Caustic (NaOH) works great for pH adjustment at a brewery. It works fast, staff are accustomed to working with it, it’s easy to get, and there is usually a lot of it around. But it’s dangerous! A different and safer…
JohnApril 18, 2022
Do you have an 'air to water' cooling tower for your glycol cooling system? Most small breweries do not (they use 'air to air' coolers), but you'll know it if you do. It's a big rain storm in a box…
JohnJuly 28, 2015
A lot of time breweries will need to adjust the pH of their wastewater. The EPA has guidelines of between pH 5-11, many states and municipalities are more strict than that. Adding pH adjustment chemicals to your wastewater is where…
JohnFebruary 16, 2014
Breweries use a lot of chemicals. Of course not in the beer, but for cleaning, sanitizing, water conditioning in boilers and cooling towers, and wastewater pH adjustment. I'd say the big three are sodium hydroxide, nitric acid, and phosphoric acid.…
JohnDecember 1, 2014