Acetaldehyde smells and tastes like fresh green apples in beer. Open a bottle of Budweiser to taste it as Bud contains a little acetaldehy...

When oxygen gets to a beer after fermentation then the beer is in trouble. The typical flavours you can expect are cardboard, paper and woo...

DMS ( Dimethyl Sulfide ) smells and tastes like sweetcorn or stewed vegetables and is most susceptible and perceptible in light lagers and ...

Plasters, Islay whisky, TCP, smoke, clove; very few beers should taste like this. A phenolic aroma and flavour should be present in some b...

Beer contains hops (it also contains sulphur). Hops contain alpha acids. When hops are boiled the alpha acids get isomerized and become isoh...

Have you ever had a beer which tastes like marmite, burnt rubber or soy sauce? If so, what you are tasting is yeast cells which have died, ...

If you’ve ever experienced a butter or butterscotch flavour in your beer than you’re tasting diacetyl . The interesting thing about diacety...