WHERE YOUR BREW GROWS INTO THE BEER IT WAS MEANT TO BE

Fermentation defines the beer, and our 200- or 400-barrel glycol-jacketed cylindro-conical tanks and a total cellar capacity of 4800 barrels are ready to take your beer from quality hops, barley and yeast to a delicious brew.

While it’s maturing, our 10-barrel temperature-controlled yeast propagation vessel lets us use 24-hour step-up propagations of new yeast strains, so you can turn the little fungus into the big flavor you’re looking for.

Want crystal clear lager or a hazy IPA? Our recently installed ANDRITZ centrifuge and fully enclosed modular lenticular sheet filter can consistently deliver the beer clarification level you’re looking for.

We take maturation seriously, and our end result is a beer that looks and tastes perfect.

BOTTLING, CANNING AND KEGGING WORTHY OF THE BEER INSIDE

Brew Detroit does so much more than brewing. Even though we love the look of beer in a barrel, the rest of the world seems to prefer it a bottle, can or keg — so we’re equipped for container filling, blending, packaging and fulfillment services. Whether it is a new product introduction, overflow capacity production or secondary packaging, we’re ready to get to work for your brand.

We have four filling machines on our three production lines to help package your beer any way you want:

• A 24-valve can line with a Switchback Packer that does chipboard wrap cases in 4, 6, 12, 15, 18, and 24-packs
• Two Crown seventy-two bottle fillers with a Krones labeler that can apply front and back labels to different size glass bottles
• A MicroMat 2/2 keg line that handles both 1/2 barrels and sixtels

All of our packaging lines are equipped with twist rinsing for cleanliness, coding containers for lot traceability, fill volume inspection, x-ray for cans and label detection for our glass containers, so you can be sure your great beer gets a great start.

WE ENCOURAGE EXPERIMENTING WITH ALCOHOL

SABCO Nano-Magic™ pilot system is where beer creativity are served by the pint. Our brewers put their vision, passion and sometimes even craziness into these delicious small-batch beers that customers can try in our Tasting Room. You can use this freedom to develop new beer styles which we then scale-up to our 100-barrel BrauKon Brewing System.

WE BELIEVE QUALITY IS IN GOOD TASTE

When you truly care about beer, quality is the only standard. That’s why every batch at Brew Detroit goes through a complete battery of testing at every stage of the brewing possess. It involves a bunch of fancy scientific names, but it all means one thing: clean, precise, excellent beer, every time.

• Haffmans c-DGM makes sure there’s consistent carbonation and minimizes dissolved oxygen throughout the brewing and packaging process.
• UV-Vis Spectrometer helps quantify the bitterness levels and color of each batch from smooth lagers to hop heavy IPAs.
• The Funke-Gerber Alcolyzer we use in the lab gives us exact measurements of ABV, ABW, OE, AE/RE and ADF.
• ATP swap testing to ensure cleanliness around the Brewery.
• A vast aging library so that we can verify and assure shelf life at every opportunity.
• A dark field microscope to examine yeast numbers, viability and morphology to make sure no microbiological contaminants make it into any part of the brewing and packaging process.

But the most important tool we use is experience. Our brewers use all their senses, honed from years of experience, throughout the brewing process. Before every batch leaves the brewery, we have a panel of trained professionals analyze it for any defects as well as monitoring aged samples to ensure the beer we produced today is still going to be great when it finds a home on a shelf or in a beer fridge.