The CMBTC can supply a number of services to the malting and brewing industry

• Consulting on any production issues, new product development, troubleshooting, etc.
  We have many years of experience in malting, and in brewing in both large and small brewery environments
  
• PILOT MALTING
  
• PILOT BREWING
  
• BREWING ANALYTICAL SERVICES

The CMBTC has a malting facility capable of processing 50-100 kg of barley using any specified malting regime. Our plant is designed to simulate closely commercial malting conditions. Our malting plant consists of:

• One steeping vessel
• One germinating vessel
• One kiln
• One "Unimalter", which can carry out steeping, germination,
  and kilning in the same vessel.

Alternatively, it can be used as a second germination vessel.

The malting plant is run by computer, and we can control all critical functions, including:

• Temperatures
• Wet and dry steeping cycles
• Water spraying in steeping and germination
• Fan speed and percent air re-circulation
  
  We also measure and log pH, O2, CO2, and relative humidity on a continuous basis
  

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OPTIONS

Pilot brewing can be used for a number of purposes

• New brand development
• Trials of new varieties of barley, hops, etc.
• Process evaluation
• Training

BENEFITS

Most breweries use their full-scale facilities for these purposes, but there are many advantages to using a pilot brewery.

• As there is no experimental product to be blended off, the quality of the brewery's products is not compromised
• The normal brewery production is not interrupted
• In large breweries, brewers sometimes lose touch with experimental brews being processed through the brewery, and cannot be sure that there was no blending, O2 pickup, etc. In extreme cases the experimental brew gets blended into commercial beer by mistake. In the pilot brewery there is complete control of the experimental product - no chance of blending other beer into it, losing track of it, etc.
• It is cheaper. When all the man-hours, extra shrinkage from processing and reprocessing, the downtime on the bottling line, etc., are taken into account, large-scale brewing trials are quite expensive.

The CMBTC has two pilot breweries, 3 hl, and 30l. The larger one (photo) can process a brew using virtually any commercial process. Our equipment includes:

• 4-roll Malt Mill
• Cereal Cooker
• Mash Mixer
• Lauter Tun
• Mash Filter (Meura 2001)
• Brew Kettle
• Whirlpool
• 4 Cylindro-Conical fermenter-storage tanks
• Sheet filter for regular or sterile filtration
• 50 liter bottling tanks
• Bottle filler
• Pasteurizer

Process monitoring includes

• Temperature
• PH
• Turbidity
• Specific Gravity