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
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.
I've tried all kinds and it all tastes like vinegar to me. Beer is all similarly bad to me. So I end up preferring alcohol with as little taste as possible
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".
Except there are wines from certain regions that are inexpensive and absolutely fantastic. It's typically American wine that is really bad if it's at a low price point.
What?? I drink non-alcoholic beer, because it tastes great and I dont want to get drunk.
Ik you're lying cuz you said tastes great
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.
Its wild how some people can't comprehend that other people like things they don't
I used to say "it's only the first few hundred that taste bad."
But I love the taste of beer as long as it's not an IPA.
It's so strange that I'm the opposite. IPAs are the only kinds of beer consistently palatable to me.
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
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...
Meanwhile, my Lemmy feed...
I didn't like beer much at all in university but being drunk wasn't bad (which had me resorting to downing vodka that tasted like white-board marker)... it was because I was probably drinking brand name cheap stuff.
Then I had a craft IPA (the Ottawa-area brewery Big Rig) and I loved it, I developed a taste for those limey hops.
I know there are people upset that craft breweries tend to default to an IPA. But to me, having tried a bunch from different places, I can't go too wrong picking a local craft IPA, they range from just okay to very delicious! Whereas I've been more often disappointed by lagers and other beers which to me taste like funny carbonated water in comparison.
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.
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
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 😟
If I can't see light pass through it, I won't like it. Stouts and Porters can fuck all the way off. I don't need an alcohol laced milkshake, tyvm
It's okay to not like things!
But I do love me a nice lactose beer.
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.
Lagers taste like cold watered down piss to me.
Stouts are too bitter for me but that doesn't mean some aren't great. Only had a handful though.
American craft beer is drinkable at a stretch but the taste seems artificially enhanced and is too much. They just don't know how to make beer and are trying to make up for it.
(Real) IPA and pale ales are where it's at. Wide variety, some are good some and amazing most are good. More flavour than lager, not too overpowering like American or stout's.
Copper/amber beer. That can be great too but I prefer IPAs.
Wheat beer is also awesome it's what lagers try to be.
Ciders can be great but I'm not some huge farming bloke so don't tend to drink then too much because you can't get good scrumpy near me.
Fruity ciders are good but only for one or two or you get diabetes.
Pilsners can be okay/good but they need to come from central Europe.
I can get people not liking them and being a baby about the whole situation. But the flavours are so varied you either come from a country that makes shit beer or you haven't tried enough. You're just thick if you can't imagine how anyone could like them. It's like saying every curry in the world is terrible and everyone is just pretending.
Even coming from a country that makes shit need is no excuse. There are countries that make good beer and they send it overseas. And they're are good microbreweries EVERYwhere.
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.
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.
ITT: People who drink tons of beer get very defensive about how beer tastes to people who don't like it
say you have an unrefined palette without saying you have an unrefined palette.
What a remarkably uncool thing to say
Sweet, have an upvote.
If beer, lager, ale, etc., didn't get you drunk no one would consume it. That's literally the point, he's right it does taste bad. It's the same for sex btw, if it weren't for pleasure, the human race would have died out from how horrible sex would feel.
Uh... you're aware that non-alcoholic beer exists, right? This isn't some mythical creation, people already drink it.
Which most do because of social interactions and needing / wanting to be sober. Haven't met a person that just has 0% beer, and they open it after a hard days work like some people do with the alcoholic version. The only time I've seen 0% consumed in a large quantity was parties, specifically for drivers.
My dude, if sex is so painful you're doing it wrong.
My dude, I'm telling you if the pleasure is removed, think about what your body goes through to have an orgasm. Straining, pulling, heart rate through the roof, breathing gets shallow, lots of stuff you don't want to go through happen, but it feels good so we put up with it. Remove that, and nobody would want to do it
