Master Beer Brewing

Thirsty to improve your home brewing skills? Join us for this three-day online course and learn the seven secrets to making consistently great beer!

This course will turn you from an ordinary brewer to an exceptional one, even if you have been brewing for some time. Dispel the 13 myths that abound in homebrewing and learn how to put all the pieces together to get the right brewing picture. 

Course outline:

• Become confident in brewing at home and taking the next step to becoming a microbrewer if that is your goal
• Have one of those rare ah-ha moments where the penny drops and you understand the jigsaw of brewing
• Appreciate the real effect of what and how to store and use raw materials properly
• Understand why a well-designed brewery is so important

What we'll cover:

• Malts, hops, yeast, and water and how they can affect the flavour
• How to choose your yeast and the flavours they impart
• The design of different styles of beer (actual calculation of a recipe from scratch)
• The right conditions for mashing. Do we need to know why?
• Ale brewing versus lager brewing
• Why and when to filter beer  
• Fermentation principles and various problems that can arise
• Filtration and "stabilisation" of beer
• Carbonation and kegging
• Analysis of beer- why bother?
• Learn how to taste beer and find faults
• Learn the secret to becoming successful in starting a microbrewery (everything else above hinges on this)

Please note: this course is suitable for those with a good grasp of beer brewing fundamentals.

This course is suitable for those with a good grasp of beer brewing fundamentals.
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This class series runs over 3 consecutive days.