Mastering Beer Brewing

Course Description

Take your home brewing passion to a new level! Join Bob Sylvester – World-renowned craft brewer of Belgian style beers (Belgium, France, USA) – as he takes you through the entire beer brewing process from start to finish.

Along the way, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of the different ingredient varieties (grains, yeast/bacteria, hops) and processes (extract, dry-hopping, barrel aging) that go into craft beer as you learn how to brew a Blonde Ale, an IPA and an Imperial Stout.

Course Content

DAY 1 : Introduction to extract brewing: Blonde Ale w/ dry yeast

• 1. Sanitation
• 2. equipment
• 3. ingredients
• 4. brewing demonstration, explanation of the entire process (extract, malt, hops, water, chemistry, styles, etc.)

Discussion of the overlying process of wort production, malt extract, hops and the varieties, water, SRM, IBU, BJCP guidelines. The overall history of beer and impact on the world.

DAY 2 : Partial mash Brewing: IPA w/ liquid yeast

• 1. grain conversion
• 2. yeast types
• 3. hop varieties

History of IPAs, hops used traditionally and currently to date. Discussion on malt, malting and kilning process and varieties.

Partial mash brewing cont.

• 1. grain conversion
• 2. yeast propagation
• 3. hop utilization

DAY 3 : All-grain brewing: Imperial Stout w/ combo liquid and dry yeast

• 1. equipment set-up
• 2. mashing/sparge/vorlauft
• 3. history
• 4. recipe formulation
• 5. basic water chemistry
• 6. packaging options, ageing, barrels, corni kegs, etc.
• 7. Lagering options, temperature control.

DAY 4 : Advanced equipment, legality know how, packaging, demo of bottling and kegging