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Oktoberfest at Craft Beer School

Raise a stein and learn to brew it. Online Brewing Fundamentals, live with our brewers.

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India's trusted beer school. We teach everything inside and outside the bottle: brewing, tasting, branding and the business of beer. Now we teach spirits, AI for breweries and the drinks beyond beer too. Live online sessions, guided tastings and hands-on days in Pune, Delhi, Gurugram and Bengaluru.

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A craft beer tasting flight, grain to glass at Craft Beer School
Basics to Business

29 pours, one path from grain to glass.

Every course pairs theory with real practice. Classes are small, taught by working brewers and backed by one-to-one mentorship.

Brewing Fundamentals
01 / Foundations4 Weeks
Online + in person

Brewing Fundamentals

The science of brewing: ingredients, equipment and technique. Live online sessions, plus your first real recipe.

  • Brewing science and theory
  • Raw materials and quality
  • Equipment and sanitation
  • Recipe formulation basics
Full syllabus
₹5,999Enrol
Advanced Brewing Science
02 / Deep Craft6 Weeks
Online

Advanced Brewing Science

Go deeper into brewing chemistry, microbiology and fermentation. For serious homebrewers and professionals.

  • Microbiology and fermentation
  • Water chemistry optimisation
  • Advanced mashing techniques
  • Quality assurance and control
Full syllabus
₹12,999Enrol
Brewery Business Management
03 / Business3 Weeks
Online

Brewery Business Management

The business behind the brew: plan, launch and grow a brewery, from finance to distribution.

  • Business planning and finance
  • Licensing and regulations
  • Marketing and branding
  • Distribution strategies
Full syllabus
₹8,999Enrol
Style Specialisation
04 / Mastery8 Weeks
Online

Style Specialisation

Master IPAs, stouts, lagers, sours and Belgian ales: their history, technique and award-winning examples.

  • Style guidelines & origins
  • Specialised techniques
  • Ingredient selection & pairing
  • Competition brewing skills
Full syllabus
₹18,999Enrol
Beer Branding & Packaging
05 / Brand3 Weeks
Online

Beer Branding & Packaging

Build a beer brand that stands out and packaging that sells. Made for aspiring brewers and founders.

  • Build your brand identity
  • Design packaging that pops
  • Launch planning & promotion
  • Certificate & community access
Full syllabus
₹4,999Enrol
Sensory Evaluation
06 / Palate2 Weeks
Online

Sensory Evaluation

Train your palate like a pro: taste, identify off-flavours and score beer with real sensory methods.

  • Flavour chemistry
  • Tasting techniques
  • Off-flavour identification
  • Quality scoring systems
Full syllabus
₹5,999Enrol
AI for Craft Breweries
07 / New · AI2 Weeks
Online

AI for Craft Breweries

Put GenAI to work on your brewery's copy, social posts and weekly admin and use it responsibly. No coding needed.

  • GenAI for beer copy & social
  • Prompting with your brewery's facts
  • Automating repetitive tasks
  • Responsible AI & alcohol ad rules
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Digital Transformation Basics for Brewing
08 / New · Digital2 Weeks
Online

Digital Transformation Basics for Brewing

Move your brewery off paper and into simple digital tools: brew logs, stock, batch tracking and a dashboard you will actually open.

  • Paper to digital brew logs
  • Stock and batch tracking
  • Sensors and dashboards
  • A 90-day digital plan
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
ESG in Craft Brewing
09 / New · ESG2 Weeks
Online

ESG in Craft Brewing

Water, energy, spent grain, packaging, people and governance: measure what your brewery does and tell the story honestly.

  • Water and energy per litre
  • Spent grain, waste and packaging
  • People, safety and community
  • A simple ESG scorecard
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Safety in Brewing
10 / Free · Safety1 Week
Online

Safety in Brewing

The hazards that hurt people in breweries and how to work around them: CO2, chemicals, heat, pressure and confined spaces.

