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GRAND RAPIDS — Class is in session. Everyone find a seat. Take out a pen. Please don’t drink any of the beer in front of you just yet. This is no back-to-school dream. This is reality, thanks to the new Founders University courses, now enrolling for the fall. Last Tuesday, Founders held its first “Sensory Perception” class — the graduate-level complement, if you will — to the Beer 101 course that also opened this August. A handful of paying students (and one lucky scholarshipped reporter) sniffed, swirled and tasted their way through a series of beer samples with the goal of refining palettes and broadening beer knowledge. The classroom was Founders’ Centennial Room, the private area accessible only by elevator in the new addition. The professor was the jovial John Gautraud, Founders’ Education Ambassador, joined on this occasion by Dave Engbers, bona fide Founders’ co-founder. The “desks” for the evening were tables scattered around the upstairs bar, each holding two placemats, which … |
Source: Mitten Brew
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