For those of you into your hops and your malt and your...yeast, there's a new industry approved Brewing & Distilling course starting in DIT this month.
The BSc course is open to prospective students through the CAO and also to those already working in the industry seeking to add to their knowledge and expertise. Some of the subjects covered in the course include beverage product development and the science of brewing and distilling.
Students will also be able to visit Diageo’s St James’s Gate pilot brewing facilities to study the craft of making small batch innovative beers. Now who wouldn't want to brew their own beer?
According to the Food Wise strategy produced by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, this could be a great career choice as by 2025 they project that there will be 23,000 new jobs in the brewing & distilling sector.
Dean of the DIT College of Sciences and Health. Michael Deverux said of the new course: “The programme not only aims to develop an in-depth technical and scientific knowledge of brewing and distilling, it also cultivates students’ creative mindset, together building the graduate capacity for innovation".
