Comment on Anon works in a restaurant
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 month agoOld style AF beers had a distinct malty musty smell. But with new techniques AF beers can be indistinguisable. Certainly if hop foreward
Comment on Anon works in a restaurant
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 month agoOld style AF beers had a distinct malty musty smell. But with new techniques AF beers can be indistinguisable. Certainly if hop foreward
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They’re probably more similar, but there’s no way they can mimic that distinctive alcohol smell (same smell in wine and liquor). I’d take a bet any day that I can distinguish any AF from regular beer, provided the regular beer is at least the typical 4-5% ABV.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Oh I don’t dispute people can distinguish it by taste. Like I said, if not informed of the possibility that the beer is NA (or the coffee decaf) most people won’t notice. When informed of the possibility less than half of people can distinguish it relyably.
But most people are shure they would distinguish the taste any day of the week, and the chance is biggest that they can’t.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I still find that surprising, do you have stats that you can link?
The smell of alcohol alone is very distinctive, so I don’t think most would need to even taste it to know it’s AF. It might fool them if it’s served in an area with a lot of alcoholic drinks nearby, but even then a quick sniff should make it plainly obvious to me and, I assume, most people. I don’t have a particularly keen sense of smell (my wife smells a lot of stuff I don’t notice), so I don’t think I’m special here.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Most of it is from personla experience, however there have been some areas of research in the matter
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6286248/#R51
…wiley.com/…/j.1360-0443.1988.tb03979.x
For instance, people do genrally even exihibit ‘drunken’ behaviour, even though they have had no alcohol.
But genrally people are very addamant they can distinguish by taste their ‘own’ brand from others. If you do a blind taste test of lagers you’ll find out that most people are not able to pick their preferred brand. This is also not only amateurs, even sommeliers get fooled easily: realclearscience.com/…/the_most_infamous_study_on…
Taste is just very difficult and personal. Thats why people are overly confident on their own taste, but generally people tend to mimic each others tastes, as the Sideways movie tanked interest in Merlot and increased interest in Pinot Noir winebusinessanalytics.com/…/The-Sideways-Effect .
Like I said some people are very good at tasting, but generally people overestimate their abilities, a true blind taste test is very fun and informative. You should do it with friends!