The Taste

Double Barrel

Is the Taste of Beer affected by the container it is in? The bottles -v- cans ..... .
Our sense of taste comes partly through the nose, by way of smell. When you drink beer from a can, your nose is buried in the aluminium can. When you drink from a bottle, you're not smelling aluminium. When you pour a beer in a glass, your nose is in the glass, and you can smell the beer as well as taste it.

Do you drink your beer in a bottle, a can, or do you pour it into a glass?
Or do you only drink pulled pints.

Sláinte

Lt. Palumbo

Drink from a glass.

GLASS. Not a plastic cup! take note this years craft beer festival! *fist shake*

It just adds to the overall experience. i'm sure someone could explain this better than I could hope to.

Double Barrel

Hear hear !!!!!

Lt. Palumbo wrote: »

GLASS. Not a plastic cup! take note this years craft beer festival! *fist shake*

BeerNut

There was nothing the festival could do about it. The glasses were printed and ready to go then at the last minute the Council said they couldn't use them.

Always drink from a glass, OP, if you actually want to taste the beer.

johnnyskeleton

A tulip shaped glass is usually recommended for strong aromatic beers.

The can/bottle/cask also has issues re: storage and this can have a positive neutral or negative effect on the beer, although it's not always easy to notice.

Visual perception is also important as people tend to associate bottles as being more expensive and better than cans.

Lt. Palumbo

BeerNut wrote: »

There was nothing the festival could do about it. The glasses were printed and ready to go then at the last minute the Council said they couldn't use them.

Always drink from a glass, OP, if you actually want to taste the beer.

Cheers for the info, that's really unfortunate.

rubadub

Double Barrel wrote: »

Do you drink your beer in a bottle, a can, or do you pour it into a glass?

Some guy & his friends did blind tasting of can vs bottle of the same beers in an old thread, pretty even split, i.e. they couldn't tell the difference.

I expect many are forking out over the odds for bulmers pint bottles at home.

What I hate is all these microetched glasses nowadays, the ones that release streams of bubbles from the bottom up.

Martyn1989

rubadub wrote: »

Some guy & his friends did blind tasting of can vs bottle of the same beers in an old thread, pretty even split, i.e. they couldn't tell the difference.

I expect many are forking out over the odds for bulmers pint bottles at home.

What I hate is all these microetched glasses nowadays, the ones that release streams of bubbles from the bottom up.

Yeh they hold a head better but I always think they'll just make the beer flatter faster

johnnyskeleton

Martyn1989 wrote: »

Yeh they hold a head better but I always think they'll just make the beer flatter faster

They would slow the process, surely?

Martyn1989

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Martyn1989 wrote: »

Yeh they hold a head better but I always think they'll just make the beer flatter faster

They would slow the process, surely?

I don't know, it makes more bubbles rise faster?

Saruman

Not only does drinking from a glass make all the difference, drinking from the right glass makes all the difference.

At this this years beer bloggers conference, Spiegelau hosted a very informative tasting session showing us how different beers taste completely different depending on what glassware you use.

The overall loser was the traditional pint glass which made everything taste and smell like crap compared to the specialised glass.

Overall a stemmed chalice type glass was the best for everything I thought, but even drinking a wheat beer from a proper wheat beer glass versus standard pint or pilsner glass made a big difference.

I went in sceptical but came out a believer.

rubadub

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

They would slow the process, surely?

Speeds it up from what I see, head is good for a short while and then disappears, so does the fizz, its like a dead pint. Becks glasses are one of the worst, the square(ish) shaped ones, the bubbles are flying up, I was asking for it in a guinness glass instead. Tuborg glasses have it too, but it is far more gentle. I think its also partly to get you drinking faster

I was at a paid market research thing in guinness and am pretty sure the research was testing out a new glass, rather than a new beer which they strongly inferred it was. Many of the questions were about the head and carbonation. They serve a pint and tell you it should be drank in about 20-25mins, you answer questions on a computer in front of you as time goes on. I was pissed off when I got a etched glass, it was flat by the end of it as I expected.

I was able to get good comments in though, they wanted comments about the head & early on I could comment "looks OK but there are far too many bubbles due to the glass, I expect it will be flat soon".

Martyn1989

rubadub wrote: »

Speeds it up from what I see, head is good for a short while and then disappears, so does the fizz, its like a dead pint. Becks glasses are one of the worst, the square(ish) shaped ones, the bubbles are flying up, I was asking for it in a guinness glass instead. Tuborg glasses have it too, but it is far more gentle. I think its also partly to get you drinking faster

I was at a paid market research thing in guinness and am pretty sure the research was testing out a new glass, rather than a new beer which they strongly inferred it was. Many of the questions were about the head and carbonation. They serve a pint and tell you it should be drank in about 20-25mins, you answer questions on a computer in front of you as time goes on. I was pissed off when I got a etched glass, it was flat by the end of it as I expected.

I was able to get good comments in though, they wanted comments about the head & early on I could comment "looks OK but there are far too many bubbles due to the glass, I expect it will be flat soon".

I always noticed the becks glasses no matter what beer was in them (many customers request them for other brands) caused the beer head to have those dense dry(ish) high foamy peaks which would cause the customer to insist there was something wrong with the beer. The new fosters glasses seems to be etched in the same way, it causes more trouble then its worth.

Interesting that Guinness are looking at new glassware for the Irish market, everywhere else they've introduced those taller Heineken style glasses, Obama even got his in one. I presumed they'd just leave it as it is.