Product Descriptions

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Application&#;

YME Home Brew Beer Brewing Equipment is perfect for beer enthusiasts and brewers, whether you're a novice just starting to experiment with home brewing or an experienced brewer.

Compact and portable, suitable for home kitchens, garages, small storage rooms, or any other small spaces suitable for brewing.

Simple operation, easy maintenance, and user-friendly, making it the ideal first brewing equipment for beer enthusiasts at a low cost.

Fully functional, despite its small size, it retains all necessary functions. Brewers can precisely control the mashing, filtering, boiling, and whirlpool processes, providing a stable environment with constant temperature and pressure for fermentation.

Specifications&#;

Size: Customizable according to the client's site

Power Consumption: 15~30KW

Capacity: 50 liters ~ 300 liters

Material: Food-grade stainless steel 304

Power Supply: 220V/50Hz (other voltages can be customized)

Features & Functions&#;

Fully Automatic System:

Fully Automatic Control System: Equipped with a beer brewing PLC intelligent control panel, enabling one-click operation. Processes such as water addition, mashing, filtering, boiling, and whirlpool are automated.

Brewing Efficiency: 3 batches/day

Energy-saving Design: Utilizes energy-saving technology and efficient insulation materials to reduce energy consumption, saving electricity and water. YME engineers have optimized heat exchange efficiency and adjusted intelligent temperature control to ensure high-quality brewing with lower energy consumption.

Temperature Control: Capable of controlling the temperature in the mash tun, achieving step heating and insulation.

Efficient Heating System: PLC automatically controls rapid heating in the mash tun, saving brewing time.

High-quality Materials: Made of food-grade stainless steel 304. All wort pipelines, water pipelines, brewing tanks, fermenters, valves, and accessories are made of food-grade 304 stainless steel.

Multi-functional Design: Capable of performing multiple brewing steps such as mashing, fermentation, and boiling.

Safety Protection: Features overheat protection and dry burn protection during wort heating, ensuring stable wort temperature and brewer safety. Mash thermometers, boiling sensors, and fermentation temperature controllers are waterproof. The entire system includes leakage protection.

Convenient Cleaning: Detachable design for easy cleaning and maintenance.

Certifications: PED, CE, AS, ISO available.

Semi-automatic System:

Semi-automatic Control System: Equipped with a beer brewing temperature controller to monitor the brewing process.

Brewing Efficiency: 2 batches/day

Temperature Control: Capable of controlling the temperature in the mash tun, achieving step heating and insulation.

Efficient Heating System: Uses electric heating tubes for rapid heating, saving brewing time. The heating power is calculated.

High-quality Materials: Made of food-grade stainless steel 304, durable and easy to clean.

Multi-functional Design: Capable of performing multiple brewing steps such as mashing, boiling, whirlpool, and filtering.

Safety Protection: Features emergency stop function during brewing, ensuring safety. Mash thermometers, boiling sensors, and fermentation temperature controllers are waterproof. The entire system includes leakage protection.

Convenient Cleaning: Uses quick-connect clamps for detachable design, making cleaning and maintenance easy.

Certifications: PED, CE, AS, ISO available.

FAQ&#;

Q: Is this equipment suitable for beginners?
A: Yes, the equipment is simple to operate, and the intelligent control panel provides a convenient user experience, making it easy for beginners to use. YME offers brewing training and equipment usage training to help beginners quickly become familiar with the brewing system.

Q: What is the capacity of the equipment?
A: The equipment's capacity ranges from 50 liters, 100 liters, 200 liters, to 300 liters, suitable for home use and small pubs. Options available include 2 vessels, 3 vessels, and 4 vessels.

Q: How do I clean the equipment?
A: Use hot water and cleaning solutions to clean the small mash tun, water tank, etc. A cleaning pump pumps hot water and cleaning solution into the pipelines, where the high-pressure liquid flushes out wort residue and waste. Each tank has a cleaning ball on top. When high-pressure water passes through the cleaning ball, it rotates rapidly to clean the entire tank thoroughly.

