Magellan

Magellan

The endless zeal for beer drives iGulu team to continuously explore and enjoy brewing. Dreams that our members have were began with the research and evaluation of present brewing equipment industry. The traditional small home brewing equipment and medium-sized commercial brewing equipment are not easy to handle, the complex operation routines forged many difficulties. Ultimately, iGulu’s vision is that all the fans and brewers could be more easily to focus on the art of brewing itself, so will our slogan be able to carry conviction: Technology brewing the better life.

iGulu started commercial product’s R&D since 2017, with rich R&D experience in hardware, software, and brewing area of expertise, after 5 long years of market baptism, technology iterations, now iGulu has achieved remarkable success in the Asian market. iGulu plans to land in the North American market in 2023, providing ultra-exciting intelligent commercial beer brewing equipment to more fans and brewers.

The Magellan series are internally installed fully functional modules, including mashing, fermentation, cleaning and cooling, except for the raw and auxiliary material input, mashing pot wall surface cleaning and wort transfer line links, the entire process is able to be automated. Every beer lover can choose the brewing style that suits him or her. For professional brewers, expert mode offers you an easy customization process; for rookie brewers, they can become a proper “brewer” through simple training or online courses.

Taking the first sight of iGulu, you may discover the biggest difference from traditional equipment: in addition of traditional products, iGulu added the necessary execution components for automation control, with and not limited to detection sensors, program control boards, user interaction tablet, BrewOS, and cloud SAAS what iGulu can call it a complete set of core armor for future digital intelligence. Technology is admittedly making leaps and bounds, and it keeps people yearning for, we see changes in traditional cell phones and use of new energy for vehicles, so the brewing industry will embrace tech leaps!  Now, let iGulu accompany you from craft brewing, to step into smart brewing!

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KEY FEATURE

1. iGulu supports custom recipes, cloud recipes, system build-in-recipes so you can choose any way to start an automated process;

2. Support step-by-step mashing and continuous material input. Through herms industrial arts to save the filtration & mashing time;

3. Adopt high-precision sensor to automatically detect the whole process data, including temperature/liquid level control in the mashing and fermentation process;

4.Control system based on ARM+STM-32, compared with PLC control cost reduction, shows more powerful processing capacity;

5. Automatic CIP cleaning for mashing and fermentation system;

6. Intelligent remote monitoring & recording: provides error alarm reminder, brewing report record and history query;

7. Process control parameters can be adjusted, such as boiling temperature, boiling intensity, etc.

The endless zeal for beer drives iGulu team to continuously explore and enjoy brewing. The traditional small home brewing equipment and medium-sized commercial brewing equipment are complicated to operate, which successfully ignited the dream of our team to launch a brewing business. Ultimately, iGulu’s vision is to make it easier and more professional for all fans and brewers to focus on the art of brewing itself, namely, technology brews a better life.

Based on rich hardware, software, and professional R&D capabilities in brewing, iGulu started its research and development for commercial products in 2017. After five years of market testing and technology iteration, it obtained successful market validation in the Asian market. In 2023, iGulu plans to officially enter the North American market, providing more homebrew fans and brewers with ultra-exciting small fully intelligent commercial brewing equipment.

Except for the raw and auxiliary material input, surface cleaning of the mashing pot walls, and the wort transfer line links, the Magellan series containing complete brewing, fermentation, cleaning, and cooling units can automatically operate for the whole process. Every beer lover can choose the brewing style that suits them. For professional brewers, the expert mode offers you a convenient custom technological process; whereas brewing novice can become a qualified “brewer” through simple training or online courses.

Taking the first sight of iGulu, you may find the big difference between its products from traditional equipment is that, on the basis of tradition, it added necessary execution components for automation control, with and not limited to detection sensors, program control panels, human-computer interaction tablets, and BrewOS as a complete set of core armor for future digital intelligence. Technology is admittedly making leaps and bounds, most notably from traditional cell phones to smartphones, and from non-renewable energy to new energy vehicles. Certainly, the brewing industry will embrace each leap. Now, let iGulu accompany you from craft brewing to step into intelligent brewing!

