Do stouts affect your taste-buds?

Are you on any new medicine? I find that drinking a lot of one style can dull my taste buds butt not change them. I've takes meds before that changed my sense of taste while I was on them however so that's why I ask.

edit-spelling

 

I'm thinking it must be a side effect of the supplements, I drink bourbon barrel aged stouts and port (wine) all the time and have never had that problem.

 

That sounds very strange, and my first reaction would be a sinus/throat infection.

If pediococcus can result in buttery off-flavors in beer, I would imagine a bacterial infection in the sinuses/throat could result in the same issue.

 

yes thankfully, I love em!

 

Yes. They stimulate them.

 

Are you comparing first drink of the day from one day to another? I think we all experience some palate fatigue in a session, especially towards the end of a more generous evening of consumption.

 

If you notice it when you aren't drinking beer, then it probably isn't related to beer. Sinuses, the common cold, vitamin deficiencies, some sort of throat infection or tongue infection, possibly brain cancer or other neurological disorder. Alternatively, there is something wrong with your water supply---more specifically, something is sticking to your dishes when you wash them.

Talking to a doctor is best. Odd buttery flavors coming from nowhere are actually not unheard of but there's a wide variety of potential causes.

 

Go to the doctor.

 

Hi. Did you ever see a doctor about your taste buds? This is really bizarre, but last week I added red rice yeast, biotin and green tea to my daily supplements. I am almost 60 and added them for health reasons. Within 4 days I noticed sugar-based food...chocolate cake, ice cream, and mango juice tasted about 50% as delicious as normal. I LOVE desserts, so this was very strange. I immediately thought it was tied to the new supplements, so I started google researching. I didn't find anything about red rice yeast, so I started looking for "can biotin affect taste buds" and your posting was the second thing that popped up. I am pretty sure it is the biotin, based on a search for just biotin. People are saying it is a metallic taste, but I don't have that, but rather a dulling of my tasted buds to detect sweet.

 

I drink mostly stouts and porters, no effect on my taste buds. IPA and DIPA do have an effect on my taste buds, that's why I usually have one or two at the most, love the taste but the bitterness flattens our flavor in foods and other beers.

 

Man drinks seven stouts in a sitting and now everything he drinks tastes like a skyscraper.