powerclown

Question, beer lovers:

If beer did not get you drunk/buzzed/happy/horny/painless/pissed whatever, would you still drink it?

juanvaldes

kids these days....

Stop buying shitty beer and experiment. There are 10,00a012ljasdf different beers in the world, no point in buying the bottom of the barrel.

I will end this pointless post (see above for other points) with this rule of thumb. If it's advertized on TV don't buy it. Except Guinness. Guinness is good.

Fly

i have a great time w/ or w/out beer.

so far from sad it's.....well sad.

i enjoy beer prolly cuz i work outdoors in the baking hot sun and nothing is better than an ice cold pop after a hard days work.


*heads to fridge for a wobbly pop*

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Fly

read above post.

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LStanley

if you are like 18 or so..... you may not like it yet because your body is still accustomed to drinking sweeti drinks.. when you get older you'll find out that beer is an EXCELLENT drink, and as an accquired taste...

I know alot of students here at Texas Tech that don't like beer, go figure, and alot of students that are LEARNING to LIKE it...

in any case.... just expirement and drink some from time to time if you like.. if its utterly disgusting.. every time... try something else like zima or something.... I used to drink zima back in highschool and now I'm into dark beers...

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splck

Drinking beer just to get drunk/buzzed/happy/horny/painless/pissed is juvenile IMO.
Enjoying a nice cool one for the taste of the beer is what it's all about. Does it suprise you that people actually like the flavour of beer?

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Vodka 4 Life

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Plan9Senior

I prefer beer over liquor because I genuinely like the taste of it. It isn't suprising that some of you don't like some of the beers you have tasted. Ever wonder why there are so many different kinds? Well because we all have different tastes My bet is that the people who have said they hate the way beer tastes are basing their opinions on cheap beers.

KellyC

LOL ...get ready to be in shock! I'm a GUY, I'm also not American...i'm VIETNAMESE...I can see why you'd think i'm a girl, but the name KellyC is after MY favourite singer: Kelly Chen (the canto pop GODDESS)

You are correct that I've only been "introduced" to very few beer types. Mostly Miller, Budwiser and Corona...I think just those 3 brands..any way..they all suck. I only tried them because I was with my friends, and I made it a goal to be get totally wasted b4 going to college so..I closed my eyes and chug those nasty craps...and no..gettin' drunk wasn't fun either...I didn't fall but walking in a straight line was a real bitch. Oh yeah, I got a pretty nasty hanger the next day too, lastest pretty much all day the next day and sometimes into the night, then it just faded away the next next morning.

Haven't been drinking ever since...

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Ratman

IMO beer should only contain four ingredients: Water, Malt, Hops, Yeast. If it is made with adjuncts like rice (Bud) or corn (Miller), It is going to taste like crap. Brew your own, you'll be glad you did.

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Tophat665

I've been in that pathetic state, and that disgusts me. However, fermentation is a process that produces some unique flavors - esters in particular - and alcohol is not necessarily the point, only an unavoidable by product.

Of course, getting righteouly twisted now and again is sometimes a lark, but if you feel that strongly about it, more power to ya. Just don't tell me I can't have a beer.

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MSD

Yes. I don't get drunk anyway.

You guys who don't like it should try a few types of higher-quality stuff. Don't drink anything that comes in 24-packs, and you're off to a good start. Try bottles, they tend to be better than cans. Heineken was the first beer that I actually liked, then Guiness, then the really good stuff like Rogue Shakespeare Stout.

Also, there's some stuff at Trader Joe's, "Samuel's Oatmeal Stout" that has a taste that reminds me of oatmeal and a hint of chocolate. You don't hate beer unless you can't stand that stuff. If you can't even keep that in your mouth, you may really hate beer, but give it a try.

InTeGrA77

Personally I don't think that it tastes good no matter how drunk you are!!

I've tried it very few times, but enough to know that its shit! Why would someone drink something that tastes HORRIBLE just to get an aquired taste for it, when they can drink something that tastes a thousand times better that will get you just as drunk...??? Someone answer me that!?

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Kaos

That's like asking "Why is the sky blue?"

It just is

legolas

I don't think -anyone- tastes beer for the first time and goes "hey this tastes great!!!" Drinking beer is almost like a necessary evil. The taste gets better and better the more you drink and drinking it can become quite fun in situations. If you don't like beer you are far from alone though.

