Keeping & Serving Beer Course

This badge is awarded to individuals who have successfully completed the Cicerone Certification Program’s Keeping and Serving Beer online course, which covers the logistics of beer management and the technology of draft dispense. It presents best practices and techniques one should use for pouring beer and to help operate, maintain, and troubleshoot draft equipment to ensure customers receive high-quality beer. Badge-holders have demonstrated their knowledge by passing an online assessment testing their ability to: • Explain techniques for the effective acquisition and management of good-quality beer. • Demonstrate how to properly pour both draft and bottled beer of various styles. • Describe the setup and operation of special draft systems commonly used at beer festivals and other types of temporary draft operations. • Describe the dynamics of beer carbonation in a draft system, including changes that can take place as carbon dioxide (CO2) pressure is raised or lowered during dispense. • Analyze the behavior of a draft system based upon applied pressure, system resistance, and change in height using the concepts for a balanced draft system. • Identify the individual components of various draft systems and explain in detail the roles they play within a system. • Identify the key steps and specifications required to properly clean various types of draft systems.