A three-Saturday deep dive into brewing at home. Sanitization, fermentation, carbonation, and recipe scaling — taught hands-on in small cohorts across the GTA. No kit purchase required to start; classes end with a kit pickup for attendees who want to keep brewing at home.
Why sanitation is the single biggest factor in a clean pour. Walk through StarSan contact time, keg prep, tubing cuts, and gaskets. Each attendee builds their first 5L batch with a recipe card and leaves with a cleaning checklist for their home setup.
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Week 2 · Fermentation & Carbonation
The science week. Pitch temperatures, fermentation timelines, gravity readings, and the CO2 math that turns a flat keg into a properly carbonated pour. Each attendee calculates head-pressure for two of their recipe cards and forces a small keg to check it.
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Week 3 · Recipe Scaling & Kit Pickup
Scale a recipe card up to a full-size corn keg, troubleshoot off-flavours from a flight we taste together, and split into small groups to walk through line-cleaning. Final session ends with a kit pickup — attendees who want the home tap leave with the full brew-your-own kit.
Sample class timeline
10:00 AM
Kit pickup for week-3 cohortCoffee, sign-in, greet your cohort.
10:30 AM
Lecture & demoCovers the week's theory with live pour-side demo.
11:30 AM
Hands-on practiceEach attendee builds, pitches, or fills their own keg.
1:00 PM
Pour flight & Q&ATaste test, off-flavour walkthrough, swap notes, head home.
Your instructor
Taught by
James, owner-operator
BeerFridge.co founder and the person who installs and calibrates every BeerFridge system in the GTA. James has spent the last decade wiring CO2 regulators, balancing beer lines, and troubleshooting foamy pours across basement builds, man caves, and condo installs. The at-home brew class is the same hands-on playbook he runs on install day — distilled into three Saturdays so you can run your own setup with confidence when the install crew has left.
Prefer to bring one home?
Bundle a kit with the final session
If you'd like to keep brewing after week 3, our brew-your-own at-home kit ships a 5L stainless keg, CO2 regulator + tank, tap tower, sanitizing kit, and three recipe cards — and includes class seats. Pick it up at the end of week 3 and keep practising. Three tiers from $349 to $849 CAD.
Drop your details and we'll lock in a seat for the next available cohort. We'll follow up within 24 hours to confirm date, location, and party size. Name and email are required — phone, preferred start date, and party size help us slot you into the right cohort.