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grumpyolddude

Not many hanging on the fence for this topic. Just as well. Don't put anything in your mouth that you don't enjoy.

But... nothing chases pizza as well as a nice lager. Have a Guiness or Newcastle for dessert!

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World's King

Beer makes me smart.

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nothingx

Beer comes in such a broad spectrum of tastes, colors, and varieties that there is truely a rainbow of beers too choose from. To say that you don't like beer is implying that you've tasted and tried every single one and have not been able to find one you like. My guess is that you've only tried one or two which you didn't like and have decided all beers are not good.

To say you don't like beer is like saying you don't like color - when you've only seen brown and pea green.

Spyder_Venom

I have never liked beer and have tried on almost every occasion to sample differnt kinds of beer. I haven't found one yet that I like. There is something about the tangy or bitterness that I just can't get past. I really prefer something that is a little bit sweeter or has a citrus flavor to it.

I guess I will just stick to the Captain and Bacarti drinks.

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cchris

I had to make a decision,
And really show no fear,
So while I stood there thinking,
I had another beer,
Suddenly, then it hit me,
A huge brainwave I could tell,
Gotta’ get a job in a brewery,
And taste success as well.
My first week was a ripper,
Job training every day,
Tasting all the different beers,
This is heaven I would say.
With my training lessons over,
I reckon now I’m made,
Free beer for everyday I work,
And I’m even gettin’ paid.
Now you’d never guess whats happened,
They’ve given me the flick,
Said, since I started workin there,
Their profits have been sick.
Unfair dismissal, I claimed by law,
And the judge said that was true,
He made them pay me a million,
Now I own a brewery too.

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powerclown

Not at all...

*I* like the flavor of beer, not all of them, not the muddy dark stuff for example. I always liked the buzz, too, though, maybe Ive got a problem here...

bundy

thats brilliant!!

i can remember back when i was a teenager, at one those weekend backyard parties you have during highschool thinking damn this beer tastes bad.

looking back now, i can attribute three reasons for that thought.

1. i was drinking to get drunk. there was no appreciation of the actual taste. it was about the quantity, not quality.

2. the beer was cheap and nasty. being underage, and poor, the beer that was usually served at these parties was nasty.

3. my tastebuds were immature. at the time i also disliked wine, whiskey and champers (all of which i thoroughly enjoy these days). your palette matures over time (well, mine has).


Q - would i enjoy beer if it didn't make you drunk (or give a buzz or whatever)??

A - you bet. for me, beer is a very refreshing drink. i love the taste. after a hot day, or a hard day at work, there is nothing better than a cold beer.

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Spartak

Oh yes!

Part of the reason why I love Guinness so much is the perfect taste. I mean I often (when I can afford some) have a can (440ml draught can with a gas widget) with my dinner.

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legolas

Hell no. I would just go to the liquor.

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KungFuGuy

yeah...i dont like beer but all i've gotten to try is LeBlatt Blue, miller light, and some really bad college beer. ya know, cheap stuff.

so yeah, by preferance i go for liquor. If a friend recomends something tho i'll try it, so i'm not totally close minded to beer. other than the fact that people who drink beer a lot are also usually pretty fat. and i dont want to get fat. like my dad, who drinks beer all the time.

bonehed1

I dont see how people drink beer. It takes nasty to me and reminds me of pee...I always tell my wife who likes beer that she is drinking carbonized pee.

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Tophat665

Damn straight, and I'd still brew it too.

Some beer - cheap crappy fizzy yellow beer - I drink strictly for the buzz, and that would have to go, so I would drink less and much better beer when I did. Of course, if beer didn't get you drunk, then it would be a chore to find anything that wasn't sickly sweet and marketed to teenagers, because all the adults would be off drinking something that did give them a buzz.

Also, if beer didn't get one drunk, then it would have to lack alcohol. Barring some hypothetical inert alcohol isoflavin, some of my favorite types of beer would not taste right. Part of the flavor profile of a good IPA, Imperial Stout, Foreign Style Stout, Old Ale, Barley Wine, Belgian Strong Ale, Scotch Ale, Baltic Porter, or Belgian Trippel is a distinct alcohol flavor. If it's not there, the beer tastes flabby.

<b>KellyC</b>, Sorry about that. I've just heard that identical sentiment from many women over the years - How can you <i>drink</i> that stuff - that it seemed characteristic. My mistake. Given the brands of beer you've had though, it's no wonder you don't like them. Cheap beer for a cheap buzz. Cheap wine is cheaper, but even I don't sink so low any more (but o the nights with a ping pong table and a couple of bottles of maddawg!).

