Favored by innovative craft brewers, the GEA COMPACT-STAR® is a versatile, fully scalable brewhouse solution that can be customized to fit any brewhouse layout. Its compact, modular design allows for easy shipping and fast on-site installation.
How COMPACT-STAR® works
COMPACT-STAR® is a brewhouse with standalone, pre-assembled vessels that can be configured to fit your own floorplan. Suitable for batch sizes between 50hl to 120hl, GEA’s step-by-step expansion model means you can also add extra brewhouse vessels to increase plant capacity up to 350,000hl/a .
Pick the number of brewhouse vessels you need (between 2-5), or custom configure your own combination with a choice of options including:
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Enhance your brewhouse setup with some of our most popular add-ons :
- GEA MILLSTAR® wet milling
- Extract recovery from weak wort and trub
- Hop and additions dosing
- Energy saving technologies
- Wort cooling and aeration
- CIP and water supply plants
COMPACT-STAR® benefits at a glance
Versatile – available for hot wort batch sizes between 50hl to 120hl making this ideal for a range of larger craft breweries.
Customizable – create your own brewhouse configuration with our step-by-step expansion model, choose from our basic five-brew throughput or optimize production with our five-vessel brewhouse for up to 12 brews per day.
Agile business growth – custom configuration and easy installation supports dynamic growth for capacity up to 350,000hl/a.
Easy installation – compact, pre-assembled modular brewhouse design for quick installation and start-up.
High yield – COMPACT-STAR® gets the most out of raw materials to achieve the highest yields in its class.
Improved efficiency and sustainability – speed up processes and cut energy costs by up to 60% with advanced GEA technology.
Automated for consistency – easy to use, fully automated brewhouse system for consistent quality and optimum efficiency.
COMPACT-STAR is registered as a trademark in several countries worldwide. Technical highlights
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