i think i ruined my palate
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:14 am
by bufordsbest
cliff note version:
- have drank way too many ipa's
- have developed a very high threshold for hop flavor and bitterness
- can only get my hop fix by drinking double ipa's and even those are starting to mellow out
what the hell can i do? i'm thinking of detoxing by drinking nothing but stouts and porters for a while.
suggestions?
tg
Re: i think i ruined my palate
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:37 am
by BeerPal
Re: i think i ruined my palate
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:06 am
by Jbug
I was about to start a thread about this.... IIPA doesn't seem blah to me yet but I've noticed I can't finish your run of the mill, pales, standard lagers, ambers... My beer has to be hopped up as fuck and a liberal dry hopping too... There's beer in my fridge I wanna drink but I know I'll end up not enjoying them... This sucks!
Josh
Re: i think i ruined my palate
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:22 am
by MNHazmat
Start drinking a lot of stouts and porters until your palate resets
Re: i think i ruined my palate
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:52 pm
by hopshead
Ahh, keep drinking the very very hoppy stuff. A stout now and then is fine, but if you abandon the hoppy beers then you surrender your manhood. Keep drinking and brewing very hoppy ales, and never give up.
Re: i think i ruined my palate
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 4:02 pm
by bufordsbest
i feel like cosmo kramer in the mackinaw peach episode. "i got no taste!!!!"
Re: i think i ruined my palate
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 4:55 pm
by Ozwald
I feel the same way some times. I figure if I keep it up & keep getting bored with commercial offerings I'll just start brewing my own Penta-IPA. That's right, 5x. I'll be happy when I hit the 500 IBU bench. I think the Dan was on to something when he did that big press release last week.
Re: i think i ruined my palate
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:12 pm
by Jbug
I'll take the recipe for the pentaIPA when you perfect it... BTW anybody had the Hop Henge?
Josh
