Beer Tasting & Flavor Training Courses
Beer Tasting & Flavor Training Courses
Train Your Palate to Taste Like a Pro
Tasting is a skill—and like any craft, it can be honed. Whether you want to judge competitions, identify off-flavors, or simply enjoy beer more deeply, these courses sharpen your sensory skills.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to detect common off-flavors
- Style categories and characteristics
- Beer and food pairing fundamentals
- Judging beer in competitions (BJCP style)
Top Recommended Courses:
- Aroxa and DraughtLab Beer Flavor Training Kits + Courses – Industry-leading flavor standards and training.
- Cicerone Beer Tasting Bootcamp – Focused on developing a sensory tasting foundation.
- MasterClass or BJCP Prep Programs – High-level flavor education for advanced tasters.
Beer Exam Prep Courses
Your Instructor: Joshua Weikert Ph.D.
Why learn from Josh?
- BJCP Grand Master Beer Judge
- Certified Cicerone
- Consultant to Award-winning Breweries
- Earned medals in every BJCP category
- Speaks at some awesome Beer Events.
- Two-time Eastern Pennsylvania Homebrewer of the Year
Josh is a regular speaker on a wide range of beer and brewing topics at big conferences, homebrew club meetings, and backyard barbecues. With over +15years of homebrewing experience, training, and education Josh has mastered the Beer skills.
The Beer Judge Certification Program is made Simple with Josh’s course: BJCP Mastery. [Closed]
This is a must for any inspiring homebrew looking to take the BJCP course, or to take an advanced brewing course without the steep in person workshop fees. Beer Tasting, Recipe Design, and Evaluation are the expert skills that Josh has mastered and packaged up for you in this amazing course on the favorite topic here at the Homebrew Academy; Beer!
Lead marketer, brewer, dad, and husband. Pretty much an all-round awesome guy. Self proclaimed coffee addict who’s been home brewing beer (among other things) for 25+ yrs. Also an aspiring pro-brewer and micro-brewery owner!