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Supporting Stable and Hygienic Brewing Operations

Integrated support systems for malt milling, CIP cleaning, yeast propagation, process piping, and water treatment. Designed to improve sanitation, production consistency, operational efficiency, and long-term plant reliability.

What Are Brewery Auxiliary Systems?

Brewery auxiliary systems support the key operations behind stable brewing, including malt preparation, hygienic cleaning, yeast management, process transfer, and water quality control.

A well-designed auxiliary system improves sanitation, reduces manual work, protects product quality, and helps the brewhouse and fermentation sections run more efficiently. These systems are widely used in craft breweries, microbreweries, and commercial brewing projects that require dependable daily operation.

From compact mobile units to fully integrated utility systems, each configuration can be matched to your brewery size, process route, and automation requirements.

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Explore Production Auxiliary Options

Grain Handling & Malt Milling
METO Grain Handling Malt Milling

The grain handling system is the starting point of brewery production. It is designed to crush malt evenly while maintaining proper husk structure, helping improve mash efficiency, lautering performance, and brewhouse consistency.

Grain Mills

  • Configurable for different brewery capacities
  • Stable crushing performance for uniform grist quality
  • Optional auger feeding and dust-control matching

Hopper / Grist Case

  • Connected with mills and conveying systems
  • Supports temporary grain storage and controlled feeding
  • Helps improve brewhouse workflow efficiency
CIP Cleaning System

The CIP system is essential for the circulation cleaning and sanitization of tanks, pipelines, heat exchangers, filling equipment, and other brewery process units. By using caustic solution, acid solution, hot water, and fresh water in controlled cleaning cycles, the system helps maintain hygienic brewing conditions and stable beer quality.

Mobile CIP Cart

  • Capacity: 50L – 200L
  • Heating: Electric heating or steam heating
  • Control: Manual control
  • Suitable for small-scale craft breweries
  • Easy to move and flexible to use

Fully Automatic CIP System

  • Capacity Range: 500L – 10,000L
  • Tanks: Caustic / Acid / Hot Water / Fresh Water
  • Optional: Recovery Water Tank / Sanitizing Tank
  • Heating: Steam heating
  • Control: Semi-automatic or fully automatic
METO CIP Cleaning System
Yeast Propagation System
METO Yeast Propagation System​

The yeast propagation system is used to cultivate and preserve pure yeast strains before fermentation. Under sterile and controlled conditions, a small quantity of stored yeast can be gradually propagated to the required volume, helping maintain yeast purity, vitality, and fermentation consistency.

System Composition

  • Inoculation unit and propagation tanks
  • Sterile air filtration and oxygen supply
  • Cooling, control, and yeast storage

System Features

  • Enclosed sterile design
  • CIP/SIP sanitation capability
  • Multi-stage expansion and direct transfer
Process Piping System

The brewery process piping system connects brewhouse vessels, fermenters, utility units, and auxiliary equipment into one coordinated production network. Proper piping design improves hygiene, reduces transfer loss, simplifies operation, and helps ensure stable brewing performance.

Pipeline Scope

  • Wort, beer, yeast, and CIP lines
  • Water, steam, and compressed air lines
  • CO₂, drain, and exhaust routing

Engineering Value

  • Sanitary stainless steel construction
  • Reduced dead spots and easy maintenance
  • Matched flow, pressure, and temperature performance
METO Process Piping System​
Water Treatment System Yeast Propagation System​​
METO Water Treatment System Yeast Propagation System​​​

The water treatment system is a critical support unit for ensuring beer quality and the safe operation of brewery equipment. It purifies, softens, and sterilizes raw water so that water used in brewing, cleaning, and boiler systems meets process requirements.

System Configuration

  • Raw water tank and raw water pump
  • Quartz sand and activated carbon filtration
  • Softener, precision filter, and RO unit

Application Value

  • Stable brewing and cleaning water quality
  • Reduced scale risk and equipment protection
  • Improved long-term process reliability

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Engineering Highlights

Our brewery auxiliary systems are designed to match brewhouse capacity, plant layout, and process requirements, helping customers build more hygienic, coordinated, and efficient production lines.

Sanitary Design

Built with hygienic stainless steel construction and practical cleaning-oriented layouts.

Flexible Configuration

System size, control mode, heating method, and utility matching can be configured by project scale.

Custom Utility Integration

Auxiliary systems can be matched with brewhouse, fermentation, and plant utility requirements.

Stable Long-Term Operation

Designed for reliable performance, easier maintenance, and future production expansion.

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Manufacturing & Quality Control

All auxiliary brewing equipment is manufactured and assembled in our 20,000㎡ stainless steel fabrication and system integration facility.

Quality process includes:

  • TIG welding with sanitary finish

  • Pressure and leak testing

  • Functional testing before shipment

  • Material and component traceability

  • CE / UL / PED compliant production where required

Each system is tested to ensure reliable operation before leaving our factory.

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System-Level Engineering

We design auxiliary equipment as part of a complete brewing process, not standalone products.

Factory-Direct Manufacturing

Direct control over quality, customization, and delivery schedules.

Global Project Experience

Auxiliary systems supplied to breweries in 60+ countries worldwide.

Long-Term Technical Support

From layout design to commissioning and after-sales service.

Frequently Asked Questions

Depending on your project, auxiliary equipment can include malt handling and milling systems, CIP systems, yeast propagation equipment, process piping, water treatment systems, and related utility equipment. The final configuration is customized according to your brewery.

Yes. METO can design auxiliary systems to connect with your existing brewhouse, fermenters, bright beer tanks, CIP system, utilities, and process pipelines. Please provide your existing equipment specifications or layout so our engineers can check compatibility.

Yes. We can supply individual auxiliary equipment or integrate multiple systems into a complete solution. This allows malt handling, cleaning, yeast management, piping, and water treatment to work together as part of your brewery production process.

Yes. Equipment dimensions, system capacity, piping connections, control mode, heating method, and utility connections can be customized according to your available space and process flow.

Yes. METO can design sanitary process piping for wort, beer, yeast, CIP, water, steam, compressed air, CO₂, drainage, and other brewery utilities. The piping layout can be matched to your equipment arrangement and required flow conditions.

Yes. Auxiliary systems can be integrated into a complete turnkey brewery project, including equipment selection, process design, layout planning, utility connections, installation guidance, commissioning, and technical support.

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