Tasting & Troubleshooting Terms

Term for the feel and taste of a beer when held in the mouth.

Presence of mineral notes in the beer, flavors of slate, rock or minerals. Usually from hard water in the brewing process

Aromas and flavors of raw sugar cane, molasses, or black treacle, treacley.

Cellar-like, leaf-mold, woodsy notes of decay

Term used to describe the feel of a beer in the mouth. Some common descriptors are creamy, smooth, silky, velvety, opulent, voluptuous, tingly, warming, viscous, oily, coating, thin, watery