General Catalog 2026-2027

BFPT-1115 Safety, Sanitation, and Packaging

This course combines industrial safety, chemical sanitation, and targeted beverage packaging techniques for brewing environments. Students explore chemical selection, storage, dilution, and hazard protocols alongside personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements for working around hot liquids and high pressures. Emphasis is placed on deep cleaning and sanitizing facilities and production equipment to ensure product stability and shelf-life expansion. Hands-on training focuses exclusively on commercial canning and kegging operations covering container selection, temperature and
dissolved oxygen control, seam inspection, counter-pressure filling, and proper sealing techniques.
3 credits

Corequisite

BFPT-1155