Brewhouse Efficiency vs Mash Efficiency in All Grain Beer Brewing Efficiency is an important number to understand for all grain beer brewing. Your system efficiency determines the original gravity of the beer as well as h...

The heat exchangers most often used in breweries are plate heat exchangers. As a hot liquid flows along one side of the plate, a cold liquid flows along the other side of the plate, producing a “heat exchange” across ...

I am on the verge of realizing a dream – my own pub brewery. I have found a good location, written a business plan, and raised the money. Now I need to decide on a brewing system. I have quotes from several suppliers, b...

Brewing water can be adjusted (to a degree) by the addition of brewing salts. Unfortunately, the addition of salts to water is not a matter of 2 + 2 = 4, it tends to be 3.9 or 4.1, depending. Water chemistry can be compli...

Mixing of the strike water, water used for mashing in, and milled grist must be done in such a way as to minimize clumping and oxygen uptake. This was traditionally done by first adding water to the mash vessel, and then ...

Most homebrewers do not filter their homebrew at all for three main reasons...