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RYE RIVER

PROJECT SPECS


JOB TITLE

24hL Brewhouse


COMPANY

Rye River


LOCATION

Kilcock Co Kildare


DURATION

8

WEEKS


OBJECTIVES

  • Commissioning Brewhouse

  • Commissioning Fermenter Farm



RYE RIVER

24hL Brewhouse


Rye River Company is a beer producer for a wide range of end users in the craft beer industry.


The facility is a 24hL Brewhouse 5 vessel, 2 utility tanks and 17 fermenters (from 24hL to 100 hL) that include 80 hardwire IOs.


Customer Requirement

  • Produce over 6 brews a day

  • Lautertun runs below 2hours

  • User-friendly HMI

  • Password-protected recipe

  • Brewhouse reporting by vessel with step-by-step breakdown of process

  • Brewhouse C.I.P.

  • Water brew to rinse each vessel individually


Brewhouse Layout (in this order)

  1. Mashtun

  2. Lautertun

  3. Wort Receiver-Kettle

  4. Whirlpool


MWCS during Project :


  • Supports the customer and mechanical contractor on the layout of pipe work.

  • Subcontracts and supervises electrical work for the Brewhouse & Tank farm.

  • Commissions of the Brewhouse at the facility, does full IO testing, and changes of hardcode setting and parameter during commissioning.

  • Creates correct recipe with master brewer to get best result of equipment time-wise & quality-wise. (flow rate, temperature, timing etc)

  • Water brew system will individually rinse each vessel of the Brewhouse. This system allows the customer to rinse the Brewhouse between beer’s change of color while in production . (e.g., dark beer to clear beer). MWCS approaches the project with the customer to explore requirements and different solutions. With the system in place, the customer can now save more than 5 hours between changes of color.



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