Brewing
AssigneeRobert Morton DG Limited
InventorNoel R. Wilkinson
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Abstract
An improved brewing unit in which energy is saved by providing a mash tun, hot water tank and kettle in a single unit, by partially enclosing the mash tun with the tank and if necessary pre-heating the water supply to the tank by using the heat from wort coolers provided between the unit and fermentation tank; further improvements are provided by constructing the kettle as a combined kettle and whirlpool in a single chamber having a circular wall and a tangential inlet to the wall, a pump and wort boiler being in circuit with the kettle so that wort is continuously circulated through the boiler and tangential inlet to the kettle while the worts are boiled. The combined kettle and whirlpool saves space and enables the process of brewing to be shortened with resultant savings in both energy and brewing time.
Claims11
A self-contained brewing unit comprising
- a kettle having top, bottom and circular enclosing walls,
- a mash tun mounted on the top wall of said kettle, said tun being in controlled liquid communication with said kettle,
- a hot water tank also mounted on the top wall of said kettle, said tank substantially surrounding said mash tun for establishing a heat exchange relationship between said tun and said tank during use of said unit, said tun also being in controlled liquid communication with said tank,
- a boiler mounted closely adjacent said kettle, said boiler having a boiler input and a discharge each in controlled liquid communication with said kettle, said discharge being tangential to said kettle's circular wall, said boiler input and said discharge forming a continuous liquid flow circuit between said kettle and said boiler, and
- a circulating pump for pumping liquid in said continuous liquid flow circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.