How to build a small craft brewery?

How to build a small craft brewery? How much does it cost to build a small craft brewery. With the development of China's craft beer market, more and more small and medium-sized breweries have sprung up in the world. At present, the domestic support policy for small and medium-sized breweries is still good. Many cities support small and medium-sized craft beer factories through investment channels. So how to build a small and medium-sized brewery? How much money is needed to build a small craft brewing factory and what procedures need to be processed? Today the editor of Shandong Wemac beer will have a brief chat.

A brief introduction to the general process of opening a craft brewing factory is divided into the following steps:

1. Factory location

First of all, when selecting the site of the factory, you need to avoid the following locations, near the downwind direction of power plants or chemical plants, near animal breeding farms, near scenic spots and urban water supply sources, near residential areas, low-lying terrain and other related unreasonable locations. 

2. Company registration

For company registration and production licenses, you can directly indicate the scope of pre-packaged food production and sales on the business scope when applying for business licenses, so as to avoid secondary additions. 

3. Municipal or Development and Reform Commission for the record

Then there is the National Development and Reform Commission for the record. The company should file the basic information of the company, project name, construction site, construction scale, construction content, total investment and other information through the online platform before the factory starts, and consult relevant departments for approval. Handle project environmental assessment. 

4. Three synchronizations of environmental impact assessment, factory planning and construction, and fire protection

5. SC application

Finally, the SC certification application for the brewery needs to indicate the variety of beer products, which are divided into several categories: cooked beer, draft beer, fresh beer, and special beer.

6.Build a small craft brewery Cost 

Let’s take a craft brewery project with an annual output of 1,000 tons as an example. First, choose the location of the factory. The factory can be divided into two ways: self-built or leased. Self-built requires a larger investment. The leased factory depends on the location and the size of the factory. The rent varies in size. The purchase of brewing equipment in the plant mainly depends on the type of equipment selected and the need to meet different brewing configuration requirements. The annual production of 1,000 tons of craft beer projects generally uses a 2KL saccharification pot, two pots and four brewing configurations, with ten 4 tons. Fermentation tanks can meet the capacity requirements of the project. The purchase cost is generally about 500,000-800,000, and the filling equipment is about 200,000-300,000. The production requires 3-5 people with full-time winemakers to provide technical support. For beer, the quality of the wine and the development of the late formula must keep up with the rhythm of the market and meet the customer's drinking type. After the equipment is installed and debugged, the first batch of beer raw materials required for feeding needs to be prepared, such as malt, hops, yeast, etc. For raw materials, from plant to infrastructure, from equipment debugging and installation to personnel production and operation, and sales links, a project team needs to be established, and a certain amount of funds must be prepared for operating costs.

7.What brewing equipment is needed to build a small Craft Brewery

Mash system,wort cooling system,fermentation tank,sorage tank,malt milling system,plate heat exchanger,cooling system,electric heating,cip cleaning system,pipeline system,pump valve,water treatment system.

8. How to choose beer equipment manufacturer？

Beer equipment manufacturers play an important role in the construction of breweries. So what kind of beer equipment suppliers meet the requirements? First of all, we have rich experience in beer brewing equipment industry. This kind of brewery equipment manufacturers have different customer experience, and each brewery has its own different needs and difficulties. They have rich experience to learn from in dealing with these differences.

Secondly, have rich experience in beer equipment design; different venues, different production needs, there are different design schemes, choose the best.

Finally, have rich manufacturing experience. High quality beer equipment can save internal consumption, improve work efficiency and production capacity. For manufacturers with rich manufacturing experience, this is a huge advantage.

In our country, it is expected that relevant regulations, policies and industry standards for craft beer will be formulated soon. Therefore, it is expected that the number of small and medium-sized craft beer factories will rapidly increase in the future to meet market demand, which will also usher in the development of the entire craft beer industry A major opportunity.

Shandong Eagle Machinery Co., Ltd.  was established in 1958, WEMAC beer brewery equipment is one of the top brewery equipment manufacturers and factory, including 70 senior technologists,specializing in the production of beer equipment. Our products are made of high-quality 304 stainless steel. Outer and inner packaging can be customized according to customers. The company mainly produces large and medium-sized beer equipment, small beer equipment, home-brewed beer equipment, hotel bar beer equipment, experimental teaching beer equipment, etc. The product models are complete and can be customized. The company has high-quality product development, process design, machinery manufacturing, and engineering. Construction and quality certification team. We will provide a full range of beer brewing production line solutions, including product design, production, installation, commissioning and brewing training, etc., to provide customers with one-stop service.