What are the differences and how can I recognize them from taste?
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> what does it mean if a beer is a lager, pilsner, ale or ipa?
What does it mean if a soda is a cola, lemon-lime, root beer, or orange?
They’re just different “flavors” of soda.
Lager, pilsner, ale, IPA are just “flavors” of beer. They’re “styles”. They may be made differently, they may have different ingredients, but they’re just variations. Just like there are variations of soda.
> how can I recognize them from taste?
How can you recognize a lemon-lime soda from a cola? How do you recognize an orange soda from a root beer?
“Hmm, this tastes like I am eating an orange, it must be orange soda. Hmm, this other one tastes like the cherry on top of a sundae, so it must be cherry soda”.
How? Practice. Taking careful consideration of what you’re tasting.
So open up an IPA, take a sip, and try to remember, “This is what an IPA generally tastes like”.
Different orange sodas taste differently from each other, but they all have an “orange-y” flavor. The same is true of IPAs. They differ from each other, but they all share some basic notes.
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