Apprentice Brewer

As described above the brewery currently undertakes two brews per week. This generally breaks down into brewing on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Packaging the beer generally occurs on Monday and possibly a further day, either Wednesday or Friday. Normally Wednesday and Friday will be cleaning days where the Mash Tun and Hop Boiler are emptied and cleaned.

Brewing

Approximately 300kg of malted grain is mixed with liquor in the Mash Tun. The Mash creates a sugary liquid called Wort which is transferred to the Hop Boiler to be boiled with Hops to create the unfermented beer. After the boil the unfermented beer is transferred via a cooler to a fermenting vessel. Depending on the yeast used, fermentation can take anything from a few days up to two weeks.

Packaging

Mondays typically require the beer to transferred from racking tanks into Bag in Box or Cask. A typical packaging run creates 20 x 20L Bag in Boxes, 20 x 10L bag in boxes, 4 x 5L bag in boxes and 5 x 9g casks. This is likely to change as lockdown eases, probably switching to increased cask production. As pubs reopen more keg beer will be produced, this requires an additional carbonation stage followed by transfer into keg.

Duties will include:

supporting the head Brewer -

cleaning and due diligence.

Assist with the brewing and the fermentation process.

Bottling and labelling.

Stocking and Deliveries.

Packaging the beer.