http://appellationbeer.com/blog/the-vocabulary-of-tasting/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:38:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://appellationbeer.com/blog/the-vocabulary-of-tasting/comment-page-1/#comment-180 mallace Wed, 03 May 2006 20:11:43 +0000 http://appellationbeer.com/blog/2006/05/03/the-vocabulary-of-tasting/#comment-180 Thanks for linking to a variety of sites discussing the tasting article. Being an English teacher and casual linguist (is there such a thing?), the vocabulary issue interests me greatly. I think wine has such a developed vocabulary simply because it has a much longer history of being discussed in those terms. It seems that, for a variety of reasons, beer's history of taking itself seriously enough to say such things as "notes of cassis and new leather" is much shorter. The respective pallates of beer and wine are different enough for beer to develop its own legitimate, distinct vocabulary for flavor evaluation, but it will take time. I don't get the sense beer vocabulary is developed enough right now--nor is it published often enough--to appear as distinct from wine vocabulary as it could be. Thanks for linking to a variety of sites discussing the tasting article. Being an English teacher and casual linguist (is there such a thing?), the vocabulary issue interests me greatly. I think wine has such a developed vocabulary simply because it has a much longer history of being discussed in those terms. It seems that, for a variety of reasons, beer’s history of taking itself seriously enough to say such things as “notes of cassis and new leather” is much shorter. The respective pallates of beer and wine are different enough for beer to develop its own legitimate, distinct vocabulary for flavor evaluation, but it will take time. I don’t get the sense beer vocabulary is developed enough right now–nor is it published often enough–to appear as distinct from wine vocabulary as it could be.

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