  • CO2 and confined spaces
  • Caustic, acid and hot liquids
  • Pressure, kegs and lifting
  • Your brewery safety checklist
Full syllabus
FreeEnrol
Craft Distilling
11 / New · Spirits4 Weeks
Online

Craft Distilling

From wash to bottle: stills, cuts, gin botanicals, ageing in Indian heat and the licences a craft distillery needs.

  • Wash, stills and the run
  • Heads, hearts and tails
  • Gin and botanicals
  • Ageing, costs and licensing
Full syllabus
₹9,999Enrol
Craft Gin Making
12 / New · Spirits4 Weeks
Online

Craft Gin Making

Design and make a gin of your own: juniper and botanicals, the still run, proofing and getting a bottle to market in India.

  • What makes a gin a gin
  • Botanicals, including Indian ones
  • Distilling, cuts and proofing
  • Brand, costing and licences
Full syllabus
₹9,999Enrol
RTD Drinks: Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic
13 / New · RTD2 Weeks
Online

RTD Drinks: Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic

Ready-to-drink cans and bottles, with and without alcohol: formulation, sweetness and acid, carbonation, shelf life and the rules.

  • Formulating for flavour and balance
  • Spirit, malt and sugar bases
  • Carbonation, canning and shelf life
  • Excise and FSSAI labelling
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Hop Water
14 / New · Non-alcoholic2 Weeks
Online

Hop Water

Sparkling water with all the aroma of hops and none of the alcohol. Make it on brewery kit and keep it stable on the shelf.

  • Choosing hops for aroma
  • Cold steeping, oils and extracts
  • pH, carbonation and stability
  • Selling a zero-alcohol line
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Hard Seltzer
15 / New · Seltzer2 Weeks
Online

Hard Seltzer

A clean, dry sugar ferment turned into a light, fruity seltzer: base, yeast nutrition, clarity, flavour and the rules in India.

  • Sugar base and yeast nutrition
  • A clean, neutral fermentation
  • Clarity, flavour and acid
  • Packaging and excise
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Kombucha
16 / New · Ferments2 Weeks
Online

Kombucha

Brew kombucha safely and consistently, from tea, sugar and culture to flavoured, sparkling bottles for a cafe or taproom.

  • Tea, sugar and the culture
  • Safe pH and clean brewing
  • Second ferment and flavour
  • Scaling up and labelling
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Non-Alcoholic Beer
17 / New · Non-alcoholic2 Weeks
Online

Non-Alcoholic Beer

Beer that still tastes like beer, without the alcohol: limited fermentation, special yeasts, body and aroma, plus keeping it safe on the shelf.

  • Limited fermentation and special yeasts
  • Dealcoholisation and when it makes sense
  • Body, aroma and avoiding a worty taste
  • Pasteurisation, testing and labelling
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Power BI and Tableau for Breweries
18 / New · Data2 Weeks
Online

Power BI and Tableau for Breweries

Build the dashboards a brewery actually opens: brew logs, yield, losses, stock and sales in Power BI or Tableau, from your own spreadsheets.

  • Brewery data model from your logs
  • Yield, loss and KPI dashboards
  • Power BI and Tableau side by side
  • A dashboard your team will keep
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Winemaking
19 / New · Wine2 Weeks
Online + video tutorials

Winemaking

Grape to bottle: harvest numbers, crushing and pressing, red and white fermentation, malolactic, clarifying and bottling, for Indian vineyards and climate.

  • Grapes, sugar and acid at harvest
  • Red and white fermentation
  • Malolactic, clarifying and ageing
  • Bottling and stability
Full syllabus
₹10,000Enrol
Fortified Wine
20 / New · Wine2 Weeks
Online + in person

Fortified Wine

How port-style, sherry-style and other fortified wines are made: fortifying with grape spirit, sweetness, oxidative ageing and blending.

  • Fortifying with grape spirit
  • Sweet and dry styles
  • Oxidative and barrel ageing
  • Blending, costing and the rules
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Winery Business
21 / New · Wine2 Weeks
Online + in person

Winery Business

Run a small winery as a business: costing a bottle, licences and excise, route to market, cellar door and wine tourism in India.

