Dec. 29, 2010

Beer Tasting – How To Really Do It

Drinking beer can be as simple as chugging it down after opening its can. But in order to really taste beer, gulping it down is not enough. You don’t get to enjoy it. You won’t be able to distinguish the flavors and the feel of it in your mouth. In order to do that, one has to take it slow.

Step 1: Pour

Beer is best tasted in a glass. Drinking from the bottle or the can does not do the beer justice. It has to be released from its container in order for you to be able to smell it and to see it. While you can pour the beer in the glass in any way you like, there is a recommended way. Let the beer run gently along the side of the glass. Try to make the head or foam have a two-finger width. There are actually different beer glasses that exist, but let’s avoid the complication and use a regular glass.

Step 2: Check The Looks

Good food tastes good. Really good food tastes good and looks good. Same with beer. You have to observe the characteristics of the beer. What’s the color of the head? Does it evaporate immediately? Is the liquid clear or cloudy? Traditional brewers always bring a candle in order to check the clarity and color of beer through it. Holding it up to the light will do for us, regular folk.

Step 3: Take A Good Whiff

Many people don’t think much of smell but it is one of the most important of our senses. Our sense of smell directly affects our sense of taste. Not smelling the beer would rob us of one of the joys of beer. Check if the smell is dominated by hops or malt. Also, check if there is a skunky smell. If the skunky smell is present, the head doesn’t look healthy, and the liquid is turbid, watch out! You might have been sold beer that’s gone bad.

Step 4: Drink

Some beer snobs would recommend that you take sips. But, come on. This is beer! Take a drink and let it wash over your tongue. Make sure that your tongue can taste the sweetness and the bitterness by sending the beer to the different places in your tongue. Or by taking a nice gulp.

Step 5: Feel

Your mouth cannot only taste, it can also feel. Mouthfeel is one of the important characteristics of beer. Does it feel like it has light body? Or a heavy one? Is it silky or thick?

Step 6: Finish

After swallowing the gulp, note the flavors that remain. Is it bitter or sweet? How long does it last? This part is called the finish

Now you’ve drunk the beer in this way, what do you think of beer now? Try tasting different kinds of beer. When drinking many beers, try drinking water or eating crackers in between so the taste won’t blend.

Jonathan Russell is an artist and blogger that has been writing articles on many different topics for the last 2 years. You can find him at http://topbeerbrands.com, a website dedicated to another alcoholic drink, beer, and top beer brands of the world.

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Aug. 4, 2010

Drinking beer

One says that the people who as the beer is easy to be attracted by new things, and they have taste of art and easy to obtain along with. In this summer, the popular festival of the beer happens one after another one in diverse regions of China. Dalian, Qingdao, Tianjing and Harbin everything give to visitors to house and to the outside an occasion to enjoy the delicious beer. If you are a lover of the beer and has an occasion to visit China in this time and to participate in the banquet of the beer, you can have a taste of world-wide beers. At the same time, you must pay the attention to some extremities what can help him to maintain healthy. Don’ overdrink of t Drinks too much beer will increase once the content of plombemia. Overdrinking will do during long time the fat piled up one, that will affect the function of the heart it will check and it, to even ruin to the neurons. Don’ beer of the drink of t with the turpentine spirit the beer of the together drink and the turpentine spirit, or drink the mixture of both will stimulate archenteron more, and finally cause you disorder of the digestion. Don’ drink of t the beer that exceeds the limit time the common beer can preserve for two months, and the last superior of the beer power four months, but the beer of the bulk can be only deposited by 5 to 10 days. It is easy to cause to diarrhoea or the envenenamiento if people drink the slow beer. Don’ beer of the drink of t if one has disease of the digestive system If a person who undergoes chronic gastritis, the gastric ulcer or the duodenal ulcer of the bulb drinks the beer, is easy to cause the stomach and the accumulation of the pressure of the intestine, that will take to the gastric ulcer and the gastric perforation, even puts in danger its life. Don’ beer of the drink of t when one is sweating When a person is sweating, their pores of the sweat gland will be extended, and if he drinks the beer at that time, the pores will be closed quickly when they make contact with enemy with coldness suddenly. This process will choke the heat of the body that loosen and will cause some diseases, such as cold. Don’ pills of the taking of t with the beer the mixture of beer and the pills not only increase the acidity, but also they affect the absorption of the blood, they reduce the curative drug effect, even produce some indirect effect. It will cause more terrible consequences if a taking the antibiotic, the hypotensor, the sedative and the anticoagulant with the beer. Don’ bacon of the taking of t or food conserved in vinegar with the beer the bacon or the food conserved in vinegar contains organic amine and the ramification of carbámico acid. The amount of beer in the body reaches a fixed value, that can increase the content of plombemia. If people at that time eat the bacon or the food conserved in vinegar, she is easy to suffer disease of the digestive zone. Don’ beer of the subsistence of t in bottle of thermos the Cause easily reactions when contact of the beer with mercury, cadmium, arsenic and lead in the incrustation of the bottle of the thermos, that will give rise to the envenenamiento of the metal.

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