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Keep the passion. Upgrade your craft.

With fast and efficient clarification that respects your brew

Improve your ROI, yield and beer quality with our centrifuges for craft

When you live for beer brewing, you know that quality beer takes quality tools. Meet the Alfa Laval Brew 20 – a compact beer centrifuge specially designed for the needs of brewpubs and small microbreweries. Built with Alfa Laval’s unique Axial Hermetic Seal, it also offers a smart innovation for minimizing oxygen pickup without increasing costs.

  • Clarifier for the smallest craft brewers
  • Working capacity: 4-15 hl/h
  • Axial-Hermetic Seal for reduction of oxygen pickup
  • Simple to operate with low maintenance costs
  • Plug-and-play skid for fast, easy installation

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Get more beer from every batch, faster

With a beer centrifuge, you get up to 10% more beer from every batch, compared to traditional sedimentation. And you move faster from fermentation to finished product, boosting your capacity without having to invest in new tanks.

Adding the integrated ProCarb inline carbonation option cuts production times even more, while securing high and consistent quality. Making sure every pint is a delight to your customers.

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An investment that pays off

Increased yield and accelerated tank turnover enable you to recover your investment in as little as a year, depending on the setup and size of your brewery. Making the centrifuge a truly smart investment.
The payback graph shows how one brewery recovered their investment in just 9 months after installing a Brew 80 centrifuge:

  • Yearly production: 3500 hl
  • Suggested flow rate: 10 – 50 hl/h
  • Beer sales: € 3 per litre
  • Payback period: 0,75 years

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Craft brewers discovering the benefits of Alfa Laval technology

The secret ingredient of making great beer

Meet Christian Holmlund from Salama Brewing - it's a small but ambitious craft brewery, specializing on 'extravagant beers'. They opened just 1,5 years ago and installed Brew 20 centrifuge. Now they sell every batch before it has even been brewed. Learn about the factors behind their success and find out how a Brew 20 beer centrifuge helped them to get 10% more beer from every batch. 

 

Read the full Salama Brewing story

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“Our beer went from good to exceptional…”

Watch this video to hear from Adam DeBower, owner and founder of Austin Beerworks, about how a fully hermetic Alfa Laval centrifuge improved his brewery’s operations – and their beer. Thanks to the unique design and advanced features, along with first-class support from Alfa Laval’s leading brewery separation experts, his team has been able to take their craft beer from good to exceptional.

Reaching new peaks of profitability with Brew 20

Australia’s mountainside Jindabyne Brewing is a hyper local craft brewery with a unique focus on refreshing lagers. Sustainability is crucial to their business, and their investment in a Brew 20 has helped them to cut waste in their operations. It has also helped them to increase yield by an average of 10% – and in some cases up to 18% – giving them a base for increased profitability.

Read the full Jindabyne story

Alfa Laval Brew: solutions that grow with your brewery

Alfa Laval offers a wide range of separation technology for clarification and polishing of beer. Our craft experts can provide technology and advice to help you as your brewery grows. Visit our Brew Series homepage to learn more.

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Brew 20 

  • Clarifier for the smallest craft brewers
  • Working capacity: 4-15 hl/h
  • Axial-Hermetic Seal for reduction of oxygen pick-up
  • Simple to operate with low maintenance costs
  • Plug-and-play skid for fast, easy installation

 

 

 

 

Learn more about Brew 20

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Brew 80

  • Clarifier for small-sized craft brewers
  • Working capacity: 10-50 hl/h
  • Axial-Hermetic Seal for reduction of oxygen pick-up
  • Simple to operate with low maintenance costs
  • Plug-and-play skid for fast, easy installation
  • Turbidity triggering of solids discharge (included in upgraded Plus version)
  • Capacity control by inlet turbidity (included in upgraded Plus version)

Learn more about Brew 80

Learn more about Brew 80 Plus

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Brew 250

  • Polisher for small-sized craft brewers
  • Working capacity: 40-140 hl/h
  • Fully Hermetic Design ensures zero oxygen pick-up and low power consumption
  • Simple to operate with low maintenance costs
  • Plug-and-play skid for fast, easy installation
  • Capacity control by inlet turbidity (included in upgraded Plus version)
  • Siemens or Allen Bradley Automation (included in upgraded Plus version)

Learn more about Brew 250

Learn more about Brew 250 Plus

Brew 310

Brew 301

  • Clarifier for small-sized craft brewers
  • Working capacity: 50-180 hl/h
  • OxyStop seal for minimal oxygen pickup
  • Simple to operate with low maintenance costs
  • Plug-and-play skid for fast, easy installation
  • Siemens automation

 

 

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Your questions answered in our video guide

Whether you’ve been shopping around for a centrifuge for a long time, or have just started considering investing in one, our experts give you answers to the most important beer separation questions. Among the questions answered in our video guide are:

  • how can a centrifuge help you to improve flavours and aroma of your beer?
  • what financial benefits can you expect if you add a separator in your process?

Check out our craft brewers video guide to learn more

 

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