German-style beer cellar, Bierschenke, offers an authentic Bavarian experience in the heart of London. Cold Control helped to refurbish the site and install new temperature control equipment to improve energy efficiencies and upgrade the existing system prior to the bar’s opening.
Mark Grant, managing director of Cold Control, explained: “Our engineers inspected the site as the Bierschenke team had inherited the existing cold rooms within the building, and they needed to be checked before they could be used.
“After a thorough consultation, our team replaced the existing cold rooms including coving and door thresholds; and installed a new cellar cooling system, supplied new bottle coolers, and a new ice machine.”
Cold Control engineers worked on both the walk-in cold store and the freezer room.
Mark Grant continued, “The aging, existing condensing units were in a particularly bad state and condensers were blocked and showing signs of corrosion. Our engineers replaced the condensing units with J&E Hall fully housed low noise units.”
R22 replacement
“As the existing cellar cooling system contained the now banned R22 refrigerant, we worked quickly to provide a new solution for the beer cellar. We installed two J&E Hall Cellar cooling systems that worked in tandem with each other, rather than using the one system. The units were sized so that each system was capable of providing more than half the maximum duty required in the cellar, so ensuring that Bierschenke has a backup option should one unit ever fail.
“The projects were completed within a tight timeframe and our engineers on site liaised with the site foreman on all aspects of the work to ensure we kept to Bierschenke’s timetable.”
