Join Natalya Watson, WSET Beer Educator, for this interactive exploration of sour beers that will help broaden your definition of what beer can be!
Event details
Most beers use hop bitterness for balance, but some beer styles - appropriately nicknamed sour beers — use acidity instead. Brewed with both yeast and bacteria, they range from moderately tart to mouth-puckeringly sour. In this webinar we will explore the classics from Germany and Belgium, as well as contemporary interpretations being created by craft brewers.
Join us to discover a range of sour beers that will help broaden your definition of what beer can be!
In this WSET Explorer session we will be discussing the following styles and we encourage you to pick-up your own selection, a spittoon and a sheet of white paper to taste along and maximise your learning at home!
Gose
Berliner weisse
Geuze (gueuze)
Fruit lambic
Flanders red
Dry-hopped sours
Pastry sours
Wild ales
This event does not necessarily constitute official WSET course material and should not be used as such.
Speaker
Natalya Watson - Business Development Manager - Beer and Beer Educator, WSET
Natalya Watson is an award-winning beer educator passionate about sharing her knowledge of beer with others because she believes that beer is simply too delicious to remain undiscovered. Natalya joined WSET as Business Development Manager in September 2023 to support the launch of the organisation’s new beer qualifications within Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Prior to joining WSET, she ran her own online beer education business, Virtual Beer School, for which she was named Training Professional of the Year at the British Institute of Innkeeping’s 2022 National Innovation in Training Awards. Natalya is qualified as an IBD Beer Sommelier, Advanced Cicerone® and WSET beer educator and has her WSET Level 2 Award in Beer. She is also the author of Beer: Taste the Evolution in 50 Styles (Kyle Books, 2020).