Keeping Breweries Clean and Green

One big way to reduce water and energy costs is during the barrel cleaning process. Steam can play a critical role in maintaining high sanitation levels, cleaning brewing utensils, and hard-to-reach areas. Steam cleaning reduces the use of environmentally harmful chemicals, further reducing risk.

Steam’s temperature makes it a natural sanitizer. Steam’s saturated vapor can penetrate better than heat alone, making it ideal for delivering its high temperatures to difficult areas–areas most often impossible to reach using boiling water or chemicals, including ozone. Steam’s benefits include:

• Deep, sterilizing penetration of wood spores (2~10mm); preserving expensive barrels from contamination, and rehydrating simultaneously
• Quick, even delivery of heat
• Substantial reduction of water and energy (<½ gal of water per barrel)
• Dry and wet steam options to meet your efficacy and environmental goals
• Superior efficacy on Brettanomyces and other yeasts, bacteria, and molds reducing risk exposure to foodborne pathogens
• Minimizes wastewater
• Swell (Rehydrate) barrels at the same time!
• Ability to sanitize up to four barrels at the same time
• Kills leftover spores in brewing equipment
• Versatile CIP, COP, SIP, SOP processes including
  • Mash tuns
  • Fermenters
  • Brite tanks
  • Serving
• Remove stickers or biofilms, unclog drains, and assist in eliminating calcified beer stone