A beer tasting has a number of key differences from a wine tasting:

Generations of travelling Kiwi’s have made fun of English beer.  Their beer is, according to popular legend, warm, flat and weak.

The revelation that I love trying new beers probably ranks between “the Hurricanes are inconsistent” and “Paul Holmes loves to offer unsolicited advice” on the Surprise Scale. 

Perhaps the only thing better than having a beer in front of you is having thirty seven beers in front of you.

My first recollection of drinking a beer was laboriously working through a slightly warm six-pack of Rheineck.

Predictions of the world’s imminent demise began about a week after the world was created. The exact date of creation was either millions and millions of years ago or 4004BC, probably around noon, depending on who you believe. Despite the fact that the planet has patently not been destroyed even once, end-of-the-world theories have been consistently popular.