News from the fermenting room
ECO-FERM™: Optimized quality and more capacity in the fermenting room.
Brewmasters have only limited possibilities to optimize and speed up fermentation and maturation processes. Pressure and temperature influences lead to considerable changes in the odour and taste of the finished beer.
With ECO-FERM™, GEA Brewery Systemshas developed a system that reduces the fermentation time by supporting the natural processes during fermentation. Significant time savings can be achieved without compromising beer quality.
ECO-FERM™ is the revolutionary system for jet mixing in fermentation tanks. A mixing organ without any movable parts ensures stable support of the natural bubble column in the tank resulting from the formation of CO2 during fermentation. Thus, much more active yeast cells are kept in suspension, conversion processes during fermentation are accelerated and temperature homogeneity in the fermentation tank is increased considerably.
The GEA jet mixer ensures a very gentle acceleration of the fermentation process. The jet mixing principle requires only low pump capacities and thus only minimal energy expenditure – gentle product transport was the top priority during the development.
The mixing jet stabilizes and speeds up the circulation processes in the tank, provides for even and constant fermentation temperatures throughout the vessel and improves the convection-dependent heat transfer on the tank's cooling elements. Yeast vitality is enhanced by the gentle pump process.
ECO-FERM™ provides more fermenting room capacity without increasing the tank volume.
Cleaning of the ECO-FERM™ system is carried out automatically together with the cleaning and disinfection of the fermentation tank. The circulation pump is linked to the cleaning return line and thus guarantees perfect hygienic conditions for the mixing organ and the connected circulation line.
