Free open course on the chemistry of beer

[lukiferj]

I'm in. Cheers mate.

 

[Fat Bastard]

Me too! Lets now see how much chemistry I can remember!

 

[Truman42]

I just signed up. Will have to set myself a reminder for the 13th of Jan

I'm assuming they will probably send you an email when the course starts anyway.

 

[toncils]

Awesome.
Anyone know how much workload / how fast the content goes? I've done no chemestry outside of brewing, so plan to learn as I go. Don't want to go in over my head.

 

[OzPaleAle]

Awesome.
Anyone know how much workload / how fast the content goes? I've done no chemestry outside of brewing, so plan to learn as I go. Don't want to go in over my head.

Check out the general chemistry course it looks like the have a new section each week or 2, may give you an idea of the general workload.

 

[bradsbrew]

Well I signed up, probably wasting their time but I will give it a go. Have no chemistry experience, in fact I got in a lot of trouble doing grade 10 science for being easily distracted and distracting the class. Looking back I think Mr Jones would have got a kick out of the old fill the pencil case with gas from the Bunsen burner then light it. Look sir its like a rocket, just depends how much you open the zipper.

 

[nu_brew]

I'm guessing being online the course can't "fill up"?

It's gonna be a class of AHB members, which if I remember high school correctly is the class the teachers dread.

 

[michaelbb64]

Hi

I signed up as well

Michael

 

[shaunous]

Im in.

As long as your half decent at maths and practically minded chemistry isn't that 'hard'.

Difference is, we are all going to be doing a course we want to do, about something we love, that makes it easier to learn. (if this course isn't just fake and getting peoples hopes up h34r: ).

 

[-RJ-]

Cheers for the share, looks excellent, definitely gonna have to sign up

 

[brewtas]

I signed up too. The idea is great but I don't know if I'll have the staying power to see it through.

 

[OzPaleAle]

If anyone is doing the General Chemistry course the link below has the General Chemistry Principles, Patterns and Application text book they use in PDF format rather than using their online viewer if preferred.
Also some Chem practice work sheets

https://drive.google.com/?tab=wo&authuser=0#folders/0BwIJejmV_2H7eUVwdTJodFBodnc

 

[RelaxedBrewer]

I have joined the AHB group as well. 17 of us now... a lot more interest than I expect when I posted.

 

[JB]

If anyone is doing the General Chemistry course the link below has the General Chemistry Principles, Patterns and Application text book they use in PDF format rather than using their online viewer if preferred.
Also some Chem practice work sheets

https://drive.google.com/?tab=wo&authuser=0#folders/0BwIJejmV_2H7eUVwdTJodFBodnc

Thanks very much OPA. I was going to get in & do something similar. Cheers mate!

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

+1

This lecturer is probably shittin` bricks about this large Aussie group that is swarming over his cushy online class ;-)

 

[Cocko]

I have joined the AHB group as well. 17 of us now... a lot more interest than I expect when I posted.

How do you join a group?

Also, thanks for posting.

 

[OzPaleAle]

Thanks very much OPA. I was going to get in & do something similar. Cheers mate!

Tried to see if there was a way to post it to the AHB Group on their portal but doesn't seem to be a facility to do a bulk email to the Group, only by starting a chat with whoever is online at the time.

 

[JB]

From the General Chemistry forum:

https://janux.ou.edu/#!forums/u/CHEM1315.ou.nextthought.com/Forum/What_are_you_looking_forward_to_this_semester_in_chemistry_

Mark Movant - All Future Beer Students

The base level knowledge you will need to understand the course is Organic Chemistry I. The Chemistry of Beer course will look at the compounds in the ingredients and how they are transformed into beer. It would be helpful to know the functional groups, organic structure notation, acid-base mechanism, nucleophilic substitution, and resonance structures. Although the course is an upper division course, we are taking the approach that many of the students may only have a limited knowledge of organic chemistry and biochemistry. This course is a nice review and should be helpful as a resource for the Chemistry of Beer course.

 

[GalBrew]

I have also joined up, haven't done any organic chem since 2nd year uni. But let's see how we go, could be fun. :beerbang:

 

[PhantomEasey]

Cheers for posting this - just signed up, same details as here.

Here's hoping full time work and a German Language course don't get in the way!

 

[RelaxedBrewer]

How do you join a group?

Go to the group tab when you are signed in. Down the bottom left is a button for join group. The group name is AHB and the password is phbkRjJTJzN

 

[Cocko]

Go to the group tab when you are signed in. Down the bottom left is a button for join group. The group name is AHB and the password is phbkRjJTJzN

Sorted, :icon_cheers:

 

[ballantynebrew]

signed up also

 

[primusbrew]

I'm in too. I've been looking for something like this for a while. It'll be nice to get a better understanding of what is happening in the kettle and fermenter.

 

[dago001]

I'm in, probably drop out though. Too busy drinking and partying with the frat boys.
Cheers
LB

 

[probablynathan]

Singed up too.

 

[Camo6]

I signed up last night too. Will see how I go as I dropped out of all my science classes in high school. If I'm not there on the 13th I'll probably be down the back of D block smoking choof.

 

[mkstalen]

Anyone figured out how to start a chat with the whole group? Or can you only chat to people who are actively online? Alternatively, can you start a forum topic for a specific group?

 

[zarniwoop]

I'm in, probably drop out though. Too busy drinking and partying with the frat boys.
Cheers
LB

It's all lies! When I went to uni I was promised beer and half naked women and drugs :beerbang: , all I got was a bunch of geeky engineers simultaneously drooling and running away from anything with even close to two x chromosomes. :icon_drool2:

 

[JB]

Anyone figured out how to start a chat with the whole group? Or can you only chat to people who are actively online? Alternatively, can you start a forum topic for a specific group?

On the group page, there's a drop down menu / arrow with 'chat with group' as an option