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This page presents more than one hundred links, files, books, and courses that can help candidates prepare for Cicerone exams of all levels. As they cannot all be listed on one page, we recommend that you use the drop-down menus below to sort the content to suit your needs if this has not already been done.

Please note that we include links to a number of independently prepared resources such as local classroom courses which the Cicerone Certification Program does not endorse or monitor. Cicerone assumes no responsibility for independent resources and users should take appropriate diligence in assessing them.

To become listed here, check our guidelines for independent training courses.

Cicerone Program Resources Overview

This is an overview of resources recommended by Cicerone for each level of certification.

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The Oxford Companion to Beer

The Oxford Companion to Beer features more than 1,100 A-Z entries written by 166 of the world's most prominent beer experts. Attractively illustrated with over 140 images, the book covers everything from the agricultural makeup of various beers to the technical elements of the brewing process, local effects of brewing on regions around the world, and the social and political implications of sharing a beer.

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BJCP Style Guidelines

The Cicerone® Certification Program uses the 2015 BJCP Style Guidelines as the reference source for all matters related to style in its exams.

Link, helpful for in syllabus area II.

Draught Beer Quality Manual

This manual is the reference for all Cicerone draft-related knowledge and questions.

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Road To Cicerone: Keeping & Serving Beer Course

An advanced course on Keeping & Serving Beer to help candidates prepare for the Certified Cicerone exam.

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Road To Cicerone: British & Irish Course

An advanced course on British & Irish beer styles and culture to help candidates prepare for the Certified Cicerone exam.

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Road To Cicerone: German Course

An advanced course on German beer styles and culture to help candidates prepare for the Certified Cicerone exam.

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Maridajes de Cerveza y Queso

Algunas sugerencias del equipo de Cicerone para maridar cerveza y queso.

PDF, helpful for in syllabus area V.

Sample Master Cicerone Exam Essay Prompts

This document is intended to show the format and different types of essay prompts you can expect on the Master Cicerone exam.

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Master Cicerone® Syllabus

Master Cicerone® syllabus, version 4. Updated June 1, 2019.

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Rich Higgins Beer Immersions

Rich Higgins Beer Immersions are fun, deep dives into the beer styles and culture of important European beer regions. Rich is a Master Cicerone®, brewmaster, and educator, and he personally leads these trips to his favorite breweries, restaurants, and pubs. Geared toward Cicerones, professional brewers, and beer fans wanting to learn more, anyone who holds the title of Certified Beer Server or higher gets a 10% price discount!

Past participants say: “A fascinating deep dive into historical beer styles with a backstage pass to the breweries that defined them.” “We have been to Brussels before and this was far and away a much better beer experience."

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Calidad de la Cerveza de Barril para Comerciantes Minoristas

Calidad de la Cerveza de Barril para Comerciantes Minoristas es el Draught Beer Quality Manual de la Brewers Association en español. Visita la página de la BA para más información.

Link, helpful for in syllabus area I.

The Chef's Companion

The indispensable guide to over 5,000 culinary terms.

Even the most international chef sometimes needs help with today’s wildly diverse cooking terminology. Now, there’s an updated and revised edition of Elizabeth Riely’s The Chef’s Companion, which professional chefs and aspiring cooks everywhere can turn to when they need quick access to concise and reliable definitions, pronunciations, correct spelling, accepted usage, and origins of culinary terms. This invaluable guide covers all the terms that chefs might use with customers and kitchen staff–in areas such as cooking techniques, food preparation, herbs and spices, varieties of food, wine, and equipment for the professional kitchen. Over 900 new terms have been added to this edition to provide expanded coverage of areas such as wine, pastry, and ethnic cuisines. The Chef’s Companion: no kitchen is complete without it.

Book, helpful for in syllabus area V.

Pairing Beer & Cheese by Cicerone

Some beer and cheese pairing suggestions from Cicerone staff.

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Sample Master Cicerone® Tasting Exam

This document is intended to show the format of the Master Cicerone tasting exam.

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Master Cicerone Resources

This is an overview of resources recommended for the Master Cicerone® certification level by Cicerone.

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Brewing Classic Styles - Jamil Zainasheff

Award-winning brewer Jamil Zainasheff teams up with homebrewing expert John J. Palmer to share award-winning recipes for each of the 80-plus competition styles.

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MBAA Handbook: Fermentation, Cellaring, and Packaging Operations

Get fast answers to technical questions on cellar and tank design, fermentation biochemistry and microbiology and their relationship to the cellar processes in producing specialty ales and lager beers.

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Cellarmanship - Patrick O'Neill

From stock control to changing a tap--the last word on storing, keeping, and serving real ale.

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Brewing with Wheat - Stan Hieronymus

The wit and weizen of wheat beers. Author Stan Hieronymus visits the ancestral homes of the world's most interesting styles-Hoegaarden, Kelheim, Leipzig, Berlin and even Portland, Oregon-to sort myth from fact and find out how the beers are made today.

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Malts and Malting - D.E. Briggs

This book gives a comprehensive overview of malts and malt competitors, how they are made and evaluated. Summary-outlines of the malting process and malt-using processes are followed by consideration of the structures, germinative physiology and biochemistry of cereal grains.

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Amber, Gold & Black: The History of Britain's Great Beers - Martyn Cornell

Amber, Gold & Black isa comprehensive history of British beer in all its variety.It coversall there is to know about the history of the beers Britons have brewed and enjoyed down the centuries: Bitter, Porter, Mild and Stout, IPA, Brown Ale, Burton Ale and Old Ale, Barley Wine and Stingo, Golden Ale, Gale Ale, Honey Ale, White Beer, Heather Ale, and more.

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How to Brew - John J. Palmer

Everything needed to brew beer right the first time. Presented in a light-hearted style without frivolous interruptions, this authoritative text introduces brewing in a easy step-by-step review.

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Brewing Yeast and Fermentation - Christopher Boulton and David Quain

This unique volume provides a definitive overview of modern and traditional brewing fermentation.

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