KellyC

What is it about beer that makes it so great? Personaly, I dont find beer to be very good, no wait...it sucks. I find that I'm the only one I know of to not like/hate beer. Yes, I've tried the stuff several times only making it less and less consumable the next time. My friends however cant seems to get enough of the stuff and they would say shit like "wtf is wrong with you?" for not liking beer.

Is it normal of me to not like beer?

Can any one else relate?

omega2K4

Beer does tastes like shit. However, when you're drunk, you don't care. The only beer I'll drink is Corona Extra, and that isn't very often. Beer tastes like shit, and it takes a shitload of it to get you drunk.

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SecretMethod70

Beer SUUUUUCKS. I hate it. Sure, it may taste good when you're drunk (I don't know) but why would you drink enough of it to get drunk in the first place? Ewwwww. I'll stick to "girly drinks" thank you very much.

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onodrim

You're not alone, beer is absoluetly awful. I hate the stuff. I doubt I could stomach it, even drunk.

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fik

Beer is fucking gross but that doesn't stop me from drinking it.

KellyC

Glad to know I'm not alone

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bermuDa

I used to really hate beer, but I have a lot of friends who drink it a lot, so after a while I got used to it. I dont' really drink it on my own, but I like having a beer with a couple friends every once in a while. An ice cold beer on a hot summer day is quite refreshing as well.

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analog

Beer is good stuff. Keep in mind, of course, that I don't think it's supposed to be incredible, just get you drunk... and get you drunk it will, if you have enough.

Seaver

You have to taste the many different types. Miller light is the only light beer I'll drink, free or not the others taste like piss. Here in Texas we have Shiner Bock, texas only beer that tastes great, but since it is a Bock beer it is heavier and few people actually drink enough to get drunk.

An easy way to go is what I normally do, drink liquor until you're buzzing, then take over with beer. Liquor before beer never fear... you know. When you get the buzz going you cant taste it, and beer is much cheaper, great for continuing the buzz, and it doesnt hit you nearly as hard or as suddenly as liquor.

Taste the different kinds, I prefer heavier/darker beer when I'm sober, but if I'm intoxicated the light beers are much less filling and easier to down.

Not everyone likes beer, no big deal.

MaGlC_MaN

i've been drunk a few times now and.. beer still tastes like shit to me. some of my friends say that they've acquired a taste for it, but i can't seem to do that. oh well, i still drink it just to get drunk and yea, after a few drinks i start to not taste it as much.

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Spartak

Beer is possibly the greatest invention ever, as Benjamin Franklin said "Beer of proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy".

Beer is always a good choice when I go out drinking, why ? Because it's so cheap, and is possibly the most sweet tasting beverage ever.

This ofcourse being decent beer. I think that's the problem with some people who are put off beer because they only tried a few brands, many of which are pretty foul.

In New Zealand where I live we have so much good local beer, Tui or Export Gold is the student beer of choice, because you can get a dozen (12 x 330ml bottles) for around $NZ 15 or less, and you can drink a dozen of it fairly allright.

Ofcourse you can get cheaper beer like Double Brown (drink it down!, the only beer in town!), or DB Draught or Stag or Lion Red. Now some like it, thats cool, personally I can't stand the stuff, unless I'm funneling them down then it doesn't really matter.

But the best New Zealand beer in my opinion is this stuff called Monteiths
they make so many different kinds, all of which are very quality. But I narrow the field to 3 contenders: Celtic Red, Gold and Black. Celtic Red is a classic red ale, it has very nice texture and a lovely colour. Gold is a very good lager, possibly the best New Zealand has to offfer. And Black is an ok substiute for Guinness (see below).

Now, I mean I tried pretty much every imported beer there is, and I came up with this conclusion: Corona is nothing more than overpriced bland lager in a fancy bottle, and Heineken is possibly one of the worst beers ever made. Stella Artois is possibly the best lager, but only the stuff that is imported from Belgium.

