Best base beer for Sensory Training Kit?

[EinGutesBiersSWMBO]

So, I ordered a Sensory Training Kit from Siebel Institute for our homebrew club. It's the 24 flavor kit. We plan on breaking them down to do 4 a meeting, as to not overkill our taste buds.

Now, the kit requires a good clean base beer to blend these off flavors with. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good base beer?

I want to stick with the same base for each set of tests we do. I've heard of people using Sam Adams Light, and Miller Lite, or PBR. I was thinking maybe Sierra Nevada Pale.

Thoughts or suggestions?

Training kit flavors included:

Acetaldehyde
Acetic
Almond
Butyric
Diacetyl
D.M.S.
Earthy
Mercaptan
Ethyl acetate
Lactic
Ethyl hexanoate
Spicy
Metallic
Geraniol
Indole
Isoamyl acetate
Grainy
Isovaleric
Caprylic
Papery
Vanilla
Bitter
Infection
Hefeweizen​

 

[Indianhead_Brewer]

Hmmmmm. Interesting question. I'm interested to see what others have to say about this. My vote would be for one of the Lite American Lagers (Coors Light/Miller Lite) since they are clean tasting and there aren't really any other flavors interfering with the ones you are trying to isolate through your sensory analysis. I would think think having a blank palate to work with in this case would be better than using something like Sierra Nevada. Plus seems like a waste of a good pale ale.

Cheers!

 

[CadillacAndy]

When we did the kit with our BJCP study group, we used Coors Original. The idea is to really get an idea of the if flavor, so something like SNPA wouldn't be my top choice. Miller Lite or PBR would be good choices too.

 

[dcp27]

i've done it with gansett & pbr, both worked well. like cadillaccandy mentioned, SNPA would be much more challenging to get an idea of the flavor. IME not all of the flavors are of equal strength so you want as little to compete with as possible otherwise you may really struggle to get some at all

 

[Bsquared]

One of our members took a course at siebel and he said they used budweiser, and thats what we used when our club did the training kit. just don't use bud-light its full of acetaldehyde.

 

[EinGutesBiersSWMBO]

Thanks for the recommendations! We went with PBR as it's pretty cheap and still has some flavor. It wasn't so easy that the flaw was completely given away, but you could tell that it was different.

The flavor kit was a big hit and I think everyone took away a lot from the meeting.

 

[motleybrews]

I have studied at Siebel. They use Budweiser.