Guinness v alcohol-free Guinness 0: We held a blind taste test to see if we could spot the fake

What happened

According to The Guardian’s source item, Guinness v alcohol-free Guinness 0: We held a blind taste test to see if we could spot the fake, As sales of booze-free drinks surge, we tested Guinness and Guinness 0 to see if our tasters could tell them apart Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things The biggest beer brands in the US are all launching non-alcoholic alternatives to its brews, including Sam Adams’s Just the Haze IPA and Budweiser’s Zero . In her guide to the best non-alcoholic beers , craft beer expert Beth Demmon named one booze-free riff the “best mainstream” pick: Guinness’s iconic Irish stout. “If 100 people were blindfolded and taste-tested the original Guinness next to Guinness 0, the majority of them wouldn’t be able to tell the difference,” she wrote. Overall score: 3.4 Flavor score: 3.6 Aftertaste: 3.5 Continue reading…

Context

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Source

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