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Q: What is the voltage of the equipment?
A: The standard equipment is 220V/50Hz, but we can customize other voltages as needed.

Q: Which one should I choose, fully automatic or semi-automatic?
A:

Price: Fully automatic systems are more expensive, as they come with more sensors and pneumatic valves.

Functionality: Both fully automatic and semi-automatic systems can brew beer without affecting the quality.

Operation: Fully automatic systems require only PLC control screen operations for the entire brewing process. Semi-automatic systems offer more hands-on brewing experience.

Maintenance: Both systems are easy to maintain, with complete operational guidance provided by the YME team.

Efficiency: Fully automatic systems are more efficient as PLC automation saves time on complex operations.

If your budget allows and you prefer automated brewing, choose the fully automatic system. If you enjoy hands-on brewing, opt for the semi-automatic system.

Services and Quality Assurance&#;

Designing
YME engineers communicate one-on-one with you, offering brewing system layout and brewing process design. Customization is based on your brewing habits and beer types.

Manufacturing
All brewing equipment is produced in the YME factory, including mashing equipment, fermenters, and storage tanks. Our brewing equipment manufacturing process adheres to international standards like PED, AS, CE, and ISO, using high-quality 304 and 316 stainless steel to ensure durability and stability. Before production, each brewing equipment drawing is reviewed. The YME production department breaks down the production tasks and schedules for the brewing systems and mashing equipment, ensuring excellent performance and reliability during brewing. Our manufacturing team has extensive experience and expertise, with an average of over 10 years of experience. They possess exceptional processing skills and are well-versed in brewing processing technology, often providing improvement suggestions for design plans.

Inspection
After manufacturing, each brewing equipment undergoes strict inspection processes. We perform pressure tests on stainless steel tanks, using 1.5 times the design pressure as the test standard, ensuring safety and reliability during brewing. Wort pipelines in the mashing equipment and fermenters undergo tightness tests, weld quality checks, and pressure tests, ensuring no leaks and compliance with high brewing standards. Each piece of mashing equipment and fermenter meets customer requirements and international quality standards before leaving the factory. We thoroughly clean all stainless steel tanks and pipelines using YME (Ningbo Yuanlong Machinery Equipment) proprietary cleaning and water treatment systems. High-pressure automatic spraying and manual cleaning ensure every detail is clean and hygienic, ready for immediate use upon delivery. Additionally, we offer third-party inspection services, allowing customers to commission SGS or other authoritative agencies to inspect the equipment, ensuring worry-free quality.

Transportation
To ensure brewing equipment is undamaged during transportation, we use professional packaging and fixing methods. All brewing equipment is shockproof packed and securely fixed in sturdy wooden boxes or iron frames. For large brewhouse equipment, we disassemble and package each component for safe transport. We cooperate with international logistics companies like COSCO, FedEx, MAERSK, MSC, and EVERGREEN, offering various transportation options such as sea, air, and land freight. This ensures equipment arrives safely and on time at the customer's designated location, maintaining optimal condition throughout the transportation process.

Installation
Our services extend beyond manufacturing and transportation to include professional brewery installation, design, and construction services. Experienced engineers are dispatched to the customer's site for equipment installation and commissioning, ensuring smooth operation. The installation process includes:

Equipment Placement: Positioning equipment according to the brewery layout, ensuring it meets factory design requirements.

Component Assembly: Gradually assembling mashing equipment, fermenters, and other brewing system components, ensuring correct connections.

Pipeline Connections: Installing and connecting wort pipelines, air pipes, and electrical wires, ensuring tight seals and compliance with brewing equipment standards.

System Commissioning: Conducting pressure tests, tightness tests, and weld quality checks to ensure leak-free and fault-free operation, guaranteeing a smooth brewing process.

