As Promised we will be offering an off flavor beer class.

The ability to perceive, and identify, these off flavors is extremely useful as a brewer (home or otherwise) as it allows you to troubleshoot faults in your process and ascertain ways to improve your product. Additionally, sitting around with 30 other beer-lovers and determining that a sample tastes not unlike a wet pool toy is a lot of fun, and it was only slightly less fun when the sampled tasted not unlike a mouldered jockstrap. We got some nice reference materials to take home with us and a new appreciation for the difficulties in discerning the subtle and varied flavors in our beers.

Cicerone in collaboration with AROXA™ offers this basic off-flavor kit that comes with access to support materials and a narrated webinar. Each kit contains flavor spikes for six common beer flaws: three that result from the brewing process and three that result from handling. The six flavors are: diacetyl, DMS, acetaldehyde, lightstruck, trans-2-nonenal, and infection.