Hating one adjunct lager, but loving another?

by the way, i don't agree with this worship of blind tastings.

there's a real confusion when one conflates "i can't tell the difference," and "there is no difference," and "my prior knowledge informs my experience." a lot of times people can't even taste the difference between wildly different ingredients in blind tastings (say, eating cinnamon and then eating nutmeg or something, or eating a lot of similarly tasting vegetables). if you infer from that that the vegetables actually taste identical, you're denying something that is demonstrably true. it's presumptuous and absurd to say b/c someone can't distinguish cucumber and celery w/o looking that they can't taste the difference.

when looking at the vegetables, *they experience the difference*. the orientation that visualizing and knowing the vegetable gives them allows them to pick out and zero in on subtler flavors. if you're inclined to deny this, you can disabuse yourself of that foolish opinion by simply doing the experiments yourself. there's all kinds of shit you won't be able to distinguish with a blindfold, but if you then take it off and taste the things and *deny your own sensual experience* you're being a fool of the highest order.

and i'm speaking here as a (once) professional philosopher. the DUMBEST inference you can make is that stuff you know almost without a doubt isn't true because of some idea you're infatuated with, or a bad bit of reasoning you did. compare: doubting the possibility of everyday emotions like happiness, fear, etc (people do this!). if you set out to explain fear and end up doubting its existence, you fucked up BAD at some early step, and just compounded your error. so too if you're trying to isolate the difference of obviously different tasting things (say, 2 different IPAs), and you end up doubting that there's a flavor difference. *you already know there's a difference*. doubting that is going astray, not making progress.

 

I'm not an expert on reviewing beer, I know the basics. Having said that, I've had over 700 beers and a handful of those have been adjunct lagers, and it doesn't take a genius to realize some taste better than others. It's that simple. Now I'm not going to argue that there's a difference in the taste of bottled water (yes there is, Ozarka tastes better). To each his own. Drink whatever you want.

 

You would be right about water also. nestle is terrible. Dasani tastes better.