Craft brewing, wine making, kombucha brewing, etc. are highly specialized businesses and each has their own highly specialized jargon. These glossaries present explanations of many of the most commonly used terms and, in many cases, illustrates them with links to equipment available from PKW. Expand your vocabulary and use the correct terminology!
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PKW builds the stainless steel brewing tanks, mash tuns, lauter tuns, kettles and other equipment for your craft brewery plus equipment for winemakers, kombucha brewers and more. You will not find higher quality equipment or a better problem-solving team than the beer and beverage brewing team at Portland Kettle Works.






Portland Kettle Works was founded in 2011 to build the highest quality stainless steel brewing and beverage equipment applications. Since then we have built and installed hundreds of state of the art craft breweries and thousands of stainless steel tanks worldwide. Our craft brewers are among the best of the best and they have the gold, silver and bronze medals to prove it. If you’re serious about craft brewing as a business or need great stainless steel tanks and equipment for your beverage, industrial/chemical or life science operations, contact us and we can help you, too.