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“Dog Days and Poisons” – Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam

10,000 Birds

” Long before the science and physiology of taste were formally understood, brewers knew to avoid jarring combinations of sour and bitter flavors that signal poisons to our brains. Louis, Missouri population. Even our language treats these flavors with suspicion: consider “bitter regret” or a “sour look.”