Best of CBB: 21 hot feature stories on brewing equipment and systems

Brewing equipment is just cool — from mills to mash tuns, compressors to accumulation tables and boilers to basically entire brewhouses. Of course, brewing equipment today is more than steely vessels, packaging and processing machines. The brew space has become more and more digitized, and this year we had more content than ever on software, training, cloud platforms, apps and onward. While we had nearly 100 posts in our Equipment section on CBB in 2021, these below are my favorite features over the last 12 months. To get amazing FREE content like you see below, make sure you sign up for our newsletter.

Craft Brewhouse Showcase 2021: From small-scale systems to full automation

Quality Control: Ghostfish Brewing and Sullair explain the importance of oil-free compressed air

Details on Lagunitas Brewery’s solar power project (and how it helped during COVID)

How craft breweries can use color-coding to improve safety, sanitation

Five ways inline pH and conductivity sensors can enhance brewing quality, process

Inside the real-time process control of GEA’s InsightPartner software

CIP cleaning tips for brewhouse equipment: Tackle everything from protein to calcium in mashtuns to kettles

Report shows how packaging line issues impact a craft brewery’s bottom line

Two advances in automation breweries need to know about

Air purifiers: The PHI Package Unit by RGF uses Photohydroionization tech to clean pollutants and help stop viruses

Innovative brewery building materials to keep an eye on in 2021

Earthly Labs helps SanTan Brewing reduce CO2 emissions by 50% and supplement for CO2 shortages

Brew smarter using increased automation, for water usage to cleaning and dispensing processes

Paxton Products explains its air knives, and why they’re better for drying your beer bottles and cans

Watch: Let’s learn the benefits of inline carbonation and nitrogenation in the brewing process

From Texas to DC, self-pour beer destinations continue to pop up during the pandemic

Watch the Goose Garage, where Wild Goose Filling offers insights on everything from end styles to micrometer seam inspections

Watch: Let’s revisit the benefits of yeast propagation (consistency to cost savings) with Gusmer

Pro Refrigeration is designing a CO2-based Chiller System

Breweries can decrease paperwork and increase productivity and data with an Intelligent document processing platform

Paxton Products explains its air knives, and why they’re better for drying your beer bottles and cans