Ordering the wrong beer in the wrong place - even outside of the Rhineland - is sure to get you an unpleasant reaction. Professor Helmut Quack at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences found in a study published online this week that the two beers taste almost exactly the same. Quack had 50 men from Düsseldorf and 50 from Cologne do an open taste test where they knew which beer was which. Each side declared “their beer” to taste significantly better than the “foreign” beer. They were asked for each to say whether they liked the beer, whether the beer tasted fresh, whether it tasted mild or whether it tasted herby.

Source: The Local August 26, 2016 15:22 UTC