JP3437556B2 - Craft beer / Happoshu brewing equipment - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for microbrewing beer and low-malt beer, and more specifically, a small machine beer and low-malt beer suitable for being installed in a restaurant having a small site area or a small store. It is about.

[0002]

[Prior Art] Recently, distinctive local beers and Happoshu have been made in various regions of Japan, and they have different flavors from beer and Happoshu produced by major ready-made beer companies. Have been well received by some beer lovers.

Conventionally, the equipment for manufacturing microbrewed beer and low-malt beer starts from design by build-to-order manufacturing, and individual tank brewing devices such as a preparation tank, a filtration tank, and a storage tank are manufactured at a factory. The tank brewing device is relatively large, and special work such as anchor work must be done to install the tank brewing device at the installation site, which is time-consuming and connected to the preparation and boiling kettles and whirlpool. Installation work for piping, cleaning work, wiring work, electrical control work, etc. are all performed at the installation site, and since workers of different industries work separately, production efficiency is poor and the construction period becomes long, There was a problem that it took time and money.

Furthermore, during the installation work, the large tanks will occupy the construction area, and other constructions in the vicinity will not be possible, which will hinder traffic and prevent smooth work. Not only that, but it could pollute the area around the construction area, so construction had to be done carefully.

Further, since each tank is relatively large, the installation location requires a considerably large space, and the height inside the building must be increased, so that it can be installed in a large-scale store. , There was a problem that it could not be installed in a small restaurant or pub in a general building without a large space.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been researched and developed with the object of solving the above-mentioned problems, and the invention according to claim 1 relates to a charging pot / boiling pot main body and a whirl. To provide a craft beer and low-malt beer brewing machine that is configured so that the pool body and the storage tank body are downsized and unitized, and that they can be installed in a place with a small installation area and that they can be put into commercial operation in a short time after installation. It is intended.

The invention described in claim 2 is the same as claim 1
In addition to the object of the invention described in 1 above, while raising the liquid level to prevent the oxidation of wort, excellent convection of heat, excellent craft beer and Happoshu brewing device capable of producing good quality wort It is intended to provide.

Further, in addition to the object of the invention as set forth in claim 1, the invention as set forth in claim 3 can provide a clear filtered wort by providing a filtration chamber in the upper part of the whirlpool body. Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a microbrewery / Happoshu brewing apparatus that can simplify the brewing process.

[0009]

[Means for Solving the Problems] As a means for solving the above problems and achieving the object, the present invention provides a brewing apparatus such as a charging pot / boiling pot main body, a whirlpool main body and a storage tank main body in a factory. Produce and assemble the charging pot and boiling pot body and the whirlpool body on the same base plate to form one brewing unit, and at least one liquor (fermentation) tank on another base plate, and perform piping work respectively. ,
A craft beer and Happoshu brewing machine characterized by finishing necessary work such as cleaning work, wiring work and electric control work in the factory, and installing it in a required installation place for commercial operation in a short time. Developed and adopted.

Further, according to the present invention, in the craft beer / happoshu brewing apparatus configured as described above, the top of the main body of the charging pot and the boiling pot is formed into a hemispherical end plate.
The Happoshu brewing device and whirlpool body were developed and adopted for the craft beer and Happoshu brewing device with the upper part formed in the filtration chamber.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. 1 is a relatively small charging pot / boiling pot main body made of stainless steel and having a capacity of 300 liters or 500 liters. is there. This charging and boiling kettle body is a charging kettle used when malt is mixed with warm water to make a saccharified solution, a charging kettle used when boiling auxiliary materials such as malt and rice, or wort. It may be a boiling pot used when adding hops and boiling.

