In the brewing process of alcoholic beverages, an often overlooked by-product of the fermentation stage is heat. It must be noted that the heat generated by normal beer fermentation activities will increase the process te...
Read MoreThe fermentation tanks can vary in size and shape. Technically, its whatever the container used to turn a wort into beer. Fermentation takes place when yeast is combined with a cooled wort. Its the yeast that converts the...
Read MoreAmerican Stout beer is the American beer makers reinvention of the original stout from Europe, more specifically Ireland. This familiar style embraced by American microbrewers has a very distinct color, aroma, and flavor....
Read MoreA Grant is a small wort collection vessel, open to the air, placed between the lautering vessel and the wort kettle. The traditional purpose of a grant was threefold: (a) to avoid a potential vacuum in the lauter or mash/...
Read MoreThere are plenty of ways of heating in your brewery. It usually includes direct heating and indirect heating. Such as steam heating, electric heating, direct fire heating. In large commercial breweries, steam is essential...
Read MoreMashing is the term given to the start of the brewing process, where crushed grains are mixed with water to form a porridge-like mixture called the mash. It is in the mash that malt and other cereal starches are transform...
Read MoreThe common fermenters in a brewery are vertical as horizontal fermentation tanks are adopted by more and more craft beer brewers. So how does a horizontal fermentation tank work and is it better than a vertical one? Unlik...
Read More-1. Preparation: Check if the false bottom is in the right place matched with lauter tun. Pumping 78-80℃ hot water into the lauter tun to pre-heat the false bottom and the lauter vessel. -2. Mashing in & rest: Pum...
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