Tiantai beer brewing equipment for breweries,beer brewing technology on hops storage.
The quality of beer brewing hops should be checked according to the unified national standard in brewery. The national standard (GB 10347.1-89) for beer brewing plant has made technical requirements for flaky hops and granular hops respectively.
Only under certain storage conditions can the stored hops keep its active ingredients unchanged for a certain period of time. Many environmental factors such as the invasion of microorganisms, the role of oxygen in the air and higher temperature and humidity can accelerate the deterioration and oxidation of hops. In addition, light is also harmful to the storage of hops, which can make the wine white. Therefore, only when hopsare stored in low temperature, oxygen proof, dark and dry environment, their luster, aroma and A-acid content can be maintained for a long time.
To sum up, the storage of hops should pay attention to the following points.
① Hops should be packed tightly,pressed tightly, vacuumed to remove air, and packed with nitrogen or carbon dioxide to isolate if necessary.
② Hops should be stored at 0 ~ 2 ℃ and hops bag should be placed on wooden grid.
③ Hops warehouse to dry, relative humidity below 60%. The indoor light should be dark to avoid the decolorization of hops, and no other smelly goods should be placed in the warehouse.
④ Hops should be stored first in first out to prevent overstocking.
⑤ It is a better way to keep the beer brewing value of hop by storing hop products in the type of granule hop, hop extract, hop oil etc in beer brewing process.If you have any questions on beer brewing hops storage in your brewery plant, feel free to email us to get some advice on hops storage for microbrewery, commercial brewery.
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