But. My most favourite beer in the world is Guinness. I mean, it is possibly the best beer ever... wait it is. First of all it is the darkest beer I have ever seen. It's delicously thick, and the best part is the creamy foam on top. No beer foam tastes as good as Guinness foam. The only downside is its relatively low alcohol percentage (4.2%) for an imported beer. But strangely that does not really make a difference.

The only bad thing I can think of about beer is that it goes through you like nothning on earth. To be quite blunt: whatever you drink you will piss out and then some. On a night on the town, ofcourse for sheer convinience its better to stick to spirits, but for a house party its beer, beer, wonderful beer.

Oh yeah, the above opinions are my own, I have come to hold such opinions after many years of student drinking, I am not an alcoholic I just like beer, if you don't like beer that's cool and I think no different of you.

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zipper

I have to admit, in my younger days...beer didn't really appeal to me either. NOW, I absolutely LOVE beer. I usually have 1 beer a day.....at least! There is nothing I would rather drink w/dinner than a beer! Maybe its an acquired taste........not sure.....but the more you drink, the more you love it!! Try some different brands....maybe you'll find something you like!!

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Chemical

Its an acquired taste. I love Guinness but to most people its disgusting.

Oh, plus, it makes ugly girls look better!

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Fly

WTF is going on in here.

beer is the magic elixer .

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splck

Beer is great. It may take you a bit to get used to it, but once you do...look out.
If beer tastes good to you only when you're drunk, maybe you should try a different brand. I mean, something other than the typical piss water (light beer) sold everwhere.

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paddyjoe

Definately an acquired taste for many.

Mrs. paddyjoe loves brussel sprouts, and I retch at the thought of them.

She can't stand Guinness and I love to the last drop.

So really, who cares? She sips her Reisling and we all get along fine.

high_way

i love beer. i drink spirits aswell but i love beer. nothing better than having a cold beer after doing a hard days work. goes straight down.

here in australia we have many beers.. to many to name but here is a couple.

fosters (our export beer)
crown larger
VB (also refered to as vomit bombs and green death ie: tastes like shit)
carlton midstength
james boags
carlton cold
tooheys new and extra dry

and my number one favourite beer


XXXX http://www.xxxx.com.au/home.asp

i mainly drink XXXX bitter but sometimes gold. living in queensland this is the main beer to drink, i drink most of the others (except vb).

the other REALLY good thing about beer is that you can brew it yourself quite easliy and you can make some very nice tasting beers... my mates and i will do that and it is dirt cheep. $15A odd dollars for the ingredients and we get about 3 cartons worth

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nukeu666

ive tried liquors a couple of times
it sucked everytime

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muckluck

In my opinion all drinks containing alcohol is crap. Well except some wines, but there is barely any alcohol in them. And who needs alcohol when you have caffeine?

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tinfoil

Just because you didn't like one beer doesn't mean all beer is bad.

Some people who think a standard ale is too bitter may want to try a wheat brew. It's smoother and not quite as dry, though some do have a little more aftertaste.

I prefer Guiness, either on tap or can (the bottled variety doesn't suck, but it's not Guiness). It has a slightly caramalized flavour to it and I don't find it bitter at all. If I am looking for something clean, then Brick's amber is a nice beer.

THat being said, I hated beer when I first tried it, but that was mostly because the first beer I tried was Budweiser. *shudder*

Unless you're a Canuck or Irish, it's perfectly fine for you not to like beer. If you're a Canuck though, expect to see me on your doorstep with a cooler and a hockey stick (to beat you senseless with until you like beer ;>)

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Give me a bottle of MGD and a plate of Chips and Salsa and I'm a happy guy

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gilada

You're not drinking the right kind. That and it just gets ya drunk, the true purpose behind all alchohol.

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beer is for lightweights! TIME TO DO SOME SHOTS!

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VitaminH

I quite enjoy beer.

It's just a matter of prefrence I think, some people will like it, some people won't. Just like about anything else...