Key Feature

 

  1. Support custom recipes, cloud recipes, and system build-in-recipes to start an automated process in any way;
  2. Support multi-restmashing and double batch capable, saving lauteringand mashing time by adopting HERMS (Heat Exchanged Recirculating Mash System) process;

 

 

  1. Automatically detect the whole process data by adopting high-precision sensors, including temperature/liquid level control in the mashing and fermentation process;
  2. Self-developed control system based on ARM+Stm32, compared to PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) control, is with lower cost and powerful processing capacity;

 

 

  1. Automatic CIP(Clean-in-Place)cleaning for mashing and fermentation system;
  2. Intelligent remote monitoring and recording: provides error alarm reminder, brewing report record, and historical query;
 

 

 

  1. Process control parameters can be adjusted, such as boiling temperature and boiling intensity, and the like;
 

OUR BENEFITS

  • Editable recipeson the tablet.
  • Cloud-based recipe support
  • The automatic control system obtains the required data through sensors to make judgments and assist in the automatic operation of the technological process.
  • The automatic control system can execute the technological process of beer brewing according to the recipe.
  • In case of human intervention, a prompt box will pop up for simple human-computer interaction.
  • Remote intelligent monitoring
  • History data record inquiry
  • Manual operation control can be selected.
  • Automated cleaning process

Mashing module

 

The Magellan brewing module is the most automated mashing product in the global brewing equipment market.

HERMS (Heat Exchanged Recirculating Mash System) process is the system kernel of Magellan brewing and has the following advantages:

The truly streamlined process eliminates the need for other invisible tanks other than the main body.

Compared to RIMS (Recirculating Infusion Mash System) process, HERMS can circulate heating, ensure an even heat exchange during mashing, prevent enzyme inactivation, and avoid mash paste.

Deselect the traditional German type 2 pot & 3 device, American type 3 device, factory 3 pot & 2 tank form, abandon stirring motor, filter tank that needs tillage motor, steam jacket structure and other redundant structural considerations, aiming to reduce overall equipment cost.

 

Specification：

Function

Automatic mashing, lautering, sparging, boiling, cooling

Material

304 food-grade stainless steel

Production

Single batch 0.5BBL/1BBL

Wall Thickness

2mm

Length

0.5BBL：2.5m  

1BBL：2.3m

Width

0.5BBL：0.8m  

1BBL：0.8m

Height

0.5BBL：1.35m  

1BBL：1.103m

Area Occupancy

0.5BBL：2.7×0.85×1.35m  

1BBL：2.5×0.85×1.2m

Energy Consumption

0.5BBL: peak 16.65KW, flat 100W

1BBL: peak 22.65KW, flat 100W

Voltage

380V

Site Requirements

Water supply, pollution discharge, drafty
 

Fermentor

 

Performing the design concept of Magellan’s series, the recipes shall be accessed automatically by the fermentation module in the first place. Then it starts the process from primary fermentation, secondary fermentation, cold storage, till the fermentation is complete with temperature control and fermentation time calculation throughout the entire stage without requiring manual intervention. Meanwhile, BrewOS will promptly remind users when to pitch the yeast and dry hopping. Users can set their own reminders to avoid forgetting to pitch the yeast, missing the time to dry hopping, or exceeding the fermentation time due to a busy schedule, etc.

 

Specification：

 

Function

Automatic fermentation system

Material

304 food-grade stainless steel

Production

Single batch 1BBL/2BBL

Wall Thickness

3mm

Length

1BBL：1.8m  

2BBL：2.25m

Width

1BBL：0.7m  

2BBL：0.85m

Height

1BBL：1.788m  

2BBL：2m

Area Occupancy

1BBL: 1.85×0.75×1.8m (3 tanks for 1 set, single tank is available)

2BBL: 2.3×0.9x2m (3 tanks for 1 set, single tank is available)

Energy Consumption

100W

Voltage

220V

Site Requirements

Water supply, pollution discharge, drafty

 

refrigeration module

The Magellan refrigeration module provides cold capacity to maintain fermentation temperature and can also be used for cold storage at 0-5°C once fermentation is complete.

The Magellan refrigeration module consists of a set of chillers that can provide a minimum of -5°C cooling medium and contains an 80L coolant temporary storage tank. The coolant in the tank will induct the fermentation module, and the detection identifies that the fermentor will keep pumping the coolant to circulate while it is working. When the control module of the fermentation unit detects that the actual temperature inside the fermentor is higher than the set temperature, it will use the PID (Proportional, Integral, Differential) control mode to maintain temperature control accuracy.

