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[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But beer does taste good...

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can we all just agree that my tastes are correct and every person that disagrees is wrong?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yes but replace you with me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Only if you agree that everything I like is good and everything else is trash.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I'm comfortable with that as long as you promise not to clarify.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

This is how I feel about it. When I did try alcoholic drinks I just didn't like the taste of alcohol.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What?? I drink non-alcoholic beer, because it tastes great and I dont want to get drunk.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Idk you probably didn't notice, but I think this "xkcd" stuff is very often doing jokes ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Right. He does jokes. He also puts a ton of meta commentary into his jokes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Its wild how some people can't comprehend that other people like things they don't

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It's so strange that I'm the opposite. IPAs are the only kinds of beer consistently palatable to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IPAs aren't my favorite but I noticed a major improvement when one is poured, rather than drunk straight from the bottle/can. Before I made a point of pouring them, I mostly would get those bitter and funky flavors, but the aeration seems to help a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

All alcohol tastes bad it has poison in it, lol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You're assuming poison tastes bad. Clearly not an old-school anti-freeze connoisseur.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Meanwhile, my Lemmy feed...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Something something acquired taste

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Chocolate oatmeal stout. :9

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used to think I didn't like beer, but I later realized I just don't like lagers.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Guinness is pretty good actually

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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