Taste Honey Like a Sommelier - April 7 - 8, 2025 - 7 - 9 pm EST

$225.00

DATE: April 7 - 8, 2025 at 7:00 - 9:00 PM EST

Last date to register to receive tasting kits: March 26, 2025.

This on line course takes place over 2 consecutive evenings on zoom and provides basic intro to applying sensory analysis methods to tasting and evaluating honey. Student will receive a honey tasting kit in the mail before class with all exercises, honey samples and class materials. A welcome email will be sent to everyone who registers.

* It is not possible to ship honey to many countries without strict government permission. For this reason, honey kits kits can only be mailed to addresses in the US. Do not register unless you can provide a US shipping address.

Students will learn the psychology and physiology of how humans taste, how to identify between the difference taste, flavor and trigeminal sensations. We will wake up our senses with olfactory exercises then use that knowledge to evaluate honey by color, taste, flavor and texture and write detailed tasting notes for honey samples provided. Emphasis will be on using correct descriptors when describing the sensory qualities of each honey using the wheel. Power point presentation included.

Course Itinerary:

Day 1

• Introduction to Sensory Analysis of Honey- powerpoint.

• Psychology and Physiology of taste vs. flavor.

• Gustatory and olfactory exercises.

• Terroir - powerpoint.

Day 2

• Learn the Methods of Sensory Analysis to taste

and evaluate Honey.

B. Learn how to use:

• Honey aroma and flavor wheel and honey profile sheets.

• Guided tasting of 5 honeys.

• Learn how to write detailed tasting notes for 5 unifloral honey samples.

• Crystalization and defects of honey - powerpoint.

* Online classes and workshops are not eligible for credit or recognized by the Italian National Register of Experts in the Sensory Analysis of Honey toward Honey Sommelier certification. Only in person courses are recognized. Certificate of completion will be awarded from the AHTS to each attended who completes the workshop.