Who It's For: Beer curious beginners, wine drinkers ready to build a beer vocabulary, casual craft beer fans, and anyone who has always meant to figure out what makes a lager a lager.
Beer looks like a sprawling, chaotic category from the outside. It is really two big branches with a lot of leaves. Ale on one side. Lager on the other. Once you understand what actually separates them and how each family developed the styles we know today, ordering a beer stops being a coin flip and becomes a decision.
Master Cicerone® Jen Blair walks the room through both branches of the family tree. IPA, stout, pilsner, bock, and the rest all live on that tree somewhere, and the class is built around showing you exactly where and why. Guided tastings pair with the theory so the differences move from theoretical to obvious in the glass. By the end you will have a simple framework that fits every beer you meet from here on out.