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Explore the vibrant world of craft beer with an immersive beer-tasting class in NYC, where participants can learn about different beer styles, brewing techniques, and how to evaluate and appreciate the aromas and flavors of various brews.

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Beer Date Night: Drink, Learn, and Mingle

Top Hops Beer Shop @ 94 Orchard St, New York, NY

Come to Top Hops for a fun, free-form class exploring craft beer! Join our in-house beer expert Kevin Brooks for a guided tour of our draft line-up, catering to what the group wants to learn about.  Got a hop fixation? We'll have the IPAs to satisfy it. Sours your thing? Then it will be goses and Berlinerweisses. Looking for something more introductory? We can tailor the class to fit almost anything.  Then, after the...

(43) All levels 21 and older
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But I Hate Beer! Beer for Beer Haters

Top Hops Beer Shop @ 94 Orchard St, New York, NY

Are cocktails your jam? Perhaps you're a dedicated vinophile? Does the thought of a beer conjure images of flavorless yellow fizzy stuff? There is still beer out there for you!  Explore the world of exotic adjuncts, tart sours, barrel aging, and distinctly un-beer like beers. Price includes beer & 10% discount on all store purchases.

(43) All levels 21 and older
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Beer, Burgers & BBQ

Dickson's Farmstand Meats @ 75 9th Ave, New York, NY

We're thrilled to host Joe & Lauren Grimm, owner-operators of Grimm Artisanal Ales. We'll taste through their full lineup of tasty beers, as they discusses their philosophies on ingredient-sourcing, brewing technique and their Brooklyn brewing operation and tasting room. All the while, the DFM team will be serving up piles of BBQ, Burgers, Fries & other Tasty Meats.

(233) All levels 18 and older
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Twilight Zone

Top Hops Beer Shop @ 94 Orchard St, New York, NY

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone... Of beer!  Explore this world of madness and excess as you taste your way through the weirdest, most esoteric beers imaginable.

(43) All levels 21 and older
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A Thin Line between Love and Hate

Top Hops Beer Shop @ 94 Orchard St, New York, NY

It's Valentines Day.  Are cocktails your jam? Perhaps you’re a dedicated vinophile? Does the thought of a beer conjure images of flavorless yellow fizzy stuff? There is still beer out there for you!  Explore the world of exotic adjuncts, tart sours, barrel aging, and distinctly un-beer like beers.  Be a beer lover, not a hater.

(43) All levels 21 and older
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American Innovation

Top Hops Beer Shop @ 94 Orchard St, New York, NY

America has an incredible selection of beer styles from which to choose.   People have come from all over the globe to America bringing their beer styles with them.  Once here, these styles evolve with an American flavor.   In this class we will taste our American styles against their ancestors such as American IPA against English IPA, American lager against German lager, American wild ale against Belgium Lambic, and...

(43) All levels 21 and older
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Apple Strudel

The Brooklyn Kitchen @ 274 36th St, Brooklyn, NY

We will walk you through a modern day take on a classic flakey German Apfelstrudel.  Each student will create their own, have a slice of hot struedel and send you home with the rest.

(735) All levels 18 and older
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Virtual Tasting: Beers Around the Virtual World

Top Hops Beer Shop @ Virtual Classroom via Zoom

Join us for a virtual pub crawl around the globe with a guided tasting of four award-winning, distinct styles of beer. We will discuss brewing history, each style’s influence and impact on craft beer and the innovation and the art of brewing. Have you ever wondered what makes a German beer so “authentic” or a Belgian beer so “unique”? Or what is influencing newer Italian beers? Or what connects South American beers to those in Australia...

(43) All levels 21 and older
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Virtual Tasting: Homegrown Hops

Top Hops Beer Shop @ Virtual Classroom via Zoom

This hour long class will feature a selection of 4 local beers from NYC, giving the best there is to offer in IPAs. While IPAs may have had their start across the ocean, regaining popularity on the West Coast, there is no doubt some of the best Hop centric styles are being brewed right in our backyard. While there is no lack of IPAs in the Northeast, this class brings the radius down even further, exploring beers exclusive to NYC. Will there...

(43) All levels 21 and older
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Virtual Tasting: Let's Get Tropical Summer Beers

Top Hops Beer Shop @ Virtual Classroom via Zoom

From its earliest beginnings, beer was brewed for the season. While it’s Marzen and Oktoberfest to drink in the fall, spring and summer are all about the Saison and Farmhouse Ales. With more creativity in brewing every year, the options for thirst-quenching, summer beers abound. This class will showcase 6 unique beers, with limited availability, ideally suited for summer sipping. Featured breweries will include Evil Twin, Greenport Harbor,...

