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I must be an ale/lager fan. Guinness just kills me. Drink one of those and I feel like I just ate a huge meal. I've tried several stouts and porters and they were all awful to me. Even the Sierra Nevada Porter was a big let down. Their pale ale is pretty good though.
Yeah, it's definitely a different strokes for different folks situation in the beer department. I can drink Guinness all night, but pale ales and india pale ales just annoy me (with a few exceptions).
I must be an ale/lager fan. Guinness just kills me. Drink one of those and I feel like I just ate a huge meal. I've tried several stouts and porters and they were all awful to me. Even the Sierra Nevada Porter was a big let down. Their pale ale is pretty good though.
Yeah, it's definitely a different strokes for different folks situation in the beer department. I can drink Guinness all night, but pale ales and india pale ales just annoy me (with a few exceptions).
India pale ale? Elaborate for me I'm interested in this and I apparently have on idea what it is.
I must be an ale/lager fan. Guinness just kills me. Drink one of those and I feel like I just ate a huge meal. I've tried several stouts and porters and they were all awful to me. Even the Sierra Nevada Porter was a big let down. Their pale ale is pretty good though.
Yeah, like real ales and some bitters but not a fan of Guinness as much as I've tried to like it. For the love of all things holy though, don't try drinking it with a straw because you don't like the head.
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I must be an ale/lager fan. Guinness just kills me. Drink one of those and I feel like I just ate a huge meal. I've tried several stouts and porters and they were all awful to me. Even the Sierra Nevada Porter was a big let down. Their pale ale is pretty good though.
Yeah, like real ales and some bitters but not a fan of Guinness as much as I've tried to like it. For the love of all things holy though, don't try drinking it with a straw because you don't like the head.
If I ever see anyone drinking a beer through a straw I'm going to do to him what Leonardo DiCaprio did to that guy at the bar in The Departed.
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edited September 2007
If you want something really light an inoffensive (I personally don't touch the stuff) try a corrona. I know plenty of people that aren't into beer but will have a corrona on an occasion.
I personally think it has no flavour to it whatsoever but each to his own.
I find Corrona disgusting. I've tried it. Totally different beer taste, yes. But definitly on the ew side of the spectrum for me.
Okay, I appreciate alot of the advice. So how about something a little less broad than a general cry for help...
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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You kinda have to force your self to drink it. I don't think anyone really likes their first beer but going to college you drink cheap Natty Light and BL all the time. Then when you sit down and have a good import like New Castle you are like, damn this tastes good.
=nexuscrawler;2957793]That really sour aftertaste people tend ot associate with beer is usually the most objectionable part. thing is that's a trademark of bad beer.
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.[/QUOTE]
This may be true but a ton of good beers and imports come in clear and green bottles. Rolling rock, New castle, Becks, St Pauly Girl..
I'm going to go out on a limb here and endeavor to answer the OP's question...
My 6-pack for you would include:
Newcastle Brown ale
St Peter's Cream Stout (Sorry, this one's around $3-$4 a bottle, but well worth it, IMHO)
Leinenkugel's Red (AKA Leinie's Red)
Sam Adam's Cherry Wheat (already suggested, but it goes into my 6-pack)
Spaten Oktoberfest (Seasonal - available now)
Blue Moon (Drink with an orange wedge)
That's my 6-pack. I think you'll like most of those (if not all), but who knows. Additionally, you might want to hit a local pub/bar and try some beer mixes. You might really like something like a Black & Tan
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Newcastle Brown Ale is the greatest beverage to ever land on this planet. It's a dark beer without the extremely potent taste of something like Guinness.
Corona with a lime wedge is enjoyable. Corona without lime is terrible.
I have never had a bad Sam Adams, though I won't claim to have tried all the flavors.
I had a Michelob Ultra the other day and I was pleasantly surprised. It's a fairly boring light beer, but doesn't have a bad aftertaste. Overpriced though.
