Featured Brewing System:
YAKIMA BREWING & MALTING CO. PLANT EQUIPMENT
COMPLETE 40 BARREL PLANT

We are pleased to offer the entire former plant equipment of Yakima Brewing & Malting Company, maker of Bert Grant's ales, which closed in 2005. This is a virtually complete 40 barrel production brewery with substantial capacity. The plant features a traditional solid copper, direct fired 40 barrel brew kettle built by master coppersmiths Vendome Copper & Brass Works of Louisville, KY. The fermentation cellar is well stocked with 1,000+ bbls of Mueller cylindroconical fermenters of 50 to 150 barrels capacity.

Preferential treatment will be accorded inquiries seeking a substantially complete plant equipment package. The packaging line will be offered separately and includes a tunnel pasteurizer and bottle CO2 pre-purger. Inspection may be arranged at the plant in Yakima, WA by appointment. Sales of cellar tanks separately will be subordinate to the sale of any brewhouse and cellar combination.

Bert Grant (1928-2001) was a Northwest brewing icon who launched the first successful microbrewery in the Pacific Northwest. His influence on the craft brewing industry has been sweeping, and he was the brewing renaissance pioneer of highly hopped beers including Grant's Scottish Ale and Grant's India Pale Ale that were the precursors of today's popular highly hopped beers.

The plant offering includes:

Brewhouse:
Mash tun with mixer (JV NW installed mixer in used process vessel)
Sparge water back with float switch, insulated & clad, converted process vessel
Shell & tube heat exchanger for sparge water
Lauter tun (very early JV NW, combination of milled plate & wedge wire screens, iris spent grain valve)
Spent grain auger
Copper kettle with direct fire burner (ketttle by Vendome)
Main control panel on brewkettle deck; various control boxes for rakes agitator motors
Whirlpool (converted dish bottom processtank 52bbl)
Whirlpool pump & cast out pump, centrifugal
Steam heated hot water tank (~2000 gallon)
Hot liquor pump
Wort chiller--APV plate heat exhcanger with jackscrew frame
Diaphragm pump (spent hops)

Grain:
Wheatland 1220 silo with top mounted cyclone receiver, ~96,000#
Kister-Morse Load cell scale system for Silo
Pneumatic grain conveyor system from silo to inside weigh bin with blower, airlock
Specialty malt hopper and auger conveyor to weigh hopper
Universal Bucket elevator
Roskamp SP900-12 2 roll mill, 5 hp
Weigh bin on load cells with Toledo scale system

Cellar:
3- 70 BBL working cap. fermenters (Mueller 1990) top m/w
2- 40BBL working cap. fermenters (Mueller 1990) top m/w
6- 80BBL working cap. fermenters (Mueller 1996) side m/w
2- 120 BBL working cap. fermenters (Mueller 1996) side m/w
Aluminum catwalks & stairs
Velo model 5 Special DE Filter (1996)
Velo model F.60x60 plate & frame filter 1997, pneumatic closure
Honeywell temperature control system (1990)
Bright beer tanks (converted dairy tanks, various ages/condition, sizes are total volume)
3- Horizontal steel clad jacketed 100 bbl
1- Horizontal steel clad jacketed 150 bbl
2- Horizontal steel clad jacketed 80 bbl
1- Horizontal steel clad jacketed 50 bbl
2-Vertical foam insulated tanks (yeast storage, former champagne tanks)
PD Pump on cart
Triclover pump on cart
Diaphragm pump (yeast?)
Witteman pinpoint carbonator 1.5"

Kegging:
Keg filler, M+F Micromat 4/2 1996, with infeed & outfeed conveyors

Bottling:
incl. Change parts for 12 oz Heritage & 22oz.
McBrady 220 CO2 purger 1997
Crown cap elevator
Crown Cork & Seal 40/10 filler crowner
Tunnel pasteurizer, converted can warmer
Krones Supermatic labeler, dual aggregate, Schuler rebuilt 1996
Meyer M Drop packer
Infeed table, mild steel frame w/ SS chains
Bottle line conveyors 1996 (after pasteurizer, some by Bevco, good accumulation)
Ellliott HMT Mini case sealer with Nordson HM 1998
Marq case erector, 1996
Mead Six pack erector
Orion stretch wrapper H66-12

Miscellaneous:
NOTE: CHILLER NOT INCLUDED IN SALE
Nebar totalizer flow meter
Foam-It mobile spray cleaner
3M Case taper
Spadoni 2m vertical leaf DE filter
Many more small items…

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