Beer comes in dozens of different styles. With the craft beer industry in high gear and the number of breweries in the United States topping 3,400 the available brands are staggering. Sampling new beer is a favorite hobby of the craft beer fan and part of the fun is discerning the different flavors, colors, aromas, and other characteristics that make each beer stand out from the rest. There is a new product on the market designed to help beer drinkers who love tasting beers and sharing discoveries with friends. It’s called How to Host a Beer Tasting Party in Your Own Home, a kit specifically designed to facilitate a beer sampling at your place of residence.
What’s in the Box
Open up the Beer Tasting Party kit and you will find the following:
- Four small tasting glasses
- Brown paper bags
- Guidebook
- Beer aroma wheel
- Beer tasting notepads
- Beer and food pairing reference sheet
Getting Started
How to Host a Beer Tasting Party in Your Own Home is brought to you by Carlo DeVito, Joshua Bernstein, Julia Burke, Chad Polenz, and Martyn Cornell and it’s all about hosting a beer tasting party. The guidebook is short, but provides enough information to get things going. Here, you will learn about glassware, common beer descriptors, beer terminology, beer and food pairings, and more. The guidebook is brief- only about 60 pages- but it covers the important information needed to educate the party planner on beer, proper tasting, and etiquette. And the included accessories round out the set, with all the basic necessities to make your beer tasting party a success.
Sweet, Bitter, Malty?
I love to try new beer as much as anyone and I like comparing notes with other beer drinkers. Even though I have sampled a few thousand different beers and feel comfortable describing each of them with a good deal of clarity, I still like sharing tasting experiences with others. Someone else might detect a flavor that I didn’t notice and while I don’t always agree with some of the tastes that certain drinkers swear are present, it is still fun to make comparisons and enjoy the occasional “Yes, that’s the flavor!” moment that occurs when a friend samples a beer and describes it with just the right adjective.
How to Host a Beer Tasting Party is a useful kit for facilitating the tasting process. I like the Beer Tasting Notes because they make it easy to organize one’s thoughts about a beer’s appearance, nose, taste, etc., and then make direct comparisons with others. I like the brown paper bags, too, because they conceal a beer’s identity and help eliminate bias. If I see, for example, Founder’s Brewing on a beer bottle, I’m automatically going to fall and love and adore it like one of my own children. But with the brand name concealed inside a brown bag, I can keep my personal biases at bay.
This kit includes four small tasting glasses so you have everything you need for a small gathering. Four glasses isn’t much, but it’s a good start and if you need more, you probably have a large number of similar size glasses available in your own home. If you’re purchasing a kit like this, chances are you have already taken part in dozens or even hundreds of beer tastings, brewery tours, etc. and you probably already have a stash of these small, 3- 4oz. glasses stashed away in a back cupboard. Pull out a handful, combine with the four tasting glasses in the kit, and the party is underway.
Send out the Invitations
I love tasting and evaluating beer and How to Host a Beer Tasting Party in Your Own Home is an efficient, simple way to get the beer flowing and the taste buds reacting. The kit contains everything you need to host your very own beer tasting party and impress your friends with your discerning palate and impeccable taste- sensing abilities. Buy a kit today through Amazon.com, Ebay, or other online store for about $20, get the invitations ready, and educate yourself and your friends on the greatness and complexity that only craft beer can offer.
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