Describing a beer

[stevenjhepburn]

I'm currently drinking a local craft beer from Orkney. Looking to find some more information about it, I found a beer rating website where various users describe the smell/taste very differently- from honey, butterscotch, peaches, caramel, fruits, grass, and flowers to citrus, red fruit, toffee, peach, orange, lime, raisins, lavender, and butter.

They're bonkers, right?

[motco]

stevenjhepburn said:

I'm currently drinking a local craft beer from Orkney. Looking to find some more information about it, I found a beer rating website where various users describe the smell/taste very differently- from honey, butterscotch, peaches, caramel, fruits, grass, and flowers to citrus, red fruit, toffee, peach, orange, lime, raisins, lavender, and butter.

They're bonkers, right?

I suspect that developing a personal vocabulary for wine/beer/any other food or drink, is the clue to becoming as successful food critic. Jilly Goolden's "cat-wee" and "pencil shavings", and other bizarre terms, set her apart from the more mundane efforts. It almost doesn't matter whether you can differentiate between samples as long as you entertain the audience - they cannot taste it anyway!

[Truckosaurus]

I had a beer on Saturday (Summer Cloudy from The Beershed in Bury St Edmunds) that tasted of bananas.

Most beer tastes of beer though.

(Similarly, I got some coffee from the Smokey Barn fellow on here that claimed to taste like blueberry muffins which I assumed was pretentious nonsense but it actually did. Again, most coffee tastes of coffee to me.)