Lucky beer lovers land ‘taster’ jobs with Evan-Evans Brewery

It was billed as the best job opportunity ever - Official Beer Taster! 

In December of last year, Evan-Evans started the search for a group of beer tasters to help the award-winning brewery with the development of its new beer range for the summer of 2012.
The company received more than 250 applications for what was described as the best job in brewing.
Now, the first 25 successful tasters have met for a training session headed by brewery Chief Executive Simon Buckley and Ian Swanson from the Institute of Brewing and Distilling.
The course covered a variety of topics and included the tasting of a series of beer styles and the skills required to become a professional beer taster.
Tasters travelled to Cardiff from as far afield as Stoke and Essex.
The course culminated in an exam and a final tasting session at the bar of the top food pub in Wales, The Cricketers in Cathedral Road, Cardiff.
Mr Buckley said: “We now have the first 25 official beer tasters. We have one more training session in early June for the remaining members of the team and then we get down to the serious work of brand building with their help.
“I have seldom seen so many genuinely enthusiastic tasters determined to grasp the complex subject of beer production and the intricate flavours we produce.
“This was an excellent day and the work that the team put into training was impressive.
“We can now move forward with our plans for the development of new cask and bottled beers, knowing that the tasters will give us their considered opinions.
“We are the only brewery in Wales and probably in the UK to have our own tasting team and we feel confident that with the feedback from the tasters we will continue our expansion as a major drinks brand company.
“We hope to launch a new range of cask beers in July and follow that with a new range of bottle beers for the autumn.
“I am grateful to the tasters for coming to the training and to the Institute of Brewing and Distilling for their help in making this such a successful day.”
Picture above: The Evan-Evans Brewery tasters at The Cricketers Cardiff, Simon Buckley centre.
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Evan-Evans has a reputation for brewing the highest quality cask-conditioned beers. Evan-Evans is Wales’s largest specialist brewer of cask ale. The company started brewing in 2004 to produce specialist cask ales for the Welsh and national guest ale market.
The brewing heritage of the Buckley family stretches back to the early 19th century after the Rev James Buckley married the eldest daughter of Henry Child who had founded Childs Brewery in Llanelli. It was set up to slake the thirst of the town’s tinworkers, who were rapidly increasing in numbers.
Evan-Evans was founded in Llandeilo in 2003 and began brewing in 2004. It is named after William Evan-Evans who married into the family four generations ago