Craft Brew
Alfa Laval Craft Brew centrifuges is all about bringing unique flavour to your customers. Whether you make crystal clear lager or hazy IPA, Alfa Laval’s craft centrifuges protect the character and quality of your beer while boosting efficiency in your production.
Experience the benefits of Craft Brew beer centrifuges for craft breweries:
- Remove core solids without filtering or oxygen pick-up
- Get up to 10% more beer from every batch compared to traditional sedimentation
- Move faster from fermentation to finished product, increasing capacity without additional tanks
- Add ProCarb Inline Carbonation to reduce production time and support consistent quality
- Increase yield and accelerate tank turnover to support a faster return on investment
Innovative features of Craft Brew beer separators
Hermetic Design™
Built with Alfa Laval’s patented Hermetic Design™ concept, the brew series range guarantees extremely smooth and gentle handling, with no risk of air-liquid interface in the bowl. The precise control of product consistency and quality, along with increased flexibility to process different kinds of beer, will bring whole new opportunities into your production. Thanks to the Hermetic Design™, your energy savings can be as high as 60%, and when combined with eMotion™, the savings can reach up to 75% (compared to traditional separation technologies).
Get more craft beer production, faster
With a beer centrifuge, you get up to 10% more beer from every batch, compared to traditional sedimentation. And you move faster from fermentation to finished product, boosting your capacity without having to invest in new tanks.
Adding the integrated ProCarb inline carbonation option cuts production times even more, while securing high and consistent quality. Making sure every pint is a delight to your customers.
An investment that pays off
Increased yield and accelerated tank turnover enable you to recover your investment in as little as a year, depending on the setup and size of your brewery. Making the centrifuge a truly smart investment.
The payback graph shows how one brewery recovered their investment in just 9 months after installing a Brew 80 centrifuge:
- Yearly production: 3500 hl
- Suggested flow rate: 10 – 50 hl/h
- Beer sales: € 3 per litre
- Payback period: 0,75 years
Optiwia™: Why is it Important?
Alfa Laval Optiwia™ helps brewers save up to 70% on water use in their clarifying separators. By reusing water for cooling, it reduces costs, improves efficiency, and supports sustainable brewing. Upgrade to Optiwia for a smarter, greener brewing process.
ProCarb inline carbonation
Maximize product recovery, while securing the flavour and character of your beer. By adding ProCarb inline carbonation to your centrifuge, you get clarified beer with high-quality carbonation – at a fraction of the time traditionally required.
Improve craft beer production quality through innovation
For Market Garden Brewery specialists, technology and innovation play a critical role in the production of quality beer. Do you want to know why? Check out the video to hear how Market Garden reduced their losses and boosted their production, while improving the quality of their craft beer through technology and innovation.
Explore the Alfa Laval Craft Brew portfolio: separators that grow with your brewery
Alfa Laval offers a wide range of separation technology for clarification and polishing of beer. Our craft experts can provide technology and advice to help you as your brewery grows.
Brew 20
Multi-purpose centrifuge for craft brewers and microbreweries
- Up to 15 hl/h
- Low oxygen pick-up, <10 ppb– axial hermetic outlet
- ProCarb - Inline carbonation option available
- Low maintenance costs
Brew 80
Multi-purpose centrifuge for craft brewers
- Up to 60 hl/h
- Low oxygen pick-up, <10 ppb – hermetic outlet
- ProCarb - Inline carbonation option available
Brew 250
Polisher and multi-purpose centrifuge for small breweries and сraft brewers
- Resource efficient clarification up to 180 hl/h
- ProCarb - Inline carbonation option available
- Hermetic Design™ offers close to zero oxygen pick-up, guaranteed to be below 3 ppb
- Up to 60% energy savings when compared to traditional design
Service
Extending the performance of your equipment
Our dedicated Global Service Network supports you with parts and expertise, wherever you are, whenever you need it. By ensuring greater uptime, availability and optimization, we help bring you peace of mind, and maximize your return on investment. We can work with you to integrate our services into an Alfa Laval Service Agreement for predictable and worry-free operations.
Explore our Industrial Brew separators
Alfa Laval Industrial Brew centrifuges have a long history of enabling breweries around the world to achieve higher yields, meet shifts in demand and maintain profitability.
Craft brewing & separation technology FAQs
Our experts bring years of hands-on experience supporting craft brewers worldwide. They understand the unique challenges faced by brewpubs and microbreweries, and they share your passion for brewing and enjoying exceptional beer. Watch the videos to hear directly from our team and learn how their insights can elevate your brewing process.
Test, validate, and scale up your next separation solution
Whether upgrading your production line or running a proof of concept, Alfa Laval helps you choose the right separator solution with confidence. Simply get in touch to arrange a consultation and trial at one of our test centres, or to rent a unit for onsite testing.
The Separator Innovator
Would you like to know more about our innovations in separation technology? Click on the link below. Alfa Laval invented the first disc stack separator and has led the way in the development of centrifuge technology for over a century. We are glad to share with you the expertise we have gained along the way. Visit our Separator Innovator knowledge base to learn more about advancements in separation and the steps Alfa Laval is taking to continue revolutionizing the technology.
