 Parzival  | 17 Apr 2013 7:23 p.m. PST |
A scientific study has determined that the "taste of beer makes people want to drink more." link Well, imagine that. How would we have ever known this without such a study?
Maybe we need to determine if it's the taste of chocolate that makes people want to eat more. Or the taste of steak (etc.), or the taste of Coca-Cola. Or wine. Or orange juice. Or lobster. Or… I suspect this "study" was just an excuse to get a government grant to pay for a series of lab parties. |
 John the OFM | 17 Apr 2013 7:28 p.m. PST |
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| charared | 17 Apr 2013 7:42 p.m. PST |
Nah. Not in my experience. Oh, you said *BEER*! That's DIFFERENT! YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH boy!!! |
 20thmaine | 18 Apr 2013 1:59 a.m. PST |
I could have done the study for a fraction of the cost. 20thMaine (for it is he) "Mmmm, this beer is very…moreish…really nice taste…., if I have the second pint are you ok to drive ?" (on so many occassions  ) |
| Whatisitgood4atwork | 18 Apr 2013 5:12 a.m. PST |
I am seeking funding for my 'Is water wet?' study. While I'm waiting for the money to roll in, I may have a beer. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 18 Apr 2013 5:26 a.m. PST |
It's the smell that bothers me… |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 18 Apr 2013 5:29 a.m. PST |
Bill there are beers that just smell bad. |
| Ditto Tango 2 3 | 18 Apr 2013 5:43 a.m. PST |
The article doesn't just say that it goes into why. I find this interesting myself.
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| 20thmaine | 18 Apr 2013 5:56 a.m. PST |
there are beers that just smell bad Must have been at least 27 years ago I had a beer called (IIRC) Painter's Porter at a beer festival. My comment on it was "it smells like turps, but it tastes amazing". Don't know the brewery – probably some short lived microbrewery or maybe a short run festival only beer – and I never saw it again. But I'd love another pint of it, or even a half. |
| doublesix66 | 18 Apr 2013 7:01 a.m. PST |
beer okay take it or leave it, lager not really, pint of black okay now Guinness that's a different kettle of fish :) mother milk as my grandad used to say. |
| richarDISNEY | 18 Apr 2013 7:32 a.m. PST |
I see that they study came from the N.S. Sherlock Institute! 
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| Last Hussar | 18 Apr 2013 11:04 a.m. PST |
Is there any chance that the Great and the Good of PMT actually read what happened before sneering? link The taste of beer, even in small quantities where alcohol will have no effect, releases dopamine. The other article does say this too. |
| napthyme | 18 Apr 2013 11:08 a.m. PST |
no way, can't stand that rotten apple pea crap people call beer here in the USA, it not only stinks its not even drinkable. YUCK. |
| 20thmaine | 18 Apr 2013 1:39 p.m. PST |
Is there any chance that the Great and the Good of PMT actually read what happened before sneering? Did you not know that the first sip of beer tastes good, makes you feel good (that's the dopamines – even if I haven't measured them), and a good pint is very moreish ? Something is "moreish" when it makes you feel good. Those "feel good feelings" are generally linked to brain chemistry. I don't think it's sneering per se to suggest that it wasn't just the alcohol that got people drinkin' the stuff. But I agree with others – American mainstream beer is just awful. Someone passed me a Bud' the other day (hadn't had one for ~10 years or more) and I couldn't drink it – no dopamines there ! |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 18 Apr 2013 6:56 p.m. PST |
there are beers that just smell bad When they first brought Steinlager from New Zealand, I swear it smelled like Parmesan cheese. But it sure did taste yummy! |
| Parzival | 19 Apr 2013 8:10 p.m. PST |
Is there any chance that the Great and the Good of PMT actually read what happened before sneering?link The taste of beer, even in small quantities where alcohol will have no effect, releases dopamine. The other article does say this too. Before you sneer at us, consider this: dopamine is what triggers the pleasure effect in the human brain. So anything that produces a pleasing sensation in the brain by definition is triggering a dopamine reaction. If you eat something and it tastes good to you and you feel good about eating it and want to eat more, dopamine is involved. And that's true whether it's beer or ice cream or steak or pie. So in that sense, the study is indeed somewhat pointless, because if beer didn't trigger a dopamine reaction in the first place, people wouldn't go past the first sip. P.S.: It doesn't seem to trigger that reaction in me, by the way. The one time I tasted beer, I thought it was the nastiest substance I'd ever had in my mouth… well, except brussel sprouts. Ditto champagne. My one sip of each convinced me I never wanted another sip. I'm not too fond of wine, either. Guess alcohol just isn't something my taste buds can get past. |
| Ditto Tango 2 3 | 20 Apr 2013 3:57 a.m. PST |
can't stand that rotten apple pea crap people call beer here in the USA, it not only stinks its not even drinkable. The lack of alcohol in US beer seems to have a lot to do with the taste. In the army we used to call it watered down moose urine – it was ridiculously weak. In Canada, we drank fool strength moose urine. In West Germany, the only place I have ever wanted to drink beer with a meal, they made it into something miraculous.
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