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German brewer upgrades

The Arcobräu Gräfliches Brauhaus GmbH & Co. KG brewery, headquartered in Germany’s Lower Bavarian village of Moos, has brought its bottling operations up to the very latest state of the art.

Stakeholders in the recent machinery upgrade at Arcobräu Gräfliches Brauhaus GmbH & Co. KG.
Stakeholders in the recent machinery upgrade at Arcobräu Gräfliches Brauhaus GmbH & Co. KG.

The mid-tier family-owned brewery has installed a new Modufill HES filler with crowner from Krones AG plus a Krones Checkmat bottle inspector and the requisite conveyors. Brewery Director Holger Fichtel and Brewmaster Günther Breitenfellner attached particular importance to the quality of the beer bottling process, based on exceptionally low oxygen pickup and maximised hygiene.

The Modulfill HES filler is an energy-efficient, intelligent, probe-controlled filling system, without a vent tube, featuring a tubular ring bowl with 96 filling valves and an 18-head crowner, and prepared for subsequent retrofitting of a capper. With its rated output of 33,000 0.5-litre NRW bottles per hour, it is designed to handle both top- and bottom-fermented beers, and alcohol-free types as well. Thus capacity upsizing was not the aim of this investment. Double pre-evacuation with interpolated CO2 flushing ensures minimised oxygen values: “With this technology, we can enhance the stability of the beer’s taste,” comments Brewery Director Holger Fichtel. Warm filling at temperatures greater than 15 degrees Celsius is also possible without any reduction in output.

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