Early in my career I was somehow invited to judge a blind tasting competition in Napa Valley.

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We bought every one we could find for a broad blind tasting.

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This past summer Feast Upon convened six Brooklyn chocolate producers such as Mast Brothers and Jacques Torres and a professional chocolate expert who took approximately 70 participants through a blind tasting.

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Redbreast is heavy on fruit essences, figs, dates, and apples, and is unusually complex and big as Irish whiskies go, and is the one most likely to be confused with Scotch in a blind tasting.

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When he is in Oakland, Mr. Freeman meets with his staff each day in the company's production facility for their "cupping" ritual a blind tasting of all the coffee roasted the previous day, as well as coffee made from beans they are considering buying.

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The results of group blind tastings and tasting blind by ourselves both help us understand our own palates.

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For instance, even tasting blind certain flavors signal that a beer should cost more.

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Goldstein is nothing but resolute when he talks about the value of tasting blind, whether it is by a group whose aggregate ratings will provide the recommendations in these book or an individual discovering the one-on-one sensual pleasures a particular beer provides.

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