JP2002306151A - Apparatus for brewing local beer and sparkling liquor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for brewing local beer and sparkling liquor, capable of installing it in a place having a narrow installation area and carrying out commercial operation in a short time after installation by unitizing a feed oven used also as a boiling oven body, whirlpool body and a liquor storage tank body by miniaturization. SOLUTION: The feed oven 1 used also as the boiling oven body and the whirlpool body 8 are assembled on a bed plate 15 to unitize these bodies and the liquor storage tank 17 is assembled on another bed plate 24 and necessary operation is finished in a factory and these assemblies are installed in an installation place. Thereby, commercial operation can be carried out in a short time after installation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a microbrewery and low-malt beer brewing apparatus, and more particularly, to a small microbrewery and low-malt beer brewing apparatus suitable for being installed in restaurants and small-scale stores having a small site area. It is about.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, unique local beer and low-malt beer that are rooted in local life have been made in various parts of Japan, and have a different flavor from beer and low-malt beer made by a major off-the-shelf beer company. Has been well received by some beer enthusiasts.

Conventionally, the equipment for producing micro-beer and low-malt beer starts from design by order production and manufactures individual tank brewing equipment such as a brewing tank, a filtration tank, and a storage tank at a factory. The tank brewing equipment is relatively large, and installation of the tank brewing equipment at the installation site requires special work such as anchor work, it takes time and is connected to the brewing pot and boiling pot and whirlpool. Installation work of pipes, cleaning work, wiring work, electric control work, etc. are all performed at the installation site, and workers of different industries are working separately, so the production efficiency is poor and the construction period is long, Was expensive and time consuming.

In addition, during the installation work, the work area is occupied by large tanks, and other works in the vicinity cannot be performed, which hinders traffic and makes it difficult to work smoothly. Not only that, but the construction area had to be carefully contaminated, as it could soil the area.

Further, since each tank is relatively large, the installation place requires a considerably large space, and the height in the building must be increased. There is a problem that it cannot be installed in a small restaurant or pub in a general building without a large space.

[0006]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been developed to solve the above-mentioned problems, and the invention according to claim 1 is characterized in that the main body of the cooking pot and the boiling pot and the whirl A miniature beer / low-malt beer brewing apparatus that can be installed in a place with a small installation area while miniaturizing the pool body and the liquor tank body, and enabling installation in a short time after installation. It is the purpose.

[0007] The invention described in claim 2 is the first invention.
In addition to the object of the invention described in the above, a beer / happoshu brewing apparatus capable of producing a wort of good quality while improving the liquid level to prevent oxidation of the wort and having excellent convection action of heat to obtain good wort. The purpose is to provide.

Further, according to the third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the object of the first aspect, by providing a filtration chamber above the whirlpool body, clear filtered wort can be obtained. It is another object of the present invention to provide a microbrewery and a low-malt beer brewing apparatus capable of simplifying a brewing process.

[0009]

As a means for solving the above-mentioned problems and achieving the object, the present invention provides a brewing apparatus such as a brewing / boiling kettle main body, a whirlpool main body and a liquor storage tank main body in a factory. Manufacture and assemble the cooking pot / boiling pot body and the whirlpool body on the same base plate to constitute one brewing unit, and assemble at least one liquor storage (fermentation) tank on another base plate and perform piping work respectively. ,
Necessary tasks such as washing, wiring, and electrical control are completed in the factory, and they are installed in the required installation locations so that they can be operated in a short time. Developed and adopted.

[0010] The present invention also relates to a micro-beer / low-malt beer brewing apparatus configured as described above, wherein the top of the main body of the brewing pot and the boiling pot is formed in a hemispherical end plate.
Happoshu brewing equipment and whirlpool body were developed and adopted as microbrewery and Happoshu brewing equipment, the upper part of which was formed in a filtration room.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Reference numeral 1 denotes a relatively small charging / boiling kettle body having a capacity of 300 liters or 500 liters made of stainless steel. is there. This brewing pot / boiling pot body is a brewing pot used when mixing saccharified liquid by mixing warm water with malt, or a brewing pot used when boiling auxiliary materials such as malt and rice, or wort. It is a boiling pot used when adding hops and boiling.

