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Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

  • Advanced
  • 21 and older
  • $25
  • Virtual Learning
  • 2 hours

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  • $25
  • Virtual Learning
  • 2 hours
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Class Description

Description

What you'll learn in this beer tasting class:

Brewers make wort. Yeast make beer. Our yeast class and accompanying tasting will delve deeply into the world of everyone’s favorite microorganism.

The yeast lecture will cover:

  • Yeast Nutrition, growth and chemical pathways that effect home brewers.
  • How to choose and maintain a happy culture in your home brew and how strain selection impacts beer flavor.
  • Pitching rates, Propagation, starters, collection (top and bottom cropping) storage.
  • We’ll discuss the changes in cultures over generations and how home brewers rinse & clean yeast to repitch.

Tasting:

During the second half of the class we’ll conduct a tasting experiment to identify flavor differences between yeast strains under ideal fermentation conditions. The school took a large batch of beer and separated it into eight fermenters. We then pitched a different yeast into each fermenter.

Refund Policy

We don’t issue refunds, but if you need to reschedule your class for any reason, you have up to 13 business days in advance to do so.

If you find yourself missing the deadline, try asking around and see if a friend can take your spot. You’ll get the refund and fill a perfectly good spot. Everybody wins!

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

Reviews of Classes at Bitter & Esters (227)

(4.7-star rating across 227 reviews)
  • Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

    Reviewed by Eric R. on 12/18/2017
    VERY interesting course, great and friendly teachers and superb beer tasting.
  • Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

    Reviewed by Samuli H. on 4/18/2016
    knowledgeable, friendly and enthusiastic instruction by people who love good beer!
  • Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

    Anonymous review on 6/14/2015
    The reason why I left a negative review was not because the course was bad (it was a really passionate course and the guys were great). It was because we didn't expect it to be an advanced microbrewing course (which it was) and expected a beer tasting course (which it was to a very lesser extent).
  • Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

    Reviewed by Bob Marks on 10/17/2013
    Informative, friendly staff. Learned a lot and had a fun time
  • Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

    Reviewed by Kyle W. on 4/15/2019
  • Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

    Reviewed by Sandromar F. on 12/11/2017
  • Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

    Reviewed by ABHISHEK J. on 6/12/2017
  • Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

    Anonymous review on 8/30/2015
  • Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

    Reviewed by Danielle Soghoian on 6/2/2014
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Students have generally positive feedback about the classes at Yeast: Lecture & Tasting. They describe the instructors as knowledgeable, friendly, and enthusiastic about beer. Students appreciate the informative and fun atmosphere of the classes, as well as the opportunity to taste different beers. They acknowledge the passion and expertise of the instructors. Overall, students learned a lot from the classes and had a fun time. They gained knowledge about microbrewing and were able to taste a variety of beers. The instructors' love for good beer and their ability to share that passion with their students shines through in the reviews. Quotes: - "knowledgeable, friendly, and enthusiastic instruction by people who love good beer!" - "Informative, friendly staff. Learned a lot and had a fun time."

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Bitter & Esters

Douglas Amport and John La Polla founded Bitter & Esters, the city’s first do-it-yourself brewery and homebrew supply shop, motivated by their knowledge and passion for brewing as equal parts art and science. Fueled by the desire to inspire, educate, and nurture the growing homebrew community...

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