Tasting Beyond the Scoresheet

Beyond drinking beer and beyond judging beer lies tasting beer. Truly tasting and evaluating beer is an exploration into the soul of a beer and the mind of the brewer. The best beers take you to a time and place and let you get to know the brewer and culture behind the beer. Join Master Cicerone Rich Higgins in tasting and deconstructing different beers to learn what drives the best beers, taste how the ingredients interact, explore how taste, aroma and mouthfeel impact a drinker’s psychology, and connect to a beers’s purpose and describe its personality. The more you can taste in a beer (both your own beer and others’), the more there is to enjoy and learn from.