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Ive got a friend who swears that he can detect a taste difference between Bud regular in a can, in a bottle and a longneck bottle.

I can possibly understand the difference of taste from alum can to glass, but is it possible for there to be taste distinctions between a beer stored in a bottle, based on the shape of the bottle...??

It seems to me that glass, and to some extent aluminum cans used to the storage of liquids consumed by humans, is an inert substance that imparts neither flavors or character upon the liquid stored therein. And that there would be far more variation in product flavor from "batch to batch" based on hundreds of other factors, than a human could detect from whether or not the product was stored in an alum can or a bottle of one shape or the other ??

Anyone here have a scientific explanation to disprove his theory.... I honestly think that 2/3 of the taste variations reported by most people, relative to bottle type etc of beers, are mostly psychological and influenced by a person's sometimes stubbornly held belief that is not supported by logic or science.

After all, wine stored in glass bottles does not acquire flavor or character from the glass, but instead from the chemical process of aging/decomposition of the substance itself ??

Sounds like a good time for a nice friendly wager between you and your friend. Buy a can, bottle, and longneck bottle of Bud. Pour the beer into colored glasses without your friend knowing which beer is where. Write down which beer is where before your friend tastes them so you can show them the results. See if you friend can identify each beer.

Better yet switch your friends beer to Miller. He will thank you later

Anonymous wrote:Ive got a friend who swears that he can detect a taste difference between Bud regular in a can, in a bottle and a longneck bottle.

I can possibly understand the difference of taste from alum can to glass, but is it possible for there to be taste distinctions between a beer stored in a bottle, based on the shape of the bottle...??

I seems completely possibe to me that the three different packagings of bud you mention are really very different things.

Anweiser Busch has hundreds of plants across the country and it's vompletely reasonable to assume that those three are made in three different factories, shipped inj different ways and manufactured with differing processes... different pasturization temps... gas charge pressures.... different grain sources.... different protocols followed or ignored for maintaining and cleaning filling equipment.

Budweiser is certianly not a consistant product from one geological location to another (its consistantly foul certianly but it is not vile in a consistant way) it seems that their nod to product consistancy is to make an amazing variety of characterless chemical tasting piss and hope that anyone thick enough to actually drink the stuff is probably not particularly discerning.

Your buddy is probably a person with a natural tasting ability but with an underdeveloped asthetic sense. otherwise he'd never have noticed the difference cause he wouldn't be drinking it.

Now quit pickin on the King of beers. 10 000 red necks cant be wrong.LOl Where you been Fourway? Not seen ya around.

tater wrote:Now quit pickin on the King of beers. 10 000 red necks cant be wrong.LOl

Hell, I've seen way more than 10,000 being wrong... in New York State alone you can find several million red necks rooting for The Buffalo Bills. Can't get much wronger than that.

tater wrote:Where you been Fourway? Not seen ya around.

I'm around... just having a busy week or three.

if we are talkin beer forget bud or miller go with the micros we have 1 here Black Widdow good and thinck and dark because you know what they say once you go black you will never go back
my def of a light beer hold up the glass if you can see through it it's a light beer

i know i can detect the difference between a can and a stubbie, but not a stubbie and a long neck lol

Yttrium wrote:Sounds like a good time for a nice friendly wager between you and your friend. Buy a can, bottle, and longneck bottle of Bud. Pour the beer into colored glasses without your friend knowing which beer is where. Write down which beer is where before your friend tastes them so you can show them the results. See if you friend can identify each beer.

Get someone else to serve the beer and record the results - join your friend - repeat the test about 100 times to get a statistically significant result.
Then it would be a double blind trial.

fish wrote:Better yet switch your friends beer to Miller. He will thank you later

Or better yet switch to coors original not that light stuff

Honestly i can taste the difference between cans and longneck i guess ive never had bottles or seen them