The main body 1 has a double structure comprising an upper head plate 1a, an inner shell plate 1b, an outer shell plate 1c and a raised bottom head plate 1d and an outer bottom plate 1e having a hemispherical top. It is configured by attaching four leg rods 2, 2, 2, 2 to the raised bottom end plate 1d.

The upper end plate 1a is formed of a hemispherical end plate whose liquid level can be made higher than that of the conventional flat end plate as described above, and the lower peripheral edge is welded to the upper portion of the inner body plate 1b. And are joined together. A band heater 3 is attached from a lower end to an intermediate portion of the inner body plate 1b, and a space between the inner body plate 1b and the outer body plate 1c is filled with a heat insulating material 4. Reference numeral 5 denotes a raw material input section provided on the upper end plate 1a, reference numeral 6 denotes a wort outlet provided on one side of the bottom portion, and reference numeral 7 denotes a piping group connected to the charging pot / boiling pot main body 1 and a whirlpool main body 8 described later. Although not shown, a stirrer is provided inside the charging / boiling kettle body 1.

The whirlpool body 8 is juxtaposed with the charging pot / boiling pot main body 1 and has the same stainless steel capacity of 300 liters or 500 liters as the charging pot / boiling pot main body 1. The top of 8 is not a hemispherical head plate like the cooking pot / boiling pot body 1,
It is formed of a normal flat upper end plate 8a. Inner body plate 8b and outer body plate 8c, raised bottom end plate 8d and outer bottom plate 8
e and a double-structured tank consisting of:
The point that the four leg rods 9, 9, 9, 9 are attached to the raised bottom end plate 8d is the same as the charging / boiling kettle body 1.

However, the whirlpool main body 8 is
As shown in the figure, the inner surface is divided into an upper filtration chamber 11 and a lower whirlpool chamber 12 by a partition plate 10, and wort sent from the charging / boiler main body 1 is supplied to the upper wort inlet 13. From the filter chamber 11, the wort is filtered by a filter screen 14 laid at the bottom of the filter chamber 11, becomes clear wort, and is supplied to the lower whirlpool chamber 12 via the pipe 6 a. Although not shown, the filtration chamber 11 is provided with a stirrer for stirring wort.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a base plate made of a horizontally long steel plate.
2, 2, 2 and four leg rods 9, 9, of the whirlpool body 8,
The brewing unit 9 is mounted on the base plate 15 by bolts 16, 16 and integrally fixed to both sides of the leg seat 2 a of the leg 2 and the leg 9 a of the leg 9.

Reference numeral 17 denotes a cylindrical sake storage (fermentation) tank main body having a funnel-shaped lower portion into which hot wort sent from the whirlpool main body 8 is cooled by a heat exchanger. Boiling kettle body 1 and whirlpool body 8
As shown in FIG. 7, the tank is made of stainless steel and has the same size of 300 liters or 500 liters. As shown in FIG. 7, the tank has a double structure including an inner plate 17a and an outer plate 17b. A refrigerant pipe 18 is attached to the face plate 17a to cool beer and low-malt beer. Inner panel 1
A heat insulating material 19 is filled in a space between the outer plate 7b and the outer surface plate 17b, and four long leg rods 20, 20, 20, 20 at the bottom.
It is configured with attached. 21 is a wort outlet, 22 is a yeast outlet, and 23 is a refrigerator.

The liquor storage (fermentation) tank main body 17 has four legs 20, 20, 20, 20 mounted on a base plate 24 made of a square steel plate. Similarly to the leg rod 9 of the whirlpool main body 8, bolts 25, 25 are screwed from both sides of the leg seat 20 a of the leg rod 20 and are integrally fixed to the base plate 24. The number of the sake storage (fermentation) tank main body 17 is not limited to one, but a plurality of beers and low-malt beer can be stored in small quantities by installing a plurality of different beers and low-malt beer with different flavors.

A description will be given of an example of use of the embodiment of the present invention configured as described above together with the function and effect. The charging pot / boiling pot main body 1 and the whirlpool main body 8 manufactured in the factory are assembled on a base plate 15. When transported to the installation site as one brewing unit, and the unit is installed at the installation site, the tank brewing device is completed. And, since all the work of assembling the electric control software necessary for the brewing of beer and low-malt beer is completed in the factory, the operation can be performed in a short time after installation.