The charging pot / boiling pot main body 1 is a tank having a double structure including an upper end plate 1a having a hemispherical top, an inner face plate 1b, an outer face plate 1c, a raised bottom end plate 1d and an outer bottom plate 1e. It is constructed 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 capable of increasing the liquid level as compared with the conventional flat end plate as described above, and its lower end peripheral edge is welded to the upper part of the inner surface plate 1b. Are joined together. A band heater 3 is attached from the lower end of the inner body plate 1b to an intermediate portion thereof, 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 is a raw material charging portion provided on the upper end plate 1a, 6 is a wort outlet provided on one side of the bottom portion, and 7 is 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 incorporated in the main body 1 of the charging pot and the boiling pot.

The whirlpool main body 8 is juxtaposed with the charging and boiling kettle main body 1 and is made of the same stainless steel as the charging and boiling kettle main body 1 and has a capacity of 300 liters or 500 liters. The top of No. 8 is not a hemispherical end plate like the main body 1 of the charging pot and the boiling pot,
It is formed of a normal flat upper end plate 8a. Inner surface body plate 8b, outer surface body plate 8c, raised bottom end plate 8d, and outer surface bottom plate 8
and a point composed of a double-structured tank consisting of e and
It is the same as the charging pot / boiling pot main body 1 in that it is constructed by attaching four leg rods 9, 9, 9, 9 to the raised bottom end plate 8d.

However, the whirlpool body 8 is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 2, the inner surface of the wort is divided into an upper filtration chamber 11 and a lower whirlpool chamber 12 by a partition plate 10, and the wort sent from the charging pot / boiling pot main body 1 is at the upper wort inlet 13 Then, the wort enters the filtration chamber 11, and the wort is filtered by the filtration screen 14 laid at the bottom of the filtration chamber 11 to become clear wort, which is supplied to the whirlpool chamber 12 below via the pipe 6a. Although not shown, the filter chamber 11 is equipped with a stirrer for stirring the wort.

Reference numeral 15 is a base plate made of a horizontally long steel plate. On the base plate 15, four leg rods 2 of a main body 1 of a charging pot and a boiling pot,
2, 2, 2 and the four rods 9, 9 of the whirlpool body 8
9 and 9 are placed and integrally fixed to the base plate 15 with bolts 16 and 16 from both sides of the leg seat 2a of the leg rod 2 and the leg seat 9a of the leg rod 9 to form one brewing unit.

Numeral 17 is a cylindrical liquor (fermentation) tank main body having a funnel-shaped lower portion for containing wort obtained by cooling the hot wort sent from the whirlpool main body 8 with a heat exchanger, and also serving as a charging pot. Boiling pot body 1 and whirlpool body 8
Similarly to the above, the tank is made of stainless steel and has a volume of approximately 300 liters or 500 liters, and as shown in FIG. 7, it is a double-structured tank including an inner plate 17a and an outer plate 17b. A refrigerant pipe 18 is attached to the face plate 17a to cool beer / happoshu. Inner surface plate 1
A space between the outer plate 7a and the outer plate 17b is filled with a heat insulating material 19, and four long rods 20, 20, 20, 20 are provided at the bottom.
It is configured by attaching. 21 is a wort outlet, 22 is a yeast outlet, and 23 is a refrigerator.

In this liquor storage (fermentation) tank body 17, the four rods 20, 20, 20, 20 are placed on a base plate 24 made of a square steel plate, and the rod 2 of the above-mentioned charging pot / boiling pot body 1 is placed. Similarly to the leg rod 9 of the whirlpool main body 8, bolts 25, 25 are screwed from both sides of the leg seat 20a of the leg rod 20 and integrally fixed to the base plate 24. This liquor storage (fermentation) tank body 17 is not limited to one, but a plurality of small amounts of beer or happoshu can be stored by installing a plurality of beers or happoshu having different flavors.

The operation example of the embodiment of the present invention thus constructed will be described together with the operation and effect. The charging pot / boiling pot main body 1 and the whirlpool main body 8 produced in the factory are assembled on the base plate 15. One brewing unit is transported to the installation site and the unit is installed on the installation site to complete the tank brewing device. And all the work to install the electric control software required for brewing beer and Happoshu is completed at the factory, so it can be operated in a short time after installation.

