(01-21-2018, 04:40 PM)Admiral Wrote: Ha Ha, well there is a time and place for everything; exotic beer is best had at a bar, micro breweries, and that is very nice. Standard beer, well, I "head for the mountains!"
I was just talking about this sort of thing with my girlfriend and some of the local microbrewery brewers and staff. The general consensus is that it is nice to have a "standard" to recalibrate with. If all you drink are fancy IPAs then you tend to loose your ability to taste the differences.
The guys at the local microbrewery use Bud Light as a calibrator for doing batch tastings. B.L. is so consistent that they also use it for training by adding small amounts of the compounds that give the off-flavors. Makes it very easy to learn to detect them even in very small concentrations.
I've started using Coors Banquet Beer (the bottles) as my calibrator. Nice to have one once in a while and it is pretty good stuff. Still enjoy finding new beers though.
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