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I don't think I like beer
Improvolone
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Which isn't that big of a problem for me. Hell, I hardly ever drink. The way I see it tho, there has to be a beer out there that I enjoy. So I went to the local liquor store and grabbed a six pack of singles.
I got a stout, a wheat beer, a hard cider, a pale ale, a winter ale, and an oatmeal ale. I tried to get a variety. You know, for experiements sake. I know the hard cider isn't a beer, but I love apple cider, so I thought I would give it a shot.
All of them were not pleasing. I could stand to finsih a bottle, but I have no interest in drinking something that I don't really enjoy. All of these were microbrews, and I forget the name, and have since gotten rid of the bottles.
Can anyone make a suggestion for a beer I should try? Brand? Type? Anything?
As far as other alcohol I do enjoy, I'm a fan of tequilla and amaretto. But like I said, I don't drink a whole helluva lot and don't have alot of experience with different types.
edit: If you were to fill your own handy dandy cardboard carrier that holds 6 bottles of beer to give to well, me... what would be in it?
I got a stout, a wheat beer, a hard cider, a pale ale, a winter ale, and an oatmeal ale. I tried to get a variety. You know, for experiements sake. I know the hard cider isn't a beer, but I love apple cider, so I thought I would give it a shot.
All of them were not pleasing. I could stand to finsih a bottle, but I have no interest in drinking something that I don't really enjoy. All of these were microbrews, and I forget the name, and have since gotten rid of the bottles.
Can anyone make a suggestion for a beer I should try? Brand? Type? Anything?
As far as other alcohol I do enjoy, I'm a fan of tequilla and amaretto. But like I said, I don't drink a whole helluva lot and don't have alot of experience with different types.
edit: If you were to fill your own handy dandy cardboard carrier that holds 6 bottles of beer to give to well, me... what would be in it?
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Beer is an acquired taste. It's never going to taste like Pepsi or a Milkshake. I really enjoy an ice cold Becks or Grolsche, but it's taken me a good while to appreciate them.
I promise you will begin to appreciate beer. It is an acquired taste. You will have to try a lot of stuff before you discover something you enjoy.
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Regardless, you may find a beer you enjoy, but if not, it isn't the end of the world. Just get something you like and forget everyone who gives you crap for it.
The way I learned to love beer: drinking a lot of the shittiest, cheapest beer I could find in college (Laker, for those of you in Ontario). Not only does the garbage start to become passable after awhile, but the really good beers start to taste awesome.
out of all that you tried was there any variety that you hated the least? which one?
many people don't like the bitterness of some beers, if you think that's you then avoid pale ales and IPA's for now. try more lagers and pilsners and bocks. sorry i cannot give recommendations, i like hoppy beer (which are often bitter).
before i got ruined on IPA's, i quite enjoyed pilsner urquell, shiner bock and cheqvar (sp?). stella artois seems very popular.
This worked for me. Milkwaukee's Best and Natural Ice made me appreciate all types of beer, to the point that I would buy beer without the intention of getting drunk!
Or have some friends over for a meat party. Get an charcoal grill, some steaks, and some side dishes. Start drinking well before you start grilling. Then by the time you grill and start eating you'll appreciate how a few cold ones can turn a simple activity like grilling into some fun and delicious.
I know this isn't going to be popular choice around here, but starting out with something like Natural Light or Bud Select might break you in enough where you can start drinking real beer.
If you really want to develop the taste, you need to go into it with the mindset that you are drinking pure bitter. Beer is to bitter what soda is to sweet. Once you've developed a taste for it, you start picking up the nuances, and the sweet (and sometimes sour) tones. But beer is always going to be bitter.
Also, you should probably hear this from the internet instead of your friends. Amaretto is a girly drink, so unless you're a girl, don't drink it around others.
So, sadly, I don't remember to this day what beers those were. but they were sooo good.
Now, I have found I somewhat enjoy sam adams, the octoberfest is rather nice. And sometimes, DogfishHead will strike me in the right mood.
