All About Beer Magazine - Volume 37, Issue 4
July 6, 2016 By

Editor’s Note: Read more about brewing schools in the September 2016 issue of All About Beer Magazine.

ALABAMA

Auburn University

Auburn

Auburn offers a one-year Graduate Certificate in Brewing Science and Operations in partnership with Oskar Blues Brewery and assorted Alabama breweries.

CALIFORNIA

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Pomona

Cal Poly Pomona offers both a short, four-week course on beer culture and certificate programs in all-grain brewing.

San Diego State University

San Diego

This university offers one-year and 1.5-year certificates in the Business of Craft Beer.

University of California, Davis

Davis

This flagship institute of brewing education has programs that range from a 10-week Professional Brewers Certificate to an 18-week Master Brewers Program, undergraduate malting and brewing courses, and graduate-level degrees in brewing.

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla

The part-time brewing certificate program at UC San Diego can be completed in 18-24 months and takes place on evenings and weekends.

COLORADO

Metropolitan State University of Denver

Denver

Metropolitan State University offers four-year degrees in Brewery Operations and Brewpub Operations, as well as a Brewing Science minor and certificate.

Regis University

Denver

Regis University’s 12-month, part-time Certificate in Applied Craft Brewing program is taught in the evenings and spans topics from the biology to the business of brewing.

ILLINOIS

Siebel Institute of Technology

Chicago

With roots tracing to 1868, Siebel offered the first formal brewing education in the United States. Today students can enroll in several certificate programs, including the Master Brewer Program.

KENTUCKY

Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green

Western Kentucky University offers both graduate and undergraduate certificates in Brewing and Distilling Arts & Sciences in concordance with relative fields of study.

MICHIGAN

Central Michigan University

Mount Pleasant

The one-year fermentation sciences program requires students to intern for a minimum of 200 hours at a brewery.

Schoolcraft College

Livonia 

This 24-credit program offers a Certificate in Brewing and Distillation Technology. The college has a 7-barrel commercial brew house on campus, and is licensed by the state of Michigan as a Brewpub. Student-brewed beers are served in the culinary program’s American Harvest restaurant/brewpub, with a 10-tap service area.

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo

This program, offered jointly with Kalamazoo Valley Community College, includes both associates and bachelor’s degrees in Sustainable Brewing.

MINNESOTA

Dakota County Technical College

Rosemount

This school offers a one-year certificate program in Brewing & Beer Steward Technology.

MONTANA

Montana State University Billings

Billings

This school offers a new Certificate in Craft Brewing and Fermentation that combines learning experiences in the science, business and technology aspects of the brewing industry.

NEW YORK

Schenectady County Community College

Schenectady

The 13-week craft beer course at SCCC covers the science of brewing from raw materials to boiling to fermentation to packaging, and also touches on workplace safety, engineering and analysis.

State University of New York, Cobleskill

Cobleskill

Starting in fall 2017, SUNY Cobleskill will be offering a four-year, Bachelor of Technology in Fermentation Science program.

NORTH CAROLINA

Appalachian State University

Boone

The school offers both a four-year Bachelor of Science in Fermentation Science and five-day brewing short courses during the summer.

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College

Asheville

A-B Tech’s Associate of Applied Science in Brewing, Distillation and Fermentation is a two-year program with hands-on brewing courses and classes in inspection, law, marketing and more.

 

OREGON

Oregon State University

Corvallis

On top of the multiple beer and brewing resources listed in the story, Oregon State offers a four-year Fermentation Science program.

PENNSYLVANIA

University of the Sciences

Philadelphia

The Brewing Science program at the University of the Sciences is offered in one-year and two-year iterations, and offers evening courses for flexibility.

 

VERMONT

American Brewers Guild 

Salisbury

The American Brewers Guild offers brewing classes and 22-27 week diploma programs. The longer of the two programs includes a five-week apprenticeship.

University of Vermont

Burlington

The Business of Craft Beer Certificate offered by the University of Vermont takes place online and covers business operations, sales, digital marketing and social media.

WASHINGTON

Central Washington University

Ellensburg

Potential brewing students at CWU can either pursue the yearlong Craft Beer Certificate program or a full 4-year Bachelor of Science in Craft Brewing.

Know of any brewing school we missed? Send us an email at editor@allaboutbeer.com.