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How the taste quiz works
Answer 20 questions and we turn your preferences into scores across 17 taste dimensions, then show you the breweries whose own scores sit closest — with the reasoning. It takes about three minutes and needs no account.
How your answers are read
The quiz is 15 yes/no questions, three 5-point scales, and two either/or choices. Each answer adjusts scores across 17 dimensions — bitterness, sweetness, sourness, dryness, roastiness, fruitiness, citrus, hop aroma and more. Those weightings are stored as editable settings rather than hard-coded, so the model can be tuned without a code change.
Matching you to breweries
We compare your finished vector against each brewery's taste vector using cosine similarity, then factor in beer-style affinity, region, and how confident we are in the underlying data. Every result carries its reasoning — "a strong citrus hop aroma with restrained bitterness matches your preference" — so a recommendation is something you can check rather than just accept.
What you get
A taste type that summarises your leaning, a 17-dimension radar chart, the breweries and taprooms you match best, and the beer styles that suit you. The results page has its own shareable URL you can come back to.
- Do I need to know beer to take it?
- No. The questions avoid beer jargon and ask about flavours and drinks in general, so you can take it without knowing any style names.
- Do I have to sign up?
- No. The quiz runs as an anonymous session, and nothing is stored beyond your answers and the vector calculated from them.
- Can I retake it?
- As often as you like. Taste shifts with mood and season, so retaking it later may well give you a different result.
Taste vectors are estimates from Bakushu's own model, not official ratings from the breweries.