酒杯里蕴藏的深度与特性
威士忌酒总是以谷物、水和酵母开始。在生产过程中，从原材料到糖化、麦汁提取、发酵和蒸馏的各种不同因素都会影响该过程并使产品具有独特的风味和香气。此外，所有烈酒品牌都迫切追求保持始终如一的质量，并视之为首要任务，因此，精确的工艺条件至关重要。
从原材料处理到麦芽调理、碾磨、糖化和发酵，再到木桶成熟，GEA 为各种需求提供了合适的解决方案。例如，这包括流量组件、个别设计的模块、定制设备或完全集成的交钥匙工程解决方案。每个个别的系统都在开发时考虑到客户的精确要求，为他们配备了所有必要的工具来确保最终产品的特定质量 - 这是保持传统和成功的优质馏分所必需的先决条件。出于这个原因，GEA 能够驾轻就熟地通过全面组合我们的糖化和蒸馏技术的相关创新工艺来支持来自世界各地的客户，同时始终牢记成功的标志性产品所秉承的传统要素。
这只是 GEA 的创新、最先进技术如何在烈酒生产中制定新标准的众多例子之一。此外，我们的解决方案也是可持续发展的，可以帮助优化产量和能效，最大限度地降低运营成本，并减少碳足迹。具体而言，这意味着我们的系统和解决方案旨在排放更少的温室气体、消耗更少的能源并可重复利用废物 - 同时确保可靠、平稳和高效的生产工艺。
威士忌
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麦芽威士忌烈酒生产的关键步骤
Barley malt and cereal grains are received in bulk and transferred to silos for storage. A sample from each batch is analyzed to determine cereal moisture and starch content. Malt cleaning and de-stoning occur prior to milling.
Barley malt is milled in conventional roller mills to produce grist. Alternatively, GEA provides wet-conditioned milling by MILLSTAR®, offering improved lautering efficiency. Milling and mashing-in can thus be combined in a single, non-ATEX dust-free and hygienic step.
Grist and water are mixed in a grist hydrator or pre-masher. The addition of a Mash Conversion Vessel increases mashing flexibility or can be added as a de-bottlenecking upgrade. Gentle mash transfer by low-shear Mono type pump is a novel feature of GEA mashing systems.
The lauter tun is the heart of the mash house, responsible for the extraction of sugary wort from the cereal mash. The system offers flexibility and is optimized to manage conversion yield, wort gravity and clarity, oxygen pick-up, cycle time and extraction efficiency.
Wort is combined with yeast in fermenter washbacks to convert sugars to alcohol containing wash. Hygienic fermenter design is enhanced with jacketed or external coolers – for attemperated fermentation control, improving alcohol yield while reducing energy and water use.
Wash is distilled in wash stills to produce high wine. This distillate is further concentrated in spirit stills to produce new make spirit. Energy savings by TVR or MVR heat pump techniques are used, while waste heat recovered from the condensers aids sustainability.
Thermal energy is recovered from the still condensers and stored as hot water in an energy recovery tank-accumulator. Heat is therefore provided as sustainable energy for mashing and sparge water preheating along with other uses like CIP and syrup evaporator heating.
Thermal energy is recovered from the still condensers and stored as hot water in an energy recovery tank-accumulator. Heat is therefore provided as sustainable energy for mashing and sparge water preheating along with other uses like CIP and syrup evaporator heating.
GEA scope includes in-line blending and mixing/carbonation.
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