Can anyone describe the taste of their favorite beer?

Question

I'm wondering how to distinguish between a good beer and a not so good beer.

Answer 1

Good beer can taste 100's of different ways, same with bad beer. Good beer will be rich in flavor, complex if you will. It will have subtle notes to the taste and after taste. Sometimes of chocolate or banana or fruit or raisin or any number of other things. The mouth feel will be pleasant... sometimes bubbly, sometimes smooth.

Bad beer will generally be flat in flavor with little to no complexity to it. Often it is over carbonated and served ice cold to mask the flavor.

Review from beeradvocate.com for Bud Light by the Bros:

Presentation: 22 oz brown wide mouth bottle, “born on date” on the label for freshness. This sample was pour into a frozen mug to bring it to optimum temperature.

Appearance: Palest yellow that a beer could be you would guess, almost colourless to a point. Exceptional clarity with a faint wispy white lace.

Smell: Very clean aroma, nearly nothing there. Cereal grains and a light whiff of filtered grain reaches the nose.

Taste: Very light bodied, close to bone dry. Thin seltzer like mouth feel. Virtually no hops noticeable to the tongue until the crispness kicks and subsides … bitterness seems to only ride the wave of seltzer like carbonation, but little at that. Malt is extremely thin and scant to the palate. Touch of grain and husk in the flavour but that is about it. Bone dry finish comes to no surprise.

Notes: This beer is for the tasteless beer drinker that thinks there is only ONE beer out there. You may as well drink some seltzer water with alcohol added to it … get the picture, you are not a real beer drinker!

For St. Bernardus Abt 12:

Appearance: The glass is rimming with lace, hazed brown colour gives the appearance some depth.

Smell: A spike of clove, layers of ripe fruit and malt sweetness are what the aroma is all about.

Taste: Clove is certain to be the first flavour you taste as it rides the wave of sweetness, big brown sugar flavour with some cake like malty qualities. Some buttery and phenolic flavours shoot to the palate in the middle to make it a bit juicy. Some earth and carob flavours in the mix. Alcohol is a little evident, it hiding under the sweetness right behind the fruity flavour that soon flare into esters and mild solvent flavours. Finishes sweet and warming.

Mouthfeel: Exceedingly smooth with a creamy full body after the smoothness moves through.

Drinkability & Notes: I’d have no problem sipping this all night long. A heavenly abbey ale that goes down as one of the best for me.

Answer 2

Beers vary in flavor drastically. India Pale Ales are very often bitter with citrusy or floral notes and very little malt character. Scottish ales are just the opposite; they're malty with little hop character.

If you can't describe what beer you're tasting, chances are it a cheap megabrewed beer.

Answer 3

It tastes like abdomen acid that comes up once you dry heave. heavily.. lol. i do in contrast to beer. I pay attention Miller Lite is worse than maximum (and is in simple terms a notch above PBR, that's what human beings drink whilst they have little or no money.. lol). i won't be able to tell the version.. all of them style an identical to me.. nicely, Bud gentle develop right into somewhat extra watered down and had an icier and smoother style, yet nevertheless gross. My dad develop right into a lager drinker and we lived in Germany for extremely virtually 10 years, so I have been given uncovered to a super sort of distinctive manufacturers. He finally beloved Heineken the ideal. My husband likes Budweiser and Corona the ideal.

Answer 4

Not so good beer: Bud, Coors, Miller, Pabst, Hamms, anything by Sam Adams, etc.

Good beer: Widmer Hefeweisen on tap (not out of a bottle, doesn't taste the same at all), Bass, Heineken, Guiness, any microbrew (except I hate Fat Tire), etc.