The Beerists Podcast - Episode 12 - CAN You Taste the Difference?
The Beerists Craft Beer Podcast
John Rubio
4.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2012
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Episode 12- CAN You Taste the Difference?
Does a beer that was canned taste different than the same beer from a bottle? This week, we put ourselves through a blind tasting to see if there we could detect a difference. Check out our results below.
Heineken
Avery White Rascal
Magic Hat #9
Paulaner Hefe-Weizen
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
New Belgium Ranger IPA
Results:
After being poured in another room, samples were presented in glasses labeled A and B. We were aware of the beer brand/type being served, but not which of our glasses contained the can sample or bottle sample. Our job was to try to determine which samples were poured from a bottle, and which were poured from a can.
John
Heineken Correct
Avery White Rascal Correct
Magic Hat #9 Correct
Paulaner Hefe-Weizen Correct
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Correct
New Belgium Ranger IPA Correct
Anastacia
Heineken Correct
Avery White Rascal Incorrect
Magic Hat #9 Correct
Paulaner Hefe-Weizen Incorrect
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Correct
New Belgium Ranger IPA Correct
Grant
Heineken Correct
Avery White Rascal Correct
Magic Hat #9 Correct
Paulaner Hefe-Weizen Incorrect
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Correct
New Belgium Ranger IPA Incorrect
Mike
Heineken Incorrect
Avery White Rascal Correct
Magic Hat #9 Correct
Paulaner Hefe-Weizen Correct
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Correct
New Belgium Ranger IPA Correct
Ryan
Heineken Correct
Avery White Rascal Incorrect
Magic Hat #9 Incorrect
Paulaner Hefe-Weizen Correct
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Correct
New Belgium Ranger IPA Correct
In conclusion, we were all able to reliably guess correctly more than 50% of the time. We also thought that the samples that came from cans most often displayed the more favorable characteristics. Additionally, the canned samples displayed fewer flaws or off-flavors in our opinions.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Beerists Podcast, episode 12, recorded on July 2nd, 2012. |
| 0:06.2 | Can you taste the difference? |
| 0:17.4 | And then I says to the guy, |
| 0:19.6 | those are my golf clubs. |
| 0:23.1 | That was amazing. |
| 0:25.3 | Mike Lambert. |
| 0:26.5 | Dix. |
| 0:27.1 | Mike Lambert. |
| 0:28.4 | I've been really looking forward to this one. |
| 0:30.6 | Today we're going to be doing a little test. |
| 0:33.4 | It's going to be a little exercise, a little fun exercise, not scientific at all by any stretch before any of you guys send any comments and going, but they're not the same from the same batch of blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:44.4 | We're doing this as best as we can. |
| 0:46.1 | No, fuck them. |
| 0:46.7 | It's scientific. |
| 0:47.6 | All the way. |
| 0:48.6 | All the way. |
| 0:49.4 | Go science. |
| 0:50.2 | No. |
| 0:50.5 | Write us all kinds of angry emails. |
| 0:52.3 | I don't care. We're going to be tasting six different beers in bottles and in cans. |
| 0:58.0 | Same beer, one sample in bottle, one sample in a can, or from a can, I should say. |
| 1:04.0 | There's going to be somebody else pouring these beers. |
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