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The Brewing Process, Stage by Stage

From milled grain to packaged beer — mashing, lautering, boiling, fermentation and conditioning — and where each stage draws its energy.

11 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead


Before you can manage a brewery's energy, you need to be able to follow a batch through the building — because unlike an office or a generic factory, a brewery's energy demand is dictated by a fixed sequence of process steps, each with its own temperature, its own duration, and its own utility. This lesson walks that sequence once; the rest of this course keeps coming back to it.