First-class beer school with first-class price tag

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Published Oct. 8, 2009 at 1:20 p.m.

If you were thinking about going back to school, here is a little tidbit that might tickle your beer-loving fancy. The Siebel Institute of Technology is offering a four-day Draught Beer Technical Skills Course with two different start times in November and February.Class takes place at none other than state-of-the-art MillerCoors Brewing Draught Training Center [ ... ] ...

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Best of… Beer School

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Published Aug. 13, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.

We’re taking the week off, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy all that DRAFTMag.com has to offer. During the next five days, we’ll be running “Best of…” posts, featuring the best content from the past year. So further ado… Beer School.Techno night in BerlinSchnitzel and noodlesBrewing au naturaleEnd of Module 2 updateDusseldorf vs. Cologne ...

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Best of… Beer Director

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Published Aug. 10, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

We’re taking the week off, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy all that DRAFTMag.com has to offer. During the next five days, we’ll be running “Best of…” posts, featuring the best content from the past year. So further ado… Beer Director.2008 awardsSierra Nevada Beer School — volume oneBeer Photography: Interview with Jesse FriedmanOregon beer [ ... ] ...

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Santa Cruz Sentinel News Interview

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Published May 27, 2009 at 5:47 p.m.
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My interview with the local Santa Cruz paper the Sentinel was just published today and includes a short video of me explaining the minimum equipment required to brew a batch of beer. Check it out.The Article ... The Video ... Leave a comment about the beer school interview. Do you teach brewing? ...

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Relax, it’s about the beer

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Published April 22, 2009 at 12:30 p.m.

 Ok, it’s been all fun and games in my last few posts, but this time I’m back to business and I will continue to enlighten you on what’s going on this week in beer school. Several of my courses have concluded and we have moved on to several new subjects.  Firstly we have finished learning about [ ... ] ...

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Beer's Properties Makes For Beer's Profities

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Published April 7, 2009 at 11:02 a.m.
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I was quite ready to scoff at today's article in the London Free Press on InBev ... or is it AmBev ... or maybe now just BevBev's ... Canadian operations and their version of a beer school but the point on the economics of properly handling your kegs is interesting: ... "In a typical bar, five to 10 pitchers of beer are spilled during each (bar server's) shift because of poor pouring practice. We eliminate that. We also teach bar staff how to hook up new kegs without a lot of unnecessary

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New blog: Beer School

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Published April 1, 2009 at 11:30 a.m.

Observant DRAFTMag.commers may have noticed a new blog popping up during the past week. After the positive response we received from Mike Piontek’s article about the trials and tribulations of attending Germany’s famed beer school, VLB Institute, we asked him if he’d like to pen a blog for us. Mike said yes and he’ll be [ ... ] ...

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DRAFTMag.com week in review

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Published March 28, 2009 at 8:00 a.m.

Our beer director, Rick Sellers, went to Sierra Nevada and all we got was this lousy video. (Just kidding Rick, we love it.) Elsewhere, we continued the best bars feature and learned why brewers team up with each other. That and more ran on DRAFTMag.com this week.We’re buying a beer for…Matt LauerNikki FinkeSarah Jessica ParkerLance [ ... ] ...

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Sierra Nevada Beer School - Volume One

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Published March 25, 2009 at 12:29 p.m.

I’ve seen the original Sierra Nevada brewhouse, in operation, in the past year. Dilapidated is the right word for this pieced-together system that looks like a space ship from an 80s B-movie crossed with an oversized water heater. The blueish-white paint isn’t pretty and the whole get-up just seems like a bad idea. Of course, [ ... ] ...

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Pizza and beer: an unbeatable pair

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Published Feb. 19, 2009 at 12:51 p.m.

There are a few things in the world of food that just go together. Pork chops and applesauce. Burgers and fries.Pizza and beer.It’s the latter duo that really gets our mouths watering, especially after hearing that Chicago titan Sheffield’s Beer School Bar and Ian’s Pizza — which recently opened a new location in Chi-town — [ ... ] ...

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