{"id":5293,"date":"2010-11-30T17:52:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T23:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2012-11-01T17:45:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:45:30","slug":"hold-your-nose-then-sip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/hold-your-nose-then-sip\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold your nose, then sip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20101130-nose.jpg\" alt=\"Is that your nose?\" class=\"alignright\"\/>OK, not necessarily something you want to do in public. But both a good way to learn a little more about the beer you are drinking and your own senses.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of the value of tasting without first smelling while grinding through an academic paper related to hops (I try to tackle several a day because I have quite a collection). In this case the researchers were evaluating the bitterness intensity of various samples, and panelists wore nose plugs.<\/p>\n<p>No need to do that at home. A simple squeeze will do. Take a sip without the benefit of &#8220;olfactory influences,&#8221; then one with. Or vice versa. Doesn&#8217;t even have to be a hop-heavy beer, although the results can be pretty interesting with a dry-hopped one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, not necessarily something you want to do in public. But both a good way to learn a little more about the beer you are drinking and your own senses. I was reminded of the value of tasting without first smelling while grinding through an academic paper related to hops (I try to tackle several &#8230; <a title=\"Hold your nose, then sip\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/hold-your-nose-then-sip\/\" aria-label=\"More on Hold your nose, then sip\">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":[36],"tags":[448],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hops","tag-aroma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1nn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","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=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10165,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/10165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}