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Turnkey Malt and Grain Distillery in China
Location:

China

Client:

Shanghai Bacchus Liquor Co.

Industry:

Distilled Spirits

Challenge:

Malt and grain distilled spirits to support alcoholic Ready-to-Drink product line Rio

Turnkey Malt and Grain Distillery in China

  • The Greenfield distillery project (150,000 m²) will be developed in two phases:
    • Phase I – 32.5 million litres pure alcohol (MLPA) capacity
    • Phase 2 – an additional 32.5 million litres pure alcohol (MLPA) capacity
  • Briggs of Burton’s process design and distillery engineering allows the Shanghai Bacchus Company distillery to produce:
    • Chinese Malt Whisky
    • Chinese Grain Whisky
    • Bourbon style grain whiskey
    • Grain Neutral Spirit
    • Vodka
  • Design, engineering, and manufacture of specialist distilling equipment including:
    • Briggs market leading distillery mashing equipment
    • McMillan Copper pot stills
  • Full EPC/Turnkey distillery project management:
    • Briggs leading stage-gate commissioning approach

Briggs of Burton as part of CETP have worked closely with Briggs Asia and ZIEMANN HOLVRIEKA Asia Co., Ltd . to deliver this EPC/Turnkey project in Qionglai in the Province of Chengdu, China.

McMillan Coppersmiths and Fabricators part of the Briggs Group are supplying the traditional handcrafted Scottish copper pot stills, copper condensers, and copper and brass spirit safes.

Briggs of Burton and Shanghai Bacchus Company Ltd together wrote a Chinese Whisky article for the Institute of Brewing and Distilling Magazine (June 2020) – (34-37 pages).

Distillery Equipment

  • Raw material handling system
  • Briggs market leading distillery mashing equipment
    • Wort & Mash Production (Malt & Grain)
  • Distillery yeast handling system
  • Stainless steel fermentation vessels
  • McMillan handcrafted Scottish copper pot stills:
    • 19,500 L wash still
    • 11,000L spirit still
  • McMillan handcrafted Scottish copper condensers
  •  McMillan handcrafted Scottish copper and brass spirit safes
  • Process design and integration of column distillation system
  • Stainless steel tanks for spirit storage
  • Stainless steel tanks for co-product storage
  • Complete distillery energy storage system
  • Cask filling and cask disgorging system
  • Cleaning in place (CIP) system
  • Spent wash Storage (Tanks only)

Offering the Distilled Spirits Industry

The following engineering services were delivered by the Briggs Distilling team:

  • Concept studies / front end loading (FEL 1-3)
  • Detailed engineering design for complete distillery
    • Chinese Malt Whisky
    • Chinese Grain Whisky
    • Bourbon style grain whiskey
    • Grain Neutral Spirit
    • Vodka
  • Process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs)
  • 3d modelling plant and pipework (AutoCAD Navisworks)
  • Specialist stainless steel distillery equipment design and manufacture
  • Specialist copper distillery equipment design and manufacture
  • Distillery process engineering
  • Project management
  • Functional safety
  • Hazardous area design (explosive atmospheres)
  • Cleaning in place (CIP)
  • Distillery utilities design and engineering (water, steam, compressed air)
  • Distillery automation and control design and engineering including:
    • Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs)
    • Briggs standard distillery supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
    • Briggs standard distillery Programmable logic controller (PLC)
  • Site installation support and supervision
  • Briggs leading stage-gate commissioning approach