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Intro to Brewing: Brewing With Extract

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Intro to Brewing: Brewing With Extract

Introduction to basic brewing with malt extract.

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This comprehensive introductory course teaches you everything you need to know to brew great beer at home using malt extract, hops, yeast, and water. From raw ingredients to pouring your first pint of homebrew and everything in between, there's no better introduction to the hobby.

Course contents

11 chapters, 78 lessons, 42m of video

Chapter 11

Thank You

What students say

5.0 from 51 reviews
  • Great Intro Course for the Beginner Brewer

    This course provided the perfect amount of information for a beginner brewer. I do not feel overwhelmed, but I also learned about the wordage and phrases needed to look up further information.
    James Berry
  • Clear, to the point

    Intro clearly explained step by step how the course is structured. Liked the list of materials in order to brew along with the course.
    dave kenny
  • Very comprehensive
    Reynaldo Melendez Bermudez
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  • Good Job

    Nice refresher training if it has been awhile since you last brewed a basic extract kit.
    jh.auburn.university@gmail.com .
  • Good intro

    Great introduction to the home brewing process from start to finish including explanations of equipment and ingredients required.
    Chris Miller
  • Great introduction

    Easy to follow and understand.
    Gimli Gibbons
  • Intro to Brewing: Brewing With Extract

    Very informative. A lot of knowledge and very thorough.
    Mark Smagner
  • Great Introduction to brewing

    Outside of ad-hoc Youtube videos and various brewery tours, this was the first end-to-end course I've taken on brewing beer. I found it extremely helpful and easy to follow. It was a perfect outline of the general process with some added tips and options along the way. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who is even just interested in how the brewing process works.
    Chris Fassnacht
  • It really helped on the bottling issue
    Blessing Bigone
  • Great video
    Alf Torres
  • beginner

    excellent so easy to work with and no b.s. thank you so much for instilling much confidence and understanding and demystifying the whole gammit. 10 out of 10. highly recommend. tanx sgain
    Tibor Toth
  • solid primer

    great step-by-step intro to the process. Very clear direction and explanations of the goal of each step. I can't wait to get started!
    John Dietz
  • one of the best course to understand and get more motivated for craft Beer &Brewing
    samarth goyal
  • Clear and Informative

    Great intro course. The videos are fantastic and this is a great and well structured introduction to making beer.
    Michael Barwell
  • Amazing Course
    Priyesh Bohra
  • Great introduction

    I wish I had watched this several years ago, as I was starting out. I could have avoided some mistakes and some just less-than-optimal results. Steve presented everything clearly but in a relaxed style that avoids the anxiety that this hobby can engender. Even now, I've learned some things and will be trying some different equipment to hopefully improve my consistency.
    Eric Jewett
  • Super great course

    thanks you guys I will definitely by some other course from you
    messa.filip@gmail.com .
  • Easy to understand

    As title said, it's really details and easy to be understood by beginners
    xinong93@gmail.com .
  • I wish I'd watched this first

    I've brewed my first batch of beer. It was an extract kit and I followed the directions to a tee. However, the directions were very rudimentary, and lacked many of the details this video provided. After watching this, I'm pretty nervous about cracking that first bottle in about a week!
    Jason Grossman
  • A Great Beginning Homebrewer's Course

    I would gladly recommend this course for anybody making that first leap into homebrewing with extract. It's very informative and easy to follow.
    Chuck Nute
  • Excellent! Steve has a great way of explaining everything really well. T
    Bill Fitzpatrick
  • Great Beginner Course

    This course gives a thorough, easy to understand guide through each step of the homebrewing process.
    Scott Jordan
  • intro to brewing

    great overview and guide
    gtelegros@gmail.com .
  • Excellent Course!
    Jordan Conley
  • works well

    easy to follow
    richard spicer
  • Good solid introduction

    I've made one batch of purely extract beer before loking at this course, and from the content I can see the things I've done correctly ad also some simple mistakes I made. The beer from this first batch was abolutely fine, but I have high hopes of a better second batch after working through teh course. maybe next I'll buy the pot etc. for some grain steeping too.
    ossiary@hotmail.com .
  • Course relates to exactly what the title says.