I'm a guy who consumes a fair variety of alcohol but also has no taste for beer. One thing I think that should be pointed out is that "acquiring a taste" does not mean "drink until you don't hate it anymore," but rather you realize that it's not some other beverage and that it has its own qualities. This is the same principle that leads people who drink wine towards more exotic and expensive wines, or at least stuff that doesn't come in a box or jug. As you drink more of it, you stop thinking "this is like grape juice" and you think "hey wow, this is actually its own beverage with unique qualities separate from other drinks." I did the same thing with liqueurs -- buying things that would be similar to a juice or flavor, only to realize that they were very specific things that weren't necessarily useful to own, or even tasty to consume.
That's why these guys are saying things like they didn't like beer until they experienced them a certain way. What they're saying is that they were able to drink a beer on its own terms, and they "got it." They understood that it was a different beverage and that its tastes should be taken as what they are, not a "nasty as hell soft drink."
As for beer, what worked for me with wine is to keep a brief log. Go to a decent store and talk to the staff. Say you're looking to try some new beers and you've never been into them much, but you want to get a wide variety of lagers, ales, etc. So get 2-3 sampler packs. And then write down the name and type of each one, and your opinion. Nasty? Oaty? Bitter or sour? Whatever comes to mind. As you go through that pack, you will discover that you prefer some tastes to others. Perhaps you enjoy the very heavy, oaty-tasting beers because they taste less like a beverage and more like liquid bread Or maybe you like the light, refreshing beers, but only if it's hot outside. And then use your log as a guide -- if you discover you prefer darker beers, you know to avoid lighter-colored beers.
More importantly, if you spend about a hundred bucks sampling a lot of different beers, don't be discouraged if you still think it's gross. I don't like cabbage or squash, despite trying it consistently over the years.
If anything, if you end up not liking beers after testing out different varieties, you should at least have a general sense of what you can tolerate or appreciate. For instance, I never drink beer. But if I must drink beer, I only get very dark beers. Guinness-level darkness. Either very hopsy or malty. Why? Because the flavors are something that you can only find in a beer, and their weight makes it easy to last a while, so you can take a sip, taste something unique, and not feel like you're chugging something down you dislike. I've had a beer for a German friend's birthday, when he got some "blackbier," which is a super-malty beer. I mean, you can't turn down a beer on a night like that. But it didn't turn me to liking beers.
I fancy myself a "beer guy". Let me lay some stuff out for you to try. Bottom line though, if you don't like a beer, don't drink it for a while and try it again later. By later, I mean YEARS later.
1) Hefeweizen is not a beer that I endorse, but if you MUST drink it, drink New Blegium's "Sunshine Wheat"
2) Pale ale is hoppier by nature, and therfore more bitter. For an easier drinking ale, I would get Anchor's "Liberty Ale" or Mirror Pond's pale ale. Sierra Nevada is something I would wait a while on.
3) Brown Ale is one of my favorites and the best IMHO is Acme's. It's somewhat hard to find, but it's worth it.
4) Porters and stouts are wonderful if you like coffee or other roasted things. St. Peter's make an amazing stout, and Fuller's "London Porter" will make you a porter drinker for life.
5) Belgian Ales are not my favorite, but if I had to give you a stepping stone into more complex beers, this is it. Trappist ales are a good start. They have a sweeter, almost honey-like taste to them, and will ease you into the taste of hops.
6) American Lagers...just buy Miller Lite. It's as good a primer as any.
Two things you can try(that people have already mentioned, but I want to second)
1. Light beers have practically no taste, especially once you start to like beer. Bud light, I've found, especially has no taste. Good for chugging, less so for enjoying, but still :P
2. Start drinking crappy beer. My first beer ever was a Heineken... yeah. I could barely finish half of it. It was just too much for me. But once I started drinking more, it started to get easier. The first beer I could stand, to be honest, was Steel Reserve 211. Almost everyone hates it; Tastes like shit. But they drink it, because its 8.1% alcohol, so a 40oz of it is pretty much the cheapest way to get drunk.
