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A brewery plant with at least one mash container, a lauter tun, a wort pan and a water housing, wherein at least part of the thermal energy requirement of the brewery is covered with solar collectors, and the solar collectors directly or indirectly heat a fluid. Also, a brewing method where the ther

A brewery plant with at least one mash container, a lauter tun, a wort pan and a water housing, wherein at least part of the thermal energy requirement of the brewery is covered with solar collectors, and the solar collectors directly or indirectly heat a fluid. Also, a brewing method where the thermal energy requirement for at least of a part of the brewing process stages is at least partially covered with a fluid heated directly or indirectly by solar collectors.

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1. Brewery plant comprising at least one mash container (3), a lauter tun (5), a wort pan (7) and a water housing (9), and wherein at least part of the thermal energy requirement of the brewery is covered by solar collectors (25), the solar collectors directly or indirectly heating a fluid to a temp

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Brewery plant comprising at least one mash container (3), a lauter tun (5), a wort pan (7) and a water housing (9), and wherein at least part of the thermal energy requirement of the brewery is covered by solar collectors (25), the solar collectors directly or indirectly heating a fluid to a temperature of at least 120° C., wherein the thermal energy generated in the solar collectors (25) is buffer stored in a high pressure tank and supplied, controlled by a control unit (27), to thermal energy consumers, wherein the high pressure tank is a stratified store, a first pipe (81) is provided which passes high pressure hot fluid from the upper region of the high pressure tank to the thermal energy loads, and a second pipe (82) is provided between the thermal energy consumers and a lower region of the same high pressure storage tank that returns cooled down fluid to the high pressure storage tank from the thermal energy consumers, wherein the lower region of the tank is below the upper region. 2. Brewery plant according to claim 1, and a refrigeration supply comprising a sorptive refrigerating plant (19), the thermal energy requirement for which refrigeration supply is covered at least partly by the thermal energy produced by the solar collectors (25). 3. Brewery plant according to claim 1, wherein the fluid is water under increased pressure. 4. Brewery plant according to claim 1, wherein the solar collectors (25) have parabolic trough collectors. 5. Brewery plant according to claim 1, wherein with the indirect heating of the fluid in the solar collectors (25) a heat transfer oil, molten salt or steam is used for absorbing the thermal energy. 6. Brewing method, comprising that the thermal energy requirement of at least part of the brewing process stages, in particular during mashing, lautering and/or wort boiling, is at least partially covered by a fluid which is directly or indirectly heated by solar collectors (25) to a temperature of at least 120° C., in particular to a temperature in a range from 160° C. to 180° C., wherein thermal energy generated in the solar collectors (25) is buffer stored in a high pressure tank and supplied, controlled by control unit (27), to the thermal energy consumers, wherein a stratified store is used as a high pressure tank, and wherein high pressure hot fluid is passed from the upper region of the high pressure tank to the thermal energy loads and the fluid is returned to a lower region of the same high pressure tank which is below said upper region from the thermal energy consumers via a pipe (82). 7. Brewing method according to claim 6, wherein the thermal energy requirement during bottle cleaning is covered at least partially by a fluid which is directly or indirectly heated by solar collectors (25) to a temperature of at least 120° C. 8. Brewing method according to claim 6 and a sorptive refrigerating plant, wherein the thermal energy requirement of the sorptive refrigerating plant (19) during the production of iced water is covered at least partially by a fluid which is directly or indirectly heated by solar collectors (25) to a temperature of at least 120° C. 9. Brewery plant according to claim 1, wherein the brewery plant also has a high-speed steam generating device (70), which can be switched in as required and which feeds additional thermal energy to the fluid to be heated by the solar collectors (25). 10. Brewery plant according to claim 9, wherein the plant comprises a device (77) which determines whether the power of the solar collectors (25) is sufficient to cover the energy requirement of thermal loads to which thermal energy is fed via the fluid, and which initiates the switching in of the high-speed steam generating device (70) when the power from the solar collectors (25) is not sufficient. 11. Brewery plant according to claim 9, wherein the power of the high-speed steam generating device (70) can be adapted to the power of the solar collectors (25). 