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US 12,595,445 B1Granted
Transparent alcohol brewing system
Assignee4th Wave Craft LLC
InventorJulian Arena
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Abstract
Provided by aspects of the present inventive concept are a brewing system including at least one vessel utilized therein, for example, a grist case; a mash/lauter tun; a recirculation vessel; a boil kettle; a hopback; a whirlpool; and/or at least one fermenter that is transparent. Also provided by the inventive concept are a process of using the brewing system, and beverages prepared using the brewing system and/or process.
Claims19
A brewing system comprising:
- a) a grist case configured to provide a full view of grains contained therein;
- b) a mash/lauter tun configured to form a wort by enzymatically breaking down the grains received from the grist case;
- c) a recirculation vessel configured to store a transparent water bath and to receive the wort from the mash/lauter tun;
- d) a boil kettle configured to boil the wort received from the recirculation vessel;
- e) a hopback configured to pass a hot wort through hops contained therein;
- f) a whirlpool configured to spin the wort received from the hopback;
- g) a heat exchanger configured to receive the wort from the whirlpool to exchange heat with cooling water;
- and/or
- h) at least one fermenter configured to add yeast to the received cooled wort from the heat exchanger resulting in the fermentation and production of beer,
- wherein at least one of a)-f) and h) is transparent and wherein a)-h) are placed on load cells.
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A process of brewing a beverage comprising:
- a) providing milled grain to a mash/lauter tun;
- b) generating a wort or sweet wort;
- c) circulating the wort or sweet wort to and from the mash/lauter tun and a recirculation vessel;
- d) transferring recirculated wort or sweet wort from the recirculation vessel to a boil kettle;
- e) transferring the wort or sweet wort from the boil kettle to a hopback;
- f) passing the wort or sweet wort through an agricultural product in the hopback;
- g) transferring the wort or sweet wort from the hopback to a whirlpool;
- h) passing the wort or sweet wort from the whirlpool through a heat exchanger;
- and
- i) transferring the wort or sweet wort passing through the heat exchanger to a fermenter,
- wherein at least half of the mash/lauter tun, the recirculation vessel, the boil kettle, the hopback, whirlpool, and/or the fermenter are transparent and placed on load cells.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.