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The Advanced Homebrewing Program will take students past their basic homebrewing skills and allow them to brew with greater ease, flexibility, and accuracy. The course content for this program addresses every key area of small-scale brewing:
Brewing Process
Brewing Water
Composition of Grain & Malting
Specialty Malts & Adjuncts/Cereals
Hops & Other Herbs
Brewing Calculations & Recipe Formulation
Milling & Adjunct Preparation
Enzymes in Brewing
Cleaning and Sanitizing
Preparation to Brew
Mashing
Sparging & Lautering
Wort Boiling
Wort Clarification
Wort Cooling and Aeration
Nature of Yeast & Yeast selection
Fermentation Practices
Maturation & Aging
Clarification & Filtration
Carbonation / Air Exclusion
In-package Conditioning
Basic Home Draught Systems
Yeast Handling
Sensory Evaluation
The course will be conducted in an environment that allows students to participate in the brewing process while lectures are conducted. The brew system and accessories are provided by one of the industry’s leading suppliers of small brewing equipment: Beer, Beer, and More Beer. Students will learn on a variety of equipment configurations ranging from inexpensive “stovetop systems” to advanced stainless multi-vessel tower configurations.
The Instructors
If an educational program is only as good as its educators, this is the PhD program of Homebrewing. The Siebel Institute of Technology is proud to offer three of their most recognized faculty members as lead instructors in the Advanced Homebrewing Program:
Ray Daniels, Director at Brewers Association, will be presenting lectures along with Randy Mosher and assist Chris White with the labs. He brings nearly 20 years of brewing experience to the task of teaching the Advanced Homebrewing Course. He has earned scores of competition awards including several national Homebrew Competition medals and twice won Midwest Homebrewer of the Year. He has written or co-authored several books on brewing, including the classic Designing Great Beers and has served as Editor of Zymurgy magazine. He is a graduate of the Siebel Institute Diploma Course in Brewing and frequently teaches and speaks on the topic of brewing.
Lyn Kruger, President & COO of Siebel Institute, worked for South African Breweries as Development Microbiologist and Microbiology Consultant. She holds her B.S. in Microbiology and Chemistry from Rhodes University and her M.S. in Fermentation Microbiology from the University of Witswatersrand. Lyn lectures on yeast and fermentation as well as senory analysis.
Randy Mosher is the author of “The Brewers Companion” and the upcoming “Radical Brewing: Recipes, Tales, And World-Altering Meditations In A Glass”. Randy has contributed articles regarding brewing and beer styles to some of the world’s leading brewing publications, and is currently the Homebrew Editor and a contributing writer for All About Beer magazine. He has lectured on brewing & beer styles across the country (including at the Smithsonian Institution) and has been involved in an ongoing effort to revive extinct historical beers.
Dr. Chris White holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego, as well as a B.S. in Biochemistry from The University of California, Davis. Dr. White is a lecturer in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at the University of California, San Diego. Chris is president of White Labs, Inc. Pure Yeast & Fermentation, a company that has been the standard of excellence for service to the homebrewing and professional brewing communities since 1995.
Why Durango?
Durango is one of Colorado’s most unique tourist destinations. With a population of only 16,000 people and 4 breweries, Durango has one of the highest ratios of breweries-to-residents in the world! It is also the home of Fort Lewis College, also known as Colorado's “Campus In The Sky”. Perched on a mesa overlooking the town of Durango, Fort Lewis College is set amongst beautiful mountains that form the perfect frame for this postcard community. The staff of Fort Lewis College and the brewers from the surrounding community are joining forces to show the students of the Advanced Homebrewers Program all of the fun and hospitality of Durango. Post-school activities will include tours of area breweries, dining at some of the many brewpubs and beer-friendly restaurants, and meeting with local homebrewers and craft brewers for spirited conversations over handcrafted beer. On nights with no scheduled events, students can travel to any of the many area attractions (try mountain biking or ride the narrow gauge train) or just relax and take at one of Durango’s dozens of restaurant & bars.
If you are bringing a significant other s/he is welcome to join us for the after-hour activities. Evening events cost $15 per person, or $50 for all four evening events. Transportation is included and 3 meals accompany the vists to local breweries.
Need More Information About The Course?
You can get more information about the content of the Advanced Homebrewing Program by contacting Keith Lemcke of the Siebel Institute of Technology at klemcke@siebelinstitute.com. Extensive information can be found at the Siebel Institute's website: http://www.siebelinstitute.com/course_desc/homebrewing.html
For information about registering for the program and reserving campus housing, please contact:
Fort Lewis College
Office of Continuing Education
1000 Rim Drive
Durango, CO 81301
(970) 247-7385
continuinged@fortlewis.edu
On-Campus Housing:
The Office of Continuing Education has a limited number of reserved two-bedroom (single-bed in each room) apartments, located on campus. The apartments have one full bathroom, a kitchenette with refrigerator, but no microwave, pots/pans, dishes or utensils, and a livingroom/diningroom area. Linens and towels are provided. There is a public computer mini-lab and a laundry facility.
The cost of the apartment is $55 per night for one of the rooms in an apartment, or $110 if you desire the privacy of a whole apartment. If you are interested, please call the Office of Continuing Education at (970) 247-7385, as soon as possible.
Please Note: the campus dorm apartments are NOT air-conditioned. While Colorado nights become very cool once the sun goes behind the mountains (50 and 60 degrees) some people are not comfortable without air conditioning. Fans are not provided, and depending upon the heat during the day, the apartments are affected accordingly. One wife commented, "I'd rather have been camping." Others enjoy the nostalgia of living as a college student once again, and going home with a deeper appreciation of their comfortable homes. The positivies are the low cost of the rooms and being on-campus "where the action is," across from the cafeteria, and within walking distance of classrooms. Prior Homebrewers liked to sit outside their rooms on the "balcony" (Ioosely used here) and share their homebrew and get to know one another better. If you are used to 5-Star accomodations, however, the dorms are probably not a good option for you.
For registration, you can secure your space in the Advanced Homebrewing Program by Visa, Mastercard, and Discover, check or cash. Hurry! There are only 30 spaces available for this class and they go quickly. Register today!
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