Comments on: You don’t want to be a supertaster http://appellationbeer.com/blog/you-dont-want-to-be-a-supertaster/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:38:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SteveH http://appellationbeer.com/blog/you-dont-want-to-be-a-supertaster/comment-page-1/#comment-34083 SteveH Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:17:42 +0000 http://appellationbeer.com/blog/you-dont-want-to-be-a-supertaster/#comment-34083 A chosen few? No, I personally think flavor appreciation can be learned and cultivated. On the other hand, reading about such individual and idiosyncratic tasting perceptions is pretty revealing. Makes me wonder if the less-than-supertasters can talk on a more similar level. We perceive ceratin characteristics, but maybe not to such a heightened level as Parker or Steinberger? Then again, I've recently noticed that super-hopped beers are becoming more repugnant and unpleasant to my palate -- maybe I'm learning and developing too much! ;) But I suppose that could be a badly blended recipe too -- uh oh, another factor to contemplate! A chosen few? No, I personally think flavor appreciation can be learned and cultivated. On the other hand, reading about such individual and idiosyncratic tasting perceptions is pretty revealing. Makes me wonder if the less-than-supertasters can talk on a more similar level. We perceive ceratin characteristics, but maybe not to such a heightened level as Parker or Steinberger?

Then again, I’ve recently noticed that super-hopped beers are becoming more repugnant and unpleasant to my palate — maybe I’m learning and developing too much! ;)

But I suppose that could be a badly blended recipe too — uh oh, another factor to contemplate!

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