Better Brewing. Better Beer. From Homebrewing to Microbrewing
New Zealand 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
SAVE Ticketing and PayPal costs by paying course by EFT into the following account;
Bank: National Australia Bank
Account Name: Vincent Costanzo
BSB: 083-202 Account number: 86-209-7328
Swift or BIC code: NATAAU3302S
Description: Your name, course type and date Please send me an Email confirming your payment to [email protected]
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 details – Auckland
Venue:
Hallertau Brewery
Address:
1171 Coatesville Riverhead Hwy, Riverhead, Auckland Show Map
SAVE Ticketing and PayPal costs by paying course by EFT into the following account;
Account Name: Vincent Costanzo
BSB: 083-202 Account number: 86-209-7328
Swift or BIC code: NATAAU3302S
Description: Your name, course type and date Please send me an Email confirming your payment to [email protected]
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.
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
Tasting and beer faults. Build your own HERMS brewing system
Accommodation
Special rates are offered for students at the Trinity Hotel of $99 per night inclusive. Just mention the code “COSTANZ” when making a booking on +64 4 8018118
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 Black Dog BreweryBrewing at Hallertau BreweryThe course is also well suited to the 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. A well designed and comprehensive course for the more initiated.
Topics include
Malts, Hops, yeast, and water
The design of different styles of beer
Brewing using a small scale microbrewing plant (500L).
Malt, Malting and Adjunct. Hops. Mashing essentials, Designing a beer,
Monday
8:30am – 6:00pm
Yeast and Fermentation problems
Water quality, filtration and effects of oxygen.
Bottling/kegging theory and practice; fill your own boutique beer bottles and learn to filter the right way at home
Tuesday
8:00am – 5:30pm
Brew Day; Brewing on 500 L brewhouse. QC/Analyses.
Tuesday
7.00pm
Dinner with class students (optional)
Wednesday
8:00am – 3:30pm
Organoleptic analysis (Tasting). Field trip to microbrewery (Tuatara)
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*;
Entitlement to 15% course fee discount
Free critical assessment of your homebrew
Free “Brew Chem 101″ book worth $38
Tuesday night dinner at the course paid to the value of $40
Have a brewer free; advice for one month after the course on homebrewing ($400)
Discount of 10% on chemical analysis of 2 home brewed beers
Total package value is $722
Silver Package
For VIP group enrollment for 2 students each student receives the following bonuses*;
Entitlement to 10% course fee discount
Free “Brew Chem 101″ book worth $38
Tuesday night dinner at the course paid to the value of $30
Have a brewer free; advice for one month after the course on homebrewing ($400)
Discount of 10% on chemical analysis of 1 home brewed beer
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.
