Beer extract cooker - Salary and Career
Workers in the manufacture of cachaça, beer, wines and other beverages

Beer extract cooker - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They germinate maltable materials, prepare malt and beverages for shipping, and dry malt. They prepare must, carry out fermentation and maturation of beers, wines and cachaças and filter beverages. They prepare machinery, equipment and materials for the production of beverages and perform autonomous maintenance of machinery and equipment. They fill out documents, records and forms. They work in accordance with technical and quality, safety, hygiene, health and environmental standards and procedures.

How much does an Beer extract cooker earn

A Beer extract cooker earns between $1.335 and $4.287 per month, with an average monthly salary of $2.019 and a median salary of $1.776 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 87 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Beer extract cooker

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 2.019 24.230 505 9
1º Quartile 1.335 16.020 334 6
Median Salary 1.776 21.312 444 8
3º Quartile 3.270 39.236 817 15
Higher Salary 4.287 51.448 1.072 20


Professional job categories

  • Workers in the production of industrial goods and services
    • food, beverage and tobacco manufacturing workers
      • equipment operators in food and beverage preparation
        • workers in the manufacture of cachaça, beer, wines and other beverages

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Main workplaces

Workers in the manufacture of cachaça, beer, wines and other beverages they operate in the manufacture of food and beverage products as employees with a formal contract. They are organized as a team, under occasional supervision and in a closed environment. They work predominantly in the shift system (day or night), however, in the occupations of wine making, vinegar and syrup maker, activities are carried out during the day. In the development of some activities, they may remain exposed to the action of toxic materials.


What does it take to work in the field of Workers in the manufacture of cachaça, beer, wines and other beverages

For the exercise of these occupations, schooling corresponding to high school and professional practice at the job is required.


Functions and activities of Beer extract cooker

Workers in the manufacture of cachaça, beer, wines and other beverages must:

  • filter drinks;
  • prepare machines, equipment and materials for beverage production;
  • elaborate must for beers, wines and cacha�as;
  • dry malt;
  • perform fermentation and maturation of wines and cacha�as;
  • drying malt;
  • germinate maltable cereals;
  • prepare malt and beverages for shipment;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • perform fermentation and maturation of beers;
  • prepare machinery, equipment and materials for beverage production;
  • fill documents, records and forms;
  • sprouting maltable cereals;
  • prepare machinery equipment and materials for beverage production;
  • preparing malt and beverages for shipment;
  • fill in documents, records and forms;
  • complete documents, records and forms;
  • perform autonomous maintenance of machinery and equipment;
  • elaborate beer, wine and cacha�a must;

  • Activities

    • unload raw material from tanks and vats;
    • humidize cereals;
    • assist maintenance personnel, in the exchange of machine parts and components and equipment;
    • maintain simultaneous attention in diverse tasks (diffuse attention);
    • perform asepsis of equipment;
    • separate raw material;
    • program filtering stations;
    • control time and temperature of must;
    • control volume of wines in maturation barrels;
    • order laboratory tests;
    • evaluate the conservation and cleaning conditions of transport vehicles;
    • evaluate malt blends;
    • break malt;
    • weigh raw material;
    • evaluate the degree of attenuation of sugar in the wort in fermentation;
    • control liquid volume;
    • carry out the loading of transport vehicles;
    • extract sugarcane juice;
    • carry out loading of transport vehicles;
    • fill tanks and vats with raw material;
    • clarify musts;
    • package beer for maturation;
    • control the maturation of wines by sensory analysis;
    • control drying time and temperature;
    • perform sensory inspections on germinated cereals;
    • control germination time;
    • register materials evaluation data;
    • perform aeration of cereals;
    • request maintenance of machinery and equipment;
    • boiling the must (liquid load);
    • dilute the sugar concentration of the cane juice must;
    • refrigerar o must;
    • control fermentation time and temperature;
    • record data of production processes, in the manufacturing order;
    • add sugar (sucrose) to grape must;
    • demonstrate a sense of detail orientation;
    • control degree of humidity of cereals;
    • separate the grain from the woody part of bunches of grapes (stemmed );
    • control cereal temperature;
    • select filter media;
    • stir the fermented mass (maceration);
    • perform sensory tests (visual, odoriferous) and density measurements and wort temperature;
    • exhaust must from crushed grapes from tanks;
    • record data from production processes, in the manufacturing order;
    • show objectivity;
    • control malt stocks;
    • crushing grape grains;
    • record material evaluation data;
    • perform aeration of musts;
    • clean machinery and equipment.;
    • demonstrate color discrimination ability;
    • discriminate flavors;
    • adjust machine and equipment parts and components;
    • prepare filter media;
    • decant the must from the exhausted wine;
    • remove yeast and by-products of fermentation and maturation;
    • control volume of liquids;
    • discriminate odors;
    • store dry malt;
    • propagate ferments;
    • replace electromechanical components;
    • add ferments (yeast) to the wort;
    • control time, temperature and filtering pressure;
    • reason quickly;
    • testing the operation of machinery and equipment and the quality of materials;
    • prepare wines for maturation;
    • remove the fermented bagasse from the fermentation tank;
    • homogenize malt drying;
    • record data from production processes, in manufacturing order;
    • distill fermented sugar cane and grapes;
    • cool the must;
    • interpret manufacturing orders;
    • press the grape pomace;
    • inspect the mechanical and electrical parts of machinery and equipment;
    • unloading malt from dryers;
    • add coadjuvants and additives to the must;
    • assist maintenance personnel in the exchange of machine parts and components and equipment;
    • show self-organization;
    • fill dryers with malt;
    • preparing malt blends of different varieties;
    • lubricate machinery and equipment;
    • remove lees from fermentation tanks;


    Sectors that hire Beer extract cooker the most in the job market

    • manufacture of beer and draft beer
    • industrial assembly works
    • restaurants and similar
    • temporary labor lease
    • wine making
    • supplying prepared foods mainly for businesses
    • food services for events and receptions - buffet
    • soft drinks manufacturing




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