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Originally Posted by Calvert Hall '62
Back in the day, you could tell which beer was which, even if wearing a blindfold.
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Not really. I recall back in the mid-70s for my Consumer Behavior 201 class we did a beer tasting (back when you could drink at 18 in Connecticut, so we all had considerable beer experience at 20, lol).
Five beers, blind tasting. Miller (the clear bottle 'champagne' version), Bud, Schlitz, Pabst, Naragansett. I figured Miller would be a piece of cake and while I got it right, it wasn't as distinctive as I'd thought. Got the other four all mixed up. Nobody in the class got more than 3 of 5 and that was maybe 2-3 people.
I went in figuring Bud would be sweetest, 'gansett the worst tasting, Pabst the most carbonated, so I'd get Schiltz by process of elimination. Turns out I voted 'gansett the best tasting - as did the entire class, by a wide margin.
There might have been some others that would've been easier to figure out. Schaefer had over the top carbonation (it was our summer soda when doing housepainting), Rheingold was most bitter - my dad used to salt his. But for the national/superregional brands - turns out they were pretty much interchangeable.
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