But do as suggested, beer tastes MUCH better in the right setting, I like the comfort of a warm restaurant when it's real cold outside, or in your toasty house under the same conditions, with a really meaty or heavy dish (mmm, ribs).
The oatmeal stount was possibly the best of the bunch. Seems like ales aren't exactly my favorite, so the stout was a welcome change to my pallete. It didn't have the bitter bite to it, but it still didn't taste right for me.
What are IPAs?
IPA= Indian Pale Ale.
If you want to try some quality beers that don't taste very much like beer, try out Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat or Berry Weiss beer. They both have a berry tone to them - see if that doesn't help your palate get used to the taste of beer.
Edit: And try a Godfather - a shot of amaretto and a shot of scotch.
If you need the "Mmm, this genuinely tastes good" reaction, try to stomach something dark (Newcastle or something) and then drink down a Miller Chill. Relatively, the Chill will taste like Sprite. Perhaps you can move on from there.
And yah, it's no sin to not like beer. No one's going to give you shit for being the sober one, and if you feel like just being drunk to be drunk, liquor is better for that anyway.
I've never heard this before.
Regardless, it's delicious. Go ahead and vag me up.
Intresing those are the two you suggest. My girlfriend is so hyper allergic to wildberries that if I have any and sweat on her, she'll have a very bad reaction.
So those two seem to be out.
Improvolone look for some samplers. Sam Adams does one around winter and Magic Hat does one all year round.
And then it starts to taste good
Mmmm
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if you like stouts then try more of them, if there are any local brewpubs, go visit. definitely try them (stouts) out of the tap. hops not only impart bitterness but they also provide a preservative effect. i'm not sure, but i extrapolate that having less hoppiness (and thus less bitterness) would mean that the beer's more likely to go bad faster (corrections from homebrewers welcome). when buying bottles go to a store that turns over it's beer inventory quickly so you're sure to get fresh beer.
try a belgian trappist ale sometime (chimay, duvel, maredsous, or things that have "dubbel" or "tripel" in their name). usually not very hoppy, but they have a real kick that can be quite enjoyable. try a belgian white sometime (draft, i'd had bad luck with belgiam whites in bottles, hefeweizens too).
wikipedia tells me that porters are also stouts, so you might try them.
How did you drink the cider though, seems a bit less common outside of the UK but there is a really wide variety of different types. Some can be very sweet, others are a lot dryer and a lot are in between. Generally the medium to sweet ciders (do you get Magners over there? That's a pretty popular medium dry cider over here) are supposed to be drunk over ice. Its a very different taste to just drinking them.
Additionally, get a curry and try a Cobra (the only lager I like) or a cider - they are perfect with spicy food and again the taste is quite different compared to just drinking them on their own.
Can't help more than that since its generally the local beers that are nicer (but not all local beers are nice!), and you have completely different brands from over here. Can't stand Sam Adams though, reminds me too much of fish and the horrible Oyster Beer I tried once.
a short list of things to try:
Sam Adams- anything but regular Boston Lager is usually good cheery wheat or Summer ale are my favs
Magic Hat- Haven't had a bad brew by them, #9 is the easiest to find in most places
Rogue - Dead Guy Ale is great good slightly spicy beer
Blue Point - OATMEAL STOUT BEST AMERICAN BEER EVER
Dogfish Head - Strong beers but thier IPAs are excellent
Hoegaarden/Blue moon -Really light summery beers. Blue Moon is slightly easier to find but Hoegaarden is better
Avoid
Bud in all it's forms
Miller(light or chill is tolerable at times if you're poor)
Heinkein not matter how much they charge for it it's just a shitty shitty beer.
As a general rule if it comes in a clear or green bottle it's not a good beer. I'm not joking real brewers don't use them because they let the beer get spoiled by light much easier.
My run-down of brands:
Shipyard: Good. After a while, I starting noticing that I liked beers with a yeasty aftertaste a lot better than most. Shipyard has this.
