This week, Wine Spectator columnist Robert Camuto wrote about \u201cGetting Back My Nose After a COVID KO.\u201d<\/a> He lost his sense of smell for 14 days beginning Dec. 19 and figures he has about 20 percent back so far.<\/p>\n Camuto eventually called author Avery Gilbert, who explained the upper nose has about 400 odor receptors. Covid-19 is believed to infect surrounding support cell tissue, shutting down the whole olfactory operation. As cells regenerate, smells return.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like when your Internet goes out and the router comes back on with those blinking lights,\u201d Gilbert told him. \u201cLike those lights, your receptors are coming back online, and which one comes on next is like pulling a number out of a lottery bucket.\u201d<\/p>\n He suggested smell training to speed the recovery.<\/p>\n \u201cThroughout the day, I spontaneously embark on smell-a-thons,\u201d Camuto writes. \u201cLast week, I was excited to pick up on the scents of the dried-out Christmas tree, lemon leaves (though not the lemon), WD-40, soap, wild thyme, burned match, buttery pastry and the anachronistic scent of a very old edition of Charles Dickens\u2019 \u2018The Old Curiosity Shop.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n An aside. At the outset, Camuto writes, \u201cSome odors I don\u2019t miss at all. Like the cat box.\u201d Curious to read from a wine writer, given that he probably knows Sauvignon Blanc well. And Sauvignon Blanc contains some of the same thiols, or sulfur compounds, as hops — such as Citra, Mosaic and Galaxy — popular in modern IPAs. Working in partnership with other compounds they help produce exotic aromas and flavors currently in style. In excess, and this may also happen in Sauvignon Blanc, they may smell catty<\/em>. That’s the word you use in polite company instead of cat pee. <\/p>\n Call it destiny, but Bell\u2019s Hopslam Ale arrived in Atlanta this week. This is a beer about which John Mallett, Bell\u2019s Brewery vice president-operations, once said, \u201cIt smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.\u201d<\/p>\n So my recommendation for your weekend pleasure is a copy of \u201cWhat the Nose Knows\u201d along with a glass of Hopslam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because of Covid-19 I\u2019ve dropped in on homebrew clubs meetings in every time zone in the country. And because of Covid-19 when I am (virtually) in Cincinnati or Kansas City or wherever and talk about anosmias I can almost see heads nodding beyond my computer screen. (Should you not know, anosmia, that is loss of … 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":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hops","category-local-indigenous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4cR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173","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=16173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16177,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173\/revisions\/16177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\""What](\"https:\/\/kfi.jpm.mybluehost.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210122-noseknows.jpg\")
Looking for answers he turned to \u201cWhat the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life,\u201d a book I found essential when writing about aroma in \u201cFor the Love of Hops\u201d and one I recommend for anybody interested in unraveling the mysteries of our most complex sense.<\/p>\n