This 20,000 HL/year brewery is a small-scale beer production facility that combines efficiency with flexibility. It can supply approximately 30 to 35 million bottles of beer, designed to meet the demand of small to medium-sized cities and surrounding areas. The brewery is capable of producing mainstream beers like Lagers on a large scale, while also being flexible enough to adapt to the production of various craft beers, catering to market trends for diversity and personalization. Our company provides a complete investment package, including product design, equipment manufacturing, project installation, and brewing technology training.
Brewery Planning & Design
- Spatial Planning: The plant layout focuses on efficiency, safety, and sustainability. Production, utility, storage, and office areas are logically distributed.
- Efficient Production Flow: The process layout follows the brewing workflow closely to minimize transfer distances and reduce energy consumption. Different hygiene zones are managed separately to prevent cross-contamination. Equipment is designed with future expansion in mind to adapt to market needs.
- Streamlined Logistics: Raw material and finished product warehouses are located next to production areas to shorten transport distances and times, boosting efficiency with automated systems.
- Sustainable Resource Planning:
- Energy: Utilizes high-efficiency motors, heat recovery systems, and clean energy sources to lower energy use.
- Water: Implements graded water management to increase recycling and reduce wastewater discharge.
- By-products: Employs technologies to reuse spent grain, waste yeast, and recovered CO2, while processing other waste responsibly.
Brewing Process Design
- Recipe Versatility: Designed to produce a wide range of beers, including Classic Lager, Wheat Beer, Stout, Fruit Beer, Tea Beer, Low/Non-Alcoholic Beer, and Functional Beer.
- Full Process Control: Covers raw material selection and calculation, parameter setting for mashing and fermentation, post-processing for beer stability, flavoring additions, and control of oxygen pickup during filling.
Capacity Planning
- Annual Capacity: 20,000 HL/year
- Operating Days: 330 days/year
- Shifts: 3 shifts/24 hours
- Daily Average Output: 60 HL
- Batches/Day: 6 batches/day
- Brewhouse Capacity: 10 HL/batch
- Brewhouse Configuration: Mash Mixer + Lauter Tun + Pre-Run Tank + Brew Kettle + Whirlpool
- Average Fermentation Cycle: 20 days
- Total Fermentation Capacity: 1,200 HL
- Fermentation Tank Setup: 20 HL * 10 units, 40 HL * 10 units, 60 HL * 10 units
- Bright Beer Tank Setup: 20 HL * 1 unit, 40 HL * 1 unit, 60 HL * 1 unit
- Max Filtration Time: 6 hours
- Filtration Capacity: 10 HL/hour
- Packaging Shifts: 7 hours/shift
Equipment List
Raw Material Handling
- Malt Silo System: 100 m³ * 2 units
- Malt Wet Milling System: >10 tons/hour
- Rice Milling System: >6 tons/hour
Brewing Equipment
- Brewhouse System: 4-vessel fully automatic brewhouse, 10 HL/batch
- Spent Grain Handling: 1,000 L spent grain tank
- Fermentation Tank System: Total 1,200 HL capacity (20 HL10, 40 HL10, 60 HL*10)
- Yeast Harvesting & Dosing System: 2,000 L * 2 units
- Yeast Propagation System: 500 L
- Centrifugation/Filtration System: >10 HL/hour
- Bright Beer Tank System: 20 HL, 40 HL, 60 HL (1 unit each)
- Flash Pasteurization System: >10 HL/hour
- Hot Water Supply System: 35 m³/hour
- Cold Water Supply System: 35 m³/hour
- Glycol/Refrigeration System: 35 m³/hour
- Brewing Water Supply System: 35 m³/hour
- Deaerated Water Supply System
- High Gravity Dilution System: >10 HL/hour
- Central Control System
- Brewhouse CIP System: 2,000 L hot caustic tank, 2,000 L hot water tank
- Fermentation CIP System: 5,000 L hot caustic tank, 5,000 L acid tank, 5,000 L sanitizer tank, 5,000 L hot water tank
Utilities
- Water Treatment System: 15 m³/hour
- Steam Supply System: 500 KG/H * 2 units
- Compressed Air Supply: 1.7 m³/min, 11 kw
- CO2 Supply System: 15 m³ liquid CO2 tank
- Electrical Supply: Cables, trays
- Pipe Rack System: Pipe bridges, supports
Packaging Hall
- Glass Bottle Filling Line
- Aluminum Can Filling Line
- Automatic Keg Washing & Filling Line
Conclusion
In conclusion, this 20,000 HL/year craft brewery solution creates a modern beer production facility that successfully combines large-scale efficiency with the ability to produce personalized craft beers. This is achieved through scientific plant planning, flexible brewing process design, and precisely matched capacity configuration.
The core value of this solution lies in its integration of mass production efficiency with craft beer quality. On one hand, standardized production processes and advanced automation systems ensure the stability and consistency of base products. On the other hand, flexible equipment layout and multi-recipe process design allow for quick responses to market demands for diverse and personalized craft beers, creating greater market opportunities and profit potential for investors.
We firmly believe that with complete equipment configuration, rigorous process design, and comprehensive technical support, this solution will help investors build a modern craft brewery that is efficient, environmentally sustainable, and produces excellent quality beer, gaining a lasting competitive advantage in the market.
Contact us today to receive a detailed brewery project proposal and brewery equipment list. Let’s build your craft brewing business together.