In order to control the quality stability, iGulu chooses to cooperate with world-renowned refrigeration machine suppliers, making Magellan to perfection.

Specification：

Function

Cooling the wort

Material

Carbon steel

Length

0.93m

Width

0.52m

Height

1.075m

Area Occupancy

1.2×1.2x2m

Energy Consumption

3P

Voltage

380V

Effective Volume of Water Tank

80L

Site Requirements

Exhaust convection space
 

cip module

The CIP (Clean-in-Place) Module is also a stand-alone product module of Magellan, which can be purchased separately and used with other brewing equipment. With it, users can avoid manual configuration of cleaning fluid, manual timing of cleaning time, frequent replacement of piping, and opening and closing of valves.

As you can see in the picture above, our CIP (Clean-in-Place) Module is small and flexible, with its own rollers, making it easy to move.

Specification：

Function

  

Material

304 food-grade stainless steel

Alkali Tank Capacity

0.25BBL

Length

0.6m

Width

0.37m

Height

0.775m

Area Occupancy

0.7×0.5×1.1m

Energy Consumption

550W

Voltage

220V

Site Requirements

Water supply & drainage, drafty
 

brewos

 

 

The big difference between Magellan brewing equipment and conventional brewing equipment is that iGulu has independently developed Brew OS that consists of cloud service, Android App/H5 App, ARM/STM32 hardware and software modules, which allows for “Internet of Everything” whenever and wherever possible, enabling users to experience a smoother brewing process. Users can download the recipe, select it, and begin a brewing process on the operation screen. BrewOS simplifies the complex process into a few key steps that require simple operations and presents it to users, lowering the manufacturing threshold and making brewing accessible to everyone.

 

BrewOS intelligent system is powerful that it will help monitor the brewing process in real time and upload the data to the cloud. In the future, more functions will gradually open up to help users with multiple devices perform statistical analysis of data in the cloud backend. This progress will immensely assist in scheduling brewing plans, controlling the overall layout when multiple brewing lines are in parallel, and meeting the needs of brewing process standardization and commercial chaining. The follow-up software functions updated by Magellan will be realized by relying on IOT cloud service and Andriod, so stay tuned!

Purchase recommendation

 

 

55% All in “Beginners’ 1st Choice”

25% Only Mashing Machine “Cost Effective Choice”

15% Only Fermentor “Mashing Machine Owners’ Choice”

5% Only Mashing Machine+Fermentor “CIP Owners’ Choice”

Comparison

 

Igulu Magellan Series

Other Brewing Equipment

Level of Intelligence

Automation of all processes of mashing, fermentation, and cleaning

Manual

Cleaning Methods

Automation

Manual, semi-automatic

Heating Methods

Electric heating

Electric heating, direct fire, steam

Recipe System

Own recipe library, download beersmith recipe format to import

No

Ingredients Supply

Complete ingredient package available for purchasing (including crushed malt, hops, yeast, auxiliaries, etc.)

No

Brewing Record

Automatically record the process data of brewing mashing and fermentation stages, and generate corresponding charts.

No
 

Examples

R & D of Beer Recipes

Before being put into mass production, a new product will go through multiple small-scale tests. “The Magellan Series” is perfectly suited for testing and development during the small-scale trial phase of 60L-120L.

Automation of the Magellan series allows brewers to devote their time and energy to the core tasks such as recipe design, test result compilation and improvement, industry knowledge learning, and production management control.

 

Brewing in Restaurants

Beer brewing itself is a highly specialized task that requires a vast amount of knowledge and expertise.

 

Assuming you are running a BBQ dining bar or an American-themed restaurant, a cozy beer with a unique flavor must appeal to everyone’s taste. Also, the scenes that show your customers the entire brewing process in the restaurant will deeply impress them.

R&D of Fermented Beverage

Hard seltzer, kombucha, juice bubbles, and any beverage that needs to be boiled, fermented and carbonated can be achieved with the Magellan Series.

 

On the way…

  • Report generation of complete brewing record for a single batch
  • Manual function open simulation online test
  • Launch of the e-mall system
  • Launch of the raw material storage and usage management system
  • Launch of the online training system
  • Launch of the brewing big data system
  • Launch of the online service system
  • Launch of the cloud recipe library (similar to Apple app store’s profit distribution method, brewers can share commission after the recipes they upload are used.)