When people say your home beer tastes like a guiness, or a heineken, or a hoegaarden, or a bud light... and you know it doesn't (or shouldn't) at all.
What do you say?
I haven't had it happen yet, mainly because I'm the least beer knowledgable amongst my friends. But I know I've said it before.
There are idiots who are talking out there *censored*, ignore or ridicule them as you wish.
But the rest of the people are trying to associate a taste. I think you should ask them how it tastes like a _______ compared to another beer they like.
If they say your saison tastes like a bud or bud light, they may be picking up the familiarity of pilsner malt.
If they say your oatmeal stout tastes like a brown ale, they may be collating the nutty flavors that can be present in each.
If there beer referrences are Coors and Guinness then your IPA is going to taste like a Coors, and your wee heavy is going to taste like a Guinnes. Both are wrong, and can be insulting. But if you can add context to there comment they may have some interesting insight.
Also new beer drinkers are hesitant to use certain terms to describe a beer, especially YOUR beer-to YOU. Imagine never having tasted a saison... your friend gives you a beer they made... how do you tell them it tastes like sweat? Hell, it's kind of hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that I like drinking something that tastes like sweat.
What do you say?
I haven't had it happen yet, mainly because I'm the least beer knowledgable amongst my friends. But I know I've said it before.
There are idiots who are talking out there *censored*, ignore or ridicule them as you wish.
But the rest of the people are trying to associate a taste. I think you should ask them how it tastes like a _______ compared to another beer they like.
If they say your saison tastes like a bud or bud light, they may be picking up the familiarity of pilsner malt.
If they say your oatmeal stout tastes like a brown ale, they may be collating the nutty flavors that can be present in each.
If there beer referrences are Coors and Guinness then your IPA is going to taste like a Coors, and your wee heavy is going to taste like a Guinnes. Both are wrong, and can be insulting. But if you can add context to there comment they may have some interesting insight.
Also new beer drinkers are hesitant to use certain terms to describe a beer, especially YOUR beer-to YOU. Imagine never having tasted a saison... your friend gives you a beer they made... how do you tell them it tastes like sweat? Hell, it's kind of hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that I like drinking something that tastes like sweat.