To help educate the next generation of brewers in Fort Collins and beyond, CSU is planning to install a brewery in Lory Student Center’s pub called the Ramskeller. The small microbrewery would provide students hands-on training... ...The $65 million construction on the student center begins this summer and will leave space for the brewery. Still, there is no funding in place for the brewing equipment that could cost $500,000, said Ellis. Completion of the brewery is contingent on funding. http://www.coloradoan.com/article/2...veils-plans-open-brewery-Lory-Student-Center/
The Ramskellar is actually already a bar on Campus in the basement of the Lori Student Center, with a decent amount of taps. There is also an advanced brewing class you can take on Campus (must have multiple years of chemistry). Sometimes, the Ramskellar would feature the beers brewed by this class on tap, pretty cool experience to have while I was in college.
I'm not sure if I see the point. I would like to compare this to a restaurant at a culinary school. You have a fully stocked kitchen with a subsidized budget, where the purpose of the facility is to facilitate learning. Even though OSU, UC Davis and Siebel have a brewing facilities on campus, graduates still require an internship at a operating brewery elsewhere. Why? A brewery is a business. In the real world, you're not going to always have the yeast on hand, the ingredients you need, tank space you require, reliable staff at your call and beckon, etc. You go to an operating brewery and now you're under the real world constraints of economics. Too bad you'll have to brew this fruited wheat beer the third time this week, because it pays the bills, not because you enjoy doing it.
I don't really see the point of this post. Nobody is claiming this to be a full production brewery. It's clearly stated that it's a classroom, and the article doesn't even make any promise any beer will ever be sold out of it.
