Where do beer style names and descriptions come from? What makes a Belgian Tripel a Belgian Tripel?
If you’ve ever been overwhelmed by the options at your local taproom, this class is for you! Enjoy a flight of beer with a professional brewer while learning about objective methods for beer sensory analysis, beer style origins, and the various organizations that try to make sense of the rapidly changing beer world. During this 90-minute session, you’ll learn about tasting beer, developing your palate, and receive a high level overview of the Beer Judge Certification Program.
Organizer
Tom’s Brew Shop – Lakewood, CO
Tom’s Brew Shop is the West Metro Denver area’s complete source for home fermentation supplies. Whether you’re interested in homebrewing beer, winemaking, cider making, or other alternative food and beverage fermentations, the crew at Tom’s Brew Shop has you covered. Tom’s is your full-service local homebrew shop (LHBS).
New to the hobby? Check out our selection of homebrew equipment kits and beer recipe ingredient kits to get started with easy, step-by-step instructions.
When you’re beer, wine, cider, or other beverage is ready to bottle, check out our selection of beer bottles, bottle caps, wine bottles, corks, PVC shrink tops, swing top bottles or other packaging options.
Tom’s offers a huge selection of different malts and grains in stock. We offer malts from around the world, including Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, and North America. For those inclined to source local products, Tom’s homebrew shop offers the full array of Proximity Malt products malted in Monte Vista, Colorado.
Tom’s Brew Shop is the exclusive homebrew shop seller of Propagate Lab (Golden, CO) homebrew yeast pitches. We also sell a variety of dry and liquid yeast cultures for beer brewing, wine yeast, mead yeast, cider yeast, and more!
Tom’s Brew Shop sells a comprehensive selection of pellet hops from all major hop-growing regions in the Czech Republic, Germany, New Zealand, Slovenia, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Ready to serve cold beer out of a kegerator at home? Tom’s Brew Shop sells KOMOS brand kegerators, carbon dioxide cylinders, keg couplers, beer line cleaning kits, and all the parts and fittings needed to serve beer out of a keg at home. We fill CO2 tanks while you wait, so there’s no need to make an extra stop!
If you’re looking for an all-in-one brewing system, Tom’s stocks and sells Brewzilla, DigiBoil and Grainfather products. We carry Anvil Buckets and Anvil Crucible conical fermentors, along with the Bucket Buddy heated stainless steel fermentor.
Venue
A car-themed brewery, serving a selection of handcrafted ales for when your engine is running a pint low.
6 and 40 Brewery and Taproom is the brewery that grew out of Tom’s Brew Shop. The homebrew shop staff doubles as the brewery production team, making a variety of craft beer options for today’s market.
Address: 883 Parfet St, Unit J, Lakewood, CO 80215
