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It has been 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. The first 25 successful tasters met last month for a training session headed by Evan-Evans brewery Chief Executive Simon Buckley and Ian Swanson of The Beer Academy. Now, tomorrow (June 9), a second batch of tasters are to be put through their paces on a specially-designed beer tasting course. The course, being held at The Cricketers in Cathedral Road, Cardiff, will cover a variety of topics and include the tasting of a series of beer styles and the skills required to become a professional beer taster. The course culminates in an exam and a final tasting session at the bar of The Cricketers, the top food pub in Wales. Mr Buckl...

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 trainin...

It was billed as the best job opportunity ever - Official Beer Taster! And it came as no surprise to bosses at the award-winning Evan-Evans Brewery that applications flooded in. The lucky winners of ‘taster’ jobs with Evan-Evans have now been chosen and the brewery has pulled the shutter down on applications. “The response was massive,” said Simon Buckley, chief executive of the Evan-Evans Brewery Group. “We know that our beers are hugely popular and that they have a very local ‘fan club’, but we were overwhelmed with the response. “The quality of the response was such that we revised our earlier views and extended the number of people we admitted to the ‘taster’ project from 30 to 57. “We now have 57 ‘tasters’ on board at Evan-Evans and we have just announced that we will be holding two tasting weekends in Cardiff on May 7 and 14.” The beer tasters will be responsible for helping shape the company’s new beer brands in 2012. Mr Buckley added: “This is a landmark year for us at Evan-E...