How to choose brewing equipment?

One, look at the material?

Winemaking equipment is a tool for steaming wine, usually used to do a lot of materials for winemaking equipment, such as wood retort, iron, aluminum alloy, ceramic, copper, stainless steel, etc., the different materials have a direct impact on the yield and quality of the wine taste, which material is the most suitable for us to do the winemaking equipment, the following is an analysis of the different materials as follows.

1. Wooden screen, the cost is cheap, but the wooden screen is a piece of boards put together, there are gaps between the boards, sealing is not good, coupled with the pot of the day the cooling performance is also poor leading to the wine vapors to the outside, about 20% lower yield, cheap to buy expensive to use.

2. Iron, of course, the cost is also cheap, but iron is easy to rust, steam out of the wine is rusty, yellow color, affecting the quality of white wine taste.

3. Aluminum alloy, will not rust, not high temperature. Aluminum alloy contains lead elements, in the process of steaming wine is decomposed, affecting the quality of white wine, contains carcinogenic substances, the national food hygiene law, can not use aluminum alloy to make food utensils.

4. Ceramics, with ceramics to steam wine, wine taste is possible, but the ceramic thermal conductivity is slow, steam wine for a long time, waste of fuel. And not easy to move and fragile, but also cheap to buy expensive to use.

5. Copper, copper ions can enhance the quality of white wine, is the best winemaking equipment materials, but the cost is expensive, a small equipment to tens of thousands of dollars.

6. Stainless steel, industrial, food-specific, medical steel, usually food-specific is 8K304 steel, acid-resistant, alkali-resistant, high temperature. Life expectancy of up to 10 years, good thermal conductivity, cooling and sealing performance is also good, to ensure that the yield and quality of white wine, moderate cost, is to do the best choice of brewing equipment.

If you want to buy stainless steel brewing equipment, it is best to use stainless steel to identify the potion test is not 8K304 stainless steel material before buying.

Two, look at the function

1. Traditional wooden retort equipment

Traditional wooden retort steaming by the day pot, wooden retort, ground pot three parts, pot and retort connection with cloth or rice bran seal, due to the cloth and rice bran has a gap air permeability, so in the steaming of wine steam from the gap run out of lower yield, the pot area of the day pot is small cooling is incomplete, coupled with the cooling water is not recycled water, cooling The temperature is high, so it also reduces the output.

2. Disadvantages of conjoined equipment

This type of equipment, the bottom of the cooking pot part of the layer is very high, which reduces the risk of paste pot, but also caused the loss of heat energy, increasing costs. Coupled with the lack of chimney at the bottom, hot air and soot discharged directly into the room, the pot outlet pipe is welded, can not be disassembled. Once encountering the situation of incomplete fermentation of wine grains, the undecomposed starch expands by heat, blocking the air outlet pipe, coupled with the design of the air outlet pipe is too big a bend, unclogging and cleaning becomes an impossible task; there is no decontamination ceramic ball inside the pot lid (commonly known as the catalytic aging treasure), which can not be filtered and decontaminated and catalytic aging to increase the aroma of the wine steam, the steamed wine aroma thin, and can not win the competitive advantage. The air conduit is at a right angle, of course it will be easier to weld, but the airflow will certainly not rise smoothly enough, making it difficult to reduce the steaming time and the cost of labor and fuel.

3. Disadvantages of Aluminum Equipment

This equipment, with the sandwich design of the steaming pot, ensures that there is no danger of muddling the pot when steaming wine normally. However, once negative pressure is generated due to unstable fire (whether wood or coal burning, unstable fire is unavoidable) and other reasons, the spirits of wine are sucked into the mezzanine, which cannot be cleaned. These wine spirits in the sandwich rot and deteriorate, and all the wine steamed by this equipment will inevitably carry the taste of rot and deterioration, and the quality is greatly reduced. In addition, part of the fire at the bottom of the pot directly heats the mezzanine, and the wine grains sticking to the bottom of the mezzanine are 100% paste. Cooler area is very large, but need to specialize in building a pool to cooler immersed in a pool to work, so this type of equipment is essentially a semi-finished winemaking equipment.

4. Disadvantages of horizontal pipe equipment

This equipment is designed to be special, the cooking pot chimney from the wine spirits between the chimney through the chimney can be utilized to save part of the fuel. But the middle of the wine grains without steam stirring, there is a danger of paste pot. Chimney across the cooking pot, but also increase the difficulty of cleaning, increased labor costs. The inlet pipe can not be dismantled, once blocked can not be cleaned, the air guide slot inside, can not be placed on the string steamer. The biggest hidden danger of this equipment is that its chimney is very close to the bottom of the pot, the torch nozzle can not be put, once the leak, can not be repaired. The cooler liner is also a spiral pipe, which will affect the distillation time because the pipe is too long.

5. TangSanJing brewing equipment

TangSanJing is currently a more advanced equipment, from the cooking pot, liquor degree adjustable pot cover, air duct and cooler are used 8K304 mirror stainless steel, which is characterized by acid and alkali resistance, normal service life of more than 10 years. Its steam heating completely eliminate the phenomenon of paste pot, distillation pot designed for energy-saving heating to save fuel to reduce costs, the pot is designed with a series of steamer can be made to diversify the taste of wine suitable for the needs of various regions, and the pot cover is also designed to promote the aging of the treasure filtration system, to ensure that the color of the white wine and aroma, the cooler using recycled water cooling to ensure the yield of wine.