Keep Clean and Brew On

Your complete sanitation, chemical, and yield enhancement resource.

Faster cleaning. Better taste. Happier life.It all starts with proper sanitation. Enjoy flavor profile consistency and improved product shelf life with Birko’s full line of cleaning, sanitizing and processing aids. Known for developing innovative, cost-effective and efficient cleaning and sanitizing protocols, Birko products help you deliver batch after batch consistency. For your chemical and control system needs, our custom equipment division is here to help.

Your brand is too important to suffer from an unwanted flavor profile. Our cleaning and sanitizing protocols will not only increase cleaning efficacy, they will reduce cleaning and sanitation cycle times and costs. And our process aid products allow you to maximize brewing yields!

State of the art, patented process for Acid-and-Detergent-Only Cleaning

• For kegs: superior cleaning, while reducing chemical usage

• For brite tanks: process efficiency. Clean the brite tanks under pressure, saving you time and CO2

Keep your brewery clean• Maintain consistent flavor profiles

• Improve shelf life

• Boost yields

Want to speak to the experts?

Our master brewers can help you with your most challenging cleaning and sanitation issues.

Dana Johnson Brewery Specialist and home brewer since 1989, is the former President of the Master Brewers Association of the Americas, Rocky Mountain District.

Elis Owens, Ph.D. Director of Technical Services has a diploma in brewing science from the American Brewers Guild and is a member of the Master Brewers Association of the Americas and the American Society of Brewing Chemists.

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Regardless of size or volume, brewery

cleanliness is paramount to quality beer.

Our cleaning process using Acid Brite #2™ and

Bru-R-Ez™ on the hot side and Ultra Niter™ and

Bru-R-Ez™ on the cold side knocks down scale,

beerstone and build up, keeping tanks looking clean

and new. We brew with confidence knowing our

tanks aren’t just clean, they’re Birko clean!”

Dan and Jack Diebolt, owners of Diebolt Brewing Company, Denver, CO

Improve efficiencies and profitability

Contact your local tech rep

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Cleaning and Sanitizing Applications

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APPLICATION PRODUCTS DID YOU KNOW?

NEW EQUIPMENT PASSIVATION

Ultra Niter followed by Cell-R-Mastr Passivation of new equipment ensures you brew great batches from day 1.

CLEANING

Low Temperature Acid Brite #2, followed by Bru-R-Ez Works at 140˚ F.

Acids Smart Acid Concentrated acid intended for CIP cleaning in large breweries.

Caustic Cleaning CIP-erior A built liquid CIP caustic cleaner perfect for any size brewery.

One Step, Oxygen Boosted Cir-Q-Late or CIP-erior with Pur-Ox Add Pur-Ox at point of use. No need for an acid first cleaning step in the brewhouse! Works best with 140-180˚ F water.

Heavy Beerstone Ultra Niter and X-Puma followed by Bru-R-Ez Really good for high protein soils and those nasty Krausen rings, too!

Keg & Brite Tank Cleaning Ultra Niter or Smart Acid with X-Puma

This patented process eliminates beerstone without caustic, and it can be recycled. We know you want to be sustainable while saving money, too.

One-Shot CIP Cleaning Birko Brewery Cleaner (BBC) The ultimate alkaline cleaner. Cleans heavy soils in one pass! Use with 120-160˚ F water.

SANITIZING

PAA Birk-Ox PAA or Bioside HS-15 Birk-Ox is a combination of Peroxyacetic Acid, Hydrogen Peroxide and Acetic Acid.

Chlorine Dioxide Dioxy-Chlor and Diactolate The citric acid in Diactolate acidifies the sodium chlorite in Dioxy-Chlor and … voila! Chlorine Dioxide!

Iodophor Dyno-Mite Careful with the concentrate now, unless you want brown concrete in the brewery!

PACKAGING

Non-Caustic Cleaning Cell-R-Mastr Birko’s non-caustic cleaning process is safer on equipment and is endorsed by both Wild Goose Canning and Meheen Bottling.

Conveyor Lube E-Z Lube A new and improved natural conveyor lube.

General Purpose Cleaning Liquik 3 This product foams! Works great on conveyors.

General Purpose Cleaning GC-161 A great spray and wipe formulation.

PROCESS AIDS

pH Adjustment 75% Phosphoric Acid (Food Grade), 88% Lactic Acid (Food Grade)

Improves malt extract efficiency in the mash. Just another way to say, better yields!

Antifoam (Kettles), Yield Enhancement (Fermenters) Birko Antifoam 100 Don’t go overboard; just 1 oz. per 20 barrels in the boil. Great for

centrifuged beers.

Antifoam (Kettles), Yield Enhancement (Fermenters) Patco 376 This vegetable oil based de-foamer also adds lipids to the wort, so it’s

perfect for unfiltered beers. Want more yield? You know what to use.

Yeast Washing Dioxy-Chlor and Diactolate No one wants dirty yeast, do they? Keeps yeast healthy, too!

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