Brew U - Advanced Brewing

I’ve been brewing professionally for about 10 years. I entered the industry after first embracing brewing as a hobby in my garage, which eventually led to selling and brewing beer for Riley’s in Madera. After several years there, I moved on to Full Circle Brewing Company in Downtown Fresno. Following a short stint at a brewery in Tehachapi, I returned to Riley’s until the fire destroyed the facility.

After that, I came back to Full Circle, where I now serve as Head Brewer, overseeing production and development. While in Tehachapi, I also began the process of opening my own brewery, Incinerati, starting in the Brewery Incubator on Broadway Street. I later moved operations to the former Zone 9 location in Clovis, where Incinerati has been open for about five years.

My decade of hands-on experience across multiple breweries, working with a wide variety of equipment setups and producing a broad range of beer styles, combined with my understanding of water, wort, and beer chemistry, has given me an extensive pool of firsthand knowledge that I enjoy passing on to others.

This course takes an in-depth look at beer production from grain to glass, with a strong emphasis on the fundamentals used daily in a professional brewery. Topics include malt, water, mashing and boiling, cellar and fermentation practices, and packaging and pouring.

Advanced Brewing is ideal for those interested in entering the brewing industry and building a solid technical foundation, as well as for those already working in the industry who want a deeper understanding of the processes they use every day.

Throughout the course, we will conduct sensory evaluations of grain and hops, and we’ll finish with a hands-on challenge: pouring a perfect pint in one shot using a Czech-style Lukr side-pull faucet. You drink what you pour.

It’s hard to narrow it down, but it really comes back to teaching the practical fundamentals of brewing beer. Once students understand the core building blocks of beer production, they can build on that knowledge to better understand the entire brewing process from start to finish, at any scale.

Because brewing is rooted in science, these fundamentals also translate to other areas involving chemistry—not just fermentation, but everyday life as well.