The Brewery
King Brewery manufactures stylistically authentic ultra-premium lagers.
Brewed with a focus on tradition and craftsmanship, King Brewery's goal is to be recognized as a leader in the premium beer market, and one of the world's best breweries!
To deliver a world class product, you need to have world class support. King Brewery maintains one of the most sophosticated and sanitary micro-breweries in the industry.
All equipment receives weekly checks to ensure it is tuned to the expected level of performance. This creates the perfect environment for the brewing process.
King Brewery has put together a custom designed 20 hectolitre brewhouse, with a steam-fired kettle, suitable for single decoction brewing.
Quite sophisticated for a micro-brewery, some examples of the groundbreaking technology include pnematic valves, and dedicated pumps (such as a mash transfer pump) that can be set at a certain speed, but have a frequency inverter that allows the operator to control the speed of the pump.
While the system requires bigger piping and a larger pump, the result is a gentler movement of the wort, less air pickup and less force in the pipes. In the finished beer, this results in big flavour benefits with better head retention and a beer that looks great in the glass.
Fabricated by Infinitely Stainless, the brewery is as complex as it can get without being completely automated.
Unusual in North American, but quite common in Germany, our single decoction brewing system is the only way to produce the proper flavour profile with the right malt background to support the hop flavours and pronounced bitterness of a true Bohemian Pilsner.
Concerned about the production of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) - a sweet corn-like flavour - the features and design of this style of brewhouse will eliminate it.
The kettle has a mash-mixer with an agitator in the tank and a floating calandria that is designed to drive off precursors to DMS. The remainder of the brewhouse consists of two 60 hectoliter unitank fermenters, as well as an 80-hl combi-fermentor and bright beer tank.
King Brewery uses a custom made Merlin automated bottling machine, designed with quality in mind. An onboard computer controls all automated features including bottle fill levels and pressures, as well as sanitizing, cleaning and crowning (capping). The bottling line has a maximum output of 3000 bottles, or 125 cases (of 24) per hour.