Well, after all the dark beers I had tried before it, this seemed like heaven. So I started drinking it alot. Then I went to crappy american beers(Budweiser, Coors, MGD). After Steel, they were fine. Now, I really enjoy becks, heineken, etc. I can drink almost any beer without any problem, enjoying most of them alot(Really dark beers though, too much for me still).
When I first started I used to drink whatever was cheapest with the most acl % (I was 18) and beer was fucking gross but it worked.
Over time I began to appreciate what tastes I liked in a beer (in my case super hops) and I am still to this day trying new things and theres at least a dozen that I just love. Hell I even brew my own to cater to my tastes.
I'd say it's just like learning what you'd like in a wine as well and if after a few hundred bucks in beer and a few months of trying you still don't like it, no big deal, more for the rest of us!
Edit: I forgot to make my recommendations for a 6 pack.
1: hop head by tree brewing (unlikely to be found in the USA I'm told) b) any IPA brewed by a portland microbrew (all fucking awesome)
2: newcastle brown 11/10 for awesome taste
3: hoegarden (aka do you like wheat beer)
4: Stella artois (probably my favorite big name, can get anywhere, beer)
5: A nice dark local stout (whatever is local and the shopdude recommends)
6: Asahi super dry (gets 0 respect but is *incredibly* easy to drink)
I looked for either Blue Moon or Hoegarden in my liquor store earlier, they didn't have them. But they did have Dogfish Head IPA, and it is most excellent albeit about $2 a bottle.
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edited September 2007
The first beer I actually liked was a Cherry Lambic.
The beer that got me actually drinking beer is the Sam Adams Summer Ale. I moved to other wheat beers and have expanded my preference to other pleasant tasting beers.
However, my favorite beer ever is the St. Bernadus Abt. Awww yeah.
Steel Reserve is malt liquor, not beer.
If you like Newcastle Brown, try a Samuel Smith Nut Brown Ale.
IPAs are not for people who haven't yet acquired a taste for beer. I love most kinds of beer and I've only recently started enjoying IPAs.
Someone mentioned it earlier, and I'll second it. Rogue Dead Guy Ale is awesome. Dead Guy and Mackeson Triple Stout are my two favorites.
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edited September 2007
Many things are acquired tastes.
Can anyone remember the first time they drank Coca Cola? I can. It was disgusting. Now I practically live off the stuff.
However, I see no reason spending a lot of money on beer. If I want to drink something that won't get me drunk, I'll drink Coke. Tastes better. If I want to drink something that gets me drunk, I have about 400 bottles of Hankey Bannister scotch whisky which my grandfather left to me.
Scotch is definitely a huge acquired taste, but I was determined to acquire the taste, because I'm not going to let the 400 bottles sit there undrunk. Now I have, and I go through probably a bottle every couple of weeks.
I'd say if it's something you really do want to experience fully or give a real shot then a couple hundred bucks is nothing. I mean we're not talking in a week here, just over time.
Kronenbourg 1664 is probably the best strong pub larger in my opinion. About a million times better than Stella, which just tastes horribly full of chemicals to me. (Its known as "wife beater" for a reason.)
As for real ales, I've never had anything better than Adnam's Broadside. A pretty strong (6.3% abv) dark ale, but good luck finding that in the States.
My strategy for acquiring a taste for beer is simple.
Step 1. Force myself to drink several cans of Pabt's Blue Ribbon, which is the shittiest tasting beer ever.
Step 2. Drink other alcohol until drunk then proceed to drinking beer.
Step 3. I now enjoy beer.
Step 4. ???
Step 5. profit.
It's ok to not like beer, because beer tastes pretty shitty.
....Ok but seriously, if you don't like beer, don't drink it. I've tried a ton of different beers and have yet to find one I like. I'm more of a liquor/cocktail drinker myself. Just find something you DO like. Or just forswear drinking, and give up the dream of making an ass of yourself in public.
My strategy for acquiring a taste for beer is simple.
