How long does it take to reset your palate from "lupulin shift"?

I did it and did notice any difference. I didn't do it to reset my palate. Had to do it because I was on meds for 30 days. I'm not a hop head but I drink a lot of hoppy beer and they tasted the same se before.

 

I've gone 36 hours and that ends at 5pm. Cheers!

 

About as long as it takes for my next beer to arrive.

 

This survey has a lot of choices for weeks and months, but none for less than a week, which is odd. If I am reviewing, I try to alternate days with IPAs (IPA first day, non-hoppy beer the next, then back to IPA), which seems to be fine for me. If I have an IPA that is tongue searingly hoppy, I might wait a few days. Unfortunately, for me it appears that natural random changes in taste overwhelm any clear estimate of lupulin taste changes.
There is a practical aspect too: there are a lot more IPAs coming on the market now (see recent IPA proliferation thread). Waiting a week or more to review a new IPA is simply not possible. And that's having largely given up on NE hazy IPAs, which seem to have new ones out hourly.

 

Consistently taking 3-4 days off during the week keeps the palate fresh for me.

 

Seconded. Definitely taking a small break from beer all together helps reset much faster than if you were to just drink non-hoppy beers.

 

If I drink a very hoppy beer followed by a less hoppy one I notice the difference so my reset lever is pretty quick.

 

It all depends on how 'far gone' you are , I guess, but for me I've done a couple of weeks and I've felt a definite reset. This is usually after a vacation out of the country or something, but yeah, the hops seem more vibrant and distinct afterwards.

 

I drink mostly IPAs and recently, I’ve stopped drinking beer during the week, no change in my tastes at all

 

Really for me, just a work week does it just fine to reset. I can drink a Kolsch on a Friday, after no beer for 4-5 days, and I can pick up on the subtle hops. Now, give me a IPA of at least 60 IBU's on a Sunday of a three day weekend IPA bender, and it's pretty blah.

 

Ever just frame it as, "these are two different types of beer"?

It's like trying to compare a hoppy Pils and an NEIPA. Both are very hop forward, just in very different ways. It makes neither less good, however.

 

I have needed to do it about five times. There was no choice for 3 weeks in the poll, but that is what it takes to get me back to "normal". No hoppy beers, including stouts, for three weeks is what it takes to reset me. Nowadays I switch up constantly since so many styles of great beer are so easily available and I don't get LTS.

 

That's the real key, right there.

 

The shift isn't infinite. If the analogy is spicy food then I'd need to just spray pepper spray directly into my mouth now based on my eating of spicy food to feel any heat. I've reached a plateau in my spicy food shift and I'd expect that I've hit a plateau in my hoppy beer drinking. I don't need to reset my spicy tolerance and I don't need to reset my hoppy tolerance. Indeed I don't perceive much hops or bitterness in say SNPA but who cares? I still taste the hops and bitterness in higher hopped beers. They taste great as they are and there's no need for a reset. I think people are expecting miracles by taking a break from hoppy beers that I don't think is there.

 

I took a 2 week break from all booze earlier this summer, and definitely accomplished a palate reset.

I’m still avoiding most of the big IPA’s, preferring to enjoy the nuanaces of pilsners and lagers for now.