Software Configuration: Installing and configuring the automation control system for predetermined program operation, enhancing brewery production efficiency.

Customer Training: Providing detailed training for customer operators on equipment operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting, ensuring brewery staff can proficiently operate the equipment.

Our goal is to provide comprehensive and professional services, ensuring customers can operate the equipment proficiently, quickly start production, and smoothly conduct the brewing process, improving overall brewery production efficiency.

After-sales Service
We promise comprehensive 24/7 online after-sales service, ensuring customers have no worries while using the brewing equipment. We also offer regular equipment maintenance and inspection services for long-term stable operation. If equipment malfunctions, we promptly dispatch technicians for repairs, ensuring uninterrupted production.

Through our professional manufacturing, strict inspection, secure transportation, professional installation, and comprehensive after-sales service, you can confidently choose our brewing equipment for an efficient and stable brewing experience. Whether for small breweries, pubs, restaurants, or individuals, our brewing equipment meets their needs, providing high-quality brewing experiences and reliable equipment.

Home brewing is a fascinating and rewarding hobby that has been around for centuries. With the rise of craft beer and the increasing demand for unique and high-quality beers, home brewers are constantly seeking new and innovative techniques to improve their brewing process and elevate the taste of their beer. This has led to the development of advanced brewing techniques and equipment, such as the HERMS system.

HERMS is a highly effective method of heating and maintaining the desired mash temperature during the brewing process. This technique has become increasingly popular among home brewers due to its ability to provide accurate temperature control and a gentler heating process, which helps eliminate scorching of the wort and improves the overall flavour of the beer. Furthermore, HERMS allows for more efficient use of energy, which reduces energy costs and minimizes the impact on the environment.

In this article, we will explore how HERMS works, its advantages in brewing, and how at Cheeky Peak Brewery we have developed a range of dedicated HERMS coil equipment that is simple to install with the use of our QuickSeal designed fittings.

Whether you are a seasoned home brewer or just starting, HERMS can help take your brewing process to the next level and create the highest quality craft beer at home. So, let&#;s dive into the details and discover the benefits of using a HERMS system in home brewing.

How Does HERMS Work:

In traditional brewing methods, the mash is heated by direct contact with a heat source, such as a flame or an electric element. Direct heating contact can potentially result in the scorching of the wort, which can give your beer a caramelized or burnt flavour, negatively impacting the taste and overall quality. However, with HERMS, the heating process is more indirect. The mash wort is pumped from the mash tun through a heat exchanger &#;HERMS&#; coil that is immersed in hot water. The hot water heats the mash wort as it passes through the coil which is then recirculated back to the mash tun.

The HERMS system has three main components: the mash tun, the heat exchanger HERMS coil, and the hot liquor tank (HLT). The mash tun is where the grains are mixed with water to create the mash wort. The heat exchanger HERMS coil is where the mash is heated as it pumped through, and the HLT is where the hot water and HERMS coil is stored.

The HLT is typically fitted with a temperature control system, which allows brewers to adjust the temperature of the water as needed. The temperature control system generally consists of an element in the HLT which is controlled to a desired temperature with a dedicated temperature controller. This temperature control system is important because different types of beer require different temperatures during the brewing process. For example, ales typically require a mash temperature between 66°C and 68°C, while lagers require a lower temperature range of 63°C to 65°C. By adjusting the temperature of the water in the HLT, brewers can easily achieve the desired temperature range for the specific type of beer they are brewing.

Furthermore, the ability to control the temperature of the HLT also means that brewers can maintain a consistent temperature throughout the mashing process. This is important because temperature fluctuations can lead to inconsistencies in the final product, resulting in off-flavors or other defects. With HERMS, brewers can ensure that the temperature of the mash remains constant throughout the brewing process, resulting in a more consistent and high-quality beer.

