"Yes - Veritaserum doesn't taste like anything. But one does tend to realize, after a few seconds, that one has been heavily drugged." At least with alcohol there was some plying to be done. When brute force was simply unacceptable ... "It's quite good," he said, not disbelieving it quite enough to trip himself up in a lie. He would drink it either way, after all. "I used to like all sorts of things I shouldn't. Gin, when I was younger. I got out of the habit. This is much better."