CHEM ENG 4074WT - Brewery Engineering

In this course students will learn how process engineering applies to the brewing industry. The fundamentals chemistry and biology will be applied to the concepts of beer quality and flavour, cleaning and sanitation, and the effects that various ingredients including malts, hops, yeasts/bacteria and water have on the brewing process. Process engineering principles are utilised to understand milling, mashing, boiling, fermenting and packaging and to design, optimise and control these processes in a brewery. Within the course, research into beer styles and recipes will be used to produce successful recipes. Students will also undertake a full production of a beer in the Waite Microbrewery from raw ingredients all the way to packaged product.