The state government has built a giant beer laboratory at Coopers Plains and wants to encourage Queenslanders to study beer.

Honest.

In one of one of the most attractive education offers for 2020, the Queensland government is for the first time offering a certificate III TAFE course in brewing beer.

(From left) Matt McIvor from Range Brewing, Skills Minister Shannon Fentiman, Martin Dickie from BrewDog and State Development Minister Cameron Dick toast the course at a new beer laboratory at Coopers Plains.

Beer consumption declined by 9.5 per cent over the past decade, according to Euromonitor International, sinking to its lowest point in 65 years. Only craft beer consumption is increasing.