Hands down the most important environmental control in brewing is temperature, including both hot and cold side of the process. Hitting the correct temperatures spans the entire brewhouse process, most importantly mash temps in order to make available the appropriate fermentable sugars that are nee

Hop utilization is the percentage of alpha acids that is isomerized and remains in the finished beer. The utilization of the bitter substances rarely exceeds 40% in commercial breweries and is often as low as 25% (31).

Although the equipment needed to brew beer traditionally was fairly simple, large commercial breweries today use equipment that does everything from crack the grain to seal the cases and a multitude of chores in between.