Brewhouse
Term from the Brauwerkstatt brewing glossary, category “Brewing and equipment”.
Explanation
All the vessels in which the wort is made: mash tun, lauter tun and kettle, often with a whirlpool. For homebrewers this is often a single pot or an all-in-one system. How well the brewhouse extracts sugar from the malt is shown by the brewhouse efficiency.
Test your knowledge
Which city was known as the “brewhouse of the Hanseatic League” in the late Middle Ages?
- Cologne
- Hamburg
- Nuremberg
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Correct: Hamburg. Hamburg had hundreds of brewhouses and shipped its beer across the North Sea and the Baltic.
Which 9th-century monastery plan shows no fewer than three brewhouses?
- The plan of Einsiedeln
- The Plan of Saint Gall
- The plan of Weltenburg
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Correct: The Plan of Saint Gall. One brewhouse was for the monks, one for distinguished guests and one for pilgrims and the poor.