"The richest ideas are left in the dustbin of history; the more discredited on the platform of good taste, the more innovative on the platform of content."
— Rem Koolhaas, c. 1991
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The Six Basic Tastes as of 2011
“Taste (or, the more formal term, gustation) is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the ability to detect the flavor of substances such as food, certain minerals, and poisons, etc. Humans receive tastes through sensory organs called taste buds, or gustatory calyculi, concentrated on the upper surface of the tongue.”
“Top 3 Beers for a Hot Summer Day”
- Weissbier: Franziskaner
- Pale Ale: Sweetwater 420
- Lager: Brooklyn Lager
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When David asked me to follow up his impressive “Top 3 Sodas for a Hot Summer Day” post, I was nervous about my ability to contain the full scope of the beer industry today. Once I decided to honor the challenge, as I knew I must, I quickly realized that most refreshing differed significantly from best tasting. However, I knew that if you are truly going to be refreshed and wanted a beer, you wouldn’t want your beer to taste like water, or else you would just order that. Thus, I wanted to pick three that truly achieved high marks in both refreshment and taste. My first choice was the German Weissbier Franziskaner, as I was quick to remember my summer in Spain and my frequent afternoon visits to the German gastropub, Gotinga in Cádiz (the local fare of Cruzcampo did not quite cut it). I then realized that these wheat beers predominated as summer ales and would dominate this contest if left unchecked. Therefore, I allowed that only one style could be represented in the Top 3. Choosing a second was only difficult in which Sweetwater beer I would choose. Again, drawing on my personal experience, the Sweetwater brewery “tours” over the past year + have quenched many a summer thirst of mine, and I decided to choose their flagship 420 Extra Pale Ale as my selection for # 2. Finally, # 3 proved to be difficult. I wanted to select a lager, but the difficulty is that I believe ales provide the highest quality enjoyment. However, I remembered one of the first microbrew lagers that still wins much fanfare, and went with it. Brooklyn Lager proved to outlast the rest of the competition. Finally, I would like to give a consolation prize to one of the Big Three Macrobrewing Companies (Bud, Miller, Coors). I selected Coors Light because they spend millions of dollars annually not arguing that they have the best tasting beer, but rather the most refreshing. While I don’t consider it to be a real beer in the wake of the past two decades of the microbrew revolution, I want to commend them on trying (and still partially winning) the attention of many summer beer drinkers out there.
