after a while our customers called for something revolutionary new. Aim was to further increase the happening effects, to better introduce the subject of brewery and beer making and to offer new inspirations to the guests. The idea was born to develop a brewhouse made of glass.

Requests of the research breweries

Also the research laboratories wished to visually watch the brewing process additionally requesting a multi-functional brewhouse allowing the application of various boiling systems or lautering devices without the necessity for exchanging the entire brewhouse.

The answer

After 16 months of planning, the company JOH. ALBRECHT started the operation of the world-wide first and patented modular glass-brewhouse in November 2001 in the “Didaktische Lehr- und Versuchsbrauerei” in Kulmbach/ Germany. The glass-brewhouse combines the requests of both gastronomy and research by offering full transparency of all brewing processes through the glass cylinder and quick exchange of the single modules at any time due to flange connections allowing the application of different processing techniques.

Manifold possibilities

Due to the modular construction it is possible to quickly replace one module by another. For example, in case the altered boiling activity during direct heating shall be compared to the performance during steam heating it is possible to quickly exchange only the bottom modules without great effort and retain all other components of the plant.

Equipment options for the modular brewhouse

Output:	Alternatively 3 hl, 5 hl or 8.5 hl output.
Materials:	Hood modules from copper or stainless steel. Bottom modules made of stainless steel 1.4301. Cylinders made of borsilicate glass.
Vessel:	Steam heated via separate bottom heating zone (mash) and internal boiler (wort). Any other heating mode possible.
LaeuLauter tun:	With rotating rake, infinitely variable, with level adjustment. Closed lautering. Any other lautering mode possible.
Control:	Pneumatic control via illuminated switches. Other control modes possible like full automatic or manual control.
Energy recovery:	Via vapour condenser.
Elimination of hot break:	Via separate whirlpool.