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On any given day at UCF, students can be found in labs conducting chemistry experiments. Now, that includes brewing beer.

Students have a chance to learn聽about the ancient craft thanks聽to two brand-new stainless steel聽15-gallon Blichmann kettles聽and a fermenter installed at聽the Rosen College of Hospitality聽Management this semester. They 麻豆精品 S檝e聽steeped grain, combined it with yeast,聽and aerated the mixture so that it聽fermented and turned into beer over聽a matter of weeks.

Even though this聽process is聽thousands of years old, these future聽brewmasters are learning about the聽process to understand beer 麻豆精品 S檚 place聽in the modern world of hospitality聽management.

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Fast forward to 2021, and beer聽is a main ingredient of American聽culture. Last year alone the craft beer聽industry contributed $62.1 billion and聽more than 400,000 jobs to the U.S.聽economy, according to the Brewers聽Association.

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Here are some insights Judy聽learned about beer during his career.

Change is Brewing in the Industry

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Rosen Sets the Standard

UCF students learn from industry聽professionals in their education to聽become hospitality managers. Take聽Judy, who starting cooking as an聽apprentice in 1990 at 16 years old,聽was a sous chef at a restaurant and聽brewery in Winter Park, and聽over time worked his way up to聽executive chef. He 麻豆精品 S檚 been a hobbyist聽brewer since the 麻豆精品 S�90s, and recently聽became a level-one Cicerone 麻豆精品 S� a聽beer certification similar to the聽sommelier certification in wine.

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Passing the Taste Test

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Finding the Right Beer

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Making the Grade

Reinheitsgebot is a German term that聽marks the standard as the country 麻豆精品 S檚聽beer purity law. In place since 1516,聽the law requires that nothing other聽than barley, hops, yeast and water be聽used to produce German beer. 麻豆精品 S淭hat 麻豆精品 S檚聽why German beer tends to have聽much less going on than Belgium聽beer, for example, which is made right聽next door but not constrained to the聽same purity law, 麻豆精品 S� Judy says.聽UCF聽students this semester brewed a beer聽in line with the聽Reinheitsgebot law.

Well-Rounded Education

Quality Brewing and Fine Beer聽is one of 10 courses that students聽can take to earn a certificate in聽beverage management that started聽this semester. Courses include聽supply chain and logistics, law and聽management to tasting classes with聽beer and wine, which is taught in the聽Anheuser-Busch Beer & Wine Lab at聽Rosen. UCF students ages 18-20 (with聽instructor approval) or older can take聽these classes, many of which are also聽offered online.