Sustainable Craft Microbrewery

Customer

Founded in 2012, FarmHouse Brewery Luppolajo is an Italian farm and microbrewery that draws on more than a hundred years of experience of the family company, Azienda Agricola Treccani.

They produce craft beer using only malt grown in their own fields, and they adopt sustainable practices, such as using a photovoltaic system to meet all the energy needs for the plant.

Project

The brewery needed to develop from a manually operated 600 litre installation into a semi-automatic installation four times bigger, with three main objectives:

To increase production capacity to meet the growth in demand.
To improve the economic and energy efficiency, reducing costs and consumption.
To comply with automation and repeatability standards, with remote management in accordance with the Industry 4.0 standard.

The project was also conceived as a pilot case in Italy, within the framework of the new Industry 5.0 regulations, obtaining an energy efficiency certification exceeding 15%, which made it eligible for significant tax benefits.

“The new installation allows us to boost beer production more efficiently and safely, without compromising the quality of the final product.”

Why INOXPA?

The customer chose INOXPA for the brand’s reliability and its proven experience in this type of installation. INOXPA can supply a customised solution to meet the production and energy needs of the customer.

INOXPA also brought specialized expertise in the brewery industry and the ability to interact promptly and effectively with the Industry 5.0 consultants.

INOXPA solution

INOXPA supplied and installed a new brew house that can produce 2500 litres per batch, which was designed to ensure efficiency, automation and sustainability.

Installation characteristics

The main elements of the solution are:

Brew house of 2500 litres per batch, with a capacity of up to 5000 litres/day.
Energy recovery system via steam condensation.
Automated management of water from reverse osmosis and warm water recovery.
Automated system for malt milling and loading.
Fermenter temperature control in accordance with Industry 4.0, with remote management.
Supply of 5 new fermenters.
Connected installation with remote monitoring, in accordance with Industry 4.0 and 5.0 standards.

Special features

Production quadrupled without additional shifts.
Significant reduction in operating costs and more environmentally sustainable, with a certified 15% energy saving.
Automation and remote control for better process reliability, fewer human errors and remote management.
Compliance with Industry 4.0 and 5.0, with up to 45% of the installation cost recoverable through tax breaks.