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A collaborative croissant tasting as part of a multi-category taste exploration (croissants, coffee, beer, wine).
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AROUND THE TASTE IN 80 DAYS
Cindy and I had a fascinating (and at times, shocking) time testing some diverse tastes. With 4 Croissants, 4 Countries' Reserve Coffee styles, 8 Draft Beers and 4 Red Wines tested, we had the pleasure of testing our taste buds and exploring the tasting process on multiple fronts and dimensions.
TASTE BUDS:
Croissants – Easy | Beer – Medium | Coffee – Challenging | Wine – Very Challenging
My senses were challenged on various levels when trying (sometimes struggling) to identify the different tastes, notes and smells across the parallel products in each tasting. I found croissants quite simple to distinguish. They were complex products with clearly different shape, size, feel, crunch, even amount of chocolate on the inside (yes we did CHOCOLATE croissants).
TASTE VOCABULARY: COLLABORATIVE VS INDIVIDUAL TASTINGS
Croissants – Collaborative | Reserve Coffee – Collaborative | Beer – Individual | Wine – Individual
EXPLORING THE PROCESS: GUIDED VS UNGUIDED
Croissants – Unguided | Reserve Coffee – Guided | Beer – Guided | Wine – Unguided
In our collaborative, unguided tasting, we designed a process ourselves for tasting and proceeded at the same time. Interestingly, Cindy and I ended up using very disparate language to describe what we tasted.