Some of the frequently asked questions we receive

Do you know what is happening inside your keg on each head of your filler?

For example:

• Are you using excessive detergent for rinses?
• Are there unintentional pools in the keg during washing?
• Are you using more energy than you need?
• If you steam disinfect — is your steam saturated, and is your disinfection cycle adequate?
• Have you got filling, frothing/fobbing, or gas balance problems with the beer?
• Are there unnecessary delays that could be reduced to fill more kegs per hour?

These are just some of the issues vital for fast, efficient, and hygienic operation of the line.

• Put the keg through the line as normal, including filling. It logs every cycle, every head.
• Recover from the outfeed/decant; send run information to the PC when you are ready.
• View and analyse results with powerful
  user-friendly software.

The Rotech Keg will tell you everything about your keg filling line — including its energy efficiency, whether it is properly sanitising kegs, if your utilities consumption is excessive, if and why you have filling problems, how to increase your throughput without risk to quality, and generally how closely performance matches program targets. It is an indispensable tool for tracking down engineering problems, persistent or intermittent.

Fob/froth means loss of gas, filling difficulties, and loss of taste and poor presentation when the beer is served to the customer.

If you are over-filling your kegs, in addition to giving away ‘free’ beer, the top pressure at the end of fill is not in control and could be almost anything — this will affect the gas balance in the beer and the taste and presentation when it is dispensed.

The Rotech Keg, with its unique level sensor, continuously reads actual liquid contents, and instantaneous rates of filling or emptying. Use these data to check the fill profile, follow cycles of slow-fast-slow fills, measure intermediate and final fill times.

Yes, as the keg fills the traces can show if there is fobbing. Temperature traces and pressure readings can show the issue clearly. Adjustments to the line supply will help correct flow rate and gass balance.

Rotech system can identify overfills. Observations of contents, temperature and pressure can help to provide data that identifies both over fill, likely loss and reasons why this might be happening.

The Rotech Keg can indicate a possible source of infections and the introduction of taints. This is possible through analysis of the pressure, temperature, level and purge times. The development of the Rotech System was as a result of brewery requests to understand what is going on inside the keg during cleaning and fill. By having data on, for example, Pressure and Temperature during the steam cycle operators and quality management can be assured that conditions are meeting SOPs.

The Rotech Keg, with its unique level sensor, reads liquid contents, and instantaneous rates of filling or emptying. It is possible to use these data to check the fill profile, follow cycles of slow-fast-slow fills, measure intermediate and final fill times. This data can then be used to manage settings and help correct for fobbing, gas balance and overfills.