A method for removing one or more congeners from an alcoholic composition, including placing a quantity of an alcoholic composition in a pressure-controllable environment, decreasing the pressure of the pressure-controllable environment, removing one or more unwanted congeners from the alcoholic composition to yield a purified alcoholic composition, and removing the purified alcoholic composition from the pressure-controllable environment.

This disclosure describes methods to separate solids from liquids in a production facility. A process separates components in a defiber process stream by using two or more mechanical devices to separate the solids from the liquids based on density differences. The process produces animal feed products having a protein content ranging from approximately 45% to approximately 64%.

A process that produces a non-alcohol cereal beverage (NACB) includes separating an input fermented malt beverage (FMB) into an output FMB and the NACB, wherein the separating includes multiple stages; and adding water during the separating so that the output FMB has the same alcohol by volume (ABV) as the input FMB during each stage of the separating.

This disclosure describes methods to separate solids from liquids in a production facility. A process separates components in a defiber process stream by using two or more mechanical devices to separate the solids from the liquids based on density differences. The process produces animal feed products having a protein content ranging from approximately 45% to approximately 64%.

A system and method for washing and separating fiber in the processing of grains in between the steps of fermentation and distillation is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method for producing a high protein feed.

A system and method for washing and separating fiber in the processing of grains in between the steps of fermentation and distillation is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method for producing a high protein feed.

A distillation and dehydration system is provided that produces an anhydrous organic solvent. The provided system includes vapor recompression (e.g., a mechanical or thermal vapor recompression unit) to recover heat from a rectification-distillation section (e.g., a rectifier/stripper column). The addition of vapor recompression enables further heat recovery within a stream by increasing the condensation temperature and pressure of that stream and later using its latent heat by condensing it.

A distillation system for distilling an alcoholic mixture, the system comprising: a distillation vessel adapted for containing a liquid alcoholic mixture at reduced pressure; one or more evaporators located within the distillation vessel for distilling at least a portion of the liquid alcoholic mixture at a liquid alcoholic mixture temperature below about 65 C., the evaporators being thermodynamically coupled with one or more condenser coils of an external heat pump assembly to extract heat from the condenser coils of the heat pump assembly to provide an alcoholic distillate; one or more condensers being located in the distillation vessel for condensing at least a portion of the alcoholic distillate with one or more condensers in the vessel at a temperature of from about 15 C. to 25 C. to provide a first alcoholic condensate, the condensers being thermodynamically coupled with one or more evaporator coils of the heat pump assembly such that at least a portion of the heat released from the condensers is directed back to one or more evaporator coils of the heat pump assembly.