You’re having a flight of beers, or you are at a beer festival, or bottle share, maybe you do your drinking from the kitchen table, or are busy sweeping an Untappd board.
Whatever the hell it is, you’re going through a lot of beers.
But you want to taste the next beer as genuine as you can. The cleanest way. I am here to try and help.
These are MY real-world picks, not generic trash results I got off the Internet.
How to cleanse your palate between beers
- Crackers. Unsalted crackers are the best but salted still work.
- Chips. This works for when you are out in the field drinking. Most places don’t have crsckers but they have chips.
- Nuts. Mostly a tip for when you are in a bar or at home. Not that practical anywhere else.
- Water. Super boring option and not the best way to reset your palate, but usually there is some around and you should be drinking some anyway.
- Your hand. What the hell!? Your hand!? Yes. Give your hand a good lick. Taste that hand – you know where it has been, it’s fine. Almost give it a hickey even. This is the best option when there is nothing around and by the way, I do it often.
- A different style. If you are stringing a bunch of IPAs together it’s a good idea to break it up with a Stout or Brown or something. You would be surprised how improved a hoppy beer can be, drinking one after an opposite style.
Again, these are all ones I do myself. If there is science behind this, it’s unintentional.
Resetting your palate before a different beer is something I highly recommend though.
Non-beer geeks (and even some actual beer geeks) might scoff at you. Let them. Be sad for them. They just don’t know. But now you do.
