Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College

Would you like to learn how to grow cultures that will aid digestion, preserve foods, and add flavor and nutrition? This course is designed to promote creativity while tasting and…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner

What is 'real' BBQ?  Are the techniques used by notable pitmasters a mystery to you?  Are you interested in impressing friends and family with your BBQ skills without…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner

With as many options on the beer aisle as today, it can be intimidating and confusing.  It's also exciting to have so many beer styles available to consumers.   That…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner

Canning is the perfect way to preserve the flavor of your favorite foods at their freshest so you can enjoy them all year long. However, if you’re new to canning, it can be quite…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner

Wild microbes live in the environment all around us, and ancient humans believed they were a gift from the heavens. We have learned how to culture and grow those wild…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner

Learn to grow probiotic cultures that will aid digestion, preserve foods, and add flavor and nutrition to fruits and vegetables. This course is designed to promote creativity…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face, Live Instructor Led
Level: Beginner

Koji is a type of mold often used in Japanese cuisine. It is responsible for miso, tempeh, soy sauce, mirin, amazake, rice wine vinegar and so much more. In this course, we will…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner

Kyaraben or character bento, is a style of bento that incorporates dishes that are designed and arranged to look like characters or people. Often in the form of plants, animals,…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner

Learn about the mushroom life cycle and varieties of mushrooms that are easiest to grow at home. We’ll discuss methods and techniques for cultivating mushrooms on a small scale,…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner

Entertain your party guests with molecular cocktails that foam, spew dragon’s breath, freeze in front of your eyes, glitter, change color, ooze like zombie's brains, capture a…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner

This course is a fun and unique opportunity to learn how to brew sake. There are only 14 sake breweries in the US, which makes sake brewing a special skill. Immerse yourself in 6-…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner

Experience our local Test Kitchen, available to the community via a joint partnership between A-B Tech and BioNetwork. Participants will delve into the science, equipment and…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner

Learn the skills to become a taste tester and enjoy exotic fermented food and beverages from around the world. We will take a tour of the globe by tasting indigenous fermented…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner

Could your brewery benefit from a well-developed sensory evaluation program?   Many breweries routinely neglect sensory evaluation due to a lack of knowledge and resources.…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Intermediate

Traditional wine is Fabulous, but have you ever wondered what it would be like to create wine from the fruit you've got growing in your backyard; or from unused preserves in your…

Delivery Format: Face-to-Face
Level: Beginner