What crazy things have happened to your palate?

I shared a growler of Old Rasputin, and an Alesmith Speedway one day a few year back and couldn't drink a stout for at least 2 months. Fried my pallet for the style (no alcohol sickness issues). Everything good today though.

In general, I go through phases with styles I like and styles that just aren't working for a time, then everything start to re-calibrate. I periodically need a month break from NEIPAs.

 

When I drink too many IPA they all start to blend in flavor. I noticed after some time that everything tasted the same to me with my IPA. Then I stopped and took a break from them and now all good, I can taste the small differences etc. I try to now break it up, keep my styles varied and not overload on one to avoid this.

 

It's best not to drink the same style twice in a row, or even substantially similar beers. Your palate has already acclimated to those flavors and will be sort of blind to them until you can reset.

 

I had a waldos on saturday and it tasted great. I tried it the next day (a little hung over, but not sick) and it didn't taste very good at all. Other beers tasted ok, but the waldos was just sickly sweet. Hopefully it was just a one time thing, but big ipas (over 10%) have been tasting less and less appealing lately.

 

I had been having a metallic taste in my mouth occasionally, never did figure out why. This was about the time CBS came out, and I made the mistake of sampling my first CBS bomber ever, and it tasted metallic. I'm pretty sure it was me, not the CBS. I did get enough of a taste to know I wanted to age it more, so will have another in June.

 

This is sort of in the vein of the opening post, so I have a odd palate moment when drinking any hoppy offer by New Belgium, which I think Ronald Theriot described well as "fleshy." Just an odd aftertaste. Also, most beers from Oskar Blues (accept BBA Ten Fidy and Ten Fidy, thank god) have a metallic/tin/copper taste to me.

 

It just makes me feel a little warm and fuzzy inside when I see 'palate' used correctly--as opposed to palette or pallet.

 

Peanut butter destroys my palate for a good 5-6 hours. I've had a couple amazing beers that I normally love, but had them within a couple hours of a peanut butter bagel and they tasted awful. I like peanut butter stouts though.

 

Can't say anything crazy has happened to my palate over the years, but, as I get older, I see myself preferring more subtle and straightforward beers. Not that I don't like nuance, but I find myself gravitating towards beers that I would classify as "simple" more than anything else.

Other than that, it took me a while to figure out what people were talking about when they referred to getting "pine" in a beer, but I'm OK with that descriptor now.

I also tend to get medicinal aromas/flavors in many wild ales or brettanomyces ferementations more so than I did before.

 

I've been on four different chemotherapy regimens over the last ten years. Three were in six month increments, the last on has been every week since 2011. Some had short term effects on my palate, but one in particular (folfox) has had a permanent effect on my senses of taste and smell. I still love the hell out of beer, but I don't think I'm getting the same things out of it as others.

 

Nothing. My palate tends to adapt.

 

Had one of the big boy BA Ten Fidys can spring a leak in my kitchen while putting it away, my whole house smelled like I spilled a gallon of Soy Sauce. Just gross, and the little bit I salvaged tasted the same way too, it's been many many months and I have no ability to drink a stout. I've had bad beers, infected beers, but that soy bomb was the worst.

 

The craziest things that have happened to my palate is that I actually learned to like beer--good beer, and almost every style of beer. I never thought I would ever like either IPAs or sours, and here I am.

 

I hear ya. Same thing happened to me during and after Chemo. It's been over a year since I finished Chemo and my ability to taste has changed and may stay that way permanently.

 

Started drinking craft beer 10 years ago got really into it and stopped drinking for a couple years primarily due to having a kid and not having a lot of extra cash laying around. Im glad Im getting back into it, but it's a bit harder to pick up on different notes of taste within a beer. Still love it though.

 

When I first got into beer I went straight for the bigger/stronger/crazier stuff and that's all I cared about for years. I felt macros were borderline undrinkable because they're like water compared to a stout that's 4x as strong.

Now I feel the exact opposite. I just about never drink anything stronger than a normal IPA and I'm far more likely to have Coors in my fridge than a massive stout or some sort of booze bomb. I can't help but notice beer flaws now, too. I remember the day when I felt everything was good. Beer was a lot easier back then.

 

^^^ This.