Brewery Setup Blog

Floor Space & Ceiling Height needed:

Before assembly, there are several brewery location requirements and some brewery location requirements for assembly recommendations. It is usually recommended to have hot operations separately from cold operations (to save energy on cellar tanks cooling for example), but many microbreweries today are a single-room concept with brewhouse and fermenting & conditioning tanks in one room. If you start up a pub brewery, for promotional reasons you want to have most of the brewery process on display in one or two showrooms. Most brewpubs have a decorative brewhouse displayed in beer pubs/restaurants while fermentation & storage tanks are in a colder room backwards. More and more new concept pub breweries appear recently with fermenting tanks displayed in one area with brewhouse or behind an impressive glass wall for the visitors to see as much of the brewing process as possible.

Anyway, you will need an extra room for malt milling & storage, a boiler room with a steam boiler, HLT and wort-cooler, and a chilled room for full KEGs and bottle storing

You need a properly sloped floor with a drainage channel.

The slope does not need to be too deep, it’s about your operation comfort.

You just need the cleaning water to flow freely to drainage,

You even can use flexible piping to discharge cleaning water from fermentors (or brewhouse vessels) – just to get the water to drain, but you know – a slope channel is by far more comfortable

Brewery location requirements – Utilities:

Electrical Supply: 3 x 230V/380V (3-phase)/50Hz or as per local voltage

Total input power: 20-25kW for smaller brewery systems (3HL, 5HL, 10HL), depending on number of chilled fermenting & conditioning tanks

Natural or LPG Gas supply to fire steam-generator (alternatively light fuel-oil, wood or solar)

Steam Generator delivering steam at 3 bar / 130 ‘C, steam output hour depending on batch size

Water supply – piping: 5/4″ , water pressure: at least 2.5bar, water consumption: 400-500L per 100L of beer

Drainage: DN80 as minimum, DN100 ideally

Floor load: 300-500kg/m2

Floor to be sloped to drainage channel (drainage channel/line needed in the brewhouse and cellar tanks area)

The floor is to be tiled

Walls tiled up to 1.50m in height and/or water-proof painting

CO2 venting for fermentation & conditioning room

Brewing water requirements:

standard potable water quality, not too hard

Basic brewery effluents and by-products:

wet spent grain: can be used as a high-quality feed for cattle

liquid spent yeasts: can be used as an additive to animal feed

effluents: 300-400L per 100L of beer

vapours and odour: absorbed by steam-condenser collecting vapours from all heated brewhouse vessels

When setting up a brewery, there are several factors to consider in terms of location requirements and utilities. Footprint and ceiling height are important, as well as separate areas for hot and cold operations. Other requirements include an extra room for milling and storage, a boiler room, and a chilled room for storage. Utilities required include electrical supply, natural or LPG gas supply, water supply, and drainage. Brewery effluents and by-products can also be used for animal feed.