Skunkhour
Sat 17th May, 3-5pm
$20 + bf
Beer Faults 101 tasting and Q&A with Aaron ‘here-for-the-hops’ Caruana and Dr Paul ‘that depends’ Gooding.
Q: What constitutes a beer fault? What do they smell/taste like? What are some of the more common faults? How do you identify them? What are their causes? How do we convince people at a Good Beer Wheaty Yeastie tasting to pay money to drink bad beer?
A: Science. And Art.
Using a Siebel Basic Sensory Training Kit we’ll doctor an otherwise perfectly clean lager with each of six of the most common and important beer-related flavor compounds: Acetaldehyde, Isoamyl acetate, Diacetyl, DMS, Trans-2nonenal and ‘Infected’. Aaron and Dr Paul will then drill down into the science of beer flavour gone wrong and explore the question ‘at what point do flavours and aromatics found in beer become faults?
Get set for a rip-roaring journey through flavour thresholds, improper brewing, poor handling, complexing agents, parts per million and stylistically inappropriate characters!
Bookings essential
Tickets through Oztix 1300 762 545 or www.oztix.com.au
