Patent ID: 8584665

Claim:
Brewery plant comprising at least one mash container ( 3 ), a lauter tun ( 5 ), a wort pan ( 7 ) and a water housing ( 9 ), and wherein at least part of the thermal energy requirement of the brewery is covered by solar collectors ( 25 ), the solar collectors directly or indirectly heating a fluid to a temperature of at least 120° C., wherein the thermal energy generated in the solar collectors ( 25 ) is buffer stored in a high pressure tank and supplied, controlled by a control unit ( 27 ), to thermal energy consumers, wherein the high pressure tank is a stratified store, a first pipe ( 81 ) is provided which passes high pressure hot fluid from the upper region of the high pressure tank to the thermal energy loads, and a second pipe ( 82 ) is provided between the thermal energy consumers and a lower region of the same high pressure storage tank that returns cooled down fluid to the high pressure storage tank from the thermal energy consumers, wherein the lower region of the tank is below the upper region.