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APPLICATION: Beer
CUSTOMER: The “Bryggeriet Skands” Brewery
COUNTRY: Denmark
KEOFITT PRODUCTS: Keofitt Aseptic Sampling Bags & Keofitt W9 Sampling Valve
ANALYSIS -You need to wake up from your dreams in order to make them come true. Bryggeriet Skands is the result of a dream twenty years old that has finally manifested itself, says Birthe Skands, Technical Manager.
She and her husband Morten Skands established the Bryggeriet Skands in Brøndby, Denmark in 2003.
LIVING THE DREAM At the time Birthe Skands had worked as a brewmaster at different breweries such as Carlsberg for a number of years, but her dream was to run her own brewery providing the opportunity to brew many different varieties with new tastes and specialties such as the traditional English ale and topfermented Belgian beer.
During the first year, which included testing new ideas at a 50 Liter pilot brewery, we had a 15 HL brewhouse and fermentation and storage tanks installed from 300 year old Kaspar Schulz in Germany. This means that many more can enjoy our brews and that variations in taste are diminished significantly. Our priorities are creativity and flexibility, so there is always something new and exciting for the consumers to look forward to.
Our annual production capacity is 250,000 Liter and we do not plan on getting bigger, Birthe Skands reports.
WORLD CLASS VALVES-Sanitary conditions are crucial to brewing beer and being able to take completely clean samples from the fermentation and storage tanks during fermentation and storage is essential. Consequently, the tanks were traditionally equipped with two sterilizable sampling devices – one for chemical sampling and one for microbiological sampling. However, from my time as brewmaster and head of product development where I was responsible for the testing of new equipment I knew of former Carlsberg brewmaster Kai Ottung, who had invented the Keofitt sterilizable sampling valve combining the two functions.
The valve is manufactured by the Danish company KEOFITT A/S, established in 1980. We spent much time testing new equipment at Carlsberg and we found that the KEOFITT valves were the best by far. They are quite simply world class valves. The best there is in sampling valves. Although not standard on Kaspar Schulz tanks we had these valves installed on our fermentation and storage tanks. At first glance the valve may appear to be too advanced for a small brewery such as ours, but I am confident it will pay off in the long run, Birthe Skands explains.