Palate Cleansers

[KyleCBreese]

I visited Dad's Hat Rye distillery this past weekend and they mentioned that they use Entenmann's Chocolate donuts as palate cleansers when tasting barrels.

[fozzy71]

lol, were they all overweight?

[barrel_proofer]

A couple saltine crackers and some water usually works well for me.

[stickly]

So me and the wifey were doing some tastings this afternoon, and tested a couple of foods laying around for palate cleansing abilities. We tried oranges, pretzels, and tortilla chips. We took the same 4 bourbons and tested them back to back, using each of the palate cleansers in between tastes with some water.

We found that the taste of the oranges was too strong and muted/permeated some of the bourbon flavors. The pretzels affected the tastes more than we thought, and started making all the bourbons taste the same. The tortilla chips worked perfectly, which I guess makes since with the bourbon being corn based, and we could once again begin appreciating the nuances of each different bourbon.

[tanstaafl2]

So me and the wifey were doing some tastings this afternoon, and tested a couple of foods laying around for palate cleansing abilities. We tried oranges, pretzels, and tortilla chips. We took the same 4 bourbons and tested them back to back, using each of the palate cleansers in between tastes with some water.

We found that the taste of the oranges was too strong and muted/permeated some of the bourbon flavors. The pretzels affected the tastes more than we thought, and started making all the bourbons taste the same. The tortilla chips worked perfectly, which I guess makes since with the bourbon being corn based, and we could once again begin appreciating the nuances of each different bourbon.

That Rutledge guy apparently knows what he is doing!