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
Passivation is an important part of CIP, sanitation, and efficiency in your brewery. At the end of the day, you wind up with a thin layer of chromium oxide on the surface of your vessels, which strengthens the steel, makes…
JohnJune 2, 2016
When I design a system, I don't include risers on top of my tanks. What's a riser? The green things in the image above. You can see the concrete tanks are buried, and where the surface of the ground will…
JohnFebruary 14, 2017
Life happens. Mistakes and accidents happen. Brewery spills happen. As with most things in the brewery wastewater world, depending on where you're at, they can be no big deal at all or they can be a major issue. In the…
JohnOctober 22, 2014
A brewery wastewater system can be pretty simple. It can also be really complex, but let's hope that only happens to the big guys. Components of a brewery wastewater pretreatment system could be as simple as a good wastewater sample…
JohnSeptember 2, 2014
In my vision of a perfect world, all breweries would have a calamity tank. What the heck is a calamity tank? It's a wastewater tank, normally empty, that can be used for spills, bad beer, and storage. Imagine this scenario,…
JohnJanuary 23, 2015
Generally speaking, there are 2 different worlds with regards to wastewater tanks. Underground and above ground. Here are some things to consider with both options. Underground As much as I hate to say it, concrete is really the best and…
JohnAugust 20, 2014
This is the first in a multi-series of posts related to my experience with brewery anaerobic digestion of brewery wastewater. (Sorry for some of the weird wording, blame it on SEO) If you are considering anaerobic treatment at your brewery…
JohnFebruary 12, 2015