Patent ID: 11959052
Assignee: FLOTTWEG SE
Field: Food chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  B | IPC B  C

Claim 0:
1. A method for recovering beer from cold-hopped beer (20),
characterized in that
the cold-hopped beer (20) is supplied to a decanting centrifuge (50), and the cold-hopped beer (20) is clarified by the decanting centrifuge (50) such that a separated solid substance (70) preponderantly has hop sediments, and a liquid phase (80) is clarified beer,
characterized in that
the cold-hopped beer (20) is stored within a storage tank (10) having a tank cone (15), before it is supplied to the decanting centrifuge (50), wherein at least three phases (21, 22, 23) of the cold-hopped beer are present within the storage tank, namely a first phase (21) substantially present within the tank cone (15), the first phase (21) having a first hop sediment share to be separated, a second phase (22), and a third phase (23) floating upon the second phase (22), the third phase having a third hop sediment share,
wherein the second phase (22) has no hop sediments or a second hop sediment share that is lower than the first hop sediment share and the third hop sediment share, and
wherein the three phases (21, 22, 23) are discharged one after the other through an outlet (18) of the storage tank (10), which is situated at a lower portion of the tank (10), whereby the phase of the cold-hopped beer (20) is determined based on a measured turbidity value EBC of the cold-hopped beer (20),
wherein the three phases of the cold-hopped beer which are present within the storage tank, are clarified differently according to the measured turbidity value EBC.