The Advantages of HERMS in Brewing:

The advantages of using a HERMS system in brewing are numerous and can greatly enhance the brewing process. One of the most significant advantages of using a HERMS system is its ability to provide accurate and consistent temperature control during the mashing process. This is critical for activating the enzymes in the mash properly, which is necessary for achieving the desired flavour profile.

The temperature of the mash can be easily adjusted by adjusting the temperature of the hot water in the heat exchanger, which is a feature unique to HERMS. This allows brewers to easily adjust the temperature to suit their brewing needs and to achieve the desired flavour profile. The ability to precisely control the temperature of the mash also means that brewers can experiment with different temperature ranges and create new and unique beer styles.

Another key advantage of using HERMS is its gentler heating process. In traditional brewing methods, direct heating contact can have a negative impact on the quality of the wort by potentially scorching or burning the mash. This can lead to off-flavors or other defects in the final product. However, with HERMS, the heat source is indirect, and the heating process is gentler, reducing the risk of scorching or burning the mash. This helps preserve the quality of the wort and the overall flavour of the beer.

HERMS also enables more efficient use of energy, which is important for brewers who are environmentally conscious. The hot water used in the heat exchange process will also be used in other brewing processes such as sparging and cleaning at the end of your brew day. This means that less energy is required to perform brewing processes, reducing energy costs and minimizing the impact on the environment. Additionally, by using less energy, HERMS can help reduce the carbon footprint of your brewing process.

In summary, the advantages of using a HERMS system in brewing include accurate and consistent temperature control, a gentler heating process that preserves the quality of the wort and the overall flavour of the beer, and more efficient use of energy. These benefits make HERMS a popular choice among home brewers who are seeking to improve the quality of their beer and reduce their impact on the environment.

Setting up and running a HERMS System at Home:

Setting up a HERMS system at home can be a rewarding experience, but it does require some specialized equipment and knowledge. At Cheeky Peak we have now simplified the process for you by creating an easy to install DIY HERMS Package or basic HERMS Coil that can be installed into any brewing kettle you already have at home. Prior to this, installing a HERMS coil could prove to be a difficult task with complicated threaded fittings that would have the potential for leaking if not installed correctly. However, if you are looking for a full solution without having to install your own HERMS coil we have also created a range of HLT kettles here.

Once you have your equipment installed, you can begin to setup your pump and hosing to run the HERMS system loop. It&#;s important to make sure that first the HERMS coil is fully immersed in the water within the HLT. After that, connect the pump inlet to the mash tun outlet and the outlet of the pump to the inlet of the HERMS coil. The outlet of the HERMS coil will then direct to the inlet of the mash tun to complete the HERMS loop. This HERMS loop will pump wort from the mash tun into the HERMS coil and back into the mash tun.

Before turning on the pump you will first need to heat the HLT to your desired temperature. This can be done using a dedicated temperature controller. Once the hot liquor tank has reached the desired temperature, turn on the pump. The mash water will be circulated through the HERMS coil, where it will be heated by the hot water in the HLT. The heated mash will then be recirculated back to the mash tun.

As the mash circulates through the system, it&#;s important to monitor the temperature and make any temperature adjustments to the HLT as required to maintain your desired mash temperature.

Start your HERMS System Today:

Home brewing is a hobby that has been around for centuries and has gained popularity with the rise of craft beer and demand for unique and high-quality beers. HERMS (Heat Exchanger Recirculating Mash System) is a highly effective method of heating and maintaining the desired mash temperature during the brewing process. It is becoming increasingly popular among home brewers due to its ability to provide accurate temperature control, a gentler heating process, and more efficient use of energy. HERMS allows for more consistent and high-quality beer by activating the enzymes in the mash properly, preserving the quality of the wort, and enabling brewers to experiment with different temperature ranges. While setting up a HERMS system requires specialized equipment and knowledge, Cheeky Peak has now developed a range of dedicated HERMS equipment to make the setup simple and efficient for anyone at home.

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