Water is an increasingly scarce, costly and high-visibility resource for breweries across the world. At least one major brand has been forced to move an existing brewery several hundred miles away because its location no longer had sufficient water to continue making beer. A comprehensive strategy for water management is crucial to optimizing operations and helping insure your bottom line for the future.
From more efficient chemistries that require less water use to digital systems that proactively identify risks and on-site expertise, a water circularity strategy from Ecolab helps increase uptime, reduce operating costs and improve water use efficiency. A water circularity strategy also helps prepare healthy operations for increased water scarcity in the future—a vital position for the brewing industry.
More, Quality Beer, Less Water
Systematic Management for Improved Water Usage in the Brewing Industry
Transform your business outcomes with a tailored water circularity strategy from Ecolab.
Target a best-in-class water use ratio of less than 3:1 with a comprehensive strategy that provides efficiency and quality throughout the brewery.
Target a best-in-class water use ratio of less than 3:1 with a comprehensive strategy that provides efficiency and quality throughout the brewery.
Modular Water Circularity Programs Covering Critical Water Stages
A comprehensive and integrated approach to water operations.
Water Strategy and Advanced Digital Insights
Water Strategy and Advanced Digital Insights
Find opportunities to improve efficiency and drive value throughout your brewery by leveraging real-time data, analytics, and expert-driven digital solutions.
Incoming Water Conditioning and Quality Assurance
Incoming Water Conditioning and Quality Assurance
Maintain water quality and asset integrity through advanced treatment methods and precise chemical control.
Process Hygiene and Water Quality Performance
Process Hygiene and Water Quality Performance
Minimize contamination risks and support consistent product quality with advanced water treatment technologies and targeted chemistries.
Thermal and Utility Water Performance
Thermal and Utility Water Performance
Optimize boiler and cooling system performance by effectively managing scale, corrosion, and biological growth.
Effluent Quality, Reuse and Compliance
Effluent Quality, Reuse and Compliance
Achieve consistent regulatory compliance and reliable wastewater treatment using predictive monitoring and automated mixing technologies.
Water Reclamation and Chemical Recovery
Water Reclamation and Chemical Recovery
Reduce operational costs and move toward full brewery water circularity with biological treatment and membrane-based recovery solutions.
Optimizing Water Interdependencies Throughout a Brewery
A: Water, B: Water Recycling, C: Chemicals, D: Effluent Treatment Plant, E: Thermal Energy, F: Chemical Recovery
The Brewing Industry Faces Its Own Unique Challenges
Partner with a company that understands and meets those challenges.
Water Burden
A ratio of less than 3:1hl of water to finished product is more than a target goal–it’s increasingly necessary for healthy, future-proof brewing operations in a world with growing water scarcity.
Production Rate
Avoid costly wastewater treatment systems with a water strategy that considers the downstream impact on effluence from the very start.
Effluent Requirements
Inefficient cleaning and maintenance processes reduce throughput. Advanced chemistries and digital monitoring solutions help maximize productivity and prevent costly delays.
Enterprise Sustainability Goals
Sustainability goals are a key component of maintaining tight profit margins. Prepare your operations for future challenges with a complete water circularity strategy.
Quality Assurance
Ecolab’s chemistries, digital technologies, systems and expertise deliver consistency at each process step to help you avoid product loss and produce the highest quality beer.
Transforming Business Results with Water Circularity
What value does a water circularity strategy provide for my business?
Water is absolutely critical to most steps in the brewing process. A water circularity strategy can improve each of those steps, resulting in measurable value in business outcomes, operational performance, and environmental impact.
Proven Results in High-value Areas:
Business Outcomes
Business Outcomes
• Reduced total operational costs
• Consistent flavor
Environmental Impact
Environmental Impact
• Reduced water use intensity
• Enhanced effluent reuse
• Improved compliance
Operational Performance
Operational Performance
• Increased uptime
• Higher brewhouse availability
• Improved heat transfer
Our Strategic Approach to Water Management Help Earn Value
See how we’ve helped our partners achieve their business, financial and sustainability goals.
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Simplifying CIP for Bright Beer Tanks
Simplifying CIP for Bright Beer Tanks
Summit Brewing Co. successfully eliminated the acid rinse step in their CIP process with Ecolab’s advanced Synergex™ sanitizer and disinfectant, reducing water use, improving cycle times and reducing peracid to the effluent stream.
DryExx™ GF Dry Lubrication System Reduced Water Consumption by 2.3M Gallons Per Year for Craft Brewery
DryExx™ GF Dry Lubrication System Reduced Water Consumption by 2.3M Gallons Per Year for Craft Brewery
A craft brewery with aggressive water and energy conservation targets was able to achieve an 80% reduction in conveyor lube water use with Ecolab’s DryExx GF lubricant.
Leading International Brewer in Africa Improves Efficiency and Productivity with Ecolab’s 3D TRASAR™ Pastoskid, Saving $27,600 Per Year
Leading International Brewer in Africa Improves Efficiency and Productivity with Ecolab’s 3D TRASAR™ Pastoskid, Saving $27,600 Per Year
Ecolab’s 3D TRASAR technology helped an international brewer solve their microbial fouling issue, eliminate food and operator health safety risks, improve operational efficiency, save water and energy and reduce the total cost of operation.
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Ecolab and CDP Partner on New Benchmarks to Help Companies Improve Operational Water Performance
Ecolab and CDP Partner on New Benchmarks to Help Companies Improve Operational Water Performance
The Water Use Efficiency Index is a new benchmarking tool designed to help companies measure and improve their operational water performance. The initiative provides clear, sector-specific benchmarks that define best‑in‑class water use and enable companies to compare performance against peers. Turn sustainability data into actionable insights to help accelerate water circularity and improve competitiveness.
Ecolab Unleashes Water Intelligence to Drive Growth in the AI Era
Ecolab Unleashes Water Intelligence to Drive Growth in the AI Era
Ecolab® Water Navigator IQ™ is an AI‑enabled platform designed to help beverage companies better manage water as demand rises in the AI‑driven economy. The platform provides an enterprise‑wide view of water performance by combining site-level data with predictive analytics. This allows brewers to benchmark usage, identify risks early and prioritize improvements across facilities.
Featured Innovations:
3D TRASAR™ Technology: Advanced Water Management System
3D TRASAR™ Technology: Advanced Water Management System
3D TRASAR technology brings together smart technology, Connected Chemistry™ capabilities, deep industry expertise, and actionable insights. As a connected ecosystem, 3D TRASAR supports more efficient water use, improved system performance and better control of operating costs.
Ecolab® CIP IQ™
Ecolab® CIP IQ™
Ecolab CIP IQ is an advanced digital solution designed specifically for the food and beverage industry that provides round-the-clock tracking of CIP performance, centralized data collection and informed recommendations to drive operational improvements. With CIP IQ, you can proactively address issues, increase uptime, troubleshoot faster and simplify compliance.
Ecolab® Water Quality IQ™
Ecolab® Water Quality IQ™
Ecolab Water Quality IQ is a treatment program that defines optimal water quality and continuously measures system performance. By pairing real‑time performance visibility with predictive insights, you can detect water quality issues sooner than alarm‑based monitoring alone.
Water Management Experts for Nearly a Century
Ecolab has been providing innovative water solutions and expertise for our industrial partners since 1928. Our water management experts help increase the sustainability of operations and, as a result, our partners see exponential return on investment with improvements to efficiency, productivity and water resiliency.
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