Job Description:

• 1) Tends kettles and separating machines that cook mash and separate resulting liquid: Assembles piping and starts pump or turns valve to start flow of mash from grinder to kettles.

• 2) Places time and temperature chart in automatic recorder.

• 3) Starts sweep to stir mash.

• 4) Turns valve to admit steam into cooking kettle, observes pressure gauge, thermometer, and clock, and cooks mash for specified time at specified temperature.

• 5) Drops iodine on mash sample and observes resulting color to determine if mash is sufficiently cooked.

• 6) Records time and number of batches run.

• 7) Turns valves to pump mash through centrifuge and vibrating filter to remove wort.

• 8) Turns sparging valve to spray water over spent grain to recover remaining wort.

• 9) Observes ammeter, thermometer, water and mash flowmeters and adjusts valves and pump pressure to prevent overloading of separating machines.

• 10) Cleans kettles, piping, centrifuges, filters, and clarifiers.

• 11) May pump spent grain through roller press to remove wort.

• 12) May operate centrifuge to remove nonsoluble solids from wort.

• 13) May push control panel button that automatically sets temperature.