Are you a home brewer who’s been following other people’s recipes but now wants to create or enhance your own beers? Discover the magic of crafting your own brews with just four essential ingredients!

Join Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) Brewing for Recipe Design for Beer Enthusiasts, one of three new continuing education courses taught by Alek Egi, an instructor, brewer, and sensory expert. This course is tailored for those with some brewing experience or limited brewing knowledge.

This online, asynchronous course features six segments ranging from 35 to 70 minutes. You’ll learn the fundamental calculations needed to determine the precise amounts of water, malt, hops, and yeast required to produce a specific quantity of beer.

Topics that will be covered include:

• Specifications and product volume
• Grain weight; malt selection; congress mash and calculations
• Total water; mash and sparge volume and CA additions
• Strike water temperature; hops and predicting IBUs
• Yeast; propagation; packaged yeast; yeast slurry and calculations
• Alcohol; C0₂ and colour; natural and forced carbonation; priming wort carbonation; predicting alcohol content; colour and final recipe

DETAILS:

• Date: Oct. 10 to Nov. 14, 2024 (students will continue to have access to materials four weeks after the course is finished)
• Location: Online
• Timing: On demand
• Tuition: $199 + GST
• Register: kpu.ca/cps/science

CERTIFICATE:

After completing this course, participants will receive a non-credit certificate from KPU’s Faculty of Science. For more information about this or any other KPU Brewing continuing and professional studies (CPS) course, email cpsscience ‘@’ kpu.ca.

INSTRUCTOR ALEK EGI, B.ENG., M.SC.:

Alek has a background in engineering and believes in demonstrating the importance of paying close attention to every detail when it comes to brewing beer. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge with students, making sure that they develop an understanding of every single step of the brewing process and how each step can affect the finished product. Alek is mostly interested in the science of beer because of its capacity for inventiveness and creativity, but he also enjoys the challenge of meeting the increasingly high standards of the industry.

KPU Brewing is also offering two other Continuing & Professional Studies courses this Fall:

• Essentials of Beer Tasting and Serving | starting Oct. 2, 2024
• A Taste of Wort Production | starting Oct. 15, 2024