Craft Beverage Services

Lab testing services and short courses for brewers, vintners, and distillers

Craft Beverage Services

Our suite of services for brewers, vintners, and distillers is designed to provide data that can be used to ensure the quality and consistency of your products. Services include analytical testing and laboratory rental for beer, cider, kombucha and more.

The Test Kitchen provides onsite equipment rental for entrepreneurs working on beverage product formulation.

The Natural Products Lab Lab offers analytical and quality assurance testing services and onsite equipment rentals.

  • ABV/ABW in beer, wine, sake, or spirits
  • Specific gravity
  • Calories
  • Haze
  • Acidity
  • Beer bitterness
  • Beer iso-alpha acids by HPLC
  • Caffeine content in beverages
Craft Beer Laboratory Skills 2: Microbiology
In the second part of this introductory series, students will identify and begin to apply... more
Cocktail with smoke at top and swirling around the glass
Entertain your party guests with molecular cocktails that foam, spew dragon’s breath, freeze in... more
Craft Beer Laboratory Skills 3: Analytical Chemistry/Instrumentation
Part three of the series will include basic chemistry techniques and some more advanced... more
Creating Wild Probiotics
Wild microbes live in the environment all around us, and ancient humans believed they were a gift... more
Taste test

Contact Us

Craft Beverage Services
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College

1463 Sand Hill Road
Tech Commercialization Center (TCC) Room 226
Candler, NC 28715
Phone: 828-782-2329
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BioWork 5060: Plate & Frame Filtration
Video
Plate and frame filtration is widely used in food, beverage, pharma and chemical manufacturing. Let... more
Craft Beverage Training at A-B Tech
Video
Asheville, NC has become a destination for craft beverage producers—with about 20 such facilities... more
Craft Beverage Training at Blue Ridge Community College
Video
This is a quick look at an important addition to the local scene, both in social and economic terms... more
Craft Beverage Training at Rockingham Community College
Video
A look at the craft beverage training that takes place in tiny Wentworth, North Carolina, and the... more
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