Dry hopping just adds aroma

[Ó Flannagáin]

Did I make this myth up? I feel like when I hear dry hopping=aroma so much it kind of means it doesn't add flavor. But I swear there is a more potent flavor too.

[MrMarbleHead]

I think that it is percived flavor.

Look at Pyramid apracot beer, when I toured the brewery a few years ago the guy was telling us that the extract they use in that beer ONLY adds an apricot aroma, they flavor that everyone talks about in that beer is all percived.

[Hicksey5]

After trying so many beer i really think that taste or flavor is so crazy. If beers say it taste like "whatever" 80% of people will taste it. I think your brain is WAY crazier than people give it credit for. Even watching O'flan's reviews and then drinking the beers the flavors he taste I taste because my brain is ready to taste them. I have never really dealt with with this until i started drinking crazier beers and it really makes me wonder sometimes. But I say if it doesn't add flavors it makes your brain add them, and your brain makes all the flavors so are they really there or not...... That is the question.


I am VERY VERY Drunk and had to prooof read this like 5 times so forgive me if it makes no sense.

[Ó Flannagáin]

Good drunk write-up Hicksey!! I really think it's there, and I don't see how it could not be. I mean shit, hops are some potents things, how could you add them and not get any flavor from them??

[Hicksey5]

To be honest i know they have there "juices" or whatever but I don't get how they put flavors in beer at all its just a plant that looks like weed WTF. I just don't get how someone somewhere decided i'm going to boil this and then it turns out to be the bases of beer. It's some crazy shit. But I guess, electricity or the telephone is a little crazier.


Side note..I honestly think dry hopping is better than phones....I hate phones..

[karmabrew]

Side note..I honestly think dry hopping is better than phones....I hate phones..

+1 to that!! :alc:

[Ó Flannagáin]

+1 to that!! :alc:

:k2::k2:

[Ope08]

Isn't 95% of taste actually derived from odor?

I mean your tongue only knows salt, sweet, bitter...

[blacklab]

Isn't 95% of taste actually derived from odor?

I mean your tongue only knows salt, sweet, bitter...

That's what I was thinking...smell and taste are so interlinked that I don't think there is an answer to this one.

[flyangler18]

Isn't 95% of taste actually derived from odor?

I mean your tongue only knows salt, sweet, bitter...

Yeah, this is well-documented. I'm sure everyone has noted how crappy everything tastes when you have a stuffy nose. Or the grade-school experiment of tasting (blindfolded) a piece of apple and a piece of potato and trying to identify which is which while your nose was clamped shut.

I linked an article about this last week, as a matter of fact.

[mediamst]

Next batch of beer I mess up I am flavoring like pizza then...

Actually I have had a pizza beer. It was different but not god awful...

http://www.mammamiapizzabeer.com/

[Ó Flannagáin]

If any of you have ever stuck a hop cone in yoru mouth it gives off plenty of flavor. I'm still believing dryhopping adds true "flavor" to the beers.

[wolf08gang]

Isn't 95% of taste actually derived from odor?

I mean your tongue only knows salt, sweet, bitter...

I've wondered about this myself. So take it to the next step then. 60 minute = bittering, 10 min or less = flavoring, does that mean that 30 min isn't really flavor so much as a balance between bitter (as perceived by the tongue) and aroma?

Taking it further: If the above is true, wouldn't one be able to get the same end result from adding the appropriate amounts of bittering and aroma hops as if they had just added flavor hops?

I'm guessing that this is an over simplification, and that the answer has more to do with alpha acid extraction and it's effect on our tongues ability to percieve flavor?

Thoughts?

[heinz57]

Actually I have had a pizza beer. It was different but not god awful...

http://www.mammamiapizzabeer.com/

I wish I shared the same sentiments, this was not a favorite of mine.