{"id":151,"date":"2007-01-28T00:28:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T00:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/describe-the-flavor-please\/"},"modified":"2012-10-31T15:22:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T21:22:29","slug":"describe-the-flavor-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/describe-the-flavor-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Describe the flavor, please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Beaumont takes the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> for its lack of, well, tasting notes in its &#8220;tasting notes.&#8221; He&#8217;s put off by the lack of meaningful descriptors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofbeer.com\/brightbeer\/globe.html\">That Beer Tastes Like What?<\/a>, he asks at World of Beer. Cutting to the chase: &#8220;It would be helpful if on occasion the words printed had at least a little meaning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are two parts to this. Back in May, a reader made an excellent comment about how developed (or underdeveloped) our <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-vocabulary-of-tasting\/\">beer vocabulary<\/a> is. That&#8217;s true among those of us who are trying. Instead of simply noting a beer&#8217;s aroma is fruity it would be better if I said melon, strawberry or banana.<\/p>\n<p>The second part, of course, is a matter of making the effort. Back to you, Mr. Beaumont:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sadly, this kind of reporting is typical of when non-beverage writers decide to turn their hands to beer and demonstrative of the lack of respect the art of brewing tends to receive in the mainstream press. &#8230; By way of comparison, flip the page and in his &#8220;Wines and Spirits&#8221;\u009d column, Beppi Crosariol describes the Babich Black Label Sauvignon Blanc as &#8220;lighter in body but still powerful and exuberant &#151;\u009d and containing big notes of gooseberry, tropical fruit and herbs &#151;\u009d ending with crisp acidity on the long finish.&#8221;\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One writer here is doing his job. And the other?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Beaumont takes the Globe and Mail for its lack of, well, tasting notes in its &#8220;tasting notes.&#8221; He&#8217;s put off by the lack of meaningful descriptors. That Beer Tastes Like What?, he asks at World of Beer. Cutting to the chase: &#8220;It would be helpful if on occasion the words printed had at least &#8230; <a title=\"Describe the flavor, please\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/describe-the-flavor-please\/\" aria-label=\"More on Describe the flavor, please\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9894,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/9894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}