What is a beer taster?

What is a beer taster?

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Nearly all breweries employ professional tasting panels: people who have got very finely-honed palates, and who can pick up slight nuances in flavor. The reason that they do that is so that they know, from batch to batch, that their beer is tasting as it should. If one of those tasters picks up something that shouldn't be there, then they can correct that before the beer either leaves the brewery, or they can scrap the batch and start again.