{"id":16319,"date":"2012-06-14T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2018-01-04T12:03:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T17:03:13","slug":"gift-lab-beer-tasting-tool-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2012\/gift-lab-beer-tasting-tool-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Lab: Beer Tasting Tool Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

When most of us are confronted with the prospect of working over the weekend it often involves shuffling plans and muffling expletives. Luckily, at UncommonGoods we treat it like any other weekend and turn the mundane into a festival of flavor and fermentation. What follows is our rigorous \u201ctesting\u201d of the Beer Tasting Tool Kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hypothesis:<\/strong>
\nWith this Beer Tasting Tool Kit my friends, colleagues, and I will be able to distinguish the difference between dunkels and doppelbocks, lagers and lambics. If not, we will have a good time trying!<\/p>\n

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Experiment:<\/strong>
\nWe assembled a team of 8 imbibers to evaluate a cornucopia of beers springing from Brooklyn to Bavaria and beyond. The kit includes numbered paper bags for each bottle to encourage blind taste tests. Maybe it was this brown-bagging or the lack of a spit bucket, but this was surely no wine tasting garden party. With a pitcher of water and plenty of snacks on hand, we were ready to get started. <\/p>\n

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Adhering to the kit\u2019s main tenets of \u201cSee, Smell, Sip, Swallow,\u201d we began with the bag labeled #1. After each sampling we filled out tasting cards, measuring the levels to which we detected specific flavors (Creamy, Bitter, Hoppy) as well as notes related to the 4 S\u2019s (Stephanie noted one beer\u2019s smell was akin to \u201cshoes\u201d whereas I found chocolatey hues!). Comparing our notes after each round was as much fun as tasting the beers (some of which were downright painful…I\u2019m talking about you Mr. Double IPA). <\/p>\n

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Conclusion(s): <\/strong>
\nWe were learning a lot and every new pour made us thirsty for more, but unfortunately, the game came to its inevitable end when we ran out of beer. Perhaps most telling was the fact that our palates need some refining\u2014we were all over the map in describing the taste impressions of each beer. But with further studying of the kit\u2019s super informative fact book and a few more sessions of Saisons and Scotch Ales we will all be beer-tasting connoisseurs! <\/p>\n

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