discovering the truth about beer taste

Discover the truth about beer taste

Do you have a favourite beer? Is it because it’s the one you like the best? Or is it simply because you don’t know any better?

“You don’t know your beer!” We have made an amazing discovery…

Our scientifically conducted blind beer tastings have turned up some surprising and unexpected results:

  • none of our testers could reliably identify their “favourite” beer.
  • when they unknowingly tasted their “favourite” beer, testers consistently rated it poorly, using terms such as “below average”, “bland”, and “mediocre”.

The beers we rated unanimously as the best were definitely not beers we’d typically drink. The conclusion, therefore, is simple and obvious:

beer taster discovers a below average beer

Most people drink their “favourite” beer for reasons other than taste!

In fact, most of us have never actually made a conscious effort to compare one beer with another, let alone compare a range of beers in a real blind beer tasting test where you’re unaware of which beer you’re sampling.

Read on to discover The real reason why you drink the beer you drink…

15 Comments

  1. February 10, 2006 @ 4:56 am

    Chris Jackson said,

    I can’t understand how you can include substandard Australian standard beers that are an insult to the concept of what beer is and should taste like, […] more

  2. February 13, 2006 @ 12:07 am

    Administrator said,

    It’s quite simple really. One part of determining what is substandard beer is to subject these “run of the mill” beers to impartial blind tests - whic […] more

  3. February 14, 2006 @ 5:50 pm

    sam said,

    i can’t believe you have ommited three of the best beers currently available… schofferhofer kristallweizen - fruity but to too heavy hahn premium […] more

  4. February 14, 2006 @ 10:06 pm

    Administrator said,

    We haven’t really ommitted anything - proper beer testing, with a group of at least 4 tasters, is quite an effort, and the numbers of beers tasted so […] more

  5. March 11, 2006 @ 3:59 am

    max said,

    I drink VB for its taste. There are a lot of European beers with lots of aroma and others “donno how they call those ones a beer? but like a water no […] more

  6. October 29, 2006 @ 4:46 am

    Ethel Aardvark said,

    Like Max, since my lobotomy, I drink VB for it’s taste.

  7. February 8, 2007 @ 8:45 am

    Aforementioned said,

    Looks like a cash making site to me. Austrian Shillings anyone? No beers on this site warrant tasting. It’s a shame this sham has lasted so long. […] more

  8. March 16, 2007 @ 1:17 am

    Dunxy said,

    There is a few left out thats for sure,allthough the 3 you mentioned i wouldn’t rate so well, I had a few of those “Mariners”and in my books, the wors […] more

  9. May 12, 2007 @ 9:55 am

    Kelsey Mather said,

    to all those people out there that are dissing the lovelish tasting beer. you should all grow and be men, stop being tiprats. emu export is the stuff

  10. June 9, 2007 @ 5:16 am

    Rodrick said,

    You guys realy know your stuff, NOT. Look at your beer quiz the ingredients used in German beer is not barley,hops and water. The ingredients used in […] more

  11. December 16, 2007 @ 4:55 am

    67d4232e99ae15ef0ac3 said,

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  12. January 13, 2008 @ 8:00 pm

    George Tattam said,

    I don’t think your beer testers like beer!

  13. February 26, 2008 @ 4:50 am

    Will said,

    The general tasting list on this website shows the clear lack of industry background, experience or capability of the tasting “panel”. Most of the […] more

  14. February 27, 2008 @ 6:16 pm

    SouthernBrewer said,

    Actually Roderick, The Reinheitsgebot originally only stated those three ingredients. Back in 1516 they didn’t know about yeast, it took 300 years […] more

  15. March 1, 2008 @ 1:49 am

    Jai Jeffrey said,

    Beer is the essence of my life. I live to drink and beer is brewed to be drunk. Rock on Hahn Lite.

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