The Craft Beer Thread

Me and 2 mates did blind tastings of these IPAs last night. Any guesses as to which one had the highest average score?

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dualmeister said:
Don't say the Darling one :erm:
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On average (blind tastings let me remind you) the Darling scored best. Californicator would have taken it, but the one guy who isn't really into IPAs scored it really low. Thunderbird scored well by all 3 of us. What's surprising is that Punk IPA scored lowest on average. Blockhouse scored 2nd worst.

Not exactly professional judging or anything, but it was quite interesting nonetheless.

*edit* anyone wanna try replicate the experiment with the same beers? I'll share the exact method we used if anyone's keen to try.
 
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BCO said:
On average (blind tastings let me remind you) the Darling scored best. Californicator would have taken it, but the one guy who isn't really into IPAs scored it really low. Thunderbird scored well by all 3 of us. What's surprising is that Punk IPA scored lowest on average. Blockhouse scored 2nd worst.

Not exactly professional judging or anything, but it was quite interesting nonetheless.

*edit* anyone wanna try replicate the experiment with the same beers? I'll share the exact method we used if anyone's keen to try.
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Please share the method :)
 
EchoZA said:
Please share the method :)
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Ok, so you need someone to pour the beers into numbered glasses and take note of which number is which beer. Obviously, the tasters mustn't know.

Each taster then tastes each beer sequentially and rates the beer on a simple 1-10 scale of overall enjoyment. Rinse pallet between tastes!

Then you do round two of the tasting but drinking each taste at random to avoid sequential biases. Score again.

Best to do the tasting and scoring with just the taster and the admin person, so that the other tasters don't affect each others opinions.

Then do whatever math you want with the results. Average score overall is useful, methinks. I picked up all those beers at Biggest Little Beer Shop. Would've loved to have had the Skeleton Coast and Mandarina IPAs to compare as well but they were out of stock.
 
BCO said:
Ok, so you need someone to pour the beers into numbered glasses and take note of which number is which beer. Obviously, the tasters mustn't know.

Each taster then tastes each beer sequentially and rates the beer on a simple 1-10 scale of overall enjoyment. Rinse pallet between tastes!

Then you do round two of the tasting but drinking each taste at random to avoid sequential biases. Score again.

Best to do the tasting and scoring with just the taster and the admin person, so that the other tasters don't affect each others opinions.

Then do whatever math you want with the results. Average score overall is useful, methinks. I picked up all those beers at Biggest Little Beer Shop. Would've loved to have had the Skeleton Coast and Mandarina IPAs to compare as well but they were out of stock.
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Next time add a the & Union Summer to the selection ;) It's a good one for catching people out.
 
BCO said:
No rice or maize adjuncts that I'm aware of at Darling. Spent quite a few hours with Felix, the brewer there, a few weeks back and didn't see anything resembling rice or maize in their grain stores.
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I was refencing the castle comment.
 
BCO said:
Their lager and pils are good IMO. The rest I found very underwhelming.
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Just tried the Firebird, while it has a great nose, nice and hoppy. The taste on the palate is meh :( bit disappointed. but it's OK, have a Summer chilling in the fridge and a case of Bittenberg :)
 
Must say I enjoy the Weiss more from jack black. But definitely still a good Lager.

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