That is, the wort supplied from the charging / boiling kettle body 1 enters the upper filtration chamber 11 of the whirlpool body 8, is filtered by the filtration screen 14, and is supplied to the whirlpool chamber 12 as clear wort. Is done. Whirlpool room 1
The wort coming out of 2 is cooled in a heat exchanger and sent to a sake storage (fermentation) tank.

The main body 1 and the whirlpool body 8 are small, and the brewing amount is 300 liters or 5 liters at a time.
Since it is 00 liters, a large variety of beers and low-malt beers can be produced in small quantities. In particular, since local beer does not filter yeasts, it is not possible to brew a large amount at once without considering the demand amount from the viewpoint of quality maintenance, so it is suitable for a small brewing amount. Further, since the main body 1 and the whirlpool body 8 are small and formed as a single unit, they can be installed if the installation area is about 2 tsubo, and can be installed even in a small store with little space.

Although the main embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to this embodiment, but can achieve the object of the invention and do not depart from the gist of the invention. Various design changes are possible within.

[0023]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a brewing apparatus such as a brewing pot / boiling kettle body, a whirlpool main body and a liquor storage tank body is manufactured in a factory, and the brewing pot / boiling pot is manufactured. Assemble the main body and whirlpool main body on the same base plate to constitute one brewing unit, and assemble at least one liquor tank main body on another base plate, and perform piping work, cleaning work, wiring work, and electric control work respectively. It is related to microbrewery and low-malt beer brewing equipment, which is characterized in that it is configured so that necessary operations such as finishing in the factory can be completed and installed in the installation place so that business operation can be performed in a short time. effective.

The brewing pot / boiling pot main body and the whirlpool main body are assembled on the same base plate to form one brewing unit, so there is no need to perform anchor work or the like at the time of installation. The installation is easy and the installation can be sufficiently performed even in a small installation area. In addition, since all the electric control software installation work required for brewing has been completed at the factory, operation can be started immediately after installation at the site. Furthermore, transportation to the installation site can be easily carried by truck.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the constitution of the first aspect, the top of the main body of the charging / boiling kettle is formed in a hemispherical end plate, so that the liquid level can be reduced. The convection of heat inside the charging / boiling kettle main body 1 is improved, the heat transfer efficiency is increased, the wort is heated effectively, and the wort is prevented from being oxidized. is there.

Further, according to the invention of claim 3 of the present invention, in addition to the structure of the invention of claim 1, since the whirlpool body has an upper portion formed in a filtration chamber, clear wort can be obtained. The brewing process can be simplified.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a simplified plan view in which a brewing unit is constructed by assembling a main body of a brewing pot and a boiling pot and a whirlpool main body on a base plate.

FIG. 2 is a simplified front view thereof.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged simplified cross-sectional view of a main body of a cooking pot and a boiling pot.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged simplified cross-sectional view of the whirlpool main body.

FIG. 5 is a simplified plan view of a storage (fermentation) tank assembled on a base plate.

FIG. 6 is a simplified front view thereof.

FIG. 7 is an enlarged simplified cross-sectional view of a storage (fermentation) tank.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS 1 Cooking pot and boiling pot main body 8 Whirlpool main body 15 Base plate 17 Sake storage (fermentation) tank 24 Base plate

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A brewing apparatus such as a brewing pot / boiling pot main body, a whirlpool main body and a liquor storage tank main body are manufactured in a factory, and the brewing pot / boiling pot main body and the whirlpool main body are assembled on the same base plate to produce While configuring the brewing unit,
Assemble at least one liquor storage (fermentation) tank body on a separate base plate, complete necessary work such as plumbing work, washing work, wiring work and electric control work in the factory, and install it in the required installation place A microbrewery and low-malt beer brewing apparatus characterized by being able to operate in a short time. 2. The microbrewery / low-malt beer brewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the top of the main body of the charging / boiling kettle is formed in a hemispherical head plate. 3. The microbrewery and happoshu brewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the whirlpool main body has an upper portion formed in a filtration chamber.