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Does anyone notice a taste difference between 33cl and 75 cl bottles of some Belgian beers? If so why is this?

Purely sedimental reasons? <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->

I suppose it's to do with the amount of liquid that can mature - I suppose that the larger the bottle the more liquid can combine and can develop more. Same way wine/whiskey etc are always matured in large vats rather than small ones?

&amp;quot;kenmc&amp;quot;:3ped0bn8 wrote: I suppose it's to do with the amount of liquid that can mature - I suppose that the larger the bottle the more liquid can combine and can develop more. Same way wine/whiskey etc are always matured in large vats rather than small ones?[/quote:3ped0bn8]

Isn't that more for consistency over a whole batch rather than anything else?

Hadn't thought of that! <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->
But why would 1x 1000 litre vat produce a more consistent flavour than 10x 100 litre vats, if they come from the same initial production run? Surely they should be identical tasting?

And you could argue that it would be actually better to do 10x100 in case of spoilage, you'd lose only 100 litres instead of 1000.

Dunno though. just friday talking.

would these 750 mls have a cork in them? Someone did a review of this a felt that the cork allowed the beer to "breath" a little more and so had a different effect on it. This either changed the beer for the better or worse, but it certainly affected it.

its a thoery......