180. Why Alcohol Tastes Different When You Drink Less

About this episode

This episode explores how drinking less alcohol affects your taste buds and palate.

Send me a message 🤗 Ever sipped a drink you used to love and wondered why it now tastes like lighter fluid? That's not your imagination — something really has changed. Pulled from the archives, this episode is a dive into one of the most overlooked side effects of drinking differently: what happens to your taste buds. Your palate is changing, and if you're somewhere in your low/no or mindful drinking journey and finding that certain drinks suddenly hit differently, there's a very good r...

People in this episode

Host: Denise Hamilton-Mace

Topics covered

• mindful drinking
• taste buds
• alcohol
• moderation
• low/no drinking
• palate changes

Keywords

• alcohol taste
• mindful drinking
• taste buds
• moderation
• low alcohol
• palate
• drinking journey

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