Thanks to all of those who chimed in on the meaning of the word “phenolic.”<\/p>\n
Your answers prove it’s not a useful word<\/a> for a drinking note.<\/p>\n This is where it started. When I sat in for the Sunday Session on The Brewing Network<\/a> a question came up: What’s the difference between phenols and esters? I blew it off, mostly because I knew if I started I could have the audience snoozing in a matter of minutes, and still have plenty of words left over. There are several sources of phenols and we perceive them in a variety of ways (though not all drinkers equally).<\/p>\n This show is mostly for homebrewers so a fair question. Just one I need to come up with a short answer for. I mentioned this to my wife, the first beer writer in our family, and she had a quick answer. “Phenols are bad, right? And esters are good,” she said, tongue in cheek<\/em>. “That’s they way people talk about them.”<\/p>\n Many of the comments prove her point.<\/p>\n Thanks for playing along. I suspect it will make my short answer better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to all of those who chimed in on the meaning of the word “phenolic.” Your answers prove it’s not a useful word for a drinking note. This is where it started. When I sat in for the Sunday Session on The Brewing Network a question came up: What’s the difference between phenols and esters? … 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":[265,264],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-esters","tag-phenols"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-UX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","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=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10181,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions\/10181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}