Understand the pint in your hand.
Clear, carefully sourced courses that begin with the foundations and move naturally into flavour, serving, styles and beer culture.
Beer foundations
Take the lessons in order for the clearest route, or jump directly to the subject you need. Each one leads naturally to the next.
Start with the foundations
Two lessons establish what beer is and follow it from grain to glass.
Meet the ingredients
Malt, hops, yeast and water each change the beer in a different way.
Malt explained
How grain becomes malt and creates fermentable sugar, colour, body and flavours from bread to coffee.
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Hops explained
Bitterness is only part of the story. Meet the aromas, flavours and timing choices behind hops.
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Yeast explained
The living ingredient that makes alcohol, carbon dioxide and much of beer’s character.
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Water in brewing
Why minerals and alkalinity matter and how brewers prepare water for the beer they want.
Read the lesson →Let fermentation do the work
Bring the ingredients together and see how yeast turns wort into beer.
The core course starts here.
Begin with the basics, follow the sequence at your own pace and return as Beer School grows.