Step 1. Force myself to drink several cans of Pabt's Blue Ribbon, which is the shittiest tasting beer ever.
Step 2. Drink other alcohol until drunk then proceed to drinking beer.
Step 3. I now enjoy beer.
Step 4. ???
Step 5. profit.
This plan stopped being profitable after you stopped drinking PBR.
Also my 6-pack would include:
1) Guinness Stout (It's a hearty meal in a pint glass)
2) Strongbow Hard Cider (Tasty hard cider)
3) Newcastle Brown Ale (I say Newcastle because it's EVERYWHERE but all the brown ales I've tried tasted roughly the same to me. It's not really strong tasting, not much after taste)
4) Maudite (... oh fuck. it's good, just try it.)
5) Peche Lambic (It's peachy, the chicks love it, kind of a dessert beer)
6) Hoegaarden (Really light, really easy to drink)
I went to a PF Chang's Chinese place in Boston not too long ago, and on their menu they had Ginger Beer. Now, I don't know how these are normally served, but theirs is basically draft Kirin with a ginger extract of some type added. It was one of the most delicious beers I've ever had.
I think it would be a safe bet to start off with wheat beers. They are generally less bitter without being light tasteless crap. Once your palate becomes accustomed to the taste you can move on to IPAs and stouts.
I'm currently stuck on Hefeweizens...they don't filter the yeast out so you end up with a lot more flavors instead of the hops taste.
My six pack:
1. Abita Purple Haze - I've heard people call it bitch beer, because they add raspberry pulp to the hops, but it doesn't taste fruity....just an interesting sweetness/tartness.
2. Blue Moon (with a slice of orange)
3. Guiness Stout (aforementioned liquid bread)
4. Pyramid Hefeweizen (also comes in an apricot variety similar to the Purple Haze)
5. Magic Hat #9 - relatively light and sweet for a beer
6. Aventinus - heavy, dark almost licorice flavor with the added benefit of 8% alcohol (I've heard the draught is 10-12% can anyone confirm?)
And since autumn is coming up there should be a few good sampler packs coming soon. Magic Hat makes a Halloween themed one and Sam Adams usually has a fall sampler.
According to this thread, i enjoy me some shit beer.
I'd reccomend the following beers in a mixed 6 pack
Corona Extra
Michelob Light
Miller Light
Budweiser
Bud Light
Its actually not b/c i'm cheap, but i actually prefer the taste. I dunno, they seemed to grow on me and not be as bitter as the other stuff i tasted. I tasted a whole lot of sam adams and killians and heineken and this other one i can't remember the name.
I don't like beer too much myself so to make it interesting and taste somewhat better I ask for a pale or golden beer with some grenadine. It makes it a little sweeter and easier to go down. Plus it turns pink and girls come up asking about it too.
People do tend to shit on American beers for no good reason. Just like other beer, these huge breweries have their own distinct flavors and such, and they do it at a massive volume. I like Miller Light and Budweiser Select, and I love Amberboch.
I'm not sure what that means or why you posted it. Something that might appreciate new beer is trying to brew your own. I might make a thread about that in D&D sometime soon.
Honey Brown or Blue Moon might be a good start. It's OK to not like beer though.
Man, I can't understand how anyone can drink Blue Moon. IMO it tastes like those deodorant cakes in urinals smell.
Improvolone, if you liked the oatmeal stout the best, I would suggest:
- Skullsplitter. The name makes it sound like a ghetto malt liquor, but it is actually a really tasty dark beer imported from somewhere in or around Scotland.
- La Fin du Monde, Maudite, or any of the other dark beers by that maker (Unibrou?). They come in large bottles, and have very distinctive labels.
- At least in my area, Lindemans lambics (fruit or berry-flavoured beers) imported from Belgium are pretty common. The one I would recommend you try is the Cassis (blackcurrant) variety. It is less common than the others, but is at least 20x more tasty. It tastes more like a wine than a beer.
