Learn techniques to judge a beer style for which you only have theoretical knowledge and need to trust your sensory skills.

During this webinar, you'll learn more about how to quickly understand what differentiates a beer style through:

What’s important to understand from style history

Factors about the style characteristics and ranges

Actual tasting notes using some slider type score sheets.

How to describe the similarities and differences to Similar Styles

Commercial Calibration (Compare and Contrast):

Best Bitter, British Golden Ale and Australian Sparkling Ale

Peter Symons is a Sydney [Australia] homebrewer with an ongoing passion, perhaps bordering on obsession, with discovering and recreating old beers. He has been brewing for over 20 years, and brews on either a self-made HERMS 3V or RIMS 1V system, experimenting with both process and ingredients to recreate old beers.

Peter has a Graduate Certificate in Brewing from Ballarat University, completed the Siebel Institute’s WBA Concise Course, and has judged at many competitions as a BJCP Recognised Judge.

He is also a member of the Extra Special Brewers club, who fearlessly evaluate beer every month.

After 6 years of research, in January 2016, he self-published Bronzed Brews - Home Brewing Old Australian Beers and after a further 2 years of research, including being given rare access to the Coopers company archives in Adelaide, published the sequel; 6 O’CLOCK Brews - Home Brewing More Old Australian Beers, which includes many recreations of Coopers beers including Sparkling Ale. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/prsymons

You can watch Peter's 2017 AHA Presentation below. This is a special Loom link which allows for comments and doesn't require an AHA membership to view. Please support the AHA with your membership which provides access to all the videos from past HomebrewCons.

https://www.loom.com/share/479b51d55322469096bc06e1193183f5

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/seminar/origins-and-evolution-of-australian-sparkling-ale/

Judging by the Book - Peter Symons (Australian Sparkling Ales)