You want to brew exceptional beer—but choosing the right equipment, staying within budget, and meeting deadlines can be challenging. Delays reduce revenue, and inefficient layouts waste labor, energy, and valuable brewing time. A practical turnkey brewing system combines design, fabrication, and start-up support so you can brew sooner, safer, and with greater consistency.
A turnkey brewery integrates the brewhouse, fermentation and conditioning tanks, utilities, automation, packaging solutions, and on-site commissioning into one coordinated project. You receive layout planning, installation guidance, CIP and sanitation workflows, control system setup, and operator training from a single supplier—ensuring every step from mash to packaging works together seamlessly, with fewer hand-offs and a faster time-to-first-brew.
As a brewing equipment manufacturer, we specialize in high-quality, fully customizable systems for startup craft breweries, experienced production teams, brewpub chains, wineries, cideries, and beverage entrepreneurs. This guide provides a clear, practical, shop-floor-tested roadmap to help you plan, select, and expand a turnkey brewery built for real-world performance and long-term reliability.
What does a turnkey brewing system include?
The Chuizi Craft Beer Brewery , a rapidly growing brewery based in Luzhou, Sichuan, partnered with us to build a fully customized 2000L turnkey craft beer brewing facility. The goal of the project was to create a high-efficiency, intelligent, and scalable production line that could support both current market demand and future expansion plans.
The brewery With 2000L four-vessel Sudhaussystem, with a 2KL batch capacity, capable of producing 4-5 batches per day efficiently. Fermentation system includes 2T fermenters and 4T fermenters, with an annual capacity of 1,000T, and up to 1,500T at full production.
1.Malt Milling Unit
Dry milling process with malt elevator, miller, and Pipe Chain Conveyor. Capable of processing1,500-2,000kg/hour of malt. with a grist hydrator system to optimize mashing efficiency and throughput.
1. Brewhouse System
The system consists of a mash tun, lauter tun, brew kettle, and whirl pool, supported by a pneumatic spent grain discharge system and advanced automation control. It combines high capacity, flexibility, and intelligent management, with scalability to meet growing market demand.
2. Fermentation System
Die Fermentationsanlage includes 2T fermenters and 4T fermenters, with an annual capacity of 1,000T, and up to 1,500T at full production. In front of the fermentation tanks, a fermentation corridor is arranged, incorporating wort pipelines, beer pipe-lines, CIP pipelines, compressed air pipelines, CO2 pipelines, and wastewater pipelines-designed for easier operation and efficient brewing production.
Fermentation tanks are the key vessels where yeast transforms wort into beer. By precisely controlling temperature and time, they shape the beer’s unique flavor, aroma, and body.
3.Service water tank system
Service Water Tanks: Includes 6T ice water tank,6T pure water tank, 6T hot water tank, and 6T cold water tank, with supporting pumps.
Main functions: Store and regulate process water to ensure stable water quality; provide constant-temperature, constant-pressure water buffering for the CIP system and equipment operation, ensuring a continuous and efficient brewing process.
4.Refrigeration system
Refrigeration System: Includes an 8T glycol water tank,20P chiller, and supporting pipelines. The system ensures precise temperature control for wort cooling, fermentation, and cold storage, locking in fresh flavor compounds, maintaining yeast activity, and guaranteeing beer quality and production efficiency
5.CIP System
CIP System: Includes 1T caustic tank, 1T acid tank,1T disinfectant tank, 1T hot water tank, with supporting pipelines and CIP pump.
Its main role is automated cleaning and sterilization, ensuring a sterile brewing environment and improving quality and efficiency.
6.Brewery pipeline System
The brewery’s auxiliary piping system comprises dedicated lines for wort, beer transfer, yeast brink, CIP, compressed air, and CO2.
6.Control system
Control System: Includes Siemens series PLC and MCGS touch screen, supporting wireless connectivity (Wi-Fi) for integration with mobile phones and tablets. It enables intelligent control of the entire brewing process, real-time monitoring of equipment operation, auto-mated production, and data traceability-ensuring consistent and stable beer quality,
Start with Excellent Equipment and Reliable Design
If you want to be able to brew high-quality beer, please buy high-quality brewery equipment as your top priority. Brewing equipment is a place where beer is produced and a place where brewers can use their talents. Similarly, high-quality brewing equipment can also help brew delicious beer batch by batch, and it’s always the case.
Brewery equipment plays a vital role in the brewing process. Brewery equipment can help brewers to better complete the brewing process (grinding, sacchar ification, filtration, boiling, spin-down, cooling, fermentation, clarification, filtration, packaging). Excellent brewing equipment can ensure that no other problems will be encountered during the brewing process.
Building a commercial brewery has a lot of matters to consider, no matter before or after, clik here to see points that needs to pay attention after opening the brewery.
Meto Equipment provides global customers with the construction, design, and installation of customized microbrewery equipment and complete turnkey breweries in China. We have agents in many countries, they can provide you with equipment installation support, you can also visit our brewery equipment. If possible, I suggest you come to China and we will show you our production process. If you are ready to open your own brewery, please contact us for turnkey solutions and quotations for the design, construction, and installation of microbreweries, nano breweries, medium and large breweries.
