Learn How to Brew Your Own Beer and Start Your Own Brewery

Name: Learn How to Brew Your Own Beer and Start Your Own Brewery
Rating: 3.7 (259 reviews)

Learn the process of brewing beer and building your own craft beer brewery

Created byBrew Bros

Last updated 12/2023

English

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What you'll learn

learn the fundamentals of starting a brewery

Course content

3 sections • 43 lectures • 2h 28m total length

Intro1:07
Discover the essential business side of starting a craft brewery, from planning and location to equipment, funding, vendors, community, and regulations.

Welcome1:05
Learn to brew a hazy new england style ipa with high chloride water and late hop additions. Explore water chemistry, mash temp and pH, hop timing, yeast, and packaging.
Getting Started1:11
Malt0:51
Hops1:41
Yeast2:20
Adding the grains1:14
Mash Temperature, Mash pH, and Mashing2:59
Let's brew some beer6:31
Learn to brew your own beer with a step-by-step workflow: mash, monitor pH, boil with hops, whirlpool, chill, oxygenate, and pitch yeast for a New England style IPA.
Fermentation0:49
Ferment at 60 degrees fahrenheit for seven days, monitor gravity, then add dry hops when 0.02–0.04 away from final gravity to enable bio transformation of oils into vibrant, fragrant flavors.
Dry Hopping1:20
Master dry hopping to boost aroma by adding six ounces of hops, with options for during or after fermentation, or a double dry hop, using mesh bag method for keg.
Dry hop1:16
Explore dry hopping methods, including double and first dry hops, and dry hopping in the keg, while purging all lines with CO2 to remove oxygen.
Packaging: Kegging, Cold Crashing & Carbonating2:39

Welcome3:50
Preparation1:44
Getting financing4:04
Putting together a business plan2:29
A solid business plan shows feasibility and outlines income streams to secure bank funding. Budget for equipment, building needs, electricity upgrades, and floor drains to avoid surprises.
Crowdfunding2:37
There are a number of options out there for crowdfunding your business. We have seen people receive the most success when using the following services:

Kickstarter: The biggest crowdfunding platform available and probably the best option for you. They provide good rates, good marketing, and an easy user experience to launch your campaign.
Indiegogo: The biggest competitor to Kickstarter, Indiegogo also has a great crowdfunding platform. According to Alexa Traffic Ranking, Kickstarter does get a fair amount more traffic and is probably a better option unless there is something about Indiegogo that you really love.
Bankroll: A different approcah, Bankroll lets you sell a portion of your company to the crowd. The most notable brewery customer of theirs is Brewdog, who is attempting to raise $50M through the platform for a small amount of equity.
Crowdfunder: Similar to Bankroll, Crowdfunder is a good option for selling a portion of your company to raise the funds necessary. They don't have any breweries on their site yet but seem like a trusted option by a number of tech companies.
Permits and License4:56
Legal requirements3:38
Learn the legal basics of opening a brewery, including trademarking beer and clothing separately, registering with federal and state authorities, and resolving brand conflicts amicably.
Location searching5:44
Beer type2:21
Choose three traditional beers for the grand opening: a gold bar blonde American blond ale, an English pale ale, and The Great Porter, a popular American robust porter.
Beer recipes5:53
Finding ingredients4:02
Learn how to source grains and hops from local suppliers, use spot hops instead of contracts for a small brewery, and work with responsive chemical suppliers.
Choosing ingredients2:42
Choose high quality ingredients, like barley and wheat, to craft beer true to style, avoiding cheap grains. Tailor grains and hops to beer’s target style, blending british and american varieties.
Hops11:53
Maintaining quality and scalability2:30
Quality12:33
Selecting equipment6:26
Choosing equipment6:49
Kegs1:18
Packaging1:23
Canning and bottling7:52
Finding your niche1:45
Building a brand6:41
Branding2:39
Profitability3:00
Taproom5:59
Point of sale system1:06
Customer service2:48
Learn how to deliver standout customer service by being responsive, passionate, and the face of your brewery, building strong bar relationships through on-site presence and enthusiastic selling.
Finding your niche1:45
Training for running the brewery2:12
Final thoughts0:51
Choose brewing only if you have passion and drive; you don't enter the industry to get rich, and you need business sense or a capable partner.

Requirements

no prerequisites, just a desire to learn

Description

In this 2 part course you will learn how to brew your own beer and the process of starting your own brewery.

We'll first start with the fundamentals of brewing an IPA beer. We will cover the beer brewing process. We'll get into Water Chemistry, hops & yeast selection, fermentation and much more.

We'll then get into starting a brewery. We'll talk with brewers who’ve been-there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts about starting your own brewery.

This course will cover the essential steps to starting a brewery: planning a brewery, finding a brewery location, choosing brewery equipment, building relationships with vendors and the local community, funding a brewery, learn about regulation requirements and much more.

While it may be your dream to brew great beer, this course will teach you how to brew beer and how to get started in opening your own brewery. This guide will help you identify the aspects of the business side of the process that you have to get right, in order to make it possible for you to brew your dream beer day in and day out.

Who this course is for:

anyone wanting to learn the process of starting a brewery

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Course content

Intro1 lecture • 1min

Beer Brewing12 lectures • 24min

Starting A Brewery30 lectures • 2hr 4min

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