Bittersweet liqueurs like Campari, Fernet-Branca, Cynar, Averna, and Amaro Nonino are flavored with a wide range of botanicals, but nearly all of them have a backbone built from wormwood, quinine, gentian, and/or rhubarb root. In this class we'll taste these four individual bitter components of amaros plus EIGHT different and delicious examples of the category to train our palates to recognize them.
This tasting class for the bitter-curious will combine history and botany (all of these plants were used as medicine at one point) with some physiology of taste to explain why we don't all experience bitterness to the same levels. We'll also cover the way bitter and bittersweet liqueurs and fortified wines can be classified, including the categories of americanos, aperitif liqueurs, vermouths, rabarbaros, quinquinas, fernets, and more!
Students will leave with a cheat sheet of class information so that they can focus on tasting rather than taking notes.
Your professor is Camper English of Alcademics.com. Camper is the author of Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails, in which he traced the historic use of bitter botanicals in spirits. Doctors and Distillers has been described as "every bit as entertaining as it is educational" (Scientific American), "best savored, not shot-gunned, with a drink in hand" (Science), and "a tirelessly researched book on the centuries-long relationship between medicine and booze" (New York Times).
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This tasting class for the bitter-curious will combine history and botany (all of these plants were used as medicine at one point) with some physiology of taste to explain why we don't all experience bitterness to the same levels. We'll also cover the way bitter and bittersweet liqueurs and fortified wines can be classified, including the categories of americanos, aperitif liqueurs, vermouths, rabarbaros, quinquinas, fernets, and more!
Students will leave with a cheat sheet of class information so that they can focus on tasting rather than taking notes.
Your professor is Camper English of Alcademics.com. Camper is the author of Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails, in which he traced the historic use of bitter botanicals in spirits. Doctors and Distillers has been described as "every bit as entertaining as it is educational" (Scientific American), "best savored, not shot-gunned, with a drink in hand" (Science), and "a tirelessly researched book on the centuries-long relationship between medicine and booze" (New York Times).
Bittersweet liqueurs like Campari, Fernet-Branca, Cynar, Averna, and Amaro Nonino are flavored with a wide range of botanicals, but nearly all of them have a backbone built from wormwood, quinine, gentian, and/or rhubarb root. In this class we'll taste these four individual bitter components of amaros plus EIGHT different and delicious examples of the category to train our palates to recognize them.
This tasting class for the bitter-curious will combine history and botany (all of these plants were used as medicine at one point) with some physiology of taste to explain why we don't all experience bitterness to the same levels. We'll also cover the way bitter and bittersweet liqueurs and fortified wines can be classified, including the categories of americanos, aperitif liqueurs, vermouths, rabarbaros, quinquinas, fernets, and more!
Students will leave with a cheat sheet of class information so that they can focus on tasting rather than taking notes.
Your professor is Camper English of Alcademics.com. Camper is the author of Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails, in which he traced the historic use of bitter botanicals in spirits. Doctors and Distillers has been described as "every bit as entertaining as it is educational" (Scientific American), "best savored, not shot-gunned, with a drink in hand" (Science), and "a tirelessly researched book on the centuries-long relationship between medicine and booze" (New York Times).
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This tasting class for the bitter-curious will combine history and botany (all of these plants were used as medicine at one point) with some physiology of taste to explain why we don't all experience bitterness to the same levels. We'll also cover the way bitter and bittersweet liqueurs and fortified wines can be classified, including the categories of americanos, aperitif liqueurs, vermouths, rabarbaros, quinquinas, fernets, and more!
Students will leave with a cheat sheet of class information so that they can focus on tasting rather than taking notes.
Your professor is Camper English of Alcademics.com. Camper is the author of Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails, in which he traced the historic use of bitter botanicals in spirits. Doctors and Distillers has been described as "every bit as entertaining as it is educational" (Scientific American), "best savored, not shot-gunned, with a drink in hand" (Science), and "a tirelessly researched book on the centuries-long relationship between medicine and booze" (New York Times).
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