Krones AG CombiCube system

The Krones AG CombiCube system is suitable for smaller specialty breweries with up to 250,000 hectolitres of sales-quality beer, ones that handle a diverse range of types and seasonal products. Large, industrial-scale breweries can also use the system to brew small batches for their specialty beers, or as a pilot installation, or a mobile brewery. The system is modularised in construction, permits a customised design configuration and can be easily expanded. The type and number of vessels can be selected to suit the requirements involved.

The three components for brewhouse, filtration and cellarage are the CombiCube B brewhouse, the CombiCube C cellarage unit and the CombiCube F filter.

The CombiCube B is suitable for the compact brewhouse and covers an output range of 40 to 100 hectolitres of hot cast work with up to 10 brews a day and original gravities of up to 15° Plato with 98.5% extract yield. Combinations can be put together from the following vessels: mash tun, mash copper/cereal cooker, lauter tun/mash lauter tun, wort copper/mash wort copper and whirlpool.

The CombiCube C is suitable for breweries that operate a classical fermentation cellar, with the tanks linked up by means of hoses, but that still want to reap the advantages of a process control system and are therefore planning to refurbish their cold area.

With the CombiCube F, the filtration module, the buffer module, the carbonation module, the disposal module and the CIP module can be appropriately combined to suit the client’s needs. The CombiCube F operates in a nominal output range from 26 to 104 hL/h, with continuous running times of up to 14 h. It is available in six different sizes.