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[Osmosis Jones]

If you're talking about beer, it's because one of the primary factors you look for is the bitterness, which is tasted at the back of the tongue. The best way to taste it then is to swallow.

[G-Flex]

I'm not totally sure that's true. Most location-specific taste stuff isn't.

However, things DO taste different while you swallow them, especially sweet things in my experience.

Not to mention that flavor involves more senses than that anyhow; there's aroma and the tactile experience to consider, for instance.

Swallowing is pretty much a sensory experience in itself. A lot of stuff is going on, you're moving the food/drink around in a specific way, you feel it go into your stomach, etc. etc. Also, it goes against pretty much every instinct you have to have some sort of tasty food or beverage in your mouth and not swallow it, as has been mentioned.

[Osmosis Jones]

Eh, it was from a tv doco where they were interviewing a brewmaster. Also,

beer, unlike wine, must be swallowed to taste the hop bitterness on the back of the tongue

Of course, who cares, it's beer! Beer is made to be drunk, not swirled around and spat out like some namby pamby elf juice.

[Jude]

I always wonder why people swallow the damn thing.
If you drink it for taste then spit it out afterwards.
If you drink it to get drunk then there are better ways to do that.

OK, clearly you've never drunk beer, so why are you giving you opinion on this

[Rooster]

Srsly. I was talking about wine

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I always wonder why people swallow the damn thing.
If you drink it for taste then spit it out afterwards.
If you drink it to get drunk then there are better ways to do that.

Sorry, but this is one of the stupidest things I've ever read.
Only complete morons drink simply to get pasted. I admit, I quite like the fuzzy euphoria of drunkenness, but I take my time getting there in style. Spitting wine or beer out after tasting it is both a complete waste and disgusting.

[ChairmanPoo]

I dont like booze very much myself. I do drink red wine from time to time at lunch, very sporadically, if I am having meat as well.  I do beer sometimes in "social drinking" environments.

[Virex]

In my experience, the stuff people give to you on a party is actualy a very bad example of how beer tastes. First of all, it's usualy a cheap kind of pilsner, which often tastes somewhat like bitter wee. Secondly, if you're unlucky it's diluted which only lessens the taste.

[ChairmanPoo]

That's why you ask for a bottle at the bar, directly.

[Jude]

Srsly. I was talking about wine

Ugh wine tasting that way is dumb

Also yeah beer at a party is usually shit unless it's thrown by older people with lots of money who like good beer

Up through college, it's generally Natty or Keystone the whole way

[Osmosis Jones]

Hence why my 21st was a keg of James Squire Golden Ale (also known as liquid bliss, the king of beers, and pure awesome).

[Aqizzar]

I had Fat Tire and Guinness Stouts myself.

The trick is, bring the fancy beer to the party by yourself, for yourself, in a paper bag, then hide it in the bottom of the cooler so no one else knows it's there.  Then you've got it all to yourself, and if someone asks where the fancy beer came from, you can point them to another cooler and say it was probably the last one.

[eerr]

Hmm, I never figured you for the fancy type aqizzar.

I assume price is important for beer, the same logic does not extend to wine.
Unless you just like pouring out money because you can.

BTW, my brothers Eric and evan recently concocted a wine comparison test.

wine less than 4$, and wine over 20$

The 20$ bottles of wine are better of course!

Both wines were fairly and neutrally poured into glasses. My brothers and their friends then tried to guess which wine was more expensive based on taste alone.
No significant correlation was found.

Though some cheap bottle of trader joe's was judged best, of all the wines.

[ChairmanPoo]

There is more to wine than that, you know.... 

[Jude]

Developing your pallette is probably part of it, but I'd rather not spend time and money developing an expensive habit that makes me not enjoy shitty wine anymore tbh

I already did it for beer...not that I could really enjoy shitty beer in the first place tho