Sam Adams: Also good.
Rolling Rock: Cheap beer that's surprisingly fairly decent.
Generally with beer it's better to buy expensive ones than settle for cheap, unless you want to employ the strategy of learning to like good by drinking bad. Also, the worst of brands can taste good on tap.
Heh, I swapped Dr. Pepper for Beer once I acquired the taste. So I actually traded up to a healthier drink.
I'm not sure how much there is to actively do to acquire the taste. Don't worry about it too much, but if there are times to try another beer, definitely do it when you're massively thirsty. Beer(but really, all carbonated drinks) seem like great thirstquenchers to me.
Mississippi Mud was also really good, but I haven't been able to find it lately.
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As for the cider, I got a K. It is apperantly a draft hard cider and has the light and refreshing taste of sommerset apples.
As for all of these drinks, I had them on their own. Cold from the bottle. I can't imagine pairing it with something would make it good. Better, yes, but if I dislike the taste as is?
Scary how true this is. I was a hard liquor drinker only *hated beer* until a trip to a bar after a 9 hour day at work with some co-workers. Figured what the hell and ordered one, best beer I ever had.
When I did it I chugged a bud from the bottle and I'm not sure anything has ever tasted so good. I'm not sure what it is, but if you don't like beer seriously try this method. If you still don't like beer after that you can get the hell out of America.
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I liken this more to not liking vegetables. Beer is a big fucking category.
And once again, I almost never drink. I would however like to know what it is that I like.
Yes, it's unhealthy. I'm aware. I'm a fairly healthy guy however and I would actually appreciate it if you didn't come in here acting like an asshole about it. I've gone many years in my life without drinking beer because what I had had, I didn't like.
This is about finding something I might enjoy, for fucks sake. It's not like I'm dirnking a kegs worth of anything to figure it out. Over the course of my week long experiment I probably drank the equivalent of three bottles of beer. If I didn't like something enough, I dumped the rest of it.
Once again, for fucks sake man, you're not really helping here.
Go for a medium dry, and you need the ice - its quite different from just chilled. Bear in mind that ciders will taste as different to each other as different beers will, you can have four different dry ciders and none will taste anything alike (Blackthorn, Strongbow, Scrumy Jack and Old English are the four main UK brands and they are all totally different. The medium drys like Woodpeckers, Bulmers, Gaymers and Magners taste a lot more alike and the sweet ones like Diamond White are fucking rank).
As for beers and curries - think of a cake, any of the ingredients on their own are going to taste a bit wierd but together its cake. Its why you have red wines with some foods and whites with others - its pretty much as much part of the meal as cranberry sauce can be. Thinking about it, starting off having it with 'beer-food' (which I recognise again might be quite different in the US, I don't mean just peanuts and pretzals) might be a good way to learn to like it. I find its best with red meats (steak, steak pies particularly and at a push burgers) and quite spicy foods like curries and chillis (though most american chillis seem to be very different from UK chillis - so much more vinegary)
Thank you. Beer does not 'make you stupid and fat' unless you really let yourself go in which case you have bigger problems than drinking beer. That comment was beyond 'quite a reach.'
Just keep trying things. Also drink with some friends if you can, and especially eat some really good food while drinking. For the majority of the last six weeks of summer my friend would be grilling out every night late into the evening. Drinking a few beers, eating some cheddarwursts off the grill, and relaxing with your friends. A lot to be said for stuff like that. Beer is great but always be responsible and you'll have a good time.
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If you liked the stout then I'd recommend you try Guinness (draught). I, too, am a dark beer fan, lover of porters and stouts (and extra stouts), and Guinness is a bit of a strange, and very tasty bird. Get one at the bar, in a pint glass, and take a great big gulp; oh, and if you eat a banana with your Guinness you'll have all of your daily nutrients covered (not necessarily true).
Seriously, try Guinness.
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My favorite is St. Pauli Girl...it's got a full flavor, but still is very refreshing.
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