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Back From Studying for the Cicerone Exam

Back From Studying for the Cicerone Exam

I’ve been on lock-down studying for the Cicerone exam, which I sat for on February 12. More to come on that experience.

For now, I’ll say that I was pretty happy last night while I put all my study materials back in the bookshelf. Not because I knocked the exam out of the park and know that I get to move on. (In fact, the opposite: I already know that I have to retake at least one part of the exam.) I was happy because I’m going to take a break from studying at least while I wait the 6 weeks that it will take to receive my results. Since Thanksgiving, I’ve been studying 30-45 minutes every day; the past two weeks, it’s been more like 2-4 hours every day. I’m going to use this new free time to post one blog entry a week for the next four weeks.

Upcoming entries on:

  • Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin and a Russian Imperial Stout

  • Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and a Double IPA

  • Studying for the Cicerone Exam

  • Taking the Cicerone Exam

  • How I’m going to prepare to retake the tasting portion of the Cicerone Exam

  • A brew day at Combustion Brewery: making a beer for International Women’s Day with a bunch of awesome women in craft beer

  • My new role at BrewDog coordinating brewery tours and beer schools

Look for entries every Wednesday at 4pm.

The set-up for one of my beer schools at BrewDog. Back in the classroom, but with beer and without any papers to grade!

The set-up for one of my beer schools at BrewDog. Back in the classroom, but with beer and without any papers to grade!

Pnin and Jackie O's Dark Apparition

Pnin and Jackie O's Dark Apparition

Little Fires Everywhere and Great Lakes' Burning River Pale Ale

Little Fires Everywhere and Great Lakes' Burning River Pale Ale