The phrase "a taste of beer" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to sampling or experiencing the flavor of beer, often in a context of trying different types or brands.
Example: "At the festival, we had a taste of beer from various local breweries, each offering unique flavors."
Alternatives: "a sample of beer" or "a sip of beer."
He was trying to concentrate, a taste of beer and pizza dough coming up on him even now, hours later.
For a dish made of a confit of beef short ribs, he wanted to add a taste of beer so he draped a veil flavored with Guinness on top — "a thin, flavorful glaze that ensured the diner would get some beer flavor in every bit of the dish," Mr. Achatz said.
Following a statement that "drinks like beer, wine, and liquor contain alcohol," children were asked: "Have you ever had a sip or a taste of beer, wine, or liquor?" (responses: No; Yes, once; Yes, 2 or 3 times; and Yes, more than 2 or 3 times).
"This seemed like a good way to make ballet accessible: an hourlong open rehearsal and showing, followed by a tasting of beer from the John Harvard brewery here at the studios".
The event begins with a reception at 6 30 and will include salsa and jazz music, a tasting of beers from local microbreweries and a buffet featuring specialty dishes from New York restaurants.
Colonial Suds Beer has existed for millenniums, but looking back to a recent age, the Culinary Historians of New York will hold a discussion of preindustrial brewing by the American colonists and immigrant groups, with a tasting of beers made today using historical recipes, with food.
This week, her father, Eldon, visited the brewery and had a taste of the beer — a Belgian-style ale, spiced with grapefruit zest, orange peel and coriander.
Plenty of chemistry, microbiology and a little taste of beer are on tap in Siebert's course, FDSC 4300, The Science and Technology of Beer.
But I don't think that even when I was their age I would have had much of a taste for beer bongs or keg stands or going across the Mexican border to stand around in vomit-scented night clubs listening to rave music.
Also on that day, from 2 to 5 p.m., a tasting of wine, beer and cider will be held at the Institute of Culinary Education, 50 West 23rd Street, costing $55 for Slow Food members and $65 for nonmembers: (718 260-8000 or slowfoodusa.org.
Simple experiences can be communicated through sound, and richer experiences through a combination of sight and sound that invoke our other senses; just as how the sight of a stadium invokes the roar of a crowd and the taste of beer and hot dogs.
