Pranking Beer Snobs

Since the people you pranked are members on here, would love to see them join this thread!

 

You do realize I was being sarcastic? Well truth be known, I prefer Enjoy By over a can of Topper.

 

Not sure I believe this, but that being said the same people claim to taste "chocolate mango pine cloves and cardamon" in a beer.

 

Exactly. Their reactions may have been more because of what they were told (that's it's a great craft lager) than because of the taste.

That said, there is a "social desirability bias" likely at play here. The group members may have been heaping praise on the beer because the OP gave the impression that he liked it and was sharing a bunch of it with them. In other words, they may not have actually liked it, but were saying they did for other reasons.

Social desirability bias will cripple any research very quickly.

Either way, this is a funny thing to do and it gave me a chuckle.

 

I don't disagree w your comment, but think its circumstantial. This works for beers you've never tried, but if you're blind tasting a few you have, sometimes the appearance is a dead giveaway. If Heady is mixed w two other DIPAs, I'll know which one it is just by looks. I agree that appearances can be important, but certainly not equal to smell or taste in my opinion.

 

BLASPHEMY!!!

 

Video or it didn't happen

 

I think that's hilarious! Good for you...

 

these people have no taste

 

please elaborate. why are adjuct grains the problem with the taste?

 

SA is good beer that is often maligned. This blind tasting prank makes sense. In fact it makes enough sense that it is one of SA's most recent marketing campaign.

Unlike the OP, I actually believe this one would fool people. If you have ever had a bud light, you would instantly recognize the deception. Bud light has a very distinct taste. I promise you on the first sip many people would comment that it tastes like bud light.

OTOH I am willing to bet that the tasting the OP described never happened. As I also doubt his claim to have done several pliney/ht + widely distributed IPA tasting, and have ht loose every time.

 

I definitely would like a try at this. =)

 

Me, too.

 

I did something similar a few years ago with a blind tasting of various wheat beers. We had homebrewed wheat ales mixed in with a number of commercially available wheat beers and, for fun, I snuck in a can of Bud Light w/o telling any of the participants. It was hilarious hearing the judges reactions to the BL that they were unknowingly drinking. "Uh. This one is aweful." "I can't even taste it." Needless to say, it finished dead last in the "competition" by a large margin. Preconcieved bias confirmed.

 

Priceless

 

Are these your friends "from Canada" that are totally coming to hang out just as soon as they get their car fixed?

 

All I'll say in response to this thread is that there's a stark difference between pranking (or intending to prank, depending) a craft beer snob and a craft beer geek, which I believe OP's story hits exactly.

 

More scam than prank.