Homebrewing Courses
Course 1: Introduction to Homebrewing (Brewing with Extracts & Speciality Grains)
“Can you really make good beer at home?” – is probably the most common question asked of the homebrewer. The answer is YES. With a little knowledge and a bit of practice you can make great beer at home, and we will show you how.
This course is designed for the homebrewing novice. Absolutely no experience is necessary. Participants will learn to homebrew beer from malt extract, using specialty grains – a technique easily done at home.
With three classes spaced over several weeks, the course is designed so that students can brew a beer over the duration of the course, completing each crucial step after they have learned it hands-on in the classroom. The instructor will cover the following fundamentals and techniques:
- All stages of brewing ale will be demonstrated, from recipe to glass
- Beer ingredients and what they do
- Classic beer styles and recipes
- Selecting and reading recipes
- Equipment and how to use it all
- Boiling/Cooling Wort
- Sanitation
- Fermentation
- Transferring/Siphoning
- Bottling
- Evaluation and Troubleshooting
By the time you’re finished these classes you will have the skills needed to make delicious beer at home, troubleshoot common problems, and adjust recipes to suit your preferences. You will also, very likely, be addicted to homebrewing.
Price: 375$ (+tax) for all three courses (12h), please refer to our calendar for our next upcoming dates.
Course 2:Introductory All Grain Brewing
Take your brewing to the next level. Go All Grain! Learn how to brew amazing, award winning beer from nothing but the raw ingredients. Brewing from all grain versus extract gives the homebrew an endless number of options when designing their own beers or attempting to clone beers.
This course is designed for the intermediate homebrewer – someone who has brewed extract based recipes of 19-13 litres. Our “Extract with Specialty Grains” course IS NOT a required prerequisite for this class, though it is recommended. It is however best if the student has extract brewing experience as basics like sanitation, siphoning/transferring, will not be covered nor will time permit the explanation of all equipment or other techniques that do not pertain specifically to all grain brewing. If you’re unsure if this is the right course for you please contact the instructor here: adam@raincitybrands.com
This class will cover:
· Mashing principles and theory
· Grain/Malt basics and selection
· All grain equipment and selection
· Mashing techniques
· Sparging techniques
· Recipe design and considerations
· Tasting and Evaluation
The student should be prepared to brew an all grain beer within one week of the first class. This will allow them to ferment and bottle the beer in time to taste it with the instructor during the second/last class.
Due to the variety of equipment available (mash tuns, kettles, etc…) the instructor will contact each student prior to the start of class to discuss what they might have, so that the student is prepared to brew shortly after the first class.
Price: 375$ (+tax) for all two (12h) courses, please refer to our calendar for our next upcoming dates.
About the Instructor
Adam Henderson is an award-winning homebrewer and a Certified Cicerone (cicerone.org) who founded RainCity Brands, a beer import agency in Vancouver, BC. Adam is also awaiting an official rank as a BJCP Certified Beer Judge (bjcp.org). In homebrewing, Adam discovered something that quickly became much more than a hobby, and a little closer to an obsession. A staunch evangelist for ‘real beer’, Adam is always happy to help people get involved.
