Beer review pet peeves

Yes. Since smoke isn't supposed to a component of a Flanders, it would get dinged, if listed as such. Since Smoke Beers don't really have any clearly delineated metrics (any style can use smoked malt), I would give it a higher score if listed there.

 

For me taste and aroma can be different fairly often. I try to give as detailed a description of the aroma as possible, and use it so fewer words are necessary in taste category. Often I have been able to say "pretty much follows the nose", except X is stronger/less prominent in the taste and/or Y is present in the taste but not in the aroma. This leaves ability to comment on other aspects of taste such as balance, how it changes as itt warms, etc. without being too wordy. There are beers, though, that have tastes very much different than their aromas, more than common sense would predict. And of course many beers do have bouquets that exactly predict taste.

 

there’s nearly always a big crossover between them, i mostly use it as shorthand to not over-repeat. If it’s a bit varied I may go with “taste follows the nose, the tangerine is not as pronounced, and there is a note of lemon as well”.

I think it’s more concise, but definitely over used

 

Are there any widely distributed brews that exemplify this large difference between taste and smell? I'd like to pick one up and pay a bit more attention to it.

 

If I was a bit more motivated to go through my reviews I am sure I could find an example, but I'm not, plus haven't had a widely distributed beer in over five years, so perhaps someone else can chime in with one that illustrates.

I did have within the last couple years an aged BCBBW ffrom 2013 that had a decent nose, but the taste was a disaster of bad aging much different than the aroma..

 

I could see how such an experience might be more common with aged beers. Smoked beers too, perhaps.

 

I’m guilty of this. Usually I use it to mean the taste and aroma are even more similar to each other than usual, and the phrase also serves as an easy (lazy) transition between the two most connected qualities of a beer. It’s probably not worth overthinking—I’m getting paid exactly $0 to review beers so sometimes I just rely on some pretty unoriginal devices to get it done.

 

Honestly, I hadn’t thought that folks are writing it as a way to just save time. I thought people were writing it as if it were something revelatory. Makes more sense now.

 

You went to public school right? Gotta hit that essay length!