A comprehensive 4 day course on grain brewing. The facilitator, Vincent Costanzo (B.Sc., M.Sc.), has had over 25 years experience in
commercial and home brewing. If you would like to improve your understanding and hence brewing techniques this is the course for you. Also, learn and practice brewing techniques on a microbrewery.

Topics include;

• the seven secrets to making good, consistent beer, time after time,
• Learn what the big breweries do and apply to your home brewing
• To filter or not to filter, what’s going on here
• The 3 biggest failures of home-brewers AND even microbreweries
• How to increase your flavour shelf life
• Visit a commercial microbrewery and pick out what’s going on
• take home packaged beer after the participative demonstration
• Beer defects and beer tasting- how to characterize beer flavour
• See and participate in brewing a micro-brewed beer
• Why hygiene is not always an easy thing to do – Learn about the traps and the right way to do it
• Visit microbreweries and see how beer is brewed and taste their beer as it is being explained to you
• Take part in a group dinner with matching beers