I can put out a good reason, the market is going to deflate on this in 3 years.
There's a lot of demand right now but once those grads realize they aren't going to make 20.00 dollars more than before it's going to shock back. I have a friend that's enrolling in the brand new Auburn grad program.
Reality is that brewing, at the ground level, is still a very much working man job (man as a generalization, back off), it is very much a job that can be learned by reading books and then applying knowledge, it is still very much an applied job. Having academic fundamentals will help but it will not make you another 25k a year unless you instead of brewing go into waste water management.
I would say "no" to UConn doing a program unless one is already in the works.