But it does have a very distinct mouthfeel which is part of taste sensation. But mainly alcohol is very good a taking up the flavour compounds of anything you add to it. This is a really big factor in what makes alcoholic beverages distinct. Also the fermentation process breaks things down and releases flavour compounds from the thing fermenting in a way that is hard or impossible to get other ways.
But most alcoholic drinks can be duplicated without any alcohol and taste exactly the same
If this actually is the case, and I very much doubt it, why hasn't anyone done it? All non-alcoholic wines I've tested on the market today taste quite bad and bear only a passing resemblance to their alcoholic counterparts. If someone could make a non-alcoholic wine that could hold its own in a blind taste test against a collection of reasonable even just $20 bottles I'd be be beyond happy. I would probably even be willing to pay a premium over the cost of an equivalent bottle of alcoholic wine.
If its so easy as you claim it to be why are all current commercial efforts so incredibly far off the mark?
But it does have a very distinct mouthfeel which is part of taste sensation. But mainly alcohol is very good a taking up the flavour compounds of anything you add to it. This is a really big factor in what makes alcoholic beverages distinct. Also the fermentation process breaks things down and releases flavour compounds from the thing fermenting in a way that is hard or impossible to get other ways.
But most alcoholic drinks can be duplicated without any alcohol and taste exactly the same
If this actually is the case, and I very much doubt it, why hasn't anyone done it? All non-alcoholic wines I've tested on the market today taste quite bad and bear only a passing resemblance to their alcoholic counterparts. If someone could make a non-alcoholic wine that could hold its own in a blind taste test against a collection of reasonable even just $20 bottles I'd be be beyond happy. I would probably even be willing to pay a premium over the cost of an equivalent bottle of alcoholic wine.
If its so easy as you claim it to be why are all current commercial efforts so incredibly far off the mark?