A Rose is a Rose is a...Beer?

[Kellanved]

Next time you want to bring your loved one a bouquet of roses, you're just as well off with a bottle of beer. A German professor has discovered that the smell of beer is similar to that of roses.

They say that a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. But roses are the last thing you think of when putting a nice cold beer to your mouth.

"Yet flowers and beer have more in common than you'd think," said Dietrich Wabner, a professor at Munich's Technical University and president of the Natural Oils Research Association.

Wabner developed a procedure to determine the ingredients responsible for the taste and shelf life of beer. To his surprise, he discovered that the fragrance of beer resembles that of roses.

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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1423284,00.html

So: a six-back is hereby declared a valid Valentine's day present...

[WindRavenX]

1. Um, what?

Maybe I'm missing something here...but I do not see how the scent of beer and rose are alike :shrug:

[Kellanved]

4. see: that's your mistake

You don't see scents.


</:silly:>

[madmom]

2. I don't think so....

I can't stand the smell of beer and I love roses, especially the very fragrant ones. Explain?

[YDogg]

3. Somehow I think a dozens roses ...

... goes over better than a dozen beers. Although the dozen beers do come with an attractive and functional carrying case usually.