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Historical Brewing in the Modern Era

Craft Beer & Brewing Course

Historical Brewing in the Modern Era

Zebulon Artisan Ales Founder and lifelong brewer Mike Karnowski takes you through the history of 1700-1800's English brewing, followed by a demonstration of how to make your own brown malt, invert sugar, and brew a porter (circa 1880).

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In this video course, Mike Karnowski takes you back into the 1700s to cover:

  • Malt, hops, yeast, and sugar selection for historical beers
  • Historical brewing in other parts of Europe
  • Making your own English invert syrups
  • Brewing techniques for historical beers
  • Stout vs. porter
  • Making your own historical brown malt
  • Brewing a 1750's era porter with diastatic brown malt
  • Packaging + serving english ales
  • and much more!


Course contents

3 chapters, 14 lessons, 1h 7m of video

Chapter 2

Brewing Historical Beers

  • Malts, Hops, Yeast, Sugar Selection for Historical Beers4:59
  • Historical Brewing in Other Parts of Europe2:17
  • English Invert Syrups7:49
  • Brewing Techniques for Historical Beers6:33
  • Parti-Gyle
  • No-Math Parti-Gyle Old Ale, IPA, and ESB Recipe
  • Stout vs Porter2:36
  • Stout vs. Porter Deep Dive
  • Making Historical Brown Malt7:21
  • Brewing a 1750s Era Porter with Diastatic Brown Malt11:47
  • Packaging and Serving English Ales6:52

Chapter 3

Thank You

  • Thank you0:33

What students say

4.9 from 7 reviews
  • A taste of history.

    Great view into how beer was made. Learned how to make invert sugar and diastatic brown malt. Just need time to put it into practice. Thanks for another fine lesson in the world that is beer.
    Bob Peters
  • As someone who likes the English style beers, I really enjoyed learning how to make my own inverts and brown malts Cheers
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  • Interesting Video Course

    I learned a lot of interesting things like making invert sugar and diastatic brown malt from this video. The instructor's passion for brewing historical beers was quite evident.
    Robert Fawbush
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  • So much knowledge!

    Enjoyed learning original brewing methods!
    Kenneth Bowman
  • Back to the future

    One of the best courses, great data to accurate an 18 th century beer. Cheers
    Pablo Bermudez
  • Historic Brewing in the Modern Era Review

    The speaker was very knowledgeable and gave a great background on beer making from many years ago.
    Robert McGrath
  • Fantastic course

    As someone who likes the English style beers, I really enjoyed learning how to make my own inverts and brown malts Cheers
    ken.fowler4@bigpond.com .