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Industrial Brewing and Beverage Technology

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⇑Industrial Brewing and Beverage Technology at URK

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: engineering and engineering trades

Kind of studies: full-time studies

Master's on the university website:
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University website:
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⇑Why study Industrial Brewing and Beverage Technology (Master's) at URK?

Why study it:

Programme: beer and other fermented beverages
Languages: a programme in English
After graduation: technology, R and D and quality control

At the University of Agriculture in Krakow (URK), Industrial Brewing and Beverage Technology is a full-time Master's programme in English run by the Faculty of Food Technology in the discipline of nutrition and food technology. It is designed for graduates of food technology, brewing, biotechnology and related engineering fields who want to specialise in the production of beverages, with brewing at the centre.

Programme: beer and other fermented beverages

The studies focus on the technology of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, mainly fermented ones. You learn:

how the properties of raw materials and the course of technological processes affect the quality and stability of finished beverages
to design, analyse and optimise production processes in the beverage industry
to assess raw materials, semi-finished products and finished beverages with modern analytical methods and statistical tools
to plan and conduct technological research, interpret results and implement innovative solutions
how beverage companies work, including quality management, food safety systems and basic legal requirements of the food industry

Languages: a programme in English

The programme is taught in English – it is part of the URK Study in English offer of Master's studies.

After graduation: technology, R and D and quality control

Graduates are prepared to work in technological, research and development and quality control teams in beverage industry enterprises. They can solve technological problems independently and take part in improving production processes. The programme also gives the competencies needed to continue education in doctoral programmes in disciplines related to food technology and nutrition.

As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme page at urk.edu.pl.

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⇑Test: Is Industrial Brewing and Beverage Technology the right fit for you?

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⇑Definitions and quotes

Brewing

Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer, at home by a homebrewer, or by a variety of traditional methods such as communally by the indigenous peoples in Brazil when making cauim. Brewing has taken place since around the 6th millennium BC, and archaeological evidence suggests that emerging civilizations including ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia brewed beer. Since the nineteenth century the brewing industry has been part of most western economies.

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Technology

Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "...principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument [compensation ] of those who pursue them" .

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Technology

It is the constant attempt in this country [Canada] to make fundamental science responsive to the marketplace. Because technology needs science, it is tempting to require that scientific projects be justified in terms of the worth of the technology they can be expected to generate. The effect of applying this criterion is, however, to restrict science to developed fields where the links to technology are most evident. By continually looking for a short-term payoff we disqualify the sort of science that … attempts to answer fundamental questions, and, having answered them, suggests fundamentally new approaches in the realm of applications.

John C. Polanyi, A Scientist and the World He Lives In, Speech to the Empire Club of Canada (27 Nov 1986) in C. Frank Turner and Tim Dickson (eds.), The Empire Club of Canada Speeches 1986-1987 (1987), 149-161.

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Technology

The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudoevents, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century—sex and paranoia.

J. G. Ballard, Crash (1973, 1995), catalogue notes. In J. G. Ballard, The Kindness of Women (2007), 221.

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Technology

The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That’s how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure—our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.

Barack Obama In Second Inaugural Address (21 Jan 2013) at the United States Capitol.

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