Does swimming effect your sense of smell?
My wife and I recently had a lovely dinner with a person very knowledgable about wines. We are both wine lovers and appreciated his wonderful "wine lesson". However, when he got into the description of the wines in terms of berrys and oak and leather etc I had to stop him and say that I can sometimes detect a raisin taste or maybe even a blackberry taste but I have never been able to get any of those other subtle tastes that the wine experts use to describe wines.
So he asked me if I had sinus problems or something else that might effect my sense of smell. Well, the only thing I could think of was chlorine. Does anyone have any thoughts or information on wether 30 plus years of swimming and breathing that wonderful chlorine smell could have ruined or at least altered my sense of smell? If so I may go to exclusively drinking 2 Buck Chuck!!!
Glenn:)
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Geek:
Belgian beers: Grip lightly with two fingers and thumb, extend pinky. Ring fingers is bored. Talk with other silly belgain beer drinkers about the fruit and herbs in the beer. Wonder outloud who thought this stuff up.
American common beers: Grip with fist, drink as quickly as possible, avoiding taste analysis as much as possible (not much to avoid).
Artisnal ales, porters, stouts: Firm grip using all fingers, no stinkin' pinky extended, enjoy the taste.
Good wine: Grab the stem of the glass firmly with fingers, thumbs. Who cares about the pinky.
Not so good wine: Life's too short.
from the left coast
Geek:
Belgian beers: Grip lightly with two fingers and thumb, extend pinky. Ring fingers is bored. Talk with other silly belgain beer drinkers about the fruit and herbs in the beer. Wonder outloud who thought this stuff up.
American common beers: Grip with fist, drink as quickly as possible, avoiding taste analysis as much as possible (not much to avoid).
Artisnal ales, porters, stouts: Firm grip using all fingers, no stinkin' pinky extended, enjoy the taste.
Good wine: Grab the stem of the glass firmly with fingers, thumbs. Who cares about the pinky.
Not so good wine: Life's too short.
from the left coast
