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Brewing Up a Flexible, Scalable Batch

The popularity of Mother Earth Brew Company’s craft beers meant a production expansion into a new facility, using a new control system that could run multiple batches on the same process skid.

Chris Baker, head brewer, Mother Earth Brew Co.
Chris Baker, head brewer, Mother Earth Brew Co.

You just can’t hold back a good homebrew, especially when it comes from Mother Earth—Mother Earth Brew Company that is. The San Diego, Calif., craft beer company started in a garage in 2008, expanded into a family business in 2010, grew into a second local tap house in 2012, and is now expanding into a new production facility in Nampa, Idaho.

This greenfield expansion into a 40,000 sq. ft. space, which began in 2016, is set up with a four tank system including a mash mixer, a lauter tun, a brew kettle and a whirlpool tank. There is also an integrated clean in place (CIP) system—in which the tanks can clean themselves—as well as fermentation controls and bright beer controls.

The craft brewer partnered with Paul Mueller Co. for the process engineering and Stone Technologies for the automation installation. In order to fulfill the company’s needs, the engineers and integrators needed to build a control system that was flexible, reliable and the process needed to be repeatable.

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