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Craft Brewery
Craft Brewery

Proper Filtration Finds the Sweet

Spot Between Art and Science

By: Gerald Dlubala
W hen the correct brewing process is Process Should Fit Application:

Aftek Filtration Technologies
paired with time and gravity, the result
will generally be a great brew. When
a brewer speeds up that process, “Consistency with stability is the name of the
corners get cut, and compensation has to occur. game,” said Jim Russell, regional sales manager of
Proper filtration methods are one way to do this, Aftek Filtration Technologies, a provider of filtra-
but the methods depend not only on the type of tion systems and processes for many industries,
beer brewed but how and when that beer is con- including the craft beverage market. “Too many try
sumed. Brewery filtration is a carefully constructed to fit a certain process into an established applica-
combination of art and science that, when done tion when they should be looking at the application
correctly, results in a beer with all the intended fla- first and then finding the right process to fit that
vor and aromas. application. With the proper filtration process,
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