Introduction to Beer and Beer Tasting

Craft beer is everywhere nowadays.
Do you wanna know more about it but don't know where to start?
This course is here for you!

We'll take a look at the following topics surrounding beer and craft beer:

• Beer defined

• Beer ingredients and what role they play

• The Beer production process, with an explanation of its 10 different phases

• History of beer, from the very beginning to these last few years

• Beer styles, with a macro-categorization and a few examples

• An overview of how beer tasting works and some tips on how you can start playing with it and improving at it

• Lastly, a real beer tasting, to put everything in practice

What do you get with the course?

• Lifetime access. No limits.

• iPhone, iPad, and Android accessibility

• Certificate of Completion

• Slides from the course lectures in pdf format and a few useful links

• Course transcripts

• My personal email for any beer questions you may have, or also to share recommendations you have for adding content to the course

Why should you take this course?

• It's fun, as beer is!

• To be more confident when drinking beer at your favorite pub/brewery/taproom

• So you'll enjoy your beers even more, with more complete drinking experiences

• To move your first steps in the craft beer world, eventually becoming a beer geek (you may need to grow a beard)

How is the course structured?

• Informative video lectures in the form of powerpoint slides with voiceover

• It's structured to be informative, light and fun. Even more so with a good beer. Cheers!

Lastly, a couple of special thanks to all the main resources that helped me learn so much about beer, I think you can find them helpful too!

• Brewing Bad, my favorite Italian blog on homebrewing

• Randy Mosher's books, sooo good and beautiful

• The Beer Bible book, by Jeff Alworth

• Unionbirrai, the Italian Craft Beer association with which I started my tasting courses

• The Good Beer Society, another Italian association with which I completed my courses and started teaching

• The BJCP organization

• MoBI, Movimento Birrario Italiano, for working so hard to spread BJCP in Italy and helping homebrewers and craft beer grow in our country

• all the great and helpful people you can find in our wonderful world of craft beer