Artificial Tongue

[contrahead]

(this might belong under Flavoring and Aging – but I'll let a mod move it / or not).

“An artificial tongue capable of distinguishing between different brands of whisky”...
… "It's analogous to taste in that we are building up a statistical profile of the chemical mixture within that liquid," said Clark”.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08 ... -the-call/

What surprised me was that a good percentage of the really rare and expensive Scotches are fake. This BBC story was already linked to from the Ars story above.

Third of rare Scotch whiskies tested found to be fake