Beervana 94, The Anatomy of Flavor

In the coming weeks, we're going to have guests on to guide us through the complexity of pairing beer with cuisine. But before we do that, we thought it would be useful to examine flavor itself. When we taste a beer and our brain tells us "chocolate" or 'grapefruit," what's happening? Flavor is a composite of what our bodies tell us - our hardware, so to speak- and what our brains do in synthesizing that information into meaning-our software. We'll look at that today, but first, then news...