Schattenhofer Brewery fermentation tank room at night showing atmospheric cyan-blue lighting from WE-EF FLC220-CC RGBW projectors with IP66 outdoor-rated housing creating magical spectacle visible through panoramic windows, stainless-steel tanks and brewing equipment transformed into dramatic visual attraction with timer-activated automatic color progressions, demonstrating how forward-thinking 300-year-old Bavarian family brewery signals transparency, quality awareness and modernity through futuristic architectural lighting

Schattenhofer Brewery, Beilngries, Germany

Brewing Tradition – effectively showcased

The Schattenhofer brewery in the small Bavarian town of Beilngries can look back on a history spanning more than 300 years, yet it is anything but antiquated. The operators of the modern, forward-looking enterprise underline this with futuristic coloured light that showcases the stainless-steel tanks in the refurbished fermentation tank building.

Dramatic upward view of Schattenhofer Brewery's towering stainless-steel fermentation tanks bathed in warm coral-red light from WE-EF FLC220-CC RGBW projectors, complex piping and ventilation infrastructure highlighted against white ceiling, demonstrating highly saturated color capability and dynamic lighting scenarios controlled at touch of button via DMX panel in anteroom, completed 2020 by Engineers Bamberger and Elektro Kraus

Even though Germany still enjoys a reputation as a beer-producing nation and has a high density of breweries, the traditional, regional, family-owned breweries face tough competition in the form of large industrial breweries and hip, small-scale, urban producers of craft beer. This is why the Schattenhofer brewery in Bavaria went on the offensive. It joined forces with Gutmann brewery from the nearby village of Titting, renovated its buildings dating back to the 1920s and invested in state-of-the-art brewing technology. With its large windows, the room for the gleaming stainless steel fermentation tanks takes centre stage and signals transparency and quality awareness. This is where the master brewer can be observed monitoring and controlling the maturation of the beers.

View through stainless-steel circular porthole into Schattenhofer Brewery fermentation tank room illuminated in bright green by WE-EF FLC220-CC RGBW projectors, gleaming stainless-steel fermentation tanks and piping visible, demonstrating transparency and quality awareness emphasized by large windows and magical colored light showcasing modern brewing technology in partnership with nearby Gutmann brewery from Titting

Interior of Schattenhofer Brewery fermentation tank room bathed in dramatic magenta light by WE-EF FLC220-CC RGBW LED projectors ceiling-mounted between stainless-steel tanks, master brewer monitoring beer maturation process, demonstrating how digitally controlled color-changing projectors with IP66 rating create splashproof easy-to-clean lighting installation meeting strict hygiene requirements while transforming technical brewing facility into emotionally engaging attraction

However, the operators wanted to take the plant to a new level by adding an emotional aspect to its technical character with coloured light for a dynamic presentation of the room – turning it into an attraction during brewery tours and a local talking point. The hygiene conditions required for beer production placed special demands on the illumination technology, as the entire lighting installation had to be splashproof and easy to clean.

Dynamic, coloured light as an eye-catcher

Exterior view of Schattenhofer Brewery showing color-changing capability with purple-violet lighting scheme from WE-EF FLC220-CC projectors with IP66 splashproof housing meeting hygiene requirements for beer production facility, demonstrating pre-programmed lighting scenarios and dynamic color progressions activated via DMX interface adding emotional dimension to technical character of state-of-the-art brewing technology

Schattenhofer Brewery fermentation tank building exterior showing multiple panoramic windows bathing gleaming stainless-steel fermentation tanks in saturated green light using six WE-EF FLC220-CC RGBW projectors controlled via DMX touch panel in anteroom, creating dynamic presentation visible through windows as local talking point and brewery tour attraction along popular Sulz river cycling route in small Bavarian town Beilngries

The lighting designers from the engineering firm Bamberger, from Pfünz, realised this idea very efficiently by using lighting technology from WE-EF; six high-performance, digitally controlled type FLC220-CC RGBW projectors were placed on the ceiling between the stainless-steel tanks to highlight them and bathe the entire room in magical colours at the press of a button. The spectacle is also visible outside through the room's panoramic window to people using the popular cycle track along the banks of the river Sulz.

View from anteroom into Schattenhofer Brewery fermentation tank room illuminated in deep blue-violet by WE-EF FLC220-CC RGBW LED projectors, historic black-and-white photograph of traditional brewer in foreground contrasting with modern stainless-steel brewing technology and DMX-controlled color lighting designed by Bamberger engineering firm, demonstrating transformation of traditional Bavarian brewery into contemporary attraction for brewery tours

The lighting is controlled via the DMX interfaces of the colour changer luminaires and a DMX touch panel fitted in the anteroom. It allows different lighting scenarios to be activated at the touch of a button – from pre-set, highly saturated colours to dynamic progressions which, needless to say, can also be activated automatically, for example, with a timer. With their neutral technical design, the projectors from the FLC200 family are perfectly integrated in their surroundings. They also meet the special requirements of beer production as their housings in protection rating IP66 have been designed for use in outdoor areas.

Schattenhofer Brewery fermentation tank building in Beilngries, Bavaria at twilight showing 1920s-era renovated structure with large panoramic windows glowing vibrant green from interior WE-EF FLC220-CC RGBW projector lighting, demonstrating how 300-year-old traditional family brewery modernized with futuristic color-changing LED technology to compete with industrial breweries and craft beer producers, visible to cyclists along Sulz river path

Credits

Project: Fermentation tank room Schattenhofer Brewery, Beilngries Light planning: Engineers Bamberger GmbH & Co, Andreas Fürsich, Pfünz Electrical installation: Elektro Kraus, Beilngries Completion: 2020 Photos: Frieder Blickle for WE-EF

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