Brewing expertise (pdf) - Cargill Foods

Outline
‣ Organization Structure
‣Capabilities

Capabilities- Spiritwood
North Dakota
‣ Micromalting: (6) steep
cabinets, (8) germination cabinets,
(2) two-deck kilns.
‣ Micromalting system inhouse
designed, each cabinet
holds (5) x 2.2 kgs barley.
‣ System sized so that one
cabinet’s production is one all-malt
pilot brew of malt.

Capabilities - Spiritwood
Pilot Brewery:
‣ Typical 5-vessel layout
‣ ½ bbl design, 10 gallon
nominal brewsize.
‣ Automated process controls, RS
View interface, Rockwell PLC
controls.
‣ Ideal for small scale replication
of process, variable ingredients.

Capabilities
- Spiritwood
Major Instrument:

Malt Analysis - Spiritwood
Malt Analytics at QA Lab
-Wet Flow Chemistry-SKALAR:
The SKALAR provides
-DP
- Alpha- Amylase
- Beta-Glucan
-FAN

Technological Capabilities
Summary-Spiritwood
- Micro-Malting:
(6) Steep cabinets, (8) Germination cabinets, (2) Kiln cabinets. Each cabinet consisting of (5) cans with 2.2-kg nominal
barley load capacity, total barley loading 11.0-kg per cabinet nominal. Utilizing all cans within a cabinet will yield
malt required for one all-malt brew from pilot brewhouse.
Micromalting key parameters in steep, germination and kiln controlled by PLC, allowing replication of process.
- Pilot Brewery:
(5) vessel brewhouse: Cereal cooker, mash-mixer, lauter tun, brew-kettle and whirlpool. Brewery standard aeration, wort
cooling and yeast pitching. (8) Fermentation vessels. Above brewery equipment PLC controlled key parameters for
replication of process. System is capable of producing most major beer styles and formulations, including various
cereal and syrup adjuncts.
System is nominally designed for 13.5 gallons all malt brew at 12.0 plato. Typically produce 10 gallons in fermentation, five
gallons available for packaging as needed.
Filtration accomplished by beverage sheet filtration, packaging by single head PLC controlled beverage bottle filler.
- Brewery Lab:
Wort analysis of FAN, Bradford method (Coomassie blue binding) foam proteins, extract. Fermentation lab capabilities
include daily FAN, yeast count by hemocytometer and ATP bioluminescence (EasyCount (TM)), Physical analysis by
SCABA: OG, AE, RE, RDF, Alc (w/w), Alc (v/v), Calories, color. Finished beer analyses include all wort and
fermentation data, and Nibem-T foam and haze analyses. Non-standard analysis are performed as needed by other
Cargill malt labs, other Cargill BU labs, or external labs.

Outline
‣ Current Organization Structure and Capacity
‣ Proposed concept

Capabilities- Herent
‣ 1-MT pilot malting system
‣ (2) Joe White micromalting
units
‣ 1-HL nominal brew size pilot brewery
‣ Supported by Malt Eurasia’s QA Lab, and Cargill
technical centers in Vilvoorde, BG., and Amsterdam, NL.
Also works in collaboration with technical centers in U.S.
‣ Capable of a variety of malting, brewing and
fermentation studies

Capabilities
- Herent
Pilot Brewery:
Brewhouse

Capabilities - Herent
Herent Brewery:
‣The brewery is fully automated with a
Steinecker controlling system. Flexibility for
optimisation of different processes.
‣ Infusion and decoction processes are possible with the
system. The cooker has a capacity of 80 L, The mash tun kettle takes
100 L. Mash separation is done with a classical lautertun having a
max. load of 300 kg/m². The height and speed of raking are
automatically controlled. Wort boiling is possible with an internal or
external boiling system. Hot break is removed in the whirlpool.