women are better beer tasters

Brewers have no specific explanation for the phenomenon, but SABMiller (which makes Urquell, Peroni, Miller and other brands) says it has empirical evidence showing that women are better at detecting unwanted chemicals in beer. As a result, the number of SABMiller’s female taste-testers has quadrupled in the past decade, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Scientists, for once, have a simple explanation. Women have a better sense of smell, according to researchers at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. That might help explain why they’re better at sussing out skunkiness in beer.