Brewing - water

Cleaning of fermenter, maturation and dual purpose vessel

Inspect your site for:

• Adequate time allowance for tank drainage
• Does the pipework layout aid good drainage?
• Higher grade stainless steels may drain quicker
  • assess cost balance on purchase of new vessels
• Ensure water meters are in place and that water usage compares well with theoretical cleaning requirement
• Check water flows are not excessive for every tank
  • flow may vary with position in process area
• Clean immediately after processing to avoid hardening of deposits
• Consider the use of turbidity and/or conductivity probes to measure
  • cleanliness of rinses or cleaning solutions; thus one can control change to next cleaning stage
• Consider whether a “pigging” system could operate on yeast mains
  • plug that removes viscous slurries
  • potentially could greatly increase cleaning efficiency of yeast mains
• If process surfaces need defrosting, use off-peak electricity not water sprays