UPDATE: Here are the classes you’ll have to take to earn your Auburn beer degree.
Course credit for a keg party. It’s the college dream. And something kinda sorta like it may soon be a reality at Auburn via a graduate degree program in, yes, brewing science. That kind of brewing science.
From the OA-News:
According to board materials released by the university, the graduate certificate in brewing sciences comes from the College of Human Science and was initiated in order to provide graduate-level coursework for students and professionals interested in learning about brewing, including malting, mashing, brewing and fermentation.
In an interview with AU’s “Take 5” series last year, Martin O’Neill, head of the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Hospitality Management, said the proposal relates to the growing interest in home and craft brewing and, if approved, would tap into an important niche market in education.
Earning a degree in brewing science will take you 18 credit hours. But if it is offered, it won’t be until sometime in 2014. But don’t get beer tears, you can start fermenting over the curriculum.
Auburn already boasts a small but active home brew club that counts several Auburn professors among its members, and Dale’s Pale Ale, voted America’s top craft beer, was first brewed in an Auburn bathtub. So yeah, it makes all kinds of sense.
Related: Beer and Bragging Rights: Auburn Brew Club wins bet, quaffs case of Oregon home brew.
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I may be going back to school…
Well, I think I’ve found what I can do while I’m in town, teaching.
That would be awesome. But first thing I thought of was this article from the other day. http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/01/new_bill_could_allow_homebrewi.html
Still illegal in Alabama. So ridiculous.
Seriously, how you gonna learn to brew in Auburn AL when it’s illegal to brew in the state?
That’s hilarious
It also notes that current professors and students alike are illegally brewing on campus and in the state.
Increasingly hilarious (though I support homebrewing).
It’s obviously a law that is not enforced, but still on the books. Hopefully, that will be changed soon.
Founders of Good People Brewing also Auburn Alum. Started home brewing while students in the 90s. So yeah, this is a no-brainer…..
Ryan, don’t count on it.
You need to tune into the next legislature debate on the matter. It sounds like a bunch of 5 yr olds having an argument. Then some idiot will come up there and argue against it by saying “Whats wrong with Budweiser? Drinks pretty good dont it!”
See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVqnUf8NH6g
Don’t forget that Oskar Blues technically started in Auburn, although Dale (also an Auburn alum) moved to Colorado to start Oskar Blues (probably can partially thank our backwards beer laws back then). We at least can have bombers and high grav now, but we indeed need to legalize home brewing.
We have some good breweries up here in Huntsville, Straight to Ale is doing some amazing things!
You don’t “brew beer in a bathtub” – it’s partially this kind of idiotic language that has our efforts to legalize homebrewing in peril…..
According to the guy who brewed it in a bathtub, he brewed it in a bathtub.
He probably placed his fermentation vessel in a bathtub. Most bathtubs don’t get hot enough to boil wort or clean enough to brew beer.
I think the state should worry about letting individuals do it at home before making people pay tuition to do it
Finally, inspiration to go back to college. 🙂
http://www.brewersassociation.org/pages/business-tools/craft-brewing-statistics/number-of-breweries
According to this website the number of breweries in the US is now approx 2200 – they all needed trained people to run them. The number of new breweries is expanding yearly at about 10% – this is a growth industry!