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Glossary

Knockout

Transferring wort out of the kettle at the end of the boil, through the chiller and into the fermenting vessel.

Also called cast out, run off to fermenter.

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Arrested fermentation · Barrel ageing · Batch sparging · Biotransformation · Blending · Bottle conditioning · Bottom fermentation · Burtonisation · Cask conditioning · Centrifugation

See every term on the glossary index.

Last reviewed 2026-08-16.