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CIP, Pasteurisation & Packaging-Line Energy

Clean-in-place cycles and pasteurisation are hidden hot-water heavyweights; the packaging line's own electrical and compressed-air demand.

10 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead · Last reviewed July 2026

Ask someone to name a brewery's energy uses and they'll say the boiler and the fridges. Few mention cleaning, yet CIP (clean-in-place) and pasteurisation are genuine, substantial, and easy-to-overlook hot-water demands, hiding in plain sight between the processes everyone does think of.

In this lesson

  • 01CIP: cleaning is a heating process
  • 02Pasteurisation: where heat recovery already does most of the work
  • 03The takeaway for an audit
  • 04Sources and further reading