You want to brew great beer but face confusing choices, tight budgets, and time pressure. Delays cost revenue; poor layouts waste labor and energy. A practical turnkey brewing system brings design, build, and start-up together so you can brew sooner, safer, and smarter.
A turnkey brewery bundles brewhouse, tanks, utilities, automation, packaging, and on-site commissioning into one coordinated project. You get layout design, installation, CIP and sanitation planning, controls, and training from one supplier, so the entire process—from mash to packaging—runs smoothly with fewer hand-offs and faster time-to-first-brew.
As a Brewing Equipment Manufacturing plant, we focus on high-quality, customizable systems for startup craft teams, experienced brewers, brewpub chains, wineries, cideries, and beverage entrepreneurs. Below is your complete guide—clear, practical, and grounded in shop-floor know-how—to plan, choose, and scale a turnkey brewery with real-world reliability.
What does a turnkey brewing system include?
Nbeer Craft Brewery’s new Dayi (Chengdu) factory, set to open in July 2025 with a 15,000-ton annual capacity, will boost its craft beer production and competitiveness.
This marks the third collaboration in a decade with Meto Equipment. In 2015, Nbeer first adopted Meto’s 1,000-ton/year system—still running smoothly after nearly 10 years—laying groundwork for its hundreds of international awards.
The 2019 partnership upgrade saw Meto’s 500-liter pro equipment at the Vanke flagship store, pioneering a craft beer-catering model.
The main configurations for a turnkey brewery system:
- 麦芽制粉装置
- 5000 升 4 容器酿酒房
- 5000 升啤酒发酵罐
- 10000 升啤酒发酵罐
- CIP 装置
- 啤酒厂控制 uint
- 啤酒厂管道画廊单元
What are the design solutions for building the perfect brewery?
Every batch wort production capacity is 5000L, brewing 4~10 batches within 24 hours, and the monthly output is 160KL~400KL, the PLC control system can automatically store a variety of brewing recipes. The valve adopts a pneumatic butterfly valve, one-click operation for intelligent brewing. The volume of the fermentation tank is 5KL & 10KL; the number: 12~30.
1. Brewhouse System
The brewhouse system combines high capacity, exceptional flexibility, and intelligent management, enabling rapid production scaling to meet growing market demands. For enhanced energy efficiency, it incorporates a secondary steam condensation recovery technology to capture and reuse thermal energy.
2. Fermentation System
The Phase I 发酵系统 includes 5-ton and 10-tonfermentation tanks, enabling an annual production capacity of 3,000 tons. A Phase Il expansion is planned, which will introduce 15-ton tanks to increase the total potential capacity to 5,000 tons at full operation. For enhanced operational efficiency, a dedicated process utility gallery is installed ahead of the tanks. This gallery integrates all necessary pipelines for wort transfer, beer supply, CIP (Cleaning-in-Place), com-pressed air, CO2, and waste drainage, streamlining both equipment handling and the overall brewing process.
3.Service water tank system
Includes a 20T ice water tank,20T pure water tank, and 20Thot water tank with matching pumps. Main functions: storing and regulating brewing water, ensuring water quality stability; providing constant-tempera-ture and constant-pressure water supply for the CIP system and brewing equipment, ensuring continuous and efficient brewing operations.
4.Refrigeration system
The cooling system consists of a 20T glycol tank, a 30P chiller, and supporting pipelines. It provides precise temperature control to stabilize wort cooling, fermentation, and cold storage, preserving flavor compounds, maintaining yeast vitality, and ensuring beer quality and production efficiency.
5.CIP System
The CIP system comprises 2-ton tanks for caustic, acid, sanitizer, and hot water, complete with all associated piping and dedicated CIP pumps. This specialized design ensures automated cleaning and sterilization, maintaining aseptic brewing conditions 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
The control system, built around a Siemens PLC and an MCGS touch screen interface, enables full wireless connectivity via Wi-Fi for operation from mobile devices. This integrated solution allows for intelligent adjustment of brewing parameters, real-time equipment monitoring, automated production, and comprehensive data tracing–all essential for ensuring consistent, high-quality beer.
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.
