Mashing tun

Mash tun is a vessel used in the  to convert the starches in crushed grains into sugars for fermentation. TBE mash tuns are insulated to maintain a constant temperature. The mash tun can be single-function or can also have a false bottom and spigot so that the sparging process can be done in the same vessel. Steam jacket design will allow The TBE systems are designed to do both decoction mashing and infusion mashing. The mashing tun/kettle is made out of stainless steel or coppe.

Lauter tun

The lauter tun is used for filtering and clarifying the sugar liquid (called wort) out of the heated water-malt mixture (called mash) that comes from the mashing tun.

The lauter tun typically has the same capacity as the cooking tun and can also be made out of stainless steel or copper cladding. It has a design with a false bottom in stainless steel v-wire and a raking gear that has the function of an agitator, a rake and a spent gain remover. This is a very unique and helpful tool because after filtering the spent grains will be automatically removed from the lauter tun, saving a lot of time and energy of the brewmaster. Furthermore the lauter tun can be equipped with additional accessories such as sight glasses, CIP jets for simplifying the lautering.

Boiling Kettle

After lautering, the beer  is boiled with  (and other flavourings if used) in a large tank known as a brew kettle. The boiling process is where chemical and technical reactions take place, including  of the wort to remove unwanted bacteria, releasing of hop flavours, bitterness and aroma compounds through , stopping of enzymatic processes,  of proteins, and concentration of the wort.

Whirlpool Tun

At the end of the boil, the hopped wort settles to clarify in a vessel called a "whirlpool" where there is a tangential inlet of wort. Thus, a vortex is formed when the wort is infused along the arc inside surface, so that the more solid particles in the wort are separated out. Whirlpool can happen in the kettle because there is no obstacle inside the kettle.

Hot water tanks

Hot water tanks, called liquor tanks in a brewery, are buffer tanks that contain hot water that will be used to sparge the grain bed during lautering to extract a maximum of sugars out of the malt. This hot water storage tank is almost always insulated and can be heated through steam or an electric coil.

Cold water tank

Cold water tanks, or cold liquor tanks as they are called in the brewery, are buffer tanks that contain cold water that will be used to cool the bitter wort down to a fermentable temperature range after boiling, using a wort cooler. This cold water storage tank can be as simple as single skin vessels in a cold room, but can also be jacketed glycol tanks or insulated tanks with a cooling coil immersed in the water.

Various combination of brewhouse

Brewhouse is various in combination of vessels, of course to achieve the same four steps mashing, lautering, boiling, whirlpool, by special brewing intentions of brewer including wort output, wort gravity, sparging water, brews in certain time, brewing method etc. TBE Company accepts special design for these variations.

2 Vessel Brewhouse

Mash/Lauter Tun + Boil Kettle/Whirlpool Tun

Mash/Lauter Tun/Hot Liquor Tank Combi vessel + Boil Kettle/Whirlpool Tun

Mash/Lauter Tun + Boil Kettle/Whirlpool + Hot Liquor Tank

3 Vessel Brewhouses

Mash/Lauter Tun + Boil Kettle + Whirlpool Tun

Mash(kettle) Tun + Lauter Tun + Boil Kettle/Whirlpool Tun

4 Vessel Brewhouses

Mash(kettle) Tun + Lauter Tun + Boil Kettle + Whirlpool

5 Vessel Brewhouses

Mash Tun + Lauter Tun + Boil Kettle + Whirlpool+ Holding Kettle