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Instek Control • Jul 12, 2017

New to Micro-Breweries



Micro-breweries normally are not automated and all their processes are done manually. They don’t have many employees. An estimate of 4000 hectoliters beer per year are produced by Micro-Breweries and they don’t see the point of investing in hygienic or any other instrumentation for their processes.


Lately these facts changed!!

Checking concentration of the cleaning agent in a bottling machine are one of the most important steps, even if you are a Micro Brewery, and very time consuming for a business with a few employees.

A Brew master from one of the Micro-Breweries explained why: “ If the cleaning agent gets diluted with water, the cleaning of the bottles is not done properly anymore. When that happens, it could take hours until we check again and notice the problem. In the meantime, the filling of bottles of course continues. The bottles which are filled in that period would not be cleaned properly. That would be a huge problem for us. We can't send out bottles if we don’t know exactly that they are clean. Otherwise our reputation could be damaged and very difficult to restore again.”

Therefore they invested in the ILM-4 Conductivity Meter from Anderson-Negele .

" We installed the ILM-4 in the filling machine and connected an optical and acoustical alarm to it. So if there is a problem we can see or hear it and immediately stop the filling process."

There is a huge growing market for small local "craft breweries" . For those of you who have a bottle filling machine, this application could be interesting as well. Contact INSTEK CONTROL for more information.

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