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ICS are specialists at providing chillers and air conditioning and have a welcome reputation for supplying quality, high performance and technically supportive products.
Within the food industry, ICS can help reduce power costs and provide a stable temperature to your process, heat exchanger, tank, vessel and production equipment.
We can provide you with food-safe production cooling including cooling non-ferrous systems.
ICS specialise in a variety of food chillers and beverage applications, including cooling and temperature control for ready meal production, jacketed vessels, fish farming and cooling products prior to packing. We also cool bottles for drink filling machines, brewing, distilling and wine production cooling.
Below is a case study showing how ICS beverage & food chillers were used in a brewery application.
ICS provide cooling for Brewery bottling
An independent Brewery based in the South West brews a range of specialist real ales including a local organic range. During a recent restructure of the Brewery they decided to bottle their own ale to allow more control over the process and enable a closer eye to be kept on quality and lead-times. The decision was made and capital was freed in the business to set up a bottling plant.
Cooling is essential to the bottling process as yeast remains active at temperatures of 16-24°C. Without cooling in place the yeast would self-destruct and leave very poor results which could not be sold on. A chiller was needed to provide temperatures of -6°C to enable a smooth, efficient bottling process and quality ale.
 The ICS sales engineer recommended and provided the Brewery with a high specification 200kW HRAT chiller capable of providing ample cooling for the bottling plants current requirements whilst also being able to cool to the required temperature for any future expansion.
The brewery manager commented “ICS provided us with exactly what we were looking for, we are now able to keep our ale at the correct temperature and the quality is very high, his service and professionalism has enabled us to set up our own bottling plant in good time of our deadline”.
How it works
The ales are brewed and then transported a short distance to the bottling plant in 1,000 litre tanks where the ale is transferred into rough tanks. The rough tank is where the yeast is separated from the ale and cooling is needed to enable this to happen. The ICS chiller supplies water at -6°C to a jacket around the rough tank which cools the ale and kills the yeast. The yeast is ‘deactivated’ and sinks to the bottom of the tank and can be drawn off leaving clear ale. This process takes 7 days and is followed by a filtration process. Temperature is essential here, as if the temperature is too high fobbing can occur, causing wastage and missed deadlines. Once the Ale is filtered it is transferred into another tank for two days to settle before it is bottled. During the bottling process CO² is injected to increase shelf life and once bottled, the ale is distributed for sale.
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