Automatic vinegar fermenter Mod. frutty 1500

Vinegar production plant frutty® – Modern Technology for Natural Enjoyment

In recent years, vinegar has evolved into a high-quality food product – with a strong focus on taste, health, and regionality. With the frutty® vinegar system, producing your own vinegar becomes a simple and efficient process.

Thanks to state-of-the-art technology like the direct aeration system, the frutty® unit enables fully automatic vinegar production in just a few days. Taste, aroma, fragrance, and the color of the used fruits or raw materials are optimally preserved – resulting in a natural and high-quality end product.

How it works:

In a continuously aerated alcohol-based liquid (e.g., must, wine, fruit wine, or beer), special acetic acid bacteria convert the alcohol into acetic acid. The process runs automatically and requires only minimal intervention – simple, clean, and reliable.

Your advantages with frutty® at a glance:

• Fast fermentation thanks to direct aeration – vinegar ready in just a few days
• Proven submerged fermentation process with a powerful turbine ensuring high turbulence and maximum oxygen uptake
• Fully automatic operation with controlled temperature regulation for maximum process safety
• Gentle processing – preserving aroma, taste, and color
• High yield and consistently excellent product quality
• Ideal for small and medium-sized producers, gourmet food manufacturers, direct marketers, or artisanal operations
• Hygienic stainless-steel design – easy to clean and low maintenance

Discover how easy it can be to produce high-quality vinegar yourself – with the frutty® vinegar system, developed for everyone who values quality and efficiency.

Tecnical specification:

• Total capacity: 1.534 lt
• Working capacity: 1.000 lt
• Tank type: cylindrical, with rounded bottoms on stainless steel legs
• Parts in contact with the product in: Stainless steel AISI 316 EN1.4401 and AISI 316L – EN 1.4404
• Structural and non-contact elements in: Stainless steel AISI 304 EN1.4301 and AISI 304L – EN 1.4307
• Diameter: 1.020 mm
• Ferrule height: 1.500 mm
• Total height: approx. 2.700 mm
• rounded bottom and roof, 3 mm thick
• ferrule, 3 mm thick
• n° 4 stainless steel legs, 1,000 mm high, with adjustable feet
• Surfaces: polished or satin-finished interiors, marbeled exteriors
• Welds: pickled and passivated interiors, satin-finished exteriors with a 30 mm wide band
• upper manhole cover DN 400, decentralised at the front, in AISI 316
• oval manhole cover, 330 x 440 mm, with internal opening, in AISI316 and EPDM gasket
• ladder rest near the hatch
• stainless steel sampling tap
• PT100 probe for temperature control, on stainless steel well
• external Ø 50 mm level tube in methacrylate
• submerged aerator, placed on the bottom composed of a turbine and a 2.2 kW electric motor
• DN 25 air suction and recirculation pipe in AISI 316 stainless steel
• DN80 PN6 flange on the roof for connection of the production gas exhaust system
• n°1 MAJOR 50 DIN pump for loading/unloading product
• by-pass manifolds with line filters and 24V motorized ball valves
• DN 50 product loading pipe complete with diffuser, connected to the manifolds
• DN50 washing pipe, with Ø 90 mm diffuser, removable from the roof
• n°1 heat exchange coil Ø 1” gas, positioned at a distance from the ferrule
• obtained from AISI 316 pipe, 1” Gas female inlet and outlet
• Tested for maximum use at 0.9 Bar
• Heat exchange surface: approximately 2 m²
• Electrical panel with touch-screen PLC system for automation of the aeration process, thermoregulation and external pump auxiliary, with the possibility of implementing manual procedures, complete with inverter for aerator

Thermoregulation system:
• AISI 304 stainless steel equipment support base, grid top
• Glycol water storage tank, capacity approximately 300 litres, in stainless steel, with thermal insulation in expanded polyurethane and external covering in electro-welded stainless steel sheet, complete with connection pipes and ball valves for manual exclusion, level indicator, upper inspection cover and safety valve
• Pump for circulating glycol water from the lung
• Chiller for cooling with 10kW of expressed power
• Heating barrel connected in parallel to the cooling unit, with 4.5 kW electrical resistance, circulator, exclusion valves and maximum thermostat connected in series to the resistance

Accessories (optional):
Kit for the control of the acidity 39407
Ebullioscopy for control of the alcohol content 39182
Digital refractometer to control the sugar content 35114
Starter bacteria 101200043