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Its wild how some people can’t comprehend that other people like things they don’t
Willing to bet most people who don’t like the taste of beer base that opinion on tasting some cheap horse piss lager in their teens. Much like I hated wine until I drank something above $10/bottle.
For me I just don’t like the taste of Alcohol. It’s a subtle bitterness that ruins the drink for me and it burns in an unpleasant way, like the smell of nail polish.
I’ve tried various drinks over the years, the front taste might be pleasant, but when I taste the alcohol, bleh. What’s sad is that there was a wine or two that had a fantastic front taste that I just wish was alcohol free.
This is how I feel about it. When I did try alcoholic drinks I just didn’t like the taste of alcohol.
If beer “burns”, you’re doing it wrong. Sure there’s the odd Jamaican Ginger or Cinnamon that might be spicy, but I’ve never had a beer strong enough to get that burning sensation that stronger alcohols can give.
Are you allergic? Did you try a beer so far gone that it’s basically formaldehyde?
You’re of course welcome to chose not to poison yourself with alcohol and I don’t want to push anyone into drinking …… but if you legit were willing but didn’t like the taste, microbrews have a huge range of tastes and strengths that could appeal to many different people
Its been a while since I had alcohol. The last thing I had was Vokda since my wife is using it to make Mint Extract, and sip was enough to remind me why I don’t like the drink.
As for Beer proper. I think it was a fresh bottle of mikes hard lemonade, and what I can recall was overwhelming bitterness mixed with a burning sensation. But that could just be the alcohol drying out my throat.
I also did a rum and coke shot, again bitterness and burning.
Not sure if allergic, but I can see a sensitivity to it. Especially with my strong sense of smell.
I personally see it more like an aversion like how some people avoid carbonated beverages
mikes hard lemonade, and what I can recall was overwhelming bitterness mixed with a burning sensation
Wow, humans sure are different: I find that cloyingly sweet. Then again, I generally go for strong bitter flavors: black coffee, dark chocolate, the bitterest style of beers, the Cabernets of wines
I never realized how little flavor Lite beers have until I accidentally drank a Diet Pepsi that was two years expired. It seriously tasted just like a Bud Lite.
When someone says “I don’t like the taste of X”, 90% of the time they mean “I don’t like the taste of bad X”.
All alcohol tastes bad it has poison in it, lol.
You’re assuming poison tastes bad. Clearly not an old-school anti-freeze connoisseur.
Don’t even get me started on how good lead tastes
Is that a real xkcd? Seems like a rare miss for that guy, since it is an incredibly disingenous claim. A lot of people actually thinks that beer taste pretty great.
Idk you probably didn’t notice, but I think this “xkcd” stuff is very often doing jokes ;)
Right. He does jokes. He also puts a ton of meta commentary into his jokes.
Meanwhile, my Lemmy feed…
For me it’s an ethanol delivery mechanism that tastes better than wine or liquor. Love me a nice fruity wheat beer, or a sour, or a milk stout.
Literally the only XKCD that I vehemently disagree with. EVERY BEER DRINKER IS DOING IT BECAUSE WE WANT TO BE COOL AND WE SECRETLY HATE THE TASTE. foh.
I used to think I didn’t like beer, but I later realized I just don’t like lagers.
Same but for ales. Then I realized I don’t like booze so I stopped.
Guinness is pretty good actually
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Same
Something something acquired taste
I think we should all agree that anything that’s considered an “acquired taste” tastes like shit, you just get used to the shit taste eventually
I used to be of the opinion that alcohol should be illegal and marijuana should be manditory but now I make my own beer, I find most of it delicious.
Chocolate oatmeal stout. :9
It’s the chocolate and oatmeal part that tastes good.
You’re not wrong!
I don’t like hoppy beer myself, which is the flavour most people associate with “beer”, that gross bitter greasy sort of thing.
There are quite a few different kind of hops, though, with different flavours. Some are stronger than others, though the entire class has that base flavour.
Beer is way more than just hops, though. It’s a broad category of beverages made from many different malted grains, and can be very different than your standard Budweiser (which some people love!).
This is the only beer I really like, but I feel like a fatty fatkins after drinking just one 😟
A lot of America hasn’t recovered from Prohibition; they’ve lost the taste for it. During Prohibition, all you’d get is bathtub gin or still hootch, and that’d be mixed and flavored. When the bad times ended, Americans didn’t return to ales in the same way, but Budweiser, with added Rice as a grain mix, was popular because of the smoother taste and in the next few generations it quickly became the leading, and definitive, American beer taste. 1970s-1990s found imports. Craft brew became more popular as people, generally folks who traveled abroad and knew that good ales existed and also didn’t mind paying more for a bottle, started to migrate from imports like Bass and Guinness to local microbrews if they were available (hello Colorado) and slowly it all took a foothold.
I feel that beer & ales can be a generational taste, swinging like fashion (who really drinks Becks now, right?). Maybe a bit like “pizza cognition theory”, where your earliest experiences with a slice define what you think “real” pizza should taste like.
Edited for grammar. Man, mine sucks now.
if I could get Hefeweizen beer without alcohol in it, I would drink it all the fucking time. It’s delicious. unfortunately the local stores don’t carry Weihenstephaner Hefe Non-Alcoholic and ordering shit online for delivery is too expensive and inconvenient…
Funny enough I thought the same when I was in college, cheap beer tastes horrible(then I didn’t drink much it was only weed). But a good beer in a hot day? Man that is the most refreshing thing in the world. A sensation we have shared with other people for 5000 years or more.
