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 Tasting
Notes from monthly tasting
panel meetings.
Please refer to the
on-line diary for dates of meetings.
In April 2006 the Benleva
Hotel in Drumnadrochit hosted the first ever taste training course to be
held in the Highlands. Fifteen branch members attended, the large majority
being novices. The course was enthusiastically conducted by Ian Brocklebank,
CAMRA’s Scottish Regional Tasting Co-ordinator.
The Highland Tasting Panel
was short on trained members and had only been kept in existence over recent
years by the efforts of just two active members; Eric Mills and Bill Tring.
More trained tasters were needed; these not only being the linchpin of
CAMRA’s function of providing beer descriptions for the Good Beer Guide; but
more importantly for nominating beers for the award of Champion Beer of
Scotland and Britain (CBOS and CBOB). Trained tasters rate the beers
throughout the year on a scale of ten. The highest scoring beer in
each beer category is then put forward to the regional rounds of
these Champion Beer competitions. Chairman Bill coordinates all the
completed tasting cards, with the help of an Excel spreadsheet, to provide
the required information.
Full article
here
In May 2007
the Benleva
Hotel in Drumnadrochit hosted a Tasting Panel Refresher session. It
had been hoped Ian
Brocklebank would be available, but in his absence
Chairman Bill Tring, ably
assisted by the experienced long-term trained taster Eric Mills, led the
session.
The meeting combined the
tasting and discussion of a number of beers with Eric and Bill giving
presentations on Hop and Malt characteristics. Being May, the emphasis
was on Mild and two local brews were sampled, Mild May from Cairngorm and
Dark Munro from the Highland Brewery.
Full article
here
Informal tasting meetings take
place, usually on the last Tuesday of the month, starting at 7.30pm.
Please try to attend as many as possible and complete as many cards as you
can. There are featured meetings roughly once a quarter
to focus on some aspect/characteristic of beer, or to coincide with national
CAMRA activities - e.g, "Celebrate Mild in May".
Tasting
Notes from monthly tasting
panel meetings.
Please refer to the
on-line diary for dates of meetings.
All
interested real ale fans are very welcome at these meetings.
For further
information please contact
tasting@highlandcamra.org.uk
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