Patent ID: 8627759

Claim:
Whirlpool apparatus for brewing operations, comprising an inner chamber constructed to separate hot break by means of a whirlpool effect, wherein the inner chamber has a wort feed via which the wort is tangentially introduced so that by using the whirlpool effect, rotating movement is imparted to the contents of the inner chamber, said inner chamber having essentially the shape of a hollow cylinder and being bordered by an inner wall and a bottom, and an integrated stripper comprising an outer chamber arranged around the inner chamber for evaporating off volatile substances from wort transferred from the inner chamber, said apparatus further comprising a pump for pumping the wort out of the inner chamber into the outer chamber and a distributor device that introduces wort which has been transferred from the inner chamber into an upper area of the outer chamber such that the wort is distributed over a periphery of the outer chamber said distributor device being disposed one of (a) between the inner wall of the outer chamber and the outer wall of the inner chamber, and (b) at an outer edge of the outer chamber, and wherein the distributor device comprises a closed loop which is configured such that the wort is introduced into the outer chamber as a trickling film.