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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 · Last reviewed July 2026
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.
In this lesson
- 01From malted grain to packaged beer
- 02Why the sequence matters for energy management
- 03What's ahead in this module
- 04Sources and further reading