rtrapasso
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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso The problem with beer comparisons is that beer generally doesn't travel well... what may taste great when it is made may taste truly dreadful in a couple of weeks, thus the penchant for large manufacturers to douse their beer with all kinds of preservatives. So, local "fresh" beers tend to have an advantage in taste. Air transport can make up for this in a limited degree, but it makes the cost go way up, and any international import still has to wind its way though the supply chain of distribution, while local beers generally have a much shorter, direct supply chain. Making comparisons of beer taste is very difficult, as it would mean coordinating delivery of beers from all over the world to one place so that they all had the same "brew date", and then conducting a blind taste test. Hard to do. Of course, since wines are not affected so much by this (just the opposite, since you WANT aged wines for the most part), large scale blind taste tests can and are conducted with some regularity. From what i remenber from a TV show, there are also "local taste" that is taken in acount for every food product: a mustard, a bread, a chocolate, a cheese, a beer, is different in each country, each culture. What someone will find tasty would not be appreciated from a foreigner and vice/versa. So as for every other topic, one has to accept and respect difference True, but i was thinking more along the lines of the various international wine competitions where there were panels of international judges. Of course, "to each his own": taste varies for everyone on everything, whether it is coffee, beer, wine, women, or song!
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