Craft Beer & Brewing Course
Brewing Techniques for Low Alcohol Beers
BJCP Grand Master Josh Weikert covers everything you need to know to scale down your full-strength recipe to a more affordable and crushable beer. In this course you'll learn about considerations for every major part of your brew day.
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Session beers aren't just a question of reducing the gravity (although that's one way to go, and we will be): it's a question of generating a lot of flavor from hops and finding light ways to balance those flavors. In this course, Josh Weikert takes you through the challenges and solutions to brewing lower ABV beers. Josh covers:
- Recipe considerations
- Scaling down your existing recipes
- Hopping
- Yeast selection
- Water chemisty
- Mash and boil considerations
- and much more
Course contents
4 chapters, 13 lessons, 24m of video
Chapter 1
Course Introduction
- About This Course3:11
- Recipe Considerations 4:26
Chapter 2
Brewing Low ABV Beers
- Process Considerations 3:17
- Hopping Considerations2:45
- Yeast, Water, and Fermentation Considerations 4:00
- Boiling Considerations 2:24
- Scaling Considerations 4:24
- Make Your Best Session IPA
- Session Stouts: Big Flavor in Small Packages
Chapter 3
Session Beer Recipes
- Little Raspy Recipe
- Sessionable Saison Recipe
- Session Sparkling Dry-Hopped Mead Recipe
Chapter 4
Thank You
- Thank You
What students say
5.0 from 3 reviews
The information throughout this course was conveyed in a quick moving, interesting tone and the presenter is very strong with descriptions and examples to keep the viewer motivated.
Great course - a lot of practical information from another professional brewer.
One of the best videos on considerations and workable solutions to brewing low alcohol beer. I really enjoyed the video and look forward to brewing more sessionable beers. Cheers!