1) Tape a piece of paper, folded over for secrecy, to the bottom of each glass. Pour full beer into each glass and tape on the paper. Leave the room and have someone mix them up and place them in front of numbers that you'll use to refer to them for scoring.Allentown wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:56 am1) You can't ALL share glasses, unless someone not involved pours all the beers.
2) Not cooties, but I don't want to pass my cold on to other people.
3) If you taste a beer, and give it three 1 point scores, I will be less likely to give it three 4 point scores, (or, I guess, 12 points, if you just do all of them at once). We know because of anchoring that even hearing an unrelated big number before asked to score something with a number (or establish a value for something, etc) will skew the resulting score. If I don't know that the beer I am tasting is the same beer you are tasting, I will be less likely to give it a score related to what you gave it.
2) Use fish oil mixed with day-quill for a palate cleanser. Problem solved.
3) Have everyone note their scores on a private sheet of paper.