Brewery heating options: Electric VS Steam VS Direct Fire
It is important to chose suitable heating methods for your brewhouse . Normally those items need to be considerred: Budget, application, future expanding plan, and building conditions etc. For microbrewery, the popular heating options are electricity heating, steam heating and direct fire heating. So we make a chart below to compare this three kinds of heating methods from our view to explain them more clearly:
| Heating Options | Direct Fire Heating | Steam Heating | Electric Heating |
| Tank structure features | The kettle/HLT is built with a fire chamber with inspection manway, burner mounting port,and flue port. | The kettle/HLT is welded with steam jacket to be able to heated by steam. | The kettle/HLT is mounted with electric heating coils inside. |
| Extra equipment | 2 burners: 1xburner for kettle, 1xburner for HLT | The kettle and HLT share one same set of steam boiler, and also suitable steam piping& valves etc. | No. |
| Fuel requirement | It can be LPG or natural gas. |
Please kindly let the burner supplier
advise the suitable burner capacity according to the required thermal power.