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Craft Brewery

Mark E. Murphy is Global Industrial Sales Manager “Typically, little maintenance is required, given
for Butterworth, with a degree in Petroleum proper upfront preventative maintenance, such
Engineering and more than 34 years of indus- as filters and soft start systems on the CIP pumps.
try experience. Murphy provided an overview The high impact line will have seals that need to
of Butterworth products for Beverage Master be replaced at 300 to 500 hours – about one and a
Magazine as well as innovations that the company half to two years for the average brewery,” he said.
has introduced to the market. “The aforementioned filtration and soft start on
the CIP pumps ensure longevity and productivity.
“Stream impingement technology, a method by As far as cleaning and sanitizing, our designs are
which a contiguous stream is delivered to the wall self-draining, so as CIP chemicals are run through
of the vessel being cleaned, such that upon contact, the devices, they are cleaned and sanitized. Our
it shears to clean a larger area than just the stream. spray nozzles and CIP equipment are made of 316
Our LTFT product in a 10 mm nozzle configuration stainless steel or higher metallurgy. “
is by far our best seller. We offer static spray balls,
dynamic reaction drive rotating nozzles and our Breweries, large and small, have to make import-
premium line of high-impact auto-indexing tank ant decisions about what equipment they choose
cleaning machines. We also build custom CIP solu- to keep their tanks and related equipment clean.
tions to our customer’s specifications.” Murphy told Beverage Master Magazine that
Butterworth offers many options, including those
A single Butterworth machine, Murphy said, can that accommodate a brewery’s growth.
clean up to a 230-foot diameter tank. After point-
of-sale, Butterworth provides custom on-site main- “Smaller craft breweries will typically use static
tenance training, technical support by telephone, spray balls. As your equipment becomes larger, you
email or video, as well as start-up assistance and start moving up the food chain of function. At 50
factory repair. Butterworth products, Murphy said, to 100 barrels, you start looking at more dynamic
are virtually maintenance-free. reaction drive rotating nozzles. Above 100 barrels,
the high impact auto-indexing machines start to

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