One thing to know about Corona: The reason you put lime in it is to kill the smell. The chemical that makes beer bitter, iso-alpha acids derived from hops and boiling, interact with ultraviolet light to produce a chemical nearly indistinguishable from that which gives skunks their distinctive odor. This takes about 10 seconds. Brown glass stops it. Clear glass does not. Neither does green glass.

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splck

Can't say I ever tried pee before.

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moonstrucksoul

i never really got into beer, I can drink quite a few but the taste was never something i have gone for. that's pretty much the same for hard liquor, alchohol has a distinct taste to me and I can usually taste it all drinks. i drink maybe once a month.

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mr_mcrafe

I like it. It's definately an aquired taste, well at least the cheap stuff I'm used to. Now that I've aquired the taste, I love it, especially some cold ones with mates after a hard day. Export (NZ local one) is my choice at the moment, but I have to say the couple of Fosters (Aussie) I've tried were very nice too.

Prince

I love a good cider, but can't stand beer.

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high_way

the funny thing is that fosters isnt anywhere near our best beer... not by a long shot


as for guiness... it has been said that each guiness contains a steak and two eggs... sounds good to me for breakfast.

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gal

Give me a good movie and a pizza, and I'm happy. Add a beer to that, and I'm in heaven

Shop around, try different beers; I'd be surprised if you cannot find anything you like. Best American beer I've had is Anchor steam. Other internationals I can think of are Corona, Warsteiner and most Carsberg and Tuborg beers.

splck

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

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raeanna74

I've tried beer. Never really liked it. Some kinds I can't even get more than a sip down. Lite beers don't seem so revolting to me. I don't enjoy the smell of beer either.

I get a headache every time I have a Rum and cola too. So that's out.

I tend to like the sweet stuff and girly drinks. I'll stay with that.

I love kissing a guy who's had some rum, or wine. The taste is great.

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water_boy1999

For some reason I get the impression a lot of the TFPers who posted aren't even legally able to drink the stuff. Funny, when I was under the age, I didn't have a real taste for the stuff, but now, I would definitely consider myself a connousoir (sp) of the fine beverage! I prefer micro brews as opposed to the Millers, Coors, Buds, and other watered down light brews. Just more taste to a good micro brew like Red Nectar, 8 Ball Stout, Downtown Brown, etc.....

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shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.
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Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.
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Drinking provides a beautiful excuse to pursue the one activity that truly gives me pleasure; hooking up with fat, hairy girls.
-- Ross Levy

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
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What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
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Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
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24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
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When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
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--Winston Churchill

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
--Benjamin Franklin

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
--Deep Thought, Jack Handy

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
--Dave Barry

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
--Humphrey Bogart

Why is American beer served cold? So you can distinguish it from urine.
--David Moulton

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
--Kaiser Wilhelm

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
--Dave Barry

All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.
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You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
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Scotch - Because one doesn't solve the world's problems over white wine.

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matthew330

shawoo!!! I was really starting to loose faith in the tilted forum project up untill about the 7th post in this thread. Beer is wonderfull. My old band wrote a song about me called "Matt's First Love". It went something like.....

A long time ago,
When Matt was just a pup,
He took his fathers beer,
And poured it in his cup...

Ranting about how i fell in love
and the course was...you guess it

Matt......Loves.....Beeeeeeeeeer.

it was like 7 years ago so i don't remember all the words

matthew330

ahh shoot. For those who aren't working on their 5th Warsteiner (wonderfull german beer), "course" = chorus

sherpahigh

What's so great about beer?!?

Everything is the short answer. It's already been pointed out by many already that beer is definitly an aquired taste. I can recall my first beer and it was not great. The same can be said about my first drink of wine, first of scotch, etc. Some of the greatest tasting things to me know like a good bottle of wine or a beer were things that brought no joy whatsoever (aside from the eventual buzz) upon my first taste of them.

I think another good point which has already been raised is that a lot of peoples first experience with beer is when they're underage and drinking for the sole purpose to get drunk. They also are usually drinking some swill that is dirt cheap and as high in alcohol as possible.

As for the question of if I would still drink beer if it gave me no buzz, etc.... Damn right I would and I have had no alcohol beer in the past when having a buzz or being drunk was not an option. The taste is first and foremost for me.

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gilada

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