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Cheers Tube! I'll submit a tender to the Probation Service.

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It works out at €60 euro a night ( less 20% for beoir ) which is quite an expensive course charge.


Now, I am being serious with these questions:

How much beer will be provided per head for the tasting?

Will there be a "take some for homework" option for further studying?

I assume that all the samples will be bottled?

I would be interesetd also in a post course "at home" testing kit:

36 bottles of beer at say €100 and a set of tasting notes

What do you think?

Good luck with the course - its great to see craft beer and food being pushed out into the catering trade / wider audience

And, Yes, I would be intested given some answers to the above

Cheers

Will

"Will_D":1yyhy82w wrote: which is quite an expensive course charge.[/quote:1yyhy82w]I have absolutely no experience of these things, but it's apparently well within the bounds of what you'd pay for a similar sort of tutored wine tasting. Correct me if I've been misled: it not something I know much about.

"Will_D":1yyhy82w wrote: How much beer will be provided per head for the tasting?[/quote:1yyhy82w]We're looking at one bottle between two. These will vary between half litre, 12oz and 33cl.

"Will_D":1yyhy82w wrote: Will there be a "take some for homework" option for further studying?[/quote:1yyhy82w]Are we selling beer for consumption off the premises? No, I don't think that would be legal.

If the drinking of beer is your primary interest, spend the money in an off licence, not on a tasting course.

"Will_D":1yyhy82w wrote: I assume that all the samples will be bottled?[/quote:1yyhy82w]That's correct.

"Will_D":1yyhy82w wrote: I would be interesetd also in a post course "at home" testing kit:

36 bottles of beer at say €100[/quote:1yyhy82w]€2.78 is pretty low for an average beer price, but I'm sure you can get good stuff in that bracket. Half an hour between the DrinkStore website and RateBeer and you could put something like this together for yourself quite easily.

"Will_D":1yyhy82w wrote: Good luck with the course - its great to see craft beer and food being pushed out into the catering trade / wider audience[/quote:1yyhy82w]Cheers!

Price for this course is about right, similar courses in London are around £250-280.

If its tasting one is after, many short 90 minute courses are offered in UK at less than £30 a session where you can fly through a number of styles on a conveyor belt.

It depends what you want to get out of it, and as most Beoir members "know it all anyway", I doubt if this course would be much use to them - besides they would hijack the proceedings with questions about mash temperatures, boil efficiency and gravity <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

This sounds like a great course for the trade though, something to get pub and restaurant managers thinking outside of the box and hopefully they can take it home and share the knowledge with their staff - provided their suppliers have access to the great beers they would like to sell AND they can make a reasonable margin.

Good luck with the course John!

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