- If you are anywhere near Seattle, there is a local brewery/pub called Elysian that has some really good varieties of dark beer, and you can find them bottled in stores of varying distance from the city. There is another one called the Big Time Brewery that has a *fantastic* barleywine that is basically the best dark beer ever made by the human race, and an excellent oatmeal stout, but AFAIK both are seasonal (as in available for maybe a week out of the year), and they either don't sell in bottles or the bottles cost more than a sixpack of regular microbrew.
To take the edge off the bitter taste of hops, try a Corona with lime. It's especially good with key limes, which just happen to be in season right now (they are the tiny limes that come in a mesh bag).
While it's not actually beer, ginger beer is pretty good too.
When I was younger, I used to despise beer and coffee with equal force. I swore I would never drink either one. College changed all that... now I can't decide which I love more--good dark beer or good dark coffee.
It really is an acquired taste. I'd recommend trying all the different varieties of Sam Adams. If you haven't acquired the taste by then, you never will.
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Yeah, it's definitely a different strokes for different folks situation in the beer department. I can drink Guinness all night, but pale ales and india pale ales just annoy me (with a few exceptions).
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India pale ale? Elaborate for me I'm interested in this and I apparently have on idea what it is.
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Yeah, like real ales and some bitters but not a fan of Guinness as much as I've tried to like it. For the love of all things holy though, don't try drinking it with a straw because you don't like the head.
If I ever see anyone drinking a beer through a straw I'm going to do to him what Leonardo DiCaprio did to that guy at the bar in The Departed.
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I personally think it has no flavour to it whatsoever but each to his own.
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Okay, I appreciate alot of the advice. So how about something a little less broad than a general cry for help...
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?
My 6-pack for you would include:
Newcastle Brown ale
St Peter's Cream Stout (Sorry, this one's around $3-$4 a bottle, but well worth it, IMHO)
Leinenkugel's Red (AKA Leinie's Red)
Sam Adam's Cherry Wheat (already suggested, but it goes into my 6-pack)
Spaten Oktoberfest (Seasonal - available now)
Blue Moon (Drink with an orange wedge)
That's my 6-pack. I think you'll like most of those (if not all), but who knows. Additionally, you might want to hit a local pub/bar and try some beer mixes. You might really like something like a Black & Tan
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Corona with a lime wedge is enjoyable. Corona without lime is terrible.
I have never had a bad Sam Adams, though I won't claim to have tried all the flavors.
I had a Michelob Ultra the other day and I was pleasantly surprised. It's a fairly boring light beer, but doesn't have a bad aftertaste. Overpriced though.
That's why these guys are saying things like they didn't like beer until they experienced them a certain way. What they're saying is that they were able to drink a beer on its own terms, and they "got it." They understood that it was a different beverage and that its tastes should be taken as what they are, not a "nasty as hell soft drink."
As for beer, what worked for me with wine is to keep a brief log. Go to a decent store and talk to the staff. Say you're looking to try some new beers and you've never been into them much, but you want to get a wide variety of lagers, ales, etc. So get 2-3 sampler packs. And then write down the name and type of each one, and your opinion. Nasty? Oaty? Bitter or sour? Whatever comes to mind. As you go through that pack, you will discover that you prefer some tastes to others. Perhaps you enjoy the very heavy, oaty-tasting beers because they taste less like a beverage and more like liquid bread
More importantly, if you spend about a hundred bucks sampling a lot of different beers, don't be discouraged if you still think it's gross. I don't like cabbage or squash, despite trying it consistently over the years.
If anything, if you end up not liking beers after testing out different varieties, you should at least have a general sense of what you can tolerate or appreciate. For instance, I never drink beer. But if I must drink beer, I only get very dark beers. Guinness-level darkness. Either very hopsy or malty. Why? Because the flavors are something that you can only find in a beer, and their weight makes it easy to last a while, so you can take a sip, taste something unique, and not feel like you're chugging something down you dislike. I've had a beer for a German friend's birthday, when he got some "blackbier," which is a super-malty beer. I mean, you can't turn down a beer on a night like that. But it didn't turn me to liking beers.
