This course will provide you with hands on experience making beer and prepare you to make your own beer at home.  Topics include:

• Discussion of beer styles, ingredients and the fermentation process
• Discussion about navigating the local homebrew shop
• Introduction to home brewing equipment and cleaning
• Hands-on demonstrations of making ‘kit’, ‘extract’ and ‘all-grain’ beer
• Hands-on demonstration of bottling beer

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Describe the process of fermentation of wort to beer
2. Describe the ingredients of beer and their role in the final product
3. Summarize and describe the attributes of beer style categories
   1. Compare and contrast ales and lagers and cite examples of each
   2. Describe less commercially common beer style categories
4. Identify, choose and setup homebrew equipment for ‘kit’ brewing in your home
5. Apply principles of cleaning and sanitation to your home brewery equipment
6. Be able to ferment and bottle (and drink) your own ‘kit’ beer in your home
7. Be able to ferment and bottle (and drink) your own apple cider in your home
8. Apply fermentation strategies to make high quality beer in your home
9. Summarize and plan extract and all-grain brewing processes in your home