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Originally Posted by troutman
Wouldn't we drink more non-alcohol beer if we really liked the taste of beer? We like beer because it delivers alcohol to our bloodstream. After 2 or 3, does the taste even matter?
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troutman, i'm surprised to see you this simplistic.
Alcohol greatly alters the flavour of beer. The processes involved to mimic the obvious flavours of beer like malt and yeast without creating alcohol leaves a significantly inferior product.
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Food critic and writer Waverley Root described the common American near beer as "such a wishy-washy, thin, ill-tasting, discouraging sort of slop that it might have been dreamed up by a Puritan Machiavelli with the intent of disgusting drinkers with genuine beer forever."
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