A good hop pellet factory

Hops Pellet Plant

If your materials are wood, logs, rice husk, straws,etc., please learn more about small woodpellet mill and ring die wood pellet mill.

Hops pellets are prepared from leaf hops which have been hammer-milled into a powder and the powder subsequently pelletized by passing through a conventional pellet die and they are similar to rabbit feed pellets;one pound of hop cones can yield about 10 to 12 ounces of pellets. They contain all the vegetative and lupulinmaterial of raw leaf hops and can be used as a full replacement for leaf hops in the brewing process and onaverage the equivalent amount of hops pellets can impart 10-159 more bitterness than whole leaf hops. Hopspellets are generally packaged under vacuum or in an inert gas such as nitrogen to reduce the rate ofdeterioration. Their lighter weight and compressed state also make them easier to store and less susceptible tospoilage. Thus hops pellets are preferred by the majority of the craft brewing industry

Hops Harvest

Due to the rising number of small and in-home breweries, more and more people tend to plant hops bythemselves as raw materials. When the hops are ready to be harvested, the small scale hop producer may pickhopes directly from the bine in the field using a ladder or a lift and then to sort hops with the mesh screen.Alternatively, producer in larger production may adopt mechanical equipments like hop picker and sortermachine to separate hop cones from bines and the remaining bines, along with stems and leaves sifted frompicked cones, are removed to the composting area.

Hops Drying

After gathering raw materials, the next step-hop drying is significant, Drying is to remove the moisture from theleafy parts and preserve the volatile lupulin, which allows you to store hops longer deterring spoilage. Thevolume of your crop will dictate how you dry, you might need to build an oast to handle larger crops.

Hop Crushing

se a hammer mill to reduce the size of dried hops even further. Get the pieces as small as possible without turning it into dust. The hammer mill consists of feeding hopper, crushing chamber and delivery device. Its keyparts are inner roasting rotors fixed with hammers. Hops are swallowed and crushed by rotating hammers in ahigh speed. With continuous hitting force from hammers, hops break into small particles until small enough topass screen holes. Large particles need to be re-crushed for a better grinding. After crushing, hop particles areuniform and with proper moisture content to meet further processing. For small scale hop crushing, there aretwo kinds of hammer mills for choice: diesel driven hammer mills ans electricity driven hammer mills.

Hops Pelletizing

Make hop pellets with hops pellet mill– a pellet machine that includes a die and roller. The die is a metal platewith holes drilled through it and the roller goes across the die. Dried hops enter the hops pellet mill and aresqueezed by the die and roller. The resulting pressure compresses the material and extrudes it through the holesin the die. The die can be flat die or ring die. Either type can be used to make hop pellets.

The key concern to remember when pelletizing is that heat created during the process can damage the hops. Takecare to process slowly and stop as often as needed to allow the machines to cool down. The hops and hop pelletsshould not reach a temperature higher than around 45 degrees Celsius. To keep an eye on the temperature youcan use an infrared thermometer, which can be found at most hardware stores. You can also alleviate howquickly the pellets heat up by pouring fewer hops in at a time. If you keep the feed slow you can keep thetemperature down and process an average of 10 pounds every few minutes.

Hops Pellet Cooling

Cool the pellets thoroughly. When the pellets come out of the pellet press, they will be hot and moist. Spread them out and allow them to cool and dry naturally. For large scale production, you can choose a pellet cooler.

Hops Pellet Packaging

Special packaging is necessary to prevent oxidation and deterioration of the resins and oils. Producers shouldpackage pellets with nitrogen-flush and vacuum sealing technology to protect hop pellets from both oxidationand light damage. You can choose pellet packing system to do the packaging. Then all packaged hop pellets arekept in cold storage until they are used.

What are the types of hop pellet machines?

Hops pellet machine is also classified into flat die pellet machine and ring die pellet machine.In the early period, the ring die pellet machine is invented by our country first, while it can not be paid moreattention. Europe has introduced the ring die pellet machine technology from our country and made the furthermodifcation, which changed it into a European patent, Before learning the ring die pellet machine technologyfrom our country, the flat die pellet machine has always been applied. As the ring die pellet machine is popularin the world, at the reform and opening up, our country started large-scale introduction of ring die pelletmachine. The ring die pellet machine has always been the preferred pelletizer at home and abroad due to its highvield and less consumption until now.

After the emergence of the ring mold pellet machine, the basic form of the pellet machine did not change much, but the manufacturing level and technical performance were greatly improved. For using a ring mold granulator to manufacture hops pellets, you should choose a feed type ring mold granulator because it has a smaller compression ratio and less heat, so it can maintain nature well.

With the international environmental consciousness enhancement, more and more people aware that straw,wood chips, sawdust and so on can be pressed into pellets. In addition, in the five years, the level of thetechnology of European pellet machine is improved rapidly, the popular of the ring die pellet machine began tochange to initially popular flat die pellet machine to suppress crude fiber and other difficult molding material.

After 1970s, many European countries also have some research about the ring die pellet machine. Today, animalhusbandry developed countries, such as the United States, Canada, also made further research about hops pelletmachine.

Zhengzhou Fude Machinery’s hops pellet machine has significant advantages in production capacity, multifunctionality, temperature control, modular design, cost-effectiveness, and technical support. If you also want to learn about the pellet processing industry, please feel free to contact us at any time. We have always been committed to providing high-quality and high-performance particle processing equipment solutions for global customers. With advanced production technology, strict quality control, and continuous innovative research and development capabilities, we have received satisfactory praise from customers.