12. Brewery plant according to the claim 9, wherein at least part of the fluid heated by the solar collectors (25) is stored in a high-pressure tank (11). 13. Brewery plant according to claim 12, wherein the high-pressure tank (11) is a stratified storage tank. 14. Brewery plant according to claim 12, wherein the high-speed steam generating device (70) heats fluid in the high-pressure tank (11). 15. Brewery plant according to claim 9, wherein part of the fluid heated by the solar collectors (25) is passed as steam to the thermal loads (69) which need steam as the heating medium, part of the fluid heated by the solar collectors which is stored in an energy accumulator tank (11) is passed to thermal loads (68) which need hot water, andpart of the water heated by the solar collectors is passed to an absorption refrigeration plant (19) which supplies refrigerant to refrigeration loads (76). 16. Brewery plant according to claim 9 wherein the high-speed steam generating device (70) can be switched in and generates steam as required for the thermal loads (69) which need steam. 17. Brewery plant according to claim 16, and wherein a steam jet compressor (71) follows the high-speed steam generating device (70). 18. Brewery plant according to claim 16, wherein the switched in high-speed steam generating device (70) passes thermal energy as required to an absorption refrigeration plant (19). 19. Brewery plant according to claim 15, wherein the fluid heated for the thermal loads (69), which need steam as the heating medium, is passed to a relaxation tank (72), from where the steam phase is fed to a steam jet compressor (71), before it is passed to the thermal loads (69). 20. Brewery plant according to claim 9, wherein the high-speed steam generating device (70) can be operated through a district heating power station using regenerative energy sources. 21. Brewery plant according to claim 1, wherein the water housing (9) comprises a warm-water storage tank (13), a cold-water storage tank (15), an iced-water storage tank (17) and a hot-water storage tank (11, 62), wherein the fluid heated by the solar collectors (25) is stored in a separate heat accumulator. 22. Brewery plant according to claim 21, wherein the heat accumulator, is used as hot-water storage tank for the fluid heated by the solar collectors (25). 23. Brewery plant according to claim 9, wherein the high-speed steam generating device (70) comprises several high-speed steam generators. 24. Brewing method according to claim 6 to, wherein the additional thermal energy is fed as required to the fluid heated by the solar collectors (25) by a high-speed steam generating device (70) which can be switched in. 25. Method according to claim 24, and determining whether the power of the solar collectors (25) is sufficient to cover the energy requirement of thermal loads to which thermal energy is fed via the fluid, and switching in the high-speed steam generating device (70) when the power from the solar collectors (25) is determined as not sufficient. 26. Method according to claim 24, wherein at least part of the fluid heated by the solar collectors (25) is stored in a heat accumulator tank. 27. Brewing method according to claim 24, wherein part of the fluid heated by the solar collectors (25) is passed as steam to the thermal loads (69) which need steam as the heating medium, part of the fluid heated by the solar collectors which is stored in a heat accumulator tank is passed to thermal loads (68) which need hot water, andpart of the fluid heated by the solar collectors (25) is passed to an absorption refrigeration plant (19) which supplies refrigerant to refrigeration loads (76). 28. Brewing method according to claim 27, wherein the switched-in high-speed steam generating device (70) supplies steam for the thermal loads (69) which need steam. 29. Brewing method according to claim 27, wherein the switched-in high-speed steam generating device (70) supplies thermal energy to the absorption refrigeration plant (17). 30. Brewery plant according to claim 27, wherein the switched-in high-speed steam generating device (70) heats water in a high-pressure tank (11). 31. Brewery plant according to claim 1, wherein the brewery plant also comprises a steam generating device, which can increase as required the amount of heat fed for a steam section, hot-water section and refrigeration section. 32. Brewery plant according to claim 1, wherein solar collectors directly or indirectly heat the fluid to a temperature of 160° C. to 180° C. 33. Brewery plant according to claim 1, wherein the thermal energy consumers include one or more of the following: the mash container (3), the lauter tun (5), the wort pan (7), the water housing (9), a CIP plant (21), and a bottle cellar (23) for cleaning bottles. 34. Brewery method according to claim 6, wherein solar collectors directly or indirectly heat the fluid to a temperature in a range from 160° C. to 180° C. 35. Brewery method according to claim 6, wherein the thermal energy is supplied to thermal energy consumers including one or more of the following: the mash container (3), the lauter tun (5), the wort pan (7), the water housing (9), a CIP plant (21), and a bottle cellar (23) for cleaning bottles.