{"id":6534,"date":"2024-02-06T21:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T20:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fermento-brewery.com\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2024-03-10T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T22:28:14","slug":"choose-craft-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fermento-brewery.com\/en\/choose-craft-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"4 basic rules to choose your craft beer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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4 basic rules to choose your craft beer<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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There comes that moment in life when you are faced with a craft beer<\/b> for the first time.
Either a friend offers you one, or you happen to attend a craft beer festival, or a bartender proposes you some craft beer options to choose from the drinks list.<\/span><\/p>\n

Intrigued and perhaps confused, you decide to give it a try and choose
a craft beer. You sip it and, after a refreshing sensation,
you feel an explosion of flavor<\/b>! Flavours such as cocoa, coffee,
liquorice, fruit, bread, floral and resinous aromas, etc. are common to different beer styles.<\/span><\/p>\n

My first experience with craft beer was with an Irish friend. He was always in the mood for
a beer and of course, stout<\/a> was his first choice. What a
taste that beer had! Being Italian and Swiss, coffee and
chocolate are obviously among my favourite tastes, and it was surprising
to find them in that Irish beer, knowing that neither chocolate nor
coffee had been used, but roasted malts.<\/span><\/p>\n

From that stout, I approached the world of craft beer, explored beer styles, and found my favourite tastes and the beers I loved the most. Since then, it has been quite a journey and I would like to share the experiences I have had that led me to choose my craft beer<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are my 4 guiding principles for navigating the sea of beer and that will help you to choose the craft beer you really love.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Taste first. To choose your craft beer, focus on what you like<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Knowing your own taste is fundamental. No one can tell you what you like and what you don’t. Human taste can be traced back to the five basic tastes<\/a>: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami. It is normal to have a personal preference for one or more of these.<\/p>\n

There are stereotypes one can read about taste preferences. For example, I have heard that a woman would never appreciate the bitter taste of an IPA<\/strong>. Apparently, women have a greater sensitivity<\/a> to bitterness than men<\/a>, so they would find this style of beer too bitter and overpowering.<\/p>\n

According to some studies, in prehistoric times it was the duty of women to taste food, to make sure it was safe, before giving it to their children. Since poisoned food tasted bitter, women were able to tell if it was suitable for family consumption or if it contained poison, even in small quantities.<\/p>\n

This is a very interesting theory, however, in my experience, there is nothing more wrong than to deduct, as some do, that all women do not like bitter beers. Many, in fact, do like IPAs!<\/p>\n

I love organising beer tastings, talking to people and discovering their best tastes together. When someone approaches me and wants to choose craft beer for the first time, man or woman, young adult or mature, I always ask the same question: What kind of taste do you like?<\/strong> And if the question is too vague, another, slightly more specific one follows: Sweet and malty or bitter and hoppy? Fruity or floral?<\/strong> And so on…<\/p>\n

Ask yourself these questions. The answer will tell you what you like, your favourite tastes and, consequently, the styles of beer you would enjoy most. These are most likely the beers you would choose to drink.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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