This course is now full but there is an online one planned for Sat 25th March: [https://event.bookitbee.com/41832/interim-taste-training-for-tasting-panels-11]. Alternatively, contact the organiser to receive notification when the course is next run.

This event starts at 11.10am and will finish by 5.30pm. This event is subsidised by CAMRA. The charge is to cover the cost of the beer, flavour phials, tasting biscuits etc.

The purpose of the training is to give you (or improve your) skills and confidence to assess beer objectively and learn about CAMRA's new beer styles and use CAMRA's new tasting card. And you can then:

Join a CAMRA Tasting Panel and

• Contribute to writing the beer descriptions in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide

• Contribute to the decision as to which beers go forward to CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Britain Competition

• If in London, join the Panel on its visits to London breweries

At the end of the training you can decide to join a panel by completing 12 tasting cards over 12 weeks and gain a Certificate of Competence, independently accredited by People 1st, who are part of the Hospitality Guild.

The course is conducted by Master Trainer, Christine Cryne and lasts 5.5 hours

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Identify the four basic flavours

• State the four key ingredients in beer

• With the help of notes, identify some of the more off usual flavours in beer and where they can come from

• With the use of CAMRA's beer style sheets, identify different beer styles

• Demonstrate this knowledge, by filling in CAMRA’s tasting cards including producing descriptions suitable for CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide.

To CAMRA’s guidelines