I'm wondering how different different peoples' ability to taste is. Here's where I'm coming from:
My neighbor and I both enjoy craft beer and we've started homebrewing. We often compare tasting notes on the beers we try. Recently there have been two times when I was able to discern a flavor that was detrimental to the beers, but in both cases my friend did not pick up those flavors and thought both beers were great.
The two examples are:
1. Stone Enjoy By 2/14/14 - I discerned distinct onion/garlic in the aroma and taste of this beer and rated it somewhat poorly in Beer Advocate. My buddy thought it was great and rated it highly.
2. We brewed an all-Citra Zombie Dust clone. In this one, the aroma is awesome at first - all tropical mango, pineapple, etc, but to me this aroma is replaced by a 'cat piss' aroma after about 5 minutes in the glass. It's not really detrimental but it's definitely there. My buddy does not pick this out at all.
Do we all have different capacity to pick out flavors? Am I a 'super taster'?
My neighbor and I both enjoy craft beer and we've started homebrewing. We often compare tasting notes on the beers we try. Recently there have been two times when I was able to discern a flavor that was detrimental to the beers, but in both cases my friend did not pick up those flavors and thought both beers were great.
The two examples are:
1. Stone Enjoy By 2/14/14 - I discerned distinct onion/garlic in the aroma and taste of this beer and rated it somewhat poorly in Beer Advocate. My buddy thought it was great and rated it highly.
2. We brewed an all-Citra Zombie Dust clone. In this one, the aroma is awesome at first - all tropical mango, pineapple, etc, but to me this aroma is replaced by a 'cat piss' aroma after about 5 minutes in the glass. It's not really detrimental but it's definitely there. My buddy does not pick this out at all.
Do we all have different capacity to pick out flavors? Am I a 'super taster'?