brewmaster

Code 2145.1.2

Brewmasters ensure brewing quality of current products and create mixtures for the development of new products. For current products, they oversee the whole brewing process following one of many brewing processes. For new products, they develop new brewing formulas and processing techniques or modify existing ones as to come up with potential new products.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • biotechnology
  • financial capability
  • wort fining process
  • food and beverage industry
  • ingredients for beer production
  • yeast fermentation principles
  • wort boiling process
  • lautering process
  • mashing process
  • beer downstream processing
  • fermentation processes of beverages
  • grain-for-beverages milling process
  • brewhouse processes
  • enzymatic processing
  • modern brewing systems
  • types of barley

Skills and competences

  • apply HACCP
  • apply GMP
  • apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
  • advise on beer production
  • monitor fermentation
  • create new concepts
  • develop beverage manufacturing procedures
  • manage food manufacturing laboratory
  • design beer recipes
  • ensure sanitation
  • clean food and beverage machinery
  • operate pneumatic conveyor chutes
  • maintain updated professional knowledge
  • measure density of liquids

Transversal competences

  • train employees
  • develop standard operating procedures in the food chain
  • set production facilities standards
  • exert quality control to processing food
  • ensure finished product meet requirements
  • manage time in food processing operations
  • manage budgets
  • manage staff
  • quality assurance methodologies
  • work in an organised manner

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Sources

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences