Excellent alcohol free beer

The alcohol-free beer specialities of Störtebeker Braumanufaktur are currently beginning their triumphal march from the Hanseatic city of Stralsund on the Baltic Sea right across Germany. ‘Frei-Bier’, ‘Atlantik-Ale Alkoholfrei’ and ‘Bernstein-Weizen Alkoholfrei‘ are becoming increasingly popular. Non-alcoholic mixed beer drinks are also trendy. Here Störtebeker can offer its ‘Strandräuber Natur-Radler Zitrone alkoholfrei’ (‘Strandräuber natural Radler lemon non-alcoholic’). In the non-alcoholic beer segment, the dynamically growing brewery saw itself challenged not only by rising demand, but also its coherent impact on production. Störtebeker is a forward-thinking company that stays in tune with the times. Thus, with the development of the ‘Atlantik-Ale non-alcoholic’, it was time to invest in a special dealcoholization system.

For corosys, this was a good opportunity to implement its thoroughly planned dealcoholization system (DAS). Both parties knew that the beers and the diversity of Störtebeker‘s beer range are unique in Germany. During the course of development, it became clear that the plant could not be an ordinary one for Störtebeker. The vacuum rectification process is regarded as a proven technology in beer dealcoholization but, as always, it is all about the details. At Störtebeker, product quality is paramount alongside customer satisfaction. Since the alcohol is extracted from the beer under the influence of heat in a vacuum, the main concern was to keep this input as low as possible.
Due to the skillful process design and control engineering of the plant, it was possible to reduce the rectification temperature from normally >50 °C to only 38 °C. The beer is de-alcoholized from its original alcohol content to 0.0 vol %.