Brewing arrangement and method

A brewing arrangement comprising:

• a brewhouse assembly having a mash tun, a kettle and a wort chiller arranged in fluid communication, said brewhouse assembly configured to operatively produce wort from mash liquor, said wort for subsequent storage in a transport container;
• a plurality of fermentation assemblies arranged remotely from the brewhouse assembly in at least one hospitality establishment having a geographic distance of at least 1 km from the brewhouse assembly, in use, each fermentation assembly including at least one fermenter arranged in fluid communication with a plurality of bright beer tanks, said fermenter suppliable with wort from the transport container and configured to operatively produce beer for subsequent storage in a bright beer tank;
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• a monitoring and control system comprising:
• i) a plurality of sensors for sensing respective brewhouse and fermentation assembly operating characteristics,
• ii) a plurality of actuators configured to remotely control the respective brewhouse and fermentation assemblies to influence such operating characteristics, and
• iii) a remote interface for receiving sensed operating characteristics and instructing the actuators, the remote interface comprising a processing system arranged in signal communication with the brewhouse and fermentation assemblies by means of a communications network or system, the remote interface configured to operatively provide a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for display by the processing system, said GUI configured to provide a dashboard representing iconographical and interactive brewhouse and fermentation assembly operating characteristics;
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• a mobile filtration and transfer rig operatively and selectively dispatchable to a fermentation assembly, said mobile filtration and transfer rig configured to filter and transfer beer from a fermenter to a bright beer tank and comprising a pressurised filter housing and body, a transfer pump controlled by a variable speed drive, a calibrated magnetic flowmeter and calibrated temperature elements, wherein the speed of the transfer pump is adjustable via the variable speed drive to ensure optimum flow through the filter assembly during beer transfer, said filtration and transfer rig remotely monitorable and controllable by the monitoring and control system;
• whereby centralised wort production at the brewhouse assembly as well as distributed beer production at the plurality of hospitality establishments are remotely monitorable and controllable via the remote interface, and wherein each bright beer tank includes instrumentation for accurate reporting of beer volume transferred thereto to the monitoring and control system, so that produced beer volume is reportable via the GUI for taxation and excise reporting purposes.