rdaws
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I'm hosting a beer tasting for some colleagues, so I'm looking for some advice on the format. I'm a bit of a beer geek so I'm afraid of going overboard and getting over-ambitious with it, so I was toying with a few ideas. This is a pretty typical corporate audience, so I've arranged these from what I think is pretty noob to pretty advanced... not clear necessarily where these people fall in the spectrum. Here are the options I've come up with:
1) "Drink this, not that" - Comparison between the mass-produced versions of styles vs. the craft versions. Think Newcastle vs. Dogfish Head Indian Brown, Blue Moon vs. Wiehenstephaner, and so forth
2) Style tour - More educational, a tour from pale lagers to imperial stouts; examples, commentary on production, tasting notes, etc. Would probably run through 7-8 styles, more for those that are pretty unexposed to whats out there
3) Region tour - Formatted around region, it would be a couple from the U.S., a couple from Belgium, a few from the U.K., etc., and would be more representative of what those brewing communities are doing
4) Food and beer - fruits, cheeses, bacon, etc. paired with Beer styles
5) In depth style comparison - pick 2 styles, run through 4-5 examples of each, what makes them different
Thoughts? Any experience running something like this?
1) "Drink this, not that" - Comparison between the mass-produced versions of styles vs. the craft versions. Think Newcastle vs. Dogfish Head Indian Brown, Blue Moon vs. Wiehenstephaner, and so forth
2) Style tour - More educational, a tour from pale lagers to imperial stouts; examples, commentary on production, tasting notes, etc. Would probably run through 7-8 styles, more for those that are pretty unexposed to whats out there
3) Region tour - Formatted around region, it would be a couple from the U.S., a couple from Belgium, a few from the U.K., etc., and would be more representative of what those brewing communities are doing
4) Food and beer - fruits, cheeses, bacon, etc. paired with Beer styles
5) In depth style comparison - pick 2 styles, run through 4-5 examples of each, what makes them different
Thoughts? Any experience running something like this?