Wake Up Your Whisky Nose

Wake Up Your Whisky Nose

Train your nose and build your aroma memory with this valuable set of sensory skills.

Flexible

Learn online in your own time, at your own pace with lifetime access to the module.
Accessible

In-depth, yet easy-to-follow material. Ideal for beginners, or those keen to learn a bit more.
Interactive

Enjoy quizzes, video and multimedia lessons in this standalone module. Plus, a final quiz.

Module Overview

1. Wake Up Your Whisky Nose
2. Overview
1. What is olfaction?
2. 3 steps of smell detection
3. The anatomy & physiology of smell detection
4. Stages of the aroma journey
5. Olfactory epithelium
6. Ortho nasal & retro nasal airflow
7. Smell, memory & the limbic system
8. Olfactory cognition
9. Olfactory dysfunction
1. The tongue map
2. The five basic tastes
3. From substance to taste
1. Practice, practice, practice!
2. Exercise #1 – Become a smell detective
3. Exercise #2 – Go on a nasal safari
4. Exercise #3 - Spice it up
1. Why you need a whisky tasting toolkit
2. How to use a flavour wheel
3. Download your copy of the SWRI flavour wheel
4. How to use a radar chart (spider graph)
5. Download the spider graph
6. How to use a whisky colour chart
7. Download the whisky colour guide
8. How to use a tasting notes template
9. Download the tasting notes template
1. Wake Up Your Whisky Nose: Final Quiz

About this course

£25.00
26 lessons, plus final quiz
EWA digital badge & certificate
Printed certificate (optional)

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This course has explaned my love tho scotch whisky. Iunderstand now even better how complex the perception through the nose is and what I should pay attention to. I like it more now and better to smell my scotch whisky. And I love watching the co...

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This course has explaned my love tho scotch whisky. Iunderstand now even better how complex the perception through the nose is and what I should pay attention to. I like it more now and better to smell my scotch whisky. And I love watching the course over and over again. Thanks to EWA for this course. Slàinte Geri

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Rod Burns

Excellent advice presented in a rich visual format for adult learners. Good course but too short!

Excellent advice presented in a rich visual format for adult learners. Good course but too short!

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Fred Abrams

The Academy is exactly what you want it to be! I loved the classwork, and got a lot out of it.

The Academy is exactly what you want it to be! I loved the classwork, and got a lot out of it.

It's a great site and the lear...

Scott Fraser

It's a great site and the learning opportunities are fantastic. Simple and informative courses. Very informative and easy to navigate. A perfect way to increase my whisky knowledge.

It's a great site and the learning opportunities are fantastic. Simple and informative courses. Very informative and easy to navigate. A perfect way to increase my whisky knowledge.