Taste Buds.

[Chippy_Tea]

My selection of Christmas eve/day beers as posted in the what are you drinking tonight thread, i have a feeling my taste buds are shot as i can now only really taste the difference between the darker beers the rest just seem to taste roughly the same.

Of the ones below the stand out ones are Old Perculier, Guiness Porter, Milk Stout and the King Goblin.

The Proper Job is decent and the Hawkshead, Wainright and Fursty Ferret just seem bland, i haven't tried the Lancaster Bomber or Shipyard IPA.

Getting old is a bitch.

Does anyone else feel their senses have changed over the years?

 

[Clint]

Definitely! I've had that between beers in the pub...you'll keep looking for "something else"...like eating chilli/curry/ hot food...

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I was never a big fan of spicey food Clint but I have definitly moved towards the spicier foods over the past few years, I guess I will never order lager and a packet of plain crisps again.

 

[Leon103]

Perhaps those beers are just bland.

 

[foxy]

Taste bud cells are replaced on a weekly basis, women's taste buds are enhanced during pregnancy to protect the baby from toxins. When we are born our whole mouth is full of taste buds, mothers milk is produced to taste and smell sweet to the baby.
The tongues taste buds are not adequate to process all of the tastes we will encounter, somewhere between 75 to 95% of our taste comes from our sense of smell.
Amazing what information can be gleaned from magazines in hospital waiting rooms.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Perhaps those beers are just bland.

I think some definitely are but i also know my taste buds are not what they used to be as i find the same with foods i used to like and now find some fairly tasteless.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

The tongues taste buds are not adequate to process all of the tastes we will encounter, somewhere between 75 to 95% of our taste comes from our sense of smell.
Amazing what information can be gleaned from magazines in hospital waiting rooms.

That explains a lot i lost most of my sense of smell a few years ago after a bad cold i never really tied the two together but that makes sense.

 

[foxy]

I went overboard drinking heavily hopped AIPA's can barely drink them now, I much prefer, and appreciate more what the earthier English hops bring to a beer. I did read in Peter Wolfe's thesis on dry hopping when some American brewers admitted that they heavily hopped beers to mask off flavours.
Something that I had suspected.

 

[Griff097]

Tastes change over the years so will what you like, I think also a change is as good as a rest.
The Guinness Porter and Proper Job are striking bees for flavours, not tried a milk stout but I do like my dark beers/porters.
A switch to lager or kolsch may clean your psllet as it were and normal service will resume

 

[johncrobinson]

A few years back i gave up smoking and drinking for a few months,I then went into a pub and had a pint of a bog standard draught lager.
It tasted amazing i could taste every little ingredient,It didn't last though after a few weeks my taste-buds went back to normal