  • Costing a bottle of wine
  • Licences, excise and labels
  • Route to market and pricing
  • Cellar door and wine tourism
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
New Product Development: Beer, Whisky and Wine
22 / New · Product2 Weeks
Online + in person

New Product Development: Beer, Whisky and Wine

Take a new beer, whisky or wine from idea to launch: consumer insight, formulation, pilot batches, sensory testing, costing, labels and launch.

  • Finding the gap and the drinker
  • Formulation and pilot batches
  • Sensory testing and costing
  • Labels, approvals and launch
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Digital Marketing for Breweries
23 / New · Marketing2 Weeks
Online

Digital Marketing for Breweries

Market a brewery online inside India's alcohol advertising rules: Instagram, WhatsApp, Google listings and content that fills a taproom.

  • What the ad rules allow online
  • Instagram, reels and creators
  • WhatsApp, Google listings and reviews
  • A content calendar and the numbers to watch
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Brand Strategy and Positioning for Breweries
24 / New · Brand2 Weeks
Online

Brand Strategy and Positioning for Breweries

Work out who your brewery is for and why it is different, then write it down so every label, post and pint says the same thing.

  • Positioning against your real competition
  • Values a team will actually use
  • Drinker personas without stereotypes
  • A one-line brand essence
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Rebranding a Brewery
25 / New · Brand2 Weeks
Online

Rebranding a Brewery

Plan a rebrand that keeps the drinkers you have: audit, goals, budget, the design brief and a roll-out timed to new labels and approvals.

  • Refresh or full rebrand
  • Brand audit and what drinkers remember
  • Goals, team and budget
  • Roll-out, labels and launch day
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Naming and Trademarks for Drinks Brands
26 / New · Brand2 Weeks
Online

Naming and Trademarks for Drinks Brands

Find a brewery or beer name people can say, spell and remember, then check it is free to use before you print a single label.

  • What makes a name work
  • Testing a shortlist
  • Trade mark searches in India
  • Filing with an attorney, step by step
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Taproom Marketing and Community
27 / New · Marketing2 Weeks
Online

Taproom Marketing and Community

Turn first visits into regulars: events, beer clubs, staff who live the brand and local partnerships for a taproom or brewpub.

  • Events that bring people back
  • Beer clubs and regulars
  • Staff as the brand
  • Local partners and collaborations
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Whisky Appreciation
28 / New · Whisky2 Weeks
Online

Whisky Appreciation

Learn whisky the way a blender tastes it: how it is made, the main styles of the world and a tasting method you can use on any glass, with Indian whisky in the mix.

  • How whisky is made
  • Styles of the world, India included
  • Tasting with a method
  • Serving, food and buying well
Full syllabus
₹5,000Enrol
Wine Consultation
29 / New · One to one2 Weeks
Online + in person

Wine Consultation

One-to-one sessions on wine, online or in person in Pune, Delhi, Gurugram or Bengaluru, built around your own questions or project.

  • Built around your own questions
  • Making, tasting, buying or selling wine
  • Online or in person in 4 cities
  • A plan for your next step
Full syllabus
₹25,000Enrol
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29 courses across brewing, business, spirits, wine and the drinks beyond beer, live online and in person in Pune, Delhi, Gurugram and Bengaluru, plus a free safety course.

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New · Free Style Library

80 beer styles, explained for India.

Colour, bitterness and strength at a glance. The right glass and what to eat with each one, from vada pav to Goan prawn curry. Pick a glass to start.

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Free Resources

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Beer 101, a styles primer, a working brewing glossary and calculators. Everything you need to sharpen your palate and your process, free.

  • Beer 101 crash course
  • Beer style and off-flavour guides
  • Brewing calculators and tasting tools
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The Journal · Blog and podcast

Insights from the brewing world.

How craft beer actually grew in India
India

How craft beer actually grew in India

A licence change in one state started it. Everything after that was taprooms, heat and a generation that wanted choice.

How to start a microbrewery in India
Business

How to start a microbrewery in India

The brewhouse is the easy part. Licensing, cooling and working capital are what decide whether you open.

How to taste beer like a professional
Tasting

How to taste beer like a professional

Drinking is not tasting. A method turns a vague impression into something you can name and repeat.

Beer Stories

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