Skills > Beer Tasting

Each time you drink a beer you haven't tasted before at a tasting table, there is a fairly good chance you will get a Beer Tasting point. Once your Beer Tasting rises high enough, you receive permanent bonuses to your Perception attribute.

• 7 beer tasting provides +1 Perception
• 49 beer tasting provides +2 Perception
• 243(?) beer tasting provides +3 Perception

A player may gain up to 3 points from a given beer*. A minor difference in a beer (i.e. Potent Dry Beer, noticable honey flavor compared to Potent Dry Beer, Bold Honey flavor) does appear to be enough to get a point, but as your beer tasting goes up it appears that you're more likely to get points off of beers that are substantially different from what you've tasted before (i.e. Very Potent Sweet Brown Beer, hint of barley flavor compared to Dry Beer, hint of Orange flavor).

Beer Tasting is not taught at Schools. It is initially learned the same way it's improved: by drinking beer.

• I have gotten 3 points more than once from a single beer keg. Two is more common. --Narafeti