City Brewing Company, LLC


                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Brewing

The Brewhouse

The “kitchen” of the brewery, the Brewhouse cooks the grains and hops, according to recipe, to produce a sweet fermentable liquid called “wort” which, after undergoing fermentation, will become beer.  Our twin stream Brewhouse is capable of producing 16 brews per day at 1,100 barrels each for an annual capacity of nearly 7 million barrels of beer.  City Brewery currently brews approximately 40 different brew recipes for themselves and over a dozen contract brewing customers.

Fermentation

• City Brewery has 70 fermentation tanks.
• Fermentation tanks are horizontal temperature controlled.
• Our brewing yeast strains are managed in a dedicated Yeast Room and grown in the Yeast Propagation Room.

The Finishing Process

• Beer is transferred to storage tanks for aging.
• Our aging cellars hold 70 storage tanks and are a mix of horizontal and vertical tanks of various sizes.
• Aged beer is centrifuged prior to filtration.
• This is carried out using a 900 barrel per hour centrifuge system which supplies a 1,000 square foot US Filter.

Filtration

• The single-pass filtration process is performed after the storage beer has been centrifuged.
• Filtration is through a 1,000 square foot, vertical leaf, US Filter.  Process speed is 750 finished barrels per hour.
• Finished beer is filtered into the Package Release Cellar.

 

Blending

Our state-of-the-art, computerized batching/blending room utilizes Rockwell Software’s RS Batch program suite capable of batching and blending alcoholic, non-alcoholic, carbonated and non-carbonated beverages.  We have four blend loops, each separately controlled through isolated terminals.

Batch Sizes

• Minimum of 7,750 gallons
• Maximum of 24,800 gallons
• All batches are single strength to the filler

Storage and Transfer

• Stainless steel and Glass lined storage tanks
• Stainless steel piping
• Re-circulating finish tanks available for juice products

Ingredients

• Bulk truck and rail unloading stations
• Bulk liquid, tote and drum storage
• Storage for dry bag and drum ingredients
• Both heated and refrigerated storage space available

Equipment

• Electronic metering systems for bulk liquid additions
• Three and five step CIP for pumps and equipment
• Full lab analysis prior to release and packaging