{"id":14538,"date":"2017-03-09T07:40:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T13:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=14538"},"modified":"2017-03-09T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T15:08:08","slug":"but-is-juicy-a-flavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/but-is-juicy-a-flavor\/","title":{"rendered":"But is ‘juicy’ a flavor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best read post here, on an cumulative basis, is “Words to describe the beer you are tasting.”<\/a> From nine years ago. Quite honestly, readers arrive via a search engine, read that post, check out nothing else here, and leave. The point is they are searching.<\/p>\n

\"FlavorThey might be better off forking over $16 (plus shipping) to buy their own Beer Flavor Map<\/a>. You can read more about it here<\/a>. It works like this: flavor is broken into three color-coded categories \u2014 Taste, Aroma and Mouthfeel. Within each there are sub-categories, so under Spicy you will find licorice, clove, cinnamon, etc.
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Not many of the flavors featured in a book that recently showed up at our local library — Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine<\/a><\/em>\"\"— are on that map, but maybe they should, or will, be.<\/p>\n

Real quickly, author Sarah Lohman — an historical gastronomist <\/em> — uses the history and stories behind eight ingredients to describe American cuisine. I don’t think I am spoiling much by listing them: black pepper, vanilla, chili powder, curry powder, soy sauce, garlic, monosodium glutamate (MSG), and sriracha.<\/p>\n

In the epilogue she describes an important ninth flavor: new.<\/em> She writes, “The American kitchen is not static; it’s cumulative, and it evolves. Ten years ago, I had not heard of Sriracha, and now it is in every refrigerator I open (at least, those stocked by millennials). And in the next decade, or the next century, our cuisine will continue to change. Which means a new flavor will earn a permanent place in Americans’ hearts and stomachs.” And she proceeds to examine candidates for the next new flavor.<\/p>\n

Drinkers, brewers, trendspotters are trying to do the same with beer. Maybe there is a Seven Flavors of Beer<\/em> (or eight or four or whatever) in the works. Think one chapter will be called juicy<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best read post here, on an cumulative basis, is “Words to describe the beer you are tasting.” From nine years ago. Quite honestly, readers arrive via a search engine, read that post, check out nothing else here, and leave. The point is they are searching. They might be better off forking over $16 (plus … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,36,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-hops","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3Mu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14542,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538\/revisions\/14542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}