Drinks, beverage and brewery training courses

Skills and qualifications for the drinks industry

The drinks manufacturing industry accounts for over a third of all UK’s exports, so it is absolutely essential that drinks manufacturing businesses – especially beers, wines and spirits - have the right skills and know-how. Through our network of specialist training providers we can offer a wide choice of drinks, beverage and brewery training courses and qualifications.

Our drinks training courses and qualifications can help individuals to advance their careers, businesses to become more efficient and more profitable and the industry as a whole maintain its strong position. Plus, as well as offering courses to help drinks manufacturers such as breweries and spirit distilleries, we also have a range of courses focusing around how drinks are served in bars and coffee shops.

See our latest drinks, beverage and brewery training courses

We’ve picked out a selection of courses in the panel on your right, or you can see our full range of drinks and beverage courses here. You can also learn more by joining our drinks network groups or seeing our full list of training providers.

Through our UK-wide network of training providers we can offer a range of drinks and beverage training courses including:

• Yeast management and brewery hygiene
• Beer appreciation and recognising beer faults
• Brewery microbiology
• Food, wine and beer matching
• Certificates in wines and spirits
• Wine analysis and tutored faults tasting
• Bar tendering and barista certificates, brewing, malting and mixing cocktails

Read our drinks training case studies.

Training for a thriving drinks and beverage industry

The UK Beverages sector is an integral part of the UK Food and Drink manufacturing and processing, with 37,900 people employed in GB across 860 businesses.

The industry is highly productive, contributing 16% of the UK food and drink manufacturing & processing industry’s turnover and a staggering 35% of all UK exports.