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Steam & Hot Water Demand in the Brewhouse
Mashing, sparging and the wort boil are the single biggest thermal load in the building — quantifying it and why the boil dominates.
10 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead
The wort boil is the reason a brewery's gas bill looks the way it does. This lesson puts a number on the brewhouse's thermal demand, batch by batch, using nothing more than the sensible and latent heat calculations from the Mass & Energy Balances course and the steam properties lesson.