That is very cool. Congratulations!
Yes, please include details about how often the course is run, cost, etc.
http://www.siebelinstitute.com/course_desc/concise_tech.html
I think the course is run three times a year. It is a 2 week long course, run from 9-5 for the ten week days you are there. I believe the course is something like 3,000 dollars. Like I said, I won a scholarship so I got to go for free, plus they gave me a stipend for room and board which ended up being just about enough.
If you click the link, they have the list of topics covered, and it runs a pretty wide gamut. This year was the first year they included a section on cask conditioning, because it is making a comeback. The instructors had a lot of different perspectives, coming from backgrounds as varied as micros all the way up to a guy who had worked at Moosehead for 22 years. So the information on equipment was neat, seeing machines that could produce more output than this entire board in 2 hours.
The people in the class were mostly homebrewers with dreams, but there were 7 from the Modelo brewery in Mexico, a guy from Breckenridge in Colorado, and a few others from around the country. So everyone had different experiences. I seemed to know more about beer styles than most of the class, but that's because I'm an obsessive beer nerd. The guys from Modelo were convinced that Corona was the best beer ever made, and were really funny about it all.
Oh, and there was a LOT of drinking involved. They have two taps and a bar that are open whenever you'd like, and a few companies sent bottles.
