Palate Cleanser: Poll

[Dave_in_Canada]

If you're sitting down to a serious side by side comparison, what do you do or what do you use to cleanse your palate? If it's "Other" we'd all like to hear about it!





Dave

[MurphyDawg]

unsalted "saltines", which really arent soda crackers, per se, so I decided to say "other". . .


TomC

[cowdery]

Unsalted "saltines"? Isn't that sort of like grain neutral spirits?

[MurphyDawg]

kinda, its like the "wonderbread" of crackers, about the only thing they are good for is removing taste.

[jeff]

I picked "water", but specifically I drink plain Perrier. I find the carbonation helps to completely remove the taste of the previous drink. I know, it has some mineral content to it, but it doesn't seem to detract from the taste of the whiskey IMHO.

Merci

[OneCubeOnly]

For whiskey tastings & side-by-sides it's always water for me. At wineries I use the little soup-cracker-nugget thingies they always seem to have around.

[pepcycle]

Matzah

[OneCubeOnly]

At wineries I use the little soup-cracker-nugget thingies they always seem to have around.

My wife corrected me on this for being uncouth. They're appropriately called "oyster crackers".

[MikeK]

Dark chocolate works great, the darker the better. I keep a brick of 100% chocolate around and saw off a few bits when doing a lot of tasting. Resets your palate right back to zero. Corn whiskey (like HH's Mellow Corn works OK too)

[Hedmans Brorsa]

What a pity that no one voted for beer. That would´ve been interesting!