Wort cooking arrangement

A wort cooking arrangement which operates under vapor concentration;

• comprising a wort cauldron and two separate heating circuits positioned externally of the wort cauldron which are formed by heat exchangers, a first one of said heat exchangers being supplied with live-steam for the heating of the worts, and the second heat exchanger being supplied with concentrated vapor for the cooking of the worts, said first and second heat exchangers being arranged so as to be located within each other in a common external cooker, the external cooker comprising an elongate round container, an inlet for worts at a lower end and a discharge for worts at an upper end of said container;
• and heat exchanger surfaces of said first and second heat exchangers being contacted by said worts along the path of travel of said worts from the inlet to the discharge;
• the external cooker including a first upper and horizontally extending partition wall in the upper region, and a first lower and horizontally extending partition wall in the lower region, said partition walls bounding a middle space in said cooker, a plurality of openings in said partition walls;
• and a wort conduit leading from each opening the first upper partition wall to a corresponding opening in the first lower partition wall and extending through the middle space for the passage therethrough of the worts;
• wherein an attachment is formed at one end of the external cooker, said attachment having a cylindrical jacket surface extending up to the lower first partition wall in the external cooker, said attachment including an upper baffle and a lower baffle subdividing said attachment;
• and said attachment includes a live-steam inlet and a live-steam condensate discharge.