Brewery

A brewery is a facility that produces beer. Typically a brewery is divided into distinct sections, with each section reserved for one part of the brewing process. Breweries can take up multiple city blocks, or be a collection of equipment in a homebrewer's kitchen. The diversity of size in breweries is matched by the diversity of processes, degrees of automation, and kinds of beer produced in breweries.

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Breweries range widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, ranging from tiny microbreweries that produce a few dozen barrels a year, to massive multinational conglomerates, such as InBev, that produce billions of barrels annually. The most commonly used definitions of breweries are the following, which are used by the U.S. craft beer industry:

Beer: Beer, generically, is any alcoholic beverage produced through the fermentation of sugar suspended in an aqueous medium, and which is not distilled after fermentation. The unfermented sugar solution, called wort, is obtained from steeping, or "mashing," malted grains, usually barley. Alcoholic bever...

Brewing: Brewing is the production of alcoholic beverages through fermentation. This is the method used in beer production, although the term can be used for other drinks such as sake, mead and wine. The term is also sometimes used to refer to any chemical mixing process....

Microbreweries: REDIRECT Microbrewery...