Whether home brewers or craft brewery, regular maintenance is an integral part of the brewing process. It helps you brew the best craft beer, reduce the risk of accidents and contamination, and avoid costly repairs. Most importantly, it helps avoid dealing with big problems at the worst possible time. With a few preventative maintenance tips, you can ensure that every brewing day, fermentation period, and packing process runs smoothly.

10 Tips for Maintaining Your Brewing Mash Equipment

1. Do not use cl-cleaners or disinfectants. This should be obvious, but we'll mention it anyway!
2. If you don't plan to use your device for a while, be sure to clean it thoroughly. After the water flow clears, close the valve. Also, clean the device thoroughly before using it again after prolonged use.
3. The heat exchanger should be disassembled and cleaned after long-term operation or long-term use. It is not allowed to use metal brushes when cleaning, and it is not allowed to bend, twist, step on and squeeze the heat exchange plate. And the aging gasket should be replaced in time.
4. Regularly check the motor, pump connections and grounds to ensure proper connections. Check the oil level of the geared motor and hydraulic unit. Add lubricating oil regularly according to the instructions. Regularly check the tightness of mixing and tillage accessories.
5. All used water pumps must not be idling or reversed, and if leakage is found, the water pump sealing ring should be replaced in time.
6. Regularly check whether there are foreign objects and impurities in the pulverizer hopper, check whether the fasteners of the pulverizer are loose, check the tightness of the pulverizer drive belt and the reliability of the safety protection device. Clean the grinding rollers regularly.
7. Regularly check the pressure gauges and safety valves of steam heating equipment to ensure that the trap is unblocked; do not start heating until the specified level is reached. When steam, wort and other high-temperature pipelines and saccharification equipment are in operation, warning signs should be hung on the top to prevent scalding.
8. When filtering, do not extract the wort with a large flow, which may damage the sieve plate! When the equipment is not in use, do not place heavy objects on the screen to avoid deformation of the screen. Keep all mechanical parts running smoothly during operation.
9. Check the plate heat exchanger for leaks, leaks and liquid flow at any time, and repair it immediately if any. Always pay attention to the concentration of alkaline water in the alkaline water tank. If the concentration of alkaline water is found to be too low or too turbid, it should be replaced in time for washing.
10. Check all plumbing valves at all times. If a leak is found, it should be repaired or replaced immediately.

7 Tips for Maintaining Your Beer Fermentation Tank

1. Beer fermentation tanks are widely used in beverage, chemical, food, dairy, condiment, brewing, pharmaceutical and other industries for fermentation.
2. There is water leakage at the joints of the inlet pipe and the outlet pipe, and if the problem cannot be solved by tightening the joints, the packing should be added or replaced.
3. The pressure gauge and safety valve should be checked regularly, and if there is any failure, it should be replaced or repaired in time.
4. When cleaning the fermenter, please use a soft brush to scrub, do not scrape with hard tools, so as not to damage the surface of the fermenter.
5. The supporting instruments should be calibrated once a year to ensure normal use.
6. Electrical equipment, instruments, sensors and other electrical equipment are strictly prohibited from direct contact with water and steam to avoid moisture.
7. When the equipment is out of use, it should be cleaned in time to drain the remaining water in the fermentation tank and each pipeline; loosen the cover of the fermentation tank and the hand hole screws to avoid deformation of the sealing ring.
8. If the fermenter is not used temporarily, the fermenter needs to be emptied, and the remaining water in the tank and each pipeline should be drained.