So you want to be a Brewer when you grow up?

Dr. Jim Steele may be the most popular professor on the UW campus, because he teaches students to make beer… but there is more to the story…

For a few years now Dr. Jim Steele’s fermentation class had partnered with Wisconsin Brewing Company to produce a new tasty beer to be produced and distributed. Dr. Steele joined Bryant recently to tell him that while yes students do craft beer in class they are defiantly studying hard to make that happen.

Fermentation is awfully important to Wisconsites, as some of our favorite food had been fermented cheese for example and beer both are actually preserved products from farms. What’s interesting is that the process of making cheese is very similar to brewing beer. Ethanol that is made from distilling corn is virtually the same process as making whiskey.

Dr. Steele explains that brewing beer is actually a complex process and that in order to get into his beer brewing course students first have to “know there stuff” when it comes to advanced biology as great tasting beer starts with the yeast, and students must understand every step of the process.

Learn More about Dr. Jim Steele’s Fermentation course by clicking link below

Fermentation with Dr. Jim Steele