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[SchwanzBrewer]

I've been watching a whiskey show on YouTube lately and the somollier on the show showed his note book he uses to describe whiskeys. Each flavor and aroma have a peg on a wheel. What ends up happening is the diagram creates a unique shape that you can recognize quicker to remember what the whiskey is like.

Do any of you do something similar with beer? It seems like a really good tool for recognizing flavors quickly because you just have to remember a shape rather than a bunch of gobly took.

Thoughts?

[Big Nake]

I like it and I'd like to see one. I feel like I've seen hundreds of beer diagrams over the years but not sure I've seen that.

[HVB]

I like it and I'd like to see one. I feel like I've seen hundreds of beer diagrams over the years but not sure I've seen that.

I'm guessing something like this, can't say I have ever used it though.

Edited by drez77, 10 November 2017 - 06:48 PM.

[SchwanzBrewer]

I like it and I'd like to see one. I feel like I've seen hundreds of beer diagrams over the years but not sure I've seen that.

 

I can't find an image of it. Basically it has flavors and aromas around the wheel and if the intensity is lower then you make a mark towards the center (being zero). You mark the main notes around the wheel and then connect the dots making a polygon. If you have 5-6 main themes in a beer or whatever you're tasting then you have a distinctive shape you can memorize.

I'm guessing something like this, can't say I have ever used it though.

 

Yes!

[HVB]

I was listening to a Good Beer Hunting podcast the other day and they refereed to these as Spider Graphs.

[neddles]

I was listening to a Good Beer Hunting podcast the other day and they refereed to these as Spider Graphs.

 

I like that podcast. Most of the time anyways.

[HVB]

I like that podcast. Most of the time anyways.

Agree. There have been a few that I have not cared for but in general I like hearing the viewpoint of the brewer/company person on how they see the industry.