I clicked into a link to catch up activities at local brewery Jack's Abby , and was surprised by one of the ads on the site. A Westfalia centrifuge? Did clever ad AI figure out that I was a little interested in quoting a pilot unit for work? Nope. This ad was sold directly to the site. It just seemed wildly out of place on a Craft Beer and Brewery website There's a lot of respect for tradition among craft brewers, and frankly not many large scale breweries where this type of equipment makes financial sense. The captains of industry the defined so many styles in the Victorian era never would have imagined the insanity that is a continuous flow disc stack centrifuge. I can barely comprehend it despite having worked with them for six years. GEA Westfalia's video on Separation technology is fairly instructive, even if the music makes me giggle. That's not to say centrifuges have no place in brewing. They are nice pieces of equipment, and ...
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