Commercial Brewing Heat Sources

dinertime · Feb 5, 2011

Does anyone have any idea what type of heat sources commercial breweries use? I can see benefits to both gas/propane and electric. I also wonder if smaller craft brewers can use either while the bigger boys always use one kind.

Anyone know?

Clonefarmer · Feb 5, 2011

dinertime said:
Does anyone have any idea what type of heat sources commercial breweries use? I can see benefits to both gas/propane and electric. I also wonder if smaller craft brewers can use either while the bigger boys always use one kind.

Anyone know?

Most breweries use steam. Some use direct fire from natural gas or propane. I can't think of any off hand that use electric elements.

dinertime · Feb 5, 2011

Hmm steam hadn't even thought of that but it makes sense on an industrial scale. Are the boil kettles jacketed or is it a direct infusion of steam into the wort?

Clonefarmer · Feb 5, 2011

dinertime said:
Hmm steam hadn't even thought of that but it makes sense on an industrial scale. Are the boil kettles jacketed or is it a direct infusion of steam into the wort?

Steam jacket. It cuts down on the amount of kettle caramelizing that you would get from a direct fire kettle.

uabericm · Feb 11, 2011

Who makes a small steam system? Or would one of those commecial kitchen steam kettles work?

smokinghole · Feb 11, 2011

Some also just have a steam column in the middle of the kettle versus being jacketed on the outside.

Small steam jacketed kettles even in the 10g sizes are expensive.

skeeordye11 · Feb 11, 2011

I do know of a commercial brewery with a 2bbl electric brewhouse. FWIW.

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