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Heat Recovery in the Brewhouse
Capturing the wort boil's vapour and hot-wort heat, and why a brewery's steady, simultaneous steam-and-power demand often suits CHP unusually well.
11 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead · Last reviewed July 2026
The thermal demand lesson found two things worth recovering from every single batch: the sensible heat in the wort as it cools from boiling to pitching temperature, and the latent heat carried away in the vapour driven off during the boil itself. This lesson quantifies the second, and asks a bigger question about the brewhouse's whole energy supply.
In this lesson
- 01Recovering the boil-off vapour
- 02Why breweries often suit CHP unusually well
- 03Bringing it together
- 04Sources and further reading