1) Hefeweizen is not a beer that I endorse, but if you MUST drink it, drink New Blegium's "Sunshine Wheat"
2) Pale ale is hoppier by nature, and therfore more bitter. For an easier drinking ale, I would get Anchor's "Liberty Ale" or Mirror Pond's pale ale. Sierra Nevada is something I would wait a while on.
3) Brown Ale is one of my favorites and the best IMHO is Acme's. It's somewhat hard to find, but it's worth it.
4) Porters and stouts are wonderful if you like coffee or other roasted things. St. Peter's make an amazing stout, and Fuller's "London Porter" will make you a porter drinker for life.
5) Belgian Ales are not my favorite, but if I had to give you a stepping stone into more complex beers, this is it. Trappist ales are a good start. They have a sweeter, almost honey-like taste to them, and will ease you into the taste of hops.
6) American Lagers...just buy Miller Lite. It's as good a primer as any.
However, if you simply don't like beer, they aren't going to change your mind.
Labatt Blue is another I enjoy.
But if you don't like beer just don't drink it.
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1. Light beers have practically no taste, especially once you start to like beer. Bud light, I've found, especially has no taste. Good for chugging, less so for enjoying, but still :P
2. Start drinking crappy beer. My first beer ever was a Heineken... yeah. I could barely finish half of it. It was just too much for me. But once I started drinking more, it started to get easier. The first beer I could stand, to be honest, was Steel Reserve 211. Almost everyone hates it; Tastes like shit. But they drink it, because its 8.1% alcohol, so a 40oz of it is pretty much the cheapest way to get drunk.
Well, after all the dark beers I had tried before it, this seemed like heaven. So I started drinking it alot. Then I went to crappy american beers(Budweiser, Coors, MGD). After Steel, they were fine. Now, I really enjoy becks, heineken, etc. I can drink almost any beer without any problem, enjoying most of them alot(Really dark beers though, too much for me still).
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Over time I began to appreciate what tastes I liked in a beer (in my case super hops) and I am still to this day trying new things and theres at least a dozen that I just love. Hell I even brew my own to cater to my tastes.
I'd say it's just like learning what you'd like in a wine as well and if after a few hundred bucks in beer and a few months of trying you still don't like it, no big deal, more for the rest of us!
Edit: I forgot to make my recommendations for a 6 pack.
1: hop head by tree brewing (unlikely to be found in the USA I'm told) b) any IPA brewed by a portland microbrew (all fucking awesome)
2: newcastle brown 11/10 for awesome taste
3: hoegarden (aka do you like wheat beer)
4: Stella artois (probably my favorite big name, can get anywhere, beer)
5: A nice dark local stout (whatever is local and the shopdude recommends)
6: Asahi super dry (gets 0 respect but is *incredibly* easy to drink)
The beer that got me actually drinking beer is the Sam Adams Summer Ale. I moved to other wheat beers and have expanded my preference to other pleasant tasting beers.
However, my favorite beer ever is the St. Bernadus Abt. Awww yeah.
Steel Reserve is malt liquor, not beer.
If you like Newcastle Brown, try a Samuel Smith Nut Brown Ale.
IPAs are not for people who haven't yet acquired a taste for beer. I love most kinds of beer and I've only recently started enjoying IPAs.
Someone mentioned it earlier, and I'll second it. Rogue Dead Guy Ale is awesome. Dead Guy and Mackeson Triple Stout are my two favorites.
Can anyone remember the first time they drank Coca Cola? I can. It was disgusting. Now I practically live off the stuff.
However, I see no reason spending a lot of money on beer. If I want to drink something that won't get me drunk, I'll drink Coke. Tastes better. If I want to drink something that gets me drunk, I have about 400 bottles of Hankey Bannister scotch whisky which my grandfather left to me.
Scotch is definitely a huge acquired taste, but I was determined to acquire the taste, because I'm not going to let the 400 bottles sit there undrunk. Now I have, and I go through probably a bottle every couple of weeks.
