There are many reasons why installing a clarifier can benefit your production, its ability to increase the quantity and enhance your product will see the initial investment quickly recovered.

The first and most obvious benefit is the increase in yield as a clarifier will filter much faster than a traditional filter. It will also recover more product typically lost in a traditional filter, therefore reducing product loss. A brewer could increase production by up to 20% with the same volume of tanks.

The clarification process speeds up your production by taking fermented, unclarified beer and spinning plates at several thousand rpm, to separate out yeast, hop solids and brewing proteins leaving you with clarified beer unexposed to oxygen. Typically, the Seital range of clarifiers will give you <10 ppb oxygen pick up.

The time your beer can be sitting in a fermentation vessel can be reduced from days to hours, allowing faster tank turnover, without compromising consistency. With such a low rate of oxygen pick up you could also increase product shelf life.

You may be worried that such an integral change from filtration to clarification will take away from your beer’s flavour and what makes it unique. In fact, this is quite the opposite as this technology will retain finer materials that are essential to your product’s aroma and flavour.

All productions and processes are different and the return on investment (ROI) will depend on many factors. However, the majority of brewers see a ROI within two years.

Moody Direct Ltd are SPX FLOW’s official UK channel partner for their superb Seital range of separators and clarifiers. We have also been accredited as a Certified Service & Repair Centre. This status allows them to carry out certified maintenance and refurbishment, not only on Seital separators and clarifiers, but a large range of process components.

For more information contact Moody Direct on 01777 701141 or email info@moodydirect.com.