Why taste different beers?
• To find out which beers taste good and which you would drink again, and perhaps to learn about beer and foods that taste good together. • To learn about stylistic diversity of beer and even variances within a particular style. • To identify the ingredients and their respective balance in the beer revealing the complexities available due to variations in recipes and procedures in the brewing art. • You like beer. • Variety is the spice of life. The essential difference in well made beers are how it tastes and this can be, sometimes, very individual. Understanding this, it is important to know the “real thing” when you taste it to put others in perspective. It should be similar to the experience of tasting Roquefort Bleu cheese or a fresh, vine picked tomato. Roquefort Blue cheese put all other blue cheeses in context, just as a fresh, vine ripened tomato puts canned or hot-house tomatoes in context.
