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So you think women don’t know good beer? You’re wrong! The Wall Street Journal is reporting that women make better beer tasters than men, as they are more adept at recognizing complex chemicals that affect flavor. This skill is considered extremely important, not only in order to discover the desirable flavors, but also to discern which unwanted chemicals make the beer “skunky.” While some people (mostly male) have disputed women’s palate prowess, I tend to agree with this logic.
In addition to the science that shows women may have a biological edge when it comes to tasting, it has been suggested by many (including some professional female tasters) that women are also socialized to do more complex tasks related to smell, taste and pattern recognition (the world’s top female taster, Joanna Wasilewska of Poland, claims that a lifetime of memorizing perfumes gives her an edge). One of the top male tasters (who listened to women’s advice to improve his own abilities) put it this way: “sometimes guys will see red or brown and women will see shades in it.” As a man who tends to like beer and will drink just about anything that doesn’t taste like dishwater (and yes, there is such a beer), this makes perfect sense. One of the drinks that I cannot stand (wine) is often preferred by (and heavily marketed towards) women over beer, precisely because it has a more nuanced blend of flavors. One “amateur” drinker agrees with this sentiment: “I think we have a better sense of what tastes better in all aspects, food, clothes, beer.” According to one blogger, this may be why Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper chose to receive a case of notoriously awful Molson Canadian from Obama after he won a bet that the Canadian hockey team would beat the USA in the Olympics (for the record, Obama picked bilgewater Bud Light for the “beer summit” after the Henry Louis Gates arrest).
So what do you all think? Are women really the better tasters? They may as well be. They kind of invented it, so they must know what they’re talking about, right?
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I definitly agree with this. They have proven women are the superior sniffers of the species, and taste has a LOT to do with your sence of smell. And in my personal experience, my hubby will drink anything with alcohol in it, while I refuse to drink something that tastes like bilgewater. Then again, that may come from him being a sailor.
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I bet they can’t drink 15 of them,then write their name in the snow.
I almost peed myself when I read that! And I’m *still* laughing.