From oenologist to brewmaster
11 of the 41 essential skills of a brewmaster are already essential for a oenologist — about 27% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 11
- skills carry over
- 30
- would be new
- 27%
- of the target job covered
- 41
- essential skills of a brewmaster
What a brewmaster does
Brewmasters ensure brewing quality of current products and create mixtures for the development of new products. For current products, they oversee the whole brewing process following one of many brewing processes. For new products, they develop new brewing formulas and processing techniques or modify existing ones as to come up with potential new products.
What carries over
11 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- analyse samples of food and beverages
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- biotechnology
- exert quality control to processing food
- fermentation processes of beverages
- financial capability
- food and beverage industry
- quality assurance methodologies
- set production facilities standards
What would be new
30 skillsEssential for a brewmaster and not for a oenologist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- advise on beer production
- beer downstream processing
- brewhouse processes
- clean food and beverage machinery
- create new concepts
- design beer recipes
- develop beverage manufacturing procedures
- develop standard operating procedures in the food chain
- ensure finished product meet requirements
- ensure sanitation
- enzymatic processing
- grain-for-beverages milling process
- ingredients for beer production
- lautering process
- maintain updated professional knowledge
- manage budgets
- manage food manufacturing laboratory
- manage staff
- manage time in food processing operations
- mashing process
- measure density of liquids
- modern brewing systems
- monitor fermentation
- operate pneumatic conveyor chutes
- train employees
- types of barley
- work in an organised manner
- wort boiling process
- wort fining process
- yeast fermentation principles
Other moves from oenologist
2 roles- cider master14 skills in common
- wine fermenter11 skills in common
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How far are you from being a brewmaster?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.