Jeff Whelpley and I will present the third of six monthly workshops on beer styles and evaluations on Wednesday January 22nd at 6 pm at Great Central Brewing's Taproom at 221 N. Wood - two blocks from the Green and Pink lines and the Damen and Ashland buses.   RSVPs are required, follow this link to let me know if you'll be joining us.  

Our focus this month will be on porters and stouts.  The styles we'll cover include Baltic Porter, English Porter, Irish Stout, Irish Extra Stout, Sweet Stout, Oatmeal Stout, Tropical Stout, Foreign Extra Stout, American Porter, American Stout, and Imperial Stout  We talk through all the styles, including their history, put them into some kind of framework to help folks remember them and see how they are related and compare, then we taste examples of four of the styles. For the first, we taste and then discuss it.  For the other three, we taste then spend 10 minutes filling out the BJCP scoresheet, then participants share what they wrote and we discuss.  

While the workshops are aimed at helping folks preparing for the BJCP Beer Evaluation Exam, anyone is welcome - cicerones or potential cicerones, industry folks, homebrewers, aficionados.  There is no fee for the workshops, attendees will split the actual expense of purchasing the beer, around $10/person.  

If you are planning on attending, please remember to RSVP here so we have the right amount of beer for the group.   If you have any questions or concerns, email me at jim@singingboysbrewing.com