Koelschip

The Koelschip embraces the tradition of open-top fermentation, a technique that imparts unique characteristics to your beer.

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Open Top Fermentation with a Custom Koelschip

Versatile enough to accommodate a wide range of beer styles, from sour ales to saisons and more. Its adaptability makes it an ideal choice for creative and experimental brewers. Its 304 stainless steel construction, open-top fermentation design, hop straining capabilities, and manual butterfly valves collectively provide you with the tools to brew exceptional beer consistently. Craft your beverages with confidence, one batch at a time.

Features

Traditional method for exposing wort to ambient yeast and microflora, creating unique beer profiles.

  • 304 Stainless Steel: Durable, corrosion-resistant material for long-lasting, hygienic brewing equipment.
  • Custom options and sizes available to meet your exact needs
  • Hop Straining Inlet Basket: Facilitates precise hop addition, enhancing hop utilization and flavor extraction.
  • Inlet/Outlet Process Piping with Manual Butterfly Valves: Allows for efficient wort transfer and control during brewing operations.
  • Discharge line
  • Racking arm
  • Pump over arm
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  • AISI 304 stainless steel, TIG weld construction
  • 304 and 316 stainless options
  • Includes spray balls for easy CIP integration
  • Reinforced stainless steel legs, w/ leveling foot pads
  • Custom sizes and orientations to meet customer needs
  • Stainless steel handle Butterfly valves
  • All necessary EPDM gaskets and Hardware included
REQUEST A QUOTE

Open Top Fermentation with a Custom Koelschip

Versatile enough to accommodate a wide range of beer styles, from sour ales to saisons and more. Its adaptability makes it an ideal choice for creative and experimental brewers. Its 304 stainless steel construction, open-top fermentation design, hop straining capabilities, and manual butterfly valves collectively provide you with the tools to brew exceptional beer consistently. Craft your beverages with confidence, one batch at a time.

Features & Options

Our equipment features are usually sold as add-ons by most manufacturers, sparing you the inconvenience and unexpected expenses of acquiring additional equipment, or services.

Auxiliary Equipment

Look to Deutsche to handle the entire scope of your project from utilities, sanitary piping, bulk storage, milling, CIP, conveyance, filtration, and custom equipment. Our dedicated manufacturing team and component partners provide the latest technology and most reliable ancillary equipment catered to your process.

Service & Support

Each project is assigned a dedicated engineer, ensuring personalized attention and expertise for your design, installation, control integration, programming, process piping, and field service needs. We’re also here to provide continuous equipment support and assist with system process inquiries.

Cleaning

We prioritize seamless CIP integration in all our equipment designs. Furthermore, we offer industry-leading CIP skids, carts, and steam sanitation options. Recognizing the importance of proper system sanitation to your bottom line and product quality, we’re committed to delivering custom-engineered cleaning processes, equipment, and solutions.

Automation

Customizable automation is the key to bringing higher quality, consistency, yields, and efficiencies to your system – no matter your industry or application. Choose to add specific instruments for insight into your process, add automated features to reduce dependence on labor or choose to fully automate your system for the ultimate hands-off experience.

IN THE NEWS

Steam & Condensate Piping – Preventing Water Hammer & Equipment Damage

Steam is one of the most powerful utilities in your facility — but when condensate isn’t managed correctly, it can quietly damage piping, traps, and critical process equipment. This article breaks down what causes water hammer, how steam systems truly behave, and what to watch for before small issues turn into costly downtime.

Why the Lowest Piping Quote Often Costs the Most

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” — Benjamin Franklin In process piping, that truth plays out every day. The lowest quote may win the project, but what gets left out often determines how the system performs for years to come. This article explores why piping decisions based solely on price can quietly impact cleanability, efficiency, and uptime—and what facility owners should really evaluate before awarding a project.

Recommended Start-of-Year Brewery Maintenance: Support and Safety Systems 

Support and safety systems rarely get attention unless something breaks—but they’re often where problems quietly start. In this article, our project managers walk through the support-side checks they prioritize at the start of the year, covering grain handling, load cells, mills, controls, safety devices, and power quality—so small mechanical, electrical, or accuracy issues don’t surface later as production disruptions or safety concerns.