Cicerone Presents: Free CBS Prep Talks on YouTube Live!
Click here to view the full Certified Beer Server Prep Talks playlist.
As bars, restaurants, and brewery taprooms remain shuttered due to social distancing protocols, we wanted to do something to help educate folks that are stuck at home right now. To that end, we’ve put together a short curriculum that we’re calling CBS Prep Talks—a free, 12-session series of live presentations geared towards the Certified Beer Server exam. We’ll be hosting the sessions Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1pm CT starting on Tuesday, April 21, and running through the end of May. Each session will feature about half an hour of live training with Master Cicerone® Neil Witte followed by a question and answer session. As a bonus, we’ll be offering 10 free Certified Beer Server exams to the attendees of each session*. We’ll also be posting the videos to our YouTube channel so that you can still follow along in case you can’t make one of the live sessions.
Additionally, we've put together a series of review questions to go with each session. Review questions will be posted below on the date of the session and answers will be posted on the date of the following session.
The 12 sessions will cover the following topics:
- Tuesday, April 21 – Session #1 – Flavor, taste, and aroma – Review Questions • Answers
- Thursday, April 23 – Session #2 – Improving your flavor vocabulary and understanding malt flavor – Review Questions • Answers
- Tuesday, April 28 – Session #3 – Hop and fermentation flavors – Review Questions • Answers
- Thursday, April 30 – Session #4 – Brewing process – Review Questions • Answers
- Tuesday, May 5 – Session #5 – Oxidation and lightstruck off flavors – Review Questions • Answers
- Thursday, May 7 – Session #6 – Draft knowledge and dirty draft systems – Review Questions • Answers
- Tuesday, May 12 – Session #7 – Proper glassware and pouring techniques – Review Questions • Answers
- Thursday, May 14 – Session #8 – Understanding beer style parameters (ABV, IBUs, SRM) – Review Questions • Answers
- Tuesday, May 19 – Session #9 – German and Czech beer styles – Review Questions • Answers
- Thursday, May 21 – Session #10 – British and Irish beer styles – Review Questions • Answers
- Tuesday, May 26 – Session #11 – American beer styles – Review Questions • Answers
- Thursday, May 28 – Session #12 – Belgian beer styles – Review Questions • Answers
If you want to learn a bit more about beer, we’d love to have you join us. To check out the sessions, either subscribe to our YouTube channel or click here for a link to the first session!
*You can only win a free Certified Beer Server exam one time—if your name is drawn for a free exam at one of the sessions, you will be ineligible to win at future sessions.