That is, the wort supplied from the charging and boiling kettle main body 1 enters the upper filtration chamber 11 of the whirlpool main body 8 and is filtered by the filtration screen 14 to become the fine wort and supplied to the whirlpool chamber 12. To be done. Whirlpool room 1
The wort from No. 2 is cooled by a heat exchanger and sent to a liquor (fermentation) tank.

The charging pot / boiling pot main body 1 and the whirlpool main body 8 are small in size, and the brewing amount per one time is 300 liters or 5 liters.
Since it is 00 liters, it is possible to produce a large variety of small amounts of beer and Happoshu. In particular, microbrewed beer is suitable for a small amount of brewing because it does not filter yeast and therefore cannot be brewed in a large amount at a time without considering the demand amount in order to maintain quality. Further, since the charging pot / boiling pot main body 1 and the whirlpool main body 8 are small and are one unit, they can be installed if the installation area is about 2 tsubo, and can be installed even in a small store with a small space.

Although the main embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and the scope can achieve the object of the invention and does not deviate 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 charging pot / boiling pot main body, a whirlpool main body and a liquor tank main body is manufactured in a factory, and the charging pot / boiling pot is prepared. The main body and the whirlpool main body are assembled on the same base plate to form one brewing unit, and at least one liquor tank main body is assembled on another base plate, and piping work, cleaning work, wiring work and electrical control work are performed respectively. It is related to the microbrewery and Happoshu brewing equipment, which is characterized in that the necessary work such as the above is completed in the factory and installed in the installation location so that it can be operated for business in a short time. effective.

[0024] Since the main body of the preparation pot and the boiling pot and the main body of the whirlpool are assembled on the same base plate to form one brewing unit, there is no need to carry out anchor work etc. at the time of installation, just install them at the installation place as they are. Well, it is easy to install, and it can be installed sufficiently even in a small installation area. In addition, all the work to incorporate the electric control software required for brewing is completed at the factory, so operation can be started immediately after installation on site. Furthermore, transportation to the installation site can be easily carried by truck.

Further, in the invention of claim 2 of the present invention, in addition to the constitution of the invention of claim 1, since the top of the main body of the charging kettle and the boiling kettle is formed into a hemispherical end plate, It is possible to increase the temperature, improve the convection of heat inside the charging and boiling kettle body 1, increase the heat transfer efficiency, effectively heat the wort, and help prevent the wort from oxidizing. is there.

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

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a simplified plan view in which a charging pot / boiling pot main body and a whirlpool main body are assembled on a base plate to form one brewing unit.

FIG. 2 is a simplified front view thereof.

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

FIG. 4 is an enlarged simplified sectional view of a whirlpool body.

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

FIG. 6 is a simplified front view thereof.

FIG. 7 is an enlarged simplified sectional view of a liquor (fermentation) tank.

[Explanation of symbols] 1 Charging pot and boiling pot body 8 Whirlpool body 15 base plate 17 Liquor (fermentation) tank 24 base plate

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A brewing device such as a charging pot / boiling pot main body, a whirlpool main body and a liquor tank main body is manufactured in a factory, and the charging pot / boiling pot main body and whirlpool main body are assembled on the same base plate to form one unit. While configuring the brewing unit,
Assemble at least one liquor (fermentation) tank body on another base plate, finish the necessary work such as piping work, cleaning work, wiring work and electrical control work in the factory, and install it in the required installation location. A craft beer and Happoshu brewing device characterized by being configured for commercial operation in a short time. 2. The microbrewed beer / happoshu brewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the top of the main body of the charging kettle and the boiling kettle is formed into a hemispherical end plate. 3. The microbrewery / Happoshu brewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the whirlpool body has an upper portion formed in a filtration chamber.