This 3 day course is ideal for those people who are thinking about setting up their own micro brewery.

By the end of the course you will have all the information you need to decide whether brewing is the right career for you.

Our experienced in house team is augmented by carefully selected experts to embrace all the most important topics including beer tasting, recipe formulation, business start up advice, brewery visits, marketing and brewery design.

There is an optional fourth day spent at High House Farm brewery where you can observe and assess the brewing process from start to finish.

Many of our previous students now operate their own micro breweries, you can read about these in our case studies section, some then go on to do our 3 week Certificate in Practical Brewing course.

The topics covered are:-

• Basic accountancy for a start up business
• Basic marketing for a start up business
• Beer tasting and flavour assessment
• Brewing liquor and Water supply
• Business Start up advice
• Cleaning and Hygiene
• Customs and excise
• Fermentation
• Hops
• Malt and Malting
• Mashing and wort production
• Maturation
• Premises suitability and equipment
• Racking, casking and fining
• Recipe formulation
• Safety overview
• Wort boiling and chilling
• Yeast