In an interview with AU’s “Take 5” series last year, Martin O’Neill, head of the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Hospitality Management, said the proposal relates to the growing interest in home and craft brewing and, if approved, would tap into an important niche market in education. In an interview with AU’s “Take 5” series last year, Martin O’Neill, head of the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Hospitality Management, said the proposal relates to the growing interest in home and craft brewing and, if approved, would tap into an important niche market in education.

Earning a degree in brewing science will take you 18 credit hours. But if it is offered, it won’t be until sometime in 2014. But don’t get beer tears, you can start fermenting over the curriculum.

Auburn already boasts a small but active home brew club that counts several Auburn professors among its members, and Dale’s Pale Ale, voted America’s top craft beer, was first brewed in an Auburn bathtub. So yeah, it makes all kinds of sense.

Related: Beer and Bragging Rights: Auburn Brew Club wins bet, quaffs case of Oregon home brew.

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