Perth Brewing Courses

Costanzo Brewing Consultants offers you the opportunity to undertake the Beer Production course on a 1 or 4 day full-time basis.

1. The 1 day Brewing Essentials course

A step-by-step course is designed for the home-brewer who has some experience with extract or grain brewing and wishes to learn about the basic methods and procedures in a succinct one day course to produce more rounded flavoursome beers without having to invest a longer period of time in the Masterbrew course. This course forms a good foundation to the more advanced Masterbrew course

Topics include

  • Overview of the entire grain brewing process
  • Malts, Hops, yeast and water and how they affect flavour
  • Learn how to clean and sanitise your equipment
  • Learn how to build your own Herms brewing system
  • Learn the pros and cons of gravity, HERMS, RIMS and BIAB systems
  • Learn about identifying beer faults
  • BYO homebrew for assessment
  • How to bottle
  • And much more

Course details

Venue: Comfort Hotel Perth City Boardroom
Address: 200 Hay Street, East Perth, WA 6004 Show Map

Students will be notified a week prior to confirm the class. Should you have enrolment or class enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Vince Costanzo on 0408 104 176 or by Email.

Course Timetable

Teacher: Vincent Costanzo

Date Time Topics
Sat 6 April 2013 8:00am – 6:00pm An Overview of the brewing process . Brewing terms. Styles of beer.
Malt & Malting.  Hops & Yeast. Water quality.
An overview of bottling, kegging and serving beer.
3 most common mistakes
Build your own HERMS brewing system. Tasting and beer faults.

2. The 4 day Masterbrew course

Designed for the home-brewer who has had some experience with extract brews and some all grain brewing and wishes to learn the finer points of full grain mash brewing and the production of more rounded flavoursome beers. This course can be taken up as a stand alone course or as a way to fast-track your progress from the Essentials course.

Brewing at The Old Brewery

This course is designed for the home-brewer who has had  experience with extract brews and some grain brewing, and wishes to learn the finer points about full grain mash brewing and the production of more rounded flavoursome beers.

 

The course is also well suited to the grain brewer who is considering starting a microbrewing operation or for those people in the brewing industry including brewers, sales representatives, marketing, laboratory and retail staff.

Topics include

  • Malts, Hops, yeast, and water
  • The design of different styles of beer
  • Brewing using a small scale microbrewing plant (600L).
  • Take home beer packaged at the brewery
  • Using different yeasts
  • Fermentation, filtration and stabilisation
  • Carbonation
  • Analyses
  • Bottling, Kegging
  • Microbrewery tour (Little Creatures)
  • And much, much more

Course details

Venue: Comfort Hotel Perth City Boardroom
Address: 200 Hay Street, East Perth, WA 6004 Show Map

Please note: There may a small charge on brew day to cover brewing expenses

Should you have enrolment or class enquiries, please contact Vince Costanzo on 0408 104 176 or by Email.

Course Timetable

Teacher: Vincent Costanzo

Date Time Topic
Sun 7 Apr 2013 8:30am – 6:00pm Overview of brewing ,The 7 secrets to making good beer, Malt, Malting and Adjunct. Hops. Mashing essentials,
Designing a Beer
Mon 8 Apr 2013 8:30am – 6:00pm Monitoring fermentation;  Yeast. Filtration
Chilling & fining. Bottling. Filtering beer/kegging. Adjusting carbonation
Tues 9 Apr 2013 6:00am – 6:00pm Brew Day; watch how brewing is done at The Old brewery, QC/analyses. Organoleptic analysis (Tasting)
Tues 9 Apr 2013 7.00pm dinner (optional)
Wed 10 Apr 2013 9:00am – 4:00pm Field trip to microbrewery & packaging plant (Little Creatures)

Special Packages For Masterbrew Courses- Save up to $722

Gold Package

For VIP group enrollment for 3 or more students each student receives the following bonuses*;

  1. Entitlement to 15% course fee discount
  2. Free critical assessment of your homebrew
  3. Free “Brew Chem 101″ book worth $38
  4. Tuesday night dinner at the course paid to the value of $40
  5. Have a brewer free; advice for one month  after the course on homebrewing ($400)
  6. Discount of 10% on chemical analysis of 2 home brewed beers
  7. Total package value is $722

Silver Package

For VIP group enrollment for 2 students each student receives the following bonuses*;

  1. Entitlement to 10% course fee discount
  2. Free “Brew Chem 101″ book worth $38
  3. Tuesday night dinner at the course paid to the value of $30
  4. Have a brewer free; advice for one month  after the course on homebrewing ($400)
  5. Discount of 10% on chemical analysis of 1 home brewed beer
  6. Total package value  is $608

* Conditions Apply. All enrollments must be booked by one person on behalf of the other package members. Entitlements and free gifts are not redeemable for cash and if not used are forfeited and non-transferable. Free Advise limited to 1 hour per week for 4 weeks. Chemical analysis includes alcohol, Colour, pH and bitterness and is valid for 6 months after the course.