Comments on: Not good enough. http://beerwineandwhisky.com/2008/05/29/not-good-enough/ Adventures in alcohol. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dave http://beerwineandwhisky.com/2008/05/29/not-good-enough/#comment-126 Dave Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:25:13 +0000 http://beerwinewhisky.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-126 Nice to see you here, Jeremy! Let's definitely get together for a beer soon. Nice to see you here, Jeremy! Let’s definitely get together for a beer soon.

]]> By: Jeremy http://beerwineandwhisky.com/2008/05/29/not-good-enough/#comment-125 Jeremy Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:36:14 +0000 http://beerwinewhisky.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-125 Best of luck returning to an ideal beer-reviewing state! I will follow your blog and, with hope, hoist a few with you! Jeremy Best of luck returning to an ideal beer-reviewing state! I will follow your blog and, with hope, hoist a few with you!

Jeremy

]]> By: Annie http://beerwineandwhisky.com/2008/05/29/not-good-enough/#comment-122 Annie Fri, 30 May 2008 18:54:29 +0000 http://beerwinewhisky.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-122 what you experienced is not uncommon. you don't have to be 'stuffed up' to have your palate/sense of smell impaired. Since you were outside, and the allergen count in STL is grossly out of whack this year and terribly high, you probably had a small histamine reaction, developed a thin layer of mucus on your nasal cilia therefore impeding your sense of smell and accordingly your sense of taste. next time just pop an allegra or benadryl...you'll be good to go in about 30 minutes. the problem with a tasting of spirit, wine, beer, etc....boils down to human error and/or situational barriers like you suggest.....the same types of problems we have with scientific experiments. Very rarely can we have a perfect control to compare our test samples to. We do the best with what we have...make our hypothesis from them and use trial and error to come up with a conclusion.....just like we do with tasting wine, beer or whiskey. some days it works....other days it's funked up. what you experienced is not uncommon. you don’t have to be ‘stuffed up’ to have your palate/sense of smell impaired. Since you were outside, and the allergen count in STL is grossly out of whack this year and terribly high, you probably had a small histamine reaction, developed a thin layer of mucus on your nasal cilia therefore impeding your sense of smell and accordingly your sense of taste. next time just pop an allegra or benadryl…you’ll be good to go in about 30 minutes.

the problem with a tasting of spirit, wine, beer, etc….boils down to human error and/or situational barriers like you suggest…..the same types of problems we have with scientific experiments. Very rarely can we have a perfect control to compare our test samples to. We do the best with what we have…make our hypothesis from them and use trial and error to come up with a conclusion…..just like we do with tasting wine, beer or whiskey. some days it works….other days it’s funked up.

]]> By: Alcohol Posts » Not good enough. http://beerwineandwhisky.com/2008/05/29/not-good-enough/#comment-121 Alcohol Posts » Not good enough. Fri, 30 May 2008 14:03:43 +0000 http://beerwinewhisky.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-121 [...] Dave wrote a fantastic post today on “Not good enough.”Here’s ONLY a quick extractI like the brewery a lot, and there aren’t many reviews of the beer yet on the beer websites, so I thought I’d put one up. I only have one bottle left, and I’m not stumping up for another mix pack anytime soon, having coughed up for … [...] [...] Dave wrote a fantastic post today on “Not good enough.”Here’s ONLY a quick extractI like the brewery a lot, and there aren’t many reviews of the beer yet on the beer websites, so I thought I’d put one up. I only have one bottle left, and I’m not stumping up for another mix pack anytime soon, having coughed up for … [...]

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