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Dec 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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BRW 195 - Brewing Practicum
Description: Practical experience in beer making while working at an approved brewery and receiving supervision from a professional brewer. Must be 21 years of age or older to enroll.
Prerequisites: BRW 130
Credits: 3
Lecture: 0
Lab: 6
Course Content:
- Brewery operations
- Brewery sanitation
- Beer production
- Analysis and quality control
- Packaging and distribution
- Commercial brewing legal compliance
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate safe set up and operation of brewing equipment. (1)
- Apply steps in beer production. (3)
- Perform the racking and transfers of beer in accordance with the standard operating procedures. (3)
- Perform cleaning and sanitation of cellar and packaging equipment. (2)
- Assess the chemical composition of a beer and raw ingredients through laboratory analysis. (4)
- Inoculate wort for fermentation. (3)
- Manage fermentation temperatures and monitor depletion of specific gravity. (1,3,4)
- Facilitate proper record keeping. (6)
- Participate in the evaluation and quality assurance of beers. (4,5)
- Prepare beer for packaging and distribution. (5)
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