Your passion deserves the best
When you live for brewing, you know that quality beer takes quality tools. Meet the Alfa Laval Brew 20 – a compact beer centrifuge specially designed for the needs of brewpubs and small microbreweries. Built with Alfa Laval’s unique Axial Hermetic Seal, it also offers a smart innovation for minimizing oxygen pickup without increasing costs.
- Clarifier for the smallest craft brewers
- Working capacity: 4-15 hl/h
- Axial-Hermetic Seal for reduction of oxygen pickup
- Simple to operate with low maintenance costs
- Plug-and-play skid for fast, easy installation
Questions about using a centrifuge in your brewery?
Many smaller craft brewers still assume that centrifuges are too costly or offer little benefit for clarifying beer. But today’s modular disc stack systems, optimized for small breweries, now require only a small investment compared to conventional tank settling, and provide faster solids separation without the same high product losses. Additionally, they provide better retention of aromatics and volatiles than filtration systems. The result is a solution that offers long-term savings and superior beer quality.
Want to learn more? Check out our video guide for craft brewers or hear from a brewer who already made the switch to a centrifuge.
Brew 20 - for more profitable batches
Investing in a beer separator is the smartest way to get more out of your fermentation time without buying additional tanks. You can greatly increase yield, saving more of the beer you already brew, as well as boost your capacity with faster tank turnover. At the end of the day, that means more pints in customer hands – and more profit for you.
See an example of a real craft brewery which started using our centrifuge and managed to increase yield by at least 8%!
Enjoy increased ROI with Brew 20
”A lot of our customers see a return on their investment within two or three years, some - in less than a year, - says Vince Polino, market sales manager at Alfa Laval, USA.
See to the left an example of one of our customers, who invested in Brew 20 and managed to get their investments back in just 1,5 years:
- Yearly production: 2000 HL
- Suggested flow rate: 5-10 HL/h
- Recovery rate for IPAs – yield increase ~ 7%
- Beer sales: €2,5/L
- Return of investment: less than 1,5 years
Selecting the right centrifuge
No two breweries are the same, which can make it a challenge to find the ideal separator for your beers. Alfa Laval has decades of experience working with craft brewers from around the world. Our experts offer unique knowledge to make sure you get an optimized clarification solution that ensures higher output and quality at the lowest cost. Still have questions? Browse our video guide for expert advice.
Brew 20 system features for better beer quality
Do you own a small craft brewery or dream of owning one? Then we have just the right machine for you – the Brew 20 beer centrifuge will help you improve the quality, consistency and flavor of your beer. It’s compact, easy to install and helpful for anyone who calls themselves a true craft brewer.
- Simple and user-friendly system
- Easy to operate
- Robust and reliable design, able to handle all kinds of beer styles
- Simple to operate with low maintenance costs
- Small enough to enable brewpubs to enjoy the same centrifugal benefits of a larger brewery
Taking the craft from good to exceptional
For us, it goes beyond the equipment. When you choose an Alfa Laval centrifuge, you work closely with enthusiastic technicians who share your passion. Watch this video to learn about how we’ve helped other craft brewers take their beer to the next level.
Give your passion the best
Quality beer takes quality tools. If you want to discover the possibilities of increased yield along with improved flavour, aroma and head retention, get in touch to see how we can support your brewery with an Alfa Laval Brew centrifuge. Click below to get a quote.
Alfa Laval Brew: solutions 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.
Visit our Brew Series homepage to learn more.
Brew 20
- Clarifier for the smallest craft brewers
- Working capacity: 4-15 hl/h
- Axial-Hermetic Seal for reduction of oxygen pickup
- Simple to operate with low maintenance costs
- Plug-and-play skid for fast, easy installation
Brew 80
- Clarifier for small-sized craft brewers
- Working capacity: 10-50 hl/h
- Axial-Hermetic Seal for reduction of oxygen pickup
- Simple to operate with low maintenance costs
- Plug-and-play skid for fast, easy installation
Brew 250
- Polisher for small-sized craft brewers
- Working capacity: 40-140 hl/h
- Fully Hermetic Design ensures zero oxygen pickup and low power consumption
- Simple to operate with low maintenance costs
- Plug-and-play skid for fast, easy installation
Brew 301
- Clarifier for small-sized craft brewers
- Working capacity: 50-180 hl/h
- OxyStop seal for minimal oxygen pickup
- Simple to operate with low maintenance costs
- Plug-and-play skid for fast, easy installation
- Siemens automation
Separation for your brewery - webinar - 24 Sep 2019
A centrifuge, or a separator, is a great tool that can help you to increase the profit from every batch of beer from your brewery and at the same time improve the quality of your beer. In this webinar our experts Joakim Gustafsson and Fernando Jimenez will introduce you to separation technology and explain how it is used in beer breweries. You will get to know why more and more brewers pay attention to beer centrifuges. You will find out, how separation can help you increase yield, improve beer quality and profitability.
Passion to keep you going
With Alfa Laval as a partner, you have the full backing of a global service network of dedicated separation experts. We offer a range of services to support your system throughout its lifetime as well as upgrades for improving centrifuge performance. Our experts can also teach your team how to best operate the equipment to ensure optimal performance for the long term. And when you need spares, our distribution network can supply you quickly with the required parts. No matter where you are in the world, our experts can be there when you need them to answer questions, solve challenges and help you get the most from your equipment.