Monthly Archives: February 2017

Tasting snifters are ideal for that friend who might desert a good beer, letting it get hot and flat, because they realized two sips deep that they weren't psyched. Save your precious suds by having that traitor taste test.

Sure, you can identify that you like the hop flavor in your beer, but do you know which hop is doing the work? Craft breweries often list which hops were used on the beer's packaging, but sometimes they leave it a mystery. Something smells like mangoes and papayas in there, and you know this isn't a fruit beer. Maybe that piney taste really turns you off, and you want to know which hop is responsible.