    Excellent content and well presented. I have brewed several beers and just recently had some not so good results. This back to basics course has shown me the error of my ways. I plan to brew another beer very soon and implement what I have re-learned!! Thank you
    Gregg Couch
  • Instills Confidence

    Great course to ensure you know what to expect from "soup to nuts." Thanks!!
    Steve Cappello
  • Naive to Novice

    Helped me gain the basic knowledge of all the steps in the brewing process and made me want to dive deeper in to the experimentation on what could effect the final product.
    Charlie Back
  • I can hear Steve's voice in my head guiding me as I try this new hobbie

    WOW this is a great course. Not knowing anything about brewing it helped remove the veil of mystery covering beer brewing. Steve has a great teaching style and i can heard his voice guiding me as i try to brew. Thanks for making a great product.
    Ben Kelly
  • Great Intro to Extract Brewing

    This course covers all important steps. I feel confident I can do my first extract brew with some peeking back. Cheers!
    EMIL DONTCHEV
  • Intro to Brewing

    Really good course. I really liked how each section was short and the steps were well explain and not overly complicated. Great job and I can’t wait to get started on the next course!
    Jared Powell
  • Great intro course

    This was a great intro to home brewing with a specific style of beer, but all the info can be used with whatever style of extract brewing you are doing. Good job
    horsemanbish@gmail.com .
  • Great for Beginners

    Thorough and helpful. I still refer to the checklist provided.
    Harrison Mudd
  • Great intro

    I have been interested in brewing for a just a couple days now and have been watching Youtube videos, which are great and I've learned a lot from but I felt like I was missing information more than often. As someone who is very new to brewing sometimes I felt unsure about the differing opinions in the brewing steps. Sometimes brewers did things slightly different and as a new guy to something that seems as sensitive as brewing some how made it feel intimidating. I think what this course did better than all of those videos is it really treats you like someone who is new to the game, sometimes other brewers will use terms without giving a description and then I have to stop and look it up or the entire step sounds like a foreign language. With this course it really took the time to describe and highlight terms that are important, also adding in what other brewers may call it. This felt like a well organized and considered course instead of a video of someone brewing. Super excited to learn more, the year/all-access subscription is already feeling worth it.
    Mike Tavares
  • Great Beginnings

    If you are new to beer brewing, this is a great place to start and get a solid grasp on the general principles involved.
    Arthur Stein
  • Very simple to understand.Nice text and video tutorial.5 tar absolutely,CHEERS....
    Fred Ahima
  • Great intro course!

    I loved all the videos. The perfect way to see the fundamentals of brewing!
    Kenneth Bowman
  • It truly is an art to create good tasting beer!

    The course was super informative and with practice, very achievable. I have learnt so much in a short space of time, thank you so much.
    garethpieters71@gmail.com .
  • Brewing with extract

    I enjoyed, you could probably join a number of the video segments without losing the focus of each stage, maybe with a text window
    Tony Berkhout
  • Nice course
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  • Great, thanks

    I have been brewing for several years. I figured I'd give this a test run before watching any of the other courses to see if it was something I might enjoy. the course was well detailed and even made me think of a few things that I haven't thought of in the past. Very informative and very well done for a introduction course. thank you
    Ryan august
  • A good overview of the whole process with video examples certainly helped me to understand how a brewing session works.

    The texts gave good explanations of all the process step by step and also what all the brewing specific terms meant.
    duffeem@gmail.com .
  • simple and informative

    I thought it was really easy to follow along with. I can't wait to try the recipe.
    kenneth baugher
  • Excellent Presentation!

    The presenter did an excellent job of laying out the various steps in a logical, easy to follow manner. Very well done and informative.
    John Applegate
  • Intro to Brewing: Brewing With Extract

    Excellent!!!
    Bill O'Brien
  • Best free introductory course. Add simple and concise in tiitle to promo.

    Combination of to complement understandable text will probably move me to pay for a course soon.Floundering a lot less.after this course. Sincerest thanx, Chris Shaw Morgantown Ky 25 April, 2020
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  • Great course!!!
    Michael Talerico
  • Most simplest explanation I've come across

    Ive done alot of research into home brewing whilst starting out, and I mean alot. Just when you think one video has it all worked out, you go to put it into practice and you find you have so many more questions. This video covers it all. Rather than having to harass my local home brew supply store this course answered all the questions that a new home brewer will most likely have. Very well presented and explained. Highly recommended.
    Chris Hayton
  • Great attention to detail

    Very informative, and comprehensive format that leaves me very confident and looking forward to making my first batch.
    Yale Houghton
  • Intro to Brewing: Brewing With Extract

    Very Informative and pretty cut and dry. I can't wait for my upgrade to 5 gallons!
    Bashir Awwad