Brew house pumps are the underappreciated workhorse of the brewery…until they stop working! The types, sizes, and quantities vary, but their function is to transfer liquid will have at least two pumps, but sometimes three or four. The first is a water pump that transfers the heated water from the H

Most craft brew houses use a false bottom on their mash tun to filter spent grains from the wort. To increase production throughput, a brewery will often look to double and triple batching in a brew day, adding a dedicated lautering tun to free up their mash tun for the subsequent batch. Both method

Mashing Defined. Mashing is the brewer's term for the hot water steeping process which hydrates the barley, activates the malt enzymes, and converts the grain starches into fermentable sugars. There are several key enzyme groups that take part in the conversion of the grain starches to sugars.So wha