Mapping The Taste Of Beer

|Mapping the Taste of Beer |
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|A direct comparison of 60 European beer brands|
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|A German sensory researchinstitute has made a new European survey mapping out various taste characteristics of European beers. |
|With the help of sensory profiles, 60 of the most popular pils, lager, and lightbeers from 16 different countries can now be |
|directly compared. |
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|Beer is a very popular drink world-wide. There is analmost unlimited number of brands. Europe has about 1660 breweries, of which |
|1279 are in Germany, the heart land of beer culture. When comparing various sorts of beer, brewers focusprimarily on such chemical|
|and physical properties as the percentage of original wort, the amount of alcohol, the degree of fermentation, the ph-level, and |
|the grade of bitterness, colour,etc. |
|However, the brewers' descriptions of the similarities and differences of various beertastes is still very subjective and |
|imprecise. Sensory taste profiles can help in clarifying and objectifying these descriptions. |
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