As for real ales, I've never had anything better than Adnam's Broadside. A pretty strong (6.3% abv) dark ale, but good luck finding that in the States.
Step 1. Force myself to drink several cans of Pabt's Blue Ribbon, which is the shittiest tasting beer ever.
Step 2. Drink other alcohol until drunk then proceed to drinking beer.
Step 3. I now enjoy beer.
Step 4. ???
Step 5. profit.
....Ok but seriously, if you don't like beer, don't drink it. I've tried a ton of different beers and have yet to find one I like. I'm more of a liquor/cocktail drinker myself. Just find something you DO like. Or just forswear drinking, and give up the dream of making an ass of yourself in public.
This plan stopped being profitable after you stopped drinking PBR.
Also my 6-pack would include:
1) Guinness Stout (It's a hearty meal in a pint glass)
2) Strongbow Hard Cider (Tasty hard cider)
3) Newcastle Brown Ale (I say Newcastle because it's EVERYWHERE but all the brown ales I've tried tasted roughly the same to me. It's not really strong tasting, not much after taste)
4) Maudite (... oh fuck. it's good, just try it.)
5) Peche Lambic (It's peachy, the chicks love it, kind of a dessert beer)
6) Hoegaarden (Really light, really easy to drink)
I'm currently stuck on Hefeweizens...they don't filter the yeast out so you end up with a lot more flavors instead of the hops taste.
My six pack:
1. Abita Purple Haze - I've heard people call it bitch beer, because they add raspberry pulp to the hops, but it doesn't taste fruity....just an interesting sweetness/tartness.
2. Blue Moon (with a slice of orange)
3. Guiness Stout (aforementioned liquid bread)
4. Pyramid Hefeweizen (also comes in an apricot variety similar to the Purple Haze)
5. Magic Hat #9 - relatively light and sweet for a beer
6. Aventinus - heavy, dark almost licorice flavor with the added benefit of 8% alcohol (I've heard the draught is 10-12% can anyone confirm?)
And since autumn is coming up there should be a few good sampler packs coming soon. Magic Hat makes a Halloween themed one and Sam Adams usually has a fall sampler.
I'd reccomend the following beers in a mixed 6 pack
Corona Extra
Michelob Light
Miller Light
Budweiser
Bud Light
Its actually not b/c i'm cheap, but i actually prefer the taste. I dunno, they seemed to grow on me and not be as bitter as the other stuff i tasted. I tasted a whole lot of sam adams and killians and heineken and this other one i can't remember the name.
Man, I can't understand how anyone can drink Blue Moon. IMO it tastes like those deodorant cakes in urinals smell.
Improvolone, if you liked the oatmeal stout the best, I would suggest:
- Skullsplitter. The name makes it sound like a ghetto malt liquor, but it is actually a really tasty dark beer imported from somewhere in or around Scotland.
- La Fin du Monde, Maudite, or any of the other dark beers by that maker (Unibrou?). They come in large bottles, and have very distinctive labels.
- At least in my area, Lindemans lambics (fruit or berry-flavoured beers) imported from Belgium are pretty common. The one I would recommend you try is the Cassis (blackcurrant) variety. It is less common than the others, but is at least 20x more tasty. It tastes more like a wine than a beer.
- If you are anywhere near Seattle, there is a local brewery/pub called Elysian that has some really good varieties of dark beer, and you can find them bottled in stores of varying distance from the city. There is another one called the Big Time Brewery that has a *fantastic* barleywine that is basically the best dark beer ever made by the human race, and an excellent oatmeal stout, but AFAIK both are seasonal (as in available for maybe a week out of the year), and they either don't sell in bottles or the bottles cost more than a sixpack of regular microbrew.
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While it's not actually beer, ginger beer is pretty good too.
It really is an acquired taste. I'd recommend trying all the different varieties of Sam Adams. If you haven't acquired the taste by then, you never will.
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