A professional who tends distilling equipment that removes alcohol from beer to convert it to near-beer. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns valves to admit water to condensers.
• Starts impellers and vacuum pumps, and opens beer inlet valve.
• Observes meters, and steam-pressure and vacuum gauges, and turns valves to make adjustments required to draw off vaporized and condensed alcohol and return other gases to solution.
• Starts pump to transfer solution (near-beer) to storage tank or rack room.
• Inspects hoses, pipes, tanks, and connections for leaks and cleans equipment by flushing with water.