Class 1 · P2.1

The ten faults, and how to name them

Ten things that can be wrong with a beer, every one of them findable by smell. Learn the smell first and the chemistry second, because the smell is the part you get to use in a bar.

about 14 min2 screens20 questions

By the end of this class you will be able to

  1. Name ten common faults from smell alone, in ordinary words
  2. Say what caused each one and which beers it turns up in most
  3. Work out whether a fault was made in the brewery, on the way to you, or in the bar
Before you start

The five on the first screen cover most of what you will ever meet. If you take one thing from this class, take cardboard, butter, skunk, sweetcorn and nothing at all.

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