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- Hone your palate and have fun connecting the flavors we find to the ingredients and processes that create them.
- Laid-back and inclusive, these tastings build your beer knowledge, accuracy of descriptive language, and confidence in your tasting skills.
- Use my Deductive Beer Tasting Method to connect beer ingredients and processes to style, freshness and quality.
- Learn how to look under the hood of a beer and listen to all it has to say!
Details
When: Most Mondays, 5:30-7:00 PM, at Rich’s house
Cost: $20, plus variable beer costs
RSVP: Join whenever you can make it, but please RSVP in advance
Who: Open to all, and be ready for some deep dives!
Perfect for: hospitality, beverage sales folks, beer geeks, pro-brewers and homebrewers!
What’s a session like?
During the 90-minute session, we’ll taste 5-6 beers. (Most of it will be blind tasting.) The tastings are laid back and inclusive, with the goal of building beer knowledge, accurate descriptive language, confidence in your tasting skills, and understanding of BJCP styles! I’ll provide the beers, plus water and a starchy nibble (crackers, bread, etc.).
How “advanced” is this advanced beer tasting?
We’ll do some deep dives into tasting technique, styles and brewing ingredients and techniques. Don’t worry if you’re not super confident in your tasting skills or beer knowledge. This is a snob-free and judgement-free zone! But, we won’t slow things way down to cover Beer 101 basics of beer and styles. Regardless of your knowledge and experience, enjoy jumping in the deep end of the beer pool and you’ll learn a lot from your beers and your peers!
Good prep resources:
- General Beer Knowledge: Tasting Beer by Randy Mosher (order it at a local bookstore or on Amazon)
- Beer Styles: Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) Style Guidelines 2021 (access various formats, including as PDF or as a mobile app for your phone)
- Tasting Technique: check out my Deductive Beer Tasting Method (click then scroll down to for free download PDF of the tasting grid, no need to buy the book)