<pclass="p-summary">As stated in my [founding post](/article/brewshido-a-beer-journal-intro) for this beer focussed blog, I have future plans to one day establish a modest craft brewery of my own in rural Japan. In order to help achieve those goals I tentatively applied for the *[MSc Brewing and Distilling By Distance Learning](https://www.hw.ac.uk/study/online/postgraduate/brewing-distilling-distance-learning.htm)* course run by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.</p>
<pclass="p-summary">As stated in my <ahref="/article/brewshido-a-beer-journal-intro">founding post</a> for this beer focussed blog, I have future plans to one day establish a modest craft brewery of my own in rural Japan. In order to help achieve those goals I tentatively applied for the <ahref="https://www.hw.ac.uk/study/online/postgraduate/brewing-distilling-distance-learning.htm"><i>MSc Brewing and Distilling By Distance Learning]</i></a> course run by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.</p>
Learning to brew beer through practice and experimentation is all well and good but I really wanted to understand the science behind the brewing in order to be be prepared to tackle future challenges and ideally preferred to do so in a structured manner, so this course seemed perfect for my needs.