Beer Recovery from Spent Hops – Rhinegeist Brewery Relies on Flottweg Decanters

Rhinegeist Brewery—located in Cincinnati, Ohio has increased their beer yields by 10 percent each batch thanks to beer recovery using a Flottweg decanter centrifuge. Cole Hackbarth from Rhinegeist Brewery explains to us the advantages the decanter centrifuge offers for the brewery. In order to push the brewery’s growth, Rhinegeist had bought a Flottweg disc stack centrifuge a few years ago. Now they also bought a Flottweg decanter centrifuge, which is used for beer recovery from spent hops. Hop sludge which sediments on the tank bottom still contains a considerable amount of high-quality beer, which is, in general, separated before further processing by simply removing it, thus sometimes wasting a significant amount of beer. The Flottweg Decanter separates the spent hops from the liquid beer and uses pressure to return this to storage or bottling, thus considerably reducing beer losses and relieving the load placed on downstream centrifuges and filtration. The new decanter centrifuge sold to Rhinegeist paid off in less than a year. Click on the following link to learn more about beer recovery: https://www.flottweg.com/de/anwendung... #flottweg #separationtechnology #brewery #brewing