Do you believe in palate wrecking?

Yes in a nutshell, IMO with a simple IPA balance can be kinda over rated. DIPA's need to be more subtle because of the massive hops, but a simple Surly Furious is stellar and it's stunningly bitter. Finest Kind is also very bitter, but also very good.

 

Not sure I understand the question, do you mean for a little while, that night, or forever?

Please explain. Thanks!

 

When you answer this question, Ill give you my response.

Cheers!

 

Yeah it does if you have something right after it.
Give it an hour though and your palate is back.

 

Yeah I may have voted prematurely. If we are talking for a short period of time definitely yes but if we are even talking days I would change my vote to no.

 

in that case no, if I cleanse my palate I am ready for more, not that hoppy is my thing.
on avg as really hoppy beer lasts me about 15 minutes all my itself. but I almost never drink hoppy with out spicy Mexican and the hot lasts longer than the hoppy anyway.

 

Doesnt have to be only IPAs. Any big beer or sour can do a number on your tastebuds.

 

I assume we're talking about a short session here. A nice lager or Pils won't follow a Hopscikle very well, it also wouldn't follow a RIS very well either. I don't want to drink a beer and for two days my taste buds are off, but we're talking unrealistic suppositions here. I've never had a beer dominate my palate for anything but a very short time period.

 

I don't think belief has anything to do with it. I'm pretty sure it physiologically exists.

 

After a Racer X at Bear Republic, a Racer 5 tasted like water.

 

I'm fairly certain this is a fact. Drink a few Ruinations or GFWC IPA and see if you can taste a Torpedo or a Racer 5 .

 

Believe it? I live it.

Had a Troegs Perpetual after a Heady last week. The Troegs tasted like malted grain.

 

In the short haul like a shock treatment - it jolts you and then subsides - and the long haul as well. Read on.
I believe your taste buds adapt to what they have been subjected to over a period of time. Just like people who live in hot or cold climates adapt to that climate when they have been living in it for a period of time, your palate will adapt to what you subject it to over a period of time. Drink nothing but IPAs & DIPAs for months and your palate will tell you that something that tastes super bitter to a 1st time IPA drinker will be the norm to you and you will not pick up as much bitterness.

 

I didn't realize this was considered "theory". I had always assumed it to be natural law. But then again, I have heard people say they don't believe in science.

 

At the risk of being told off, I actually like having a strong IPA and then a stout. I think the contrast helps me appreciate chocolate/coffee/sweetness in stouts more.

I have found that one IPA can ruin my experience of another. Last night I had a Heady Topper and then a Gandhi Bot and I found that all I really tasted in the Gandhi Bot was the malt because the Heady flavors were somewhat more extreme.

 

Sours are even worse than IPAs - The tartness permeates your cheeks and you wake up the next morning still all puckered out.

Blech.

 

I believe you have a "session palate" and an "overall palate".

With your session, I think if you drink or eat things that don't pair well together or proceed in a logical order, they're going to taste funny.

I also think people also develop an overall palate as well... an ever-evolving sliding scale of the things you like (and don't like). I know when I first started drinking craft beer, I'd drink things like Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat (which is arguably not "craft"). Now I wouldn't even cut someone with a broken Leinenkugel bottle.

 

Pfft, your fiizzy-all-o-gee is nuthin' but non-sense! The debil's work!