Never had a beer I liked, and EVERY SINGLE TIME a friend will tell me what they like is actually good “you can’t even taste the beer flavor, just the blank” and every single time, it tastes like beer with no hint of the blank.
Beers just suck. Have fun with bitter bread flavored soda. I like my sugary/fruit drinks lol. They taste good and I get fucked up.
I used to hate beer too, but fruity wheat beers were my gateway.
Two words: lemon shandy
Shandies are the tits!
Same. I gave up on beers years ago. I accept it’s not worth my money anymore just in hopes of figuring out what people like about it. I still enjoy some wines (though relatively few and I wouldn’t consider it an amazing taste). Mixed drinks are really where it’s at. Can’t go wrong with spiced rum and diet coke! There’s also so many very delicious sugary mixed drinks, but I try to minimize those because it’d take like 500+ calories to get a buzz.
Have you tried krieks, sours or lambics?
Honestly, I couldn’t tell you. I just try whatever a friend hands me, could be anything lol
They’re in the section with meads here. I actually enjoy them and I hate pretty much all beers. Fruity lambics are pretty swell.
People’s palates work differently. You might just have one that is more suitable for something else than beer, I guess.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Funnily, I’m also the only person I know that drinks tequila on occasion that doesn’t have a horror story about it.
You from the states? Over here in Germany I can get (in a 5 km radius):
- Pilsener
- Hefeweizen
- Schwarzbier
- Porter
- Kölsch
- Lager
- Export
- Bock
- Helles
- Alt
- Kellerbier
- Landbier
- IPA
- Stout
- Red Ale
- Brown Ale
- dubbel/trippel/quadruppel
- …
It really varies by location in the states. Im lucky enough to live in an area with a ton of different craft breweries that do a ton of different things, but there’s definitely places here that have fuckall in that area
It has to vary wildly by region in the US, because in the northeast, this “hurr durr only IPAs everywhere” meme hasn’t been accurate for like 10 years, if it was ever accurate at all.
Have a gander at the last 20 drinks here: https://untappd.com/PariahBrewingCompany
I literally walked into this place last year to check it out, saw what was on tap and had to turn around and walk out (the strong ale or witbier even wasn’t even there). It was IPAs all the way down.
I was able to get a locally produced rauchbier at the Cincy Beer fest about 12 years ago. Cincinnati has a large ethnically German population, but I was still surprised by that.
Oh yeah, forgot about rauchbier. I don’t like it very much though.
Rauchbier is such an experience. For anyone who gets the opportunity to try one: get two. You’ll need to drink one to get used to it and another to really enjoy it.
Not a sour in sight :(
Ever smell the juice that comes out of a dumpster if it’s rusted at the corner?
(I’m sorry, enjoy what you enjoy)
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Ah but they’re expensive and closer to fizzy hop water than fermented drink.
I’d like a beer that doesn’t taste bitter to me. I know this is probably me because I am very sensitive to bitter tastes (I can even taste the light bitterness of artificial sweeteners in drinks). But I’d love to experience an alcoholic beverage for once without the bitter taste.
I think part of the problem is that alcohol itself tastes bitter. So I guess look for quite a low-alcohol beer, maybe a fruity one with not much hops…
I don’t think alcohol tastes bitter, if you drink straight vodka it doesn’t taste like much of anything it just burns going down. I think alcohol makes drinks more bitter owing to the fact that it’s a pretty good solvent that can extract bitter compounds from the drink’s other ingredients so you taste them more easily.
Also a lot of beer is flavored with hops (tho most beers don’t include as much of them as your typical IPA) which is typically bitter. I’ve had tea and sparkling water that were non-alcoholic but had hops as a flavoring component and they were unpleasantly bitter to me.
As a 20+ year veteran…of drinking vodka, it definitely has a flavor/taste to it.
Thanks for the advice.
sour beers in my experience tend to be less bitter.
modelo especial with lime juice is about my favorite non-craft beer. usually i tend to favor less-bitter beerd myself such as witbiers, kolsch, or hefeweisens. there are some IPA’s I like and will drink but I find that most of the ones I prefer tend to be on the less-bitter side for an IPA (which means they’re still bitter-er than most non-IPA beers).
Thanks for the advice. I will check some of those out.
It’s almost Oktoberfest season! There will be lots of great non-IPA beers then!
Around here, Oktoberfest beers come out in mid August, drives me nuts.
Oktoberfest beers are the best beers.
It should be a worldwide holiday.
Cincinnati has a big Octoberfest event every year but I always miss it because it’s in September. I guess I should try to be ready for it this year.
They’re already selling Oktoberfest beers at the stores near me. Feels early, but I do enjoy a good Oktoberfest beer so it evens out.
Move to Sweden, here you can’t buy a beer above 3.5% abv in a store. Anything above that you have to buy at the state owned liqueur store systembolaget. The upside is that they have a pretty good assortment. The store in my small town carry about 300 different beers. About a third is IPA.
Belgium is really the best place for beer in my opinion. There is a good variety of local/traditional styles but you can also get the more modern stuff
Also much cheaper there. And you have a lot of pubs to go to. And you can drink them when you’re 16.
Yeah, when I went there it was hella cheaper to get a beer with dinner than water.
Where I am in the states, you can’t buy any alcohol in a grocery store.
What is this, 2012?
I thought, not so long ago, this was the same meme but with “pilsner” instead if “ipa” .
I guess things are a trend/popular for a reason.
I love IPAs, but I do have to wonder why don’t they make more varieties.
I feel you.
I brew my own beer just have a decent Munich style lager.
That’s impressive. You filter it?
why? I don’t need filters to clarify the lager, just temperature control.
Context: I was raised in Chico during the rise of Sierra Nevada. I was drinking hoppy beer before it was a thing. I burnt out on the whole thing around 2010. Went to Germany and fell in love with their beer. So drinkable. I’m just really impressed.
Do you lean towards Helles and Kolsh or Dunkels?
I’d say helles.
Lutra Kveik is the secret ingredient, that yeast can do no wrong.
i started drinking wine just to get away from IPAs
I just went straight to hard liquor when I started drinking. Can’t fuck up straight gin!
I agree. Shitty IPAs are shitty, but I guess that is by definition.
Can’t a man get a sour or two? Maybe some regional cider, if it’s not too much to ask?
You may, we have a space provisioned at the rear of the facility
Come to New England and have some Downeast. Don’t need any other cider after that.
Downeast is pretty dang good, give Ninepin a shot as well.
I mean yeah, sure. You can at every beer store near me 🤷🏻
I think that’s kinda the thing about this post. Alot of people don’t have a place to find these things at all. Though I know a few, just not super convenient for me. I feeling like I am ALWAYS at the grocery store for something, though.
cant relate. i love the International Phonetic Alphabet
Well, I also like Isopropyl Alcohol
I’ve been enjoying Magic Hat lately
Wrong. IPAs are delicious and you’re not allowed to leave the dinner table until you finish yours.
tastes like ear wax.
