Minibrewery
AssigneeMinibrew Holding B.V.
InventorsBart Van De Kooij, Olivier Van Oord
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Abstract
The present invention is in the field of minibreweries and concerns a double-walled vessel for boiling and fermenting wort, comprising (a1) an opening for receiving liquid and yeast, (a2) a space for holding the liquid, (a3) a temperature control element located between outside wall (a5) and inner wall (a6), (a4) an outlet for discharging liquid, equipped with a valve, and a (a9) a controller capable of controlling (a3), which contains a connection (a9′) to an operating system. The invention also concerns a system containing or adapted to receive said vessel, a process for brewing beer using said system, kits of parts comprising said vessel and/or system and a program for executing said process.
Claims25
A system for batch-wise brewing of beer, wherein the system comprises:
- (a) a double-walled vessel, detachable from the system, for boiling and fermenting wort, comprising:
- (i) an opening for receiving liquid and yeast;
- (ii) a space for holding the liquid;
- (iii) a temperature control element located between an outside wall and an inner wall of the double-walled vessel;
- (iv) an outlet, equipped with a valve, for discharging liquid;
- (v) a controller capable of controlling the temperature control element, which contains a connection to an operating system;
- (b) a grist chamber, comprising:
- (i) an inlet for receiving liquid;
- (ii) an entry for receiving grist;
- (iii) a space for holding a grist bed;
- (iv) an outlet for discharging liquid,
- wherein the inlet for receiving liquid to the grist chamber and the outlet for discharging liquid from the grist chamber are located at opposite ends of the space for holding a grist bed;
- (c) a pump;
- (d) a heater;
- (e) a cooler;
- (f) a hops dispenser, comprising:
- (i) at least one hops chamber;
- (ii) an entry for receiving hops;
- (iii) a dispenser to dispense the hops from the hops chamber to a sieve, comprising:
- (A) a sieving membrane capable of retaining hops and permeating liquid;
- (B) an inlet for receiving liquid;
- (C) a space for holding hops, and
- (g) a flow control unit capable of switching between a first position that allows flow of liquid from the vessel to the grist chamber, and a second position that allows flow of liquid from the vessel to the sieve,
- wherein, when the vessel is contained in the system, the outlet for discharging liquid from the grist chamber is in fluid connection with the opening for receiving liquid and yeast to the vessel, the outlet for discharging liquid from the vessel is in fluid connection with the flow control unit, the flow control unit is in fluid connection with the inlet for receiving liquid to the grist chamber and with the inlet for receiving liquid to the sieve, and the permeate side of the membrane is in fluid connection with the space for holding the liquid.
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