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Beer brewhouse

Quality control for beer brewers & breweries

All processes in the beer production must be designed to ensure continuously high product quality

Beer is brewed using naturally grown products that vary from year to year and from harvest to harvest. The brewer must react to these changes to produce a beer of stable quality, and moreover, the beer must also taste the same year after year in order to meet the customer's expectations. To hit this moving target, a lot of experience is necessary. And that is the art of brewing beer.

  • ~2

    billion hectolitres

    of beer were produced worldwide in 2019.
    Consistent and stable product quality is key for all breweries. Benefit from Endress+Hauser’s competence and experience to achieve this goal.
    Sources: www.statista.com

Our offering

Endress+Hauser is here to help you run your brewing process consistently on a high-quality level day and night. Our state-of-the-art sensor technology supports the brewing industry. Constantly improved accuracy of process sensors, along with high repeatability enables you to run your process in the most efficient manner. Our offering stands for:

  • Stable beer quality

  • Reliable process instrumentation

  • Efficient use of raw materials

Applications

Brewhouse

Efficient conversion of starch into malt sugar must be ensured. To find the right moment within the certain processes, innovative and accurate measurement technologies are crucial.

Quality control in the brewhouse
Our expertise in the field

Endress+Hauser offers the largest product portfolio to optimize every single processes in your brewhouse.

  • Ensure highest reliability and accuracy using non-glass pH sensors like CPS77E with Memosens technology and retractable holders.

  • To see the real yield, the multi-frequency Coriolis mass flowmeter Promass Q provides temperature compensated flow, totalized value and totalized Brix or Plato° values even in entrained gas applications.

  • Rely on highest reliablity in your mash tun level measurement using the temperature compensated Deltapilot FMB50 hydrostatic level sensor . Remote electronics make access easy.

  • Optimize raw material usage by adding liquified adjuncts and dextrose with high accuracy. The Coriolis mass flowmeter Promass F100 provides the best temperature stability and precise measurement.

Fermentation

The goal of fermentation is to convert the malt sugar into alcohol. Reliable measurement of temperature, extract, and alcohol as well as monitoring the fermentation process are crucial to ensure consistent quality batch after batch.

Beer quality control performed by two brewers
Our expertise in the field

High quality RTDs in hygienic design combined with ultra-fast response time guarantee optimum temperature control. Continuous measurement of all relevant parameters in the fermentation process provides laboratory-accurate and reliable information in real time, thus enabling precise process control.

Filtration

The major challenge of the conventional filtration process is related to the diatomaceous earth filtration because the diatomaceous earth can vary in quality. It is problematic for handling and disposal since it is hazardous and generates large amounts of effluent.

Sight glass in beer filtration
Our expertise in the field

Differential pressure is a common indicator for filter performance. Conventional DP transmitters or electronic DP systems provide the needed reliability.

Color based in-line detection of beer types

Breweries often produce many different types of beer. It is quite a challenge to keep a clear overview in production to ensure proper filling.

Process photometer operated by a woman
Our expertise in the field

To ensure production runs smoothly and to reduce beer loss, manufacturers must, where possible, distinguish the individual beer types automatically and directly inline. Dual-channel photometers are used for the measurement, making it possible to analyze color absorbance according to EBC guidelines. Together with a conductivity measurement, the individual types can be identified.

Cleaning in place (CIP) optimization

CIP concentration is critical to food safety but also has big impact on the use of detergent and wastewater costs.

Instruments in the CIP process
Our expertise in the field

Highly accurate conductivity measurement ensures the exact calculation of the required concentration. Level measurement of aggressive chemicals can be solved using different options depending on tank size and user preference.

Learn more about how to improve your brewing processes

Process instrumentation in the beer fermentation process ©Endress+Hauser

Fermentation process in the beer production. Reliable inline process instrumentation to ensure a stable product quality.

Process instrumentation in the beer maturation and filtration ©Endress+Hauser

Maturation and filtration process with all relevant measuring parameters

  • Process instrumentation in the beer fermentation process
  • Process instrumentation in the beer maturation and filtration

Meet an expert

"In my job as an Industry Manager I’m committed to helping you ensure product quality and taste. Working together, we do what it takes to further improve your quality control process."

Matthias Schützeberg

Industry Development Manager - Food & Beverage, Endress+Hauser Group Services AG

Benefits

Trust our reliable instruments for quality control and quality assurance in your brewery, that supplies the necessary data for ideal processes, supports suitable solutions for tracking and tracing your beer and minimizes product losses. Our experienced team of industry and application experts helps you select the right process instrumentation for your critical parameters.

  • 52 weeks

    stable product quality and processes thanks to best-fit instrumentation for your critical parameters

  • 30%

    less water and chemicals used in your CIP process

  • 100%

    compliance to industry standards and regulations

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Browse through our portfolio!

  • Analytics - We help you to improve quality while reducing operational costs

    Analysis

    Analysis

    Water, beverages, dairy products, chemicals or pharmaceuticals have to be analyzed every day. Choose the device best suited to your process needs from our comprehensive product portfolio.

  • Flow measurement

    Flowmeter

    Flowmeter

    Water, natural gas, steam, mineral oil, chemicals are some of the fluids that have to be measured day in, day out. Select the flowmeter best suited to your process needs.

  • Field of Applications Level

    Level

    Level

    Continuous level measurement and point level detection in liquids and bulk solids

  • Field of Application Pressure

    Pressure

    Pressure

    Powerful instruments for process pressure, differential pressure, level and flow.

  • Endress+Hauser offer appropriate software solutions for all branches of industry.

    Software

    Software

    Apart from all relevant measuring and system technologies, we also offer appropriate software for all branches of industry that provide to run your operating processes at its full potential.

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  • Key visual temperature

    Temperature measurement

    Temperature measurement

    Thermometers and transmitters for the process industry

  • Service portfolio

    Instrumentation services

    Instrumentation services

    Maximize plant performance, minimize OPEX, increase uptime, all with compliance. Partner with Endress+Hauser instrumentation services.

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