Brewery

The brewery can facilitate all parts of the brewing process of beer, as well as additional analyses of wort and beer.

Description

The equipment in the brewery includes:

  • 2-Roller malt mill (Maltman 75)
  • Four kettle pilot brewhouse (Kaspar Schulz) – cast out wort volume 50-100 litre, incl.
    • Temperature controlled mash kettle
    • Lauter tun
    • Wort kettle with external boiler and hop dosing vessel
    • Whirlpool
    • Wort cooler and aeration device
  • Temperature controlled fermentation tanks: 30 litre, 40 litre, 60 litre and (Kaspar Schulz + Speidel)
  • Low-oxygen counterpressure bottle filling and crown cork closure  (Braumanufaktur Werk)
  • Laboratory Mashing Apparatus with 8 * 200 ml mash beakers (Lochner)

Beer will be brewed and fermented by KU FOOD personnel as specified in the collaboration agreement.

Beer will be delivered in 33 cl glass bottles or single-use plastic kegs.

Options and requirements for use

UCPH FOOD can offer the following additional analyses of wort and beer:

  • Microscopic examination of yeast (e.g. counting)
  • Microscopic examination of bacterial contamination (e.g. flow cytometry)
  • Precise extract in wort (by Anton Parr density meter)
  • Alcohol and small sugars (by HPLC)
  • pH
  • Color
  • FAN
  • Turbidity
  • Oxidative stability evaluated by electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR)
  • GC-MS analysis of volatiles

A collaboration agreement must be made and signed before the pilot brewing can start up. The collaboration agreement will among other things cover

  • Details of specific brews and related analyses to be carried out
  • IPR and confidentiality
  • Type of collaboration (e.g. is it requested research or a research project?)
  • Deliverables by the partners
  • Time schedules
  • Budget and price

For requested research an overhead of 180% of salaries will be added, while it will be lower for projects with shared IPR.

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