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Brewing Abbey-style Beers

Craft Beer & Brewing Course

Brewing Abbey-style Beers

Join Paul Odell in this video course, covering everything from the history, to styles, to recipe formulation, and finally to an actual brew day.

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This video course has more than 75 minutes of video, covering:

  • The history of Abbey-style beers
  • How to brew like a monk
  • Recipe Formulation, including grain, water, yeast, hops, and candi sugar
  • A full abbey-style brew day (from mash to pitch)
  • How to ferment and serve your beer


and much more!

Course contents

19 chapters, 29 lessons, 1h 9m of video

Chapter 1

About This Course

Chapter 2

History of Abbey Beers

  • A Little History3:22
  • How to Brew Like a Monk

Chapter 3

From Belgian Singles to Saisons

  • From Singles to Saisons6:49
  • The Belgian Renaissance in America
  • Belgian Beer: Always in Style

Chapter 4

Grain

  • Malt1:51

Chapter 5

Water

  • Water0:43

Chapter 6

Yeast

  • Yeast2:56
  • Making a liquid yeast starter2:41
  • Dry Yeast2:31
  • Ask the Experts: Belgian Yeast

Chapter 7

Hop Selection

  • Picking the Right Hops1:33

Chapter 8

Adding Candi Sugar

  • The facts and myths of candi sugar3:19
  • What is an Adjunct?

Chapter 9

Brewing a Belgian Golden Strong

  • Brewing A Belgian Golden Strong3:36
  • Belgian Golden Strong Ale Recipe

Chapter 10

Mashing In - Protein Rest

  • Mashing In - protein rest4:55

Chapter 11

Why Stepping Up Mashing is Important

  • Stepping up your beer and why it's important4:16

Chapter 12

Mashing Out and Sparging

  • Batch sparge4:27

Chapter 13

The Boil

  • The Boil10:27

Chapter 14

Chilling Your Beer

  • Chilling your beer1:55

Chapter 15

Fermentation Temperature

  • Fermentation temperature2:57

Chapter 16

Adding Oxygen

  • Adding oxygen1:34

Chapter 17

Adding Yeast

  • Adding Yeast to the Beer4:43

Chapter 18

Serving Your Beer

  • Serving Your Beer4:05
  • Belgian Beer: Your Probably Doing it Wrong
  • Key Stats on a Few Belgian Favorites

Chapter 19

Thank You!

  • Thank You!0:19

What students say

5.0 from 12 reviews
  • Brewing Abbey-style Beers!

    Paul Odell does a great job making you comfortable brewing Belgian Abby Ale. His delivery is excellent and give you the essentials of the styles while still doin it his way.
    Jerry Siok
  • Great course with a lot of practical information.

    This course was very helpful. The history of the Belgian ales was interesting. The brewing session for the golden ale was excellent. It was interesting to see the brew setup used and I personally picked up several new techniques that I am looking forward to trying.
    Nick Bova
  • Great course- engaging delivery

    The course is informative for veteran home brewers and beginners alike. Comprehensive and delivered in an engaging way. Cheers!
    Robert Cole
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  • Excellent content

    Well presented and filled with some very useful information. Great stuff
    Kevin Stannard
  • Great narrative AND hands-on demo!!!

    Most of the courses I've viewed are just a narrative with very little to no hands on demonstration. It was great to actually see someone brewing beer on this one. Lots of good info. Thanks.
    DANE ZEHRUNG
  • Very Informative

    In depth, well presented information
    Chris Robinson
  • Really Enjoyable Course

    Instructor was very good in covering many different aspects of brewing Abbey-style beers. Course material was very beneficial also.
    Robert Fawbush
  • Very nice tutorial
    Vikramjit SINGH
  • spot on title

    great info
    Doug McCarthy
  • Excellent course on Belgian Abbey beers
    Miguel Lopez
  • Fantastic, sympathetic and interesting

    Paul is clearly an Abbey fan, as am I. Great to experience this intro, which is a great complement to reading Hieronymous' Brew Like a Monk.
    Adam Davidson-Harden
  • perfect

    very informative
    GREGORIS KARRAS