Develop your palate and become your own beer expert. Beer is brewed in a dizzying variety of
styles available to enjoy like never before. Let's drink to this diversity with a new
appreciation of just how complex mind-expanding and delicious beer can be. Crack open this
book and enjoy a series of guided tastings of more than 50 different beer styles - from smoked
black lager to funky and sour wild ales triple green-hopped citrussy IPAs and cask-matured
barley wines. With each tasting you will learn to identify how aroma taste texture and
finish all combine to create the distinctive flavour profile of the particular beer style. You
will discover which unique ingredients and aspects of the brewing process combine to produce
each style. While quick reviews of the best examples from around the world will set you
exploring further. To help establish your beer palate the course starts with a solid grounding
in the range of flavours found in beer and the art of detecting them - opening your nose mind
and throat to the complete sensory experience of flavour and pouring the perfect glass! Travel
through time and across the globe to grasp the on-going story of beer its heritage and
innovation. Learn how to pair beer with food and cook with it. But always return to what really
matters: that miraculous glass of cold liquid joy.
