How to train your taste buds.

[kibodwin]

I saw this and thought the forum would like to see it.
I looked and could not find a previous post about how
to train your taste buds, or how to find your taste limits.
K.
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/beer-tasting-workout

 

[dennisking]

Could do with a UK version of this.

 

[cnelsonplumber]

Looks interesting :-)

 

[kibodwin]

or a European version, by country...?

=)

 

[morethanworts]

On a similar note, I saw an 'off tastes' kit you could buy, at massive expense, to give your brewer's tongue a workout. It's too late in the evening for me to go fishing for the link, but someone on some forum or other had come up with a home made equivalent.

 

[kibodwin]

I am not sure I like the sound of that!!
but I do see the point and I could probably benefit from it...
=)

 

[Wasabi]

I think the way to train your taste buds to appreciate beer is to cut out sugary drinks. It was not until I stopped taking sugar in my coffee (for the sake of my teeth) that I started to appreciate bitter, prior to that I preferred cider, sickly lagers and sweet wine. Nowadays I never drink soft drinks since I find them all too sickly, instead I savour bitter, Czech/German lager, and dry wine (and of course sugarless coffee!).

Cutting out sugary drinks also altered my palette so I no longer ate so many sweet things generally and started to appreciate savoury foods more. We are born with a sweet tooth, but can grow out of it if we try, and develop a taste for more subtle flavours than sugar.

 

[cwiseman77]

I think the way to train your taste buds to appreciate beer is to cut out sugary drinks. It was not until I stopped taking sugar in my coffee (for the sake of my teeth) that I started to appreciate bitter, prior to that I preferred cider, sickly lagers and sweet wine. Nowadays I never drink soft drinks since I find them all too sickly, instead I savour bitter, Czech/German lager, and dry wine (and of course sugarless coffee!).

Cutting out sugary drinks also altered my palette so I no longer ate so many sweet things generally and started to appreciate savoury foods more. We are born with a sweet tooth, but can grow out of it if we try, and develop a taste for more subtle flavours than sugar.

All that wasabi has probably ruined your taste buds anyway :whistle:

 

[kibodwin]

All that wasabi has probably ruined your taste buds anyway :whistle:

+1

=)