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Had my third Christmas dinner of the season last night at the Scoutmaster’s. It was the homegroup festive shindig and I was keen to inflict some of my latest concoctions on them, so I took along a bottle each of my 2012 Strawberry…
The first consideration when evaluatign a beer is the appearance. Three things are usually taken into consideration:
When tasting beer, its imporant you serve it correctly to all the proper appreciation of the look, smell and taste of the beer. The first rule is simple : NEVER taste beer directly from the bottle or can it came in.
Morten Meilgaard is an unsung hero of the brewing world. A brilliant chemical engineer and real ale enthusiast, he basically invented the language used to describe beer. Although human beings have been enjoying the taste of beer for…
Whilst clearing out the shed the other day, I unearthed some long lost treasures – boxes and boxes of homemade wine that a packaged up when we moved house last year and promptly forgot about. What a delight to pull out bottle after…
The great thing about beer tasting, as opposed to wine tasting, is that you have to actually drink the beer not spit it out! Apparently this is because the tastebuds for bitterness (a key component of any beer) are located at the very…
Smell is critical to tasting anything. Since the senses of taste and olfaction are linked, smelling the beer gives the palate a sense of what to expect. If you don’t believe it, try holding you nose as you eat something, and you will…
Summer is here and knowing that it will will only last a few days at most, I invited a bunch of friends over for a barbeque. Summer just isn’t summer without spending at least one evening defiantly trying to cook sausages in the…
Today, I am going to start a new series of posts on how to taste beer. Hopefullly, this will build into a step-by-step guide on the art of beer tasting which will be useful to both the casual drinker and the expert brewer. The aim is…
Got a few of the lads together at the Dandy’s to help us get through some of our vast reserves of homebrew beer. It was also a good chance to get people’s opinion on the Otter’s Pocket and to unveil the Padded Jacket IPA and the…
Following the dismal failure that was brew2, Trenchfoot’s and my confidence in brewing has been knocked for six. We’ve tended to stick to our big guns, i.e. various country wines. In fact, my experience with brew3 at the stag do a few…