(43) All levels 21 and older
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Hops: Lecture & Tasting

Bitter & Esters @ 700 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

This advanced course and accompanying tasting will engross you in the wonderfully complex world of hops which are the delicate, cone-like flower giving many of your favorite brews their delicious and complex aromas and flavors. Hops are wonderfully diverse and are used for multiple purposes. Each variety imparts a uniquely different scent and flavor – from spicy, citrusy, pine-like, earthy to floral.  Our course will comprehensively cover...

(227) Advanced 21 and older
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Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

Bitter & Esters @ Virtual Learning

Brewers make wort. Yeast make beer. Our yeast class and accompanying tasting will delve deeply into the world of everyone’s favorite microorganism. The yeast lecture will cover: Yeast Nutrition, growth and chemical pathways that effect home brewers. How to choose and maintain a happy culture in your home brew and how strain selection impacts beer flavor. Pitching rates, Propagation, starters, collection (top and bottom cropping) storage. We’ll...

(227) Advanced 21 and older
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Virtual Tasting: Session Style vs Heavyweight Imperials

Top Hops Beer Shop

Virtual Tasting: Go Big & Stay Home Session Style vs Heavyweight Imperials Never has there been a better time to enjoy beers of all strengths. No longer are “craft beers” only seen as viscous, high-octane alcohol-bombs. Many breweries are crafting lower-abv, surprisingly complex beers. Join us for this 90 minute virtual tasting class and discover what makes Imperials & Doubles so seductively delicious as well as what styles of Sessions...

(43) All levels 21 and older
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Yeast Class Tasting Only

Bitter & Esters @ 700 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Brewers make wort. Yeast make beer. This class will delve deeply into the world of everyone’s favorite microorganism. The lecture will cover a history and usage of yeast (as it pertains to brewing and home brewers). We'll also cover a number of other topics: Yeast Nutrition, growth and chemical pathways that effect home brewers. How to choose and maintain a happy culture in your home brew and how strain selection impacts beer flavor. Pitching...

(227) Advanced 21 and older
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Chocolate & Local Beer Tasting Class Feat. Finback Brewery

Raaka Chocolate @ 58 Seabring St, Brooklyn, NY

Start your weekend off with a chocolate-filled happy hour. Participants will explore the world of chocolate and beer through a blind tasting of three different beer and single-origin chocolate pairings. In this class, you'll learn the in's and out's of key flavor profiles of chocolate, how to maximize the sensory experience of chocolate, and how to interpret aromas, textures and flavors, and, of course, how to pair chocolates with different style...

(101) All levels 21 and older
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Reviews for Beer Tasting Classes in NYC

Beer Tasting Classes in NYC are rated 4.7 stars based on 1,339 verified reviews from actual CourseHorse.com purchasers.

  • Virtual Tasting: Beers Around the Virtual World

    Anonymous review on 8/2/2020
    Eric’s Virtual Beers Around the World class was awesome. For starters, he picked an awesome variety of beers. I drink a lot of beer, visit a lot of breweries and beer shops, but it was great to be (re-)introduced to some styles that are easy to forget and appreciate when you lean towards IPAs and there are so many to try these days. The beers were great and he also had good reason to choose each, so the background story on each was informative. And of course, he found a way to fit my juicy IPA preferences into the mix. Judging by my girlfriend’s experience, the class is great for the non-beer enthusiast as well. Looking forward to doing another class tailored to other beer interests with Eric and some friends who are into beer.
  • Hops: Lecture & Tasting

    Reviewed by Jason W. on 1/15/2018
    The instructor was engaging and entertaining. I learned a lot of the science about hops. Would recommend to anyone who has a curiosity about beer.
  • Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

    Reviewed by Eric R. on 12/18/2017
    VERY interesting course, great and friendly teachers and superb beer tasting.
  • Hops: Lecture & Tasting

    Anonymous review on 1/17/2017
    Very helpful and informative course.
  • Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

    Reviewed by Samuli H. on 4/18/2016
    knowledgeable, friendly and enthusiastic instruction by people who love good beer!
  • Hops: Lecture & Tasting

    Anonymous review on 3/16/2016
    The course and the teacher were extremely informative and fun. The tasting part put the preceding lecture and slides into practical use and helped illustrate the differences between different hops. Warmly recommended!
  • Hops: Lecture & Tasting

    Reviewed by Samuli H. on 3/14/2016
    Informative and entertaining with great instructors.
  • Hops: Lecture & Tasting

    Anonymous review on 1/12/2015
    very informative and fun
  • Yeast: Lecture & Tasting

    Reviewed by Bob Marks on 10/17/2013
    Informative, friendly staff. Learned a lot and had a fun time

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