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Learn the art of craft beer brewing in the heart of NYC, with classes ranging from introductory lessons on brewing techniques to advanced courses on recipe development and flavor pairing.

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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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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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$100
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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,...

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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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Beer Swap

Bitter & Esters

At this Free Event we invite all Home Brewers to come share their beer with each other. It’s a great way to try delicious home brewed beers and get feedback on your beer. Special Notice! This month’s beer swap is being moved forward one week to October 29th because Charlie Papazian is coming to Bitter & Esters! Bring a bottle to pour (and two to swap if you’re so inclined). We always have something special of our own to share.

(227) All levels 18 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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Beer & Cheese Tasting

West Harlem Food & Beverage Association

Participants will taste four beers paired with NY and regional cheeses by the owner Chris Pollock, and more. What this course includes: Tasting of 4 Beers Cheese Pairings Educational talk by restaurant owner Chris Pollock Full Glass of beer of choice from tasting Bread Basket with authentic Bavarian Pretzels and assorted housemade mustards Shared portion of Bier's international sausages -- German, French, Polish, Morroccan, and Slovenian...

All levels 18 and older
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Ballantine House Beer-Making Workshop

Newark Museum @ 49 Washington St, Newark, NJ

What better place to learn the art of home brewing and connect to Newark’s beer-making history than the “house that beer built”? The historic Ballantine House, a wing of the Newark Museum of Art, was built in 1885 for Jeanette and John Holme Ballantine of the celebrated Newark beer-brewing family. Kendall Alverez Eskew and Diana Arinovich, of The Thirsty Quaker, lead participants through the brewing and bottling process and a well-deserved...

All levels 21 and older
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$275

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Pairing with Food: Beer vs. Wine

NYC Wine Company @ 167 W 23rd St, New York, NY

Just like Clyde needed Bonnie, and Ernie needed Bert, food requires drink to be all that it can be. And by drink, we do mean alcohol. But wine isn’t the only tonic able to liven up a meal: Though beer has been produced for millennia, over the past twenty years, brewers have been pushing the envelope, turning malt, barley, and hops into elixirs unimaginable just a generation ago. Which means determining which beverage to pair with what food is more...

(341) All levels 21 and older
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Unexpected Pairings: Cider & Kimchi

Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY

Inspired by the age-old practice of fermentation, try an unusual pairing made here on New York State farms: cider and kimchi. While cultures around the world have relied on fermentation to prevent food from spoiling as far back as 6000 B.C., in the United States today the practice is rare. Join two New York State farmers, Melissa Madden, founder of Finger Lakes Cider House, and Madalyn Warren, owner of Kimchee Harvest, for a conversation...

(50) All levels 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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