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OK,
First off, KellyC, it is perfectly normal not to like beer. At a guess, I'd say you were and American woman at an American College, and what beer you have come in contact with has been selected to appeal to fellows who's overriding priority has been cost. Now, this doesn't mean that it has always been cheap beer, but that it has been geared toward the tastes of those acquired from long drinking cheap beer. This means that you were probably drinking an American Standard or Premium Lager, like Budweiser, a Pilsner, like Czechvar or Pilsner Urquell, or a bitter or pale ale, like Sierra Nevada or Sam Adams Stock Ale. These are beer drinker's beers, and the taste is definitely an acquired one. However, there are over 27000 different styles of beer brewed somewhere in the world, and several hundred that can be found anywhere there are people and a market economy. Most people are exposed to no more than 10 of these styles. Typically the most watered down standardized versions of these styles at that. (The best example of Budweiser's style was Korean beer last I checked. Chances are you'll never see OB lager.)

A really good wiezen is a joyous occasion, and resembles Budwieiser to the degree that Charlize Theron resembles Coco the speaking gorilla. The taste, far from bitter, is bannana and cloves and bubblegum, driven by an almost champagne like carbonation, perhaps with a touch of caramel lingering in the mouth after swallowing. It's really beautiful stuff. I reccommend Weeping Radish, Erdinger's, and Valentin's Hefeweizen, Maisel Weisse, and Kaputzinger Schwartze Dunkelweizen.

There are more varieties of beer in Belgium than there are in the entire rest of europe, and some of these are exquisite, even to the non drinker. Lucifer strong golden ale might as well be champagne. Pauwel Kwak is malty and slightly sour, but more refresing for it. Leifmanns Framboise is positively magenta with rasberries. Belgian Witbier, spiced with coriander and bitter orange peel is a wonderful alternative to the hops based beers of the rest of europe (and some of the best examples are made in America - Shenandoah Wit is the best I've ever had.)

In conclusion to this long screed, let me compare beer and wine. There are tens of thousands of different kinds of wine, some of which nearly everyone likes, and some of which are appreciated only by congnoscenti who have trained themseleves to recognize qualities in a wine difficult to achieve, and then have fooled their tastebuds into liking them. Beer is just like this, except the beers that are hardest to get to like are, from long running and incredibly effective marketing, the most popular, and those that are more immediately likeable are either priced out of their market or derided as girlie beers.

Don't believe Anhauser Bush. Budweiser isn't even the King of swilling beers. Go try something different. You might find that there is a whole world out there you didn't even know existed.

BTW, stay away from Guinness. This is another Beer Drinker's Beer. I think it's highly overrated, but I respect that many like it.

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forseti-6

I agree that most beer doesn't taste very good. However I think some tastes great. I'm a big Guiness and Sam Adams Winter Lager fan. Guiness has a little bitterness to it, but Sam Adams has none. It's more or less an acquired taste. Just like people liking hot sauce, you have it a lot, it's no longer hot. Same thing with beer.

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BlueBongo

I double that... though I do like fat tire when it's on tap.. not sure why. Corona and Fat Tire are the only beers I really drink. The fruit tasting beers are a little weird but I can stand them occasionally.

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tehblaed

I don't drink at all. But, maybe you guys shouldn't drink shit-ass beer.

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theguyondacouch

I'm not a fan of beer. Its too bitter for me, personally. Then agian, ive only tried like 2 kinds of beer.

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Caphreak

I love beer, its probably one og my favorite drinks. Its definitely an aquired taste, usually acquired by all males around the age of 16 to 20. I for one dont like all beer, lately its been MGD Light, but ive gone through a lot. Some beer i cannot stand, and others i cant get enough of. If youve sampled lot of beer, and still dont like it, so be it, but dont go giving up after trying 1 can of keystone or something.

slimcr

beer fucking sucks. beer works because human beings are a rather sad bunch and beer is the cheapest way of both pretending to have a good time and forgetting how sad they are.....

beer sucks really.

anleja

I've had good beer and bad beer, but none that I'd actually go out and buy because I want to drink it. I'd just buy it to get drunk, in which case I'd actually rather drink wine (Sangre de Toro is good wine, for me).

mirevolver

I definatly enjoy a good beer. But my taste in beer is selective.

Being in the US, I have found that domestic beers are horrible. (With an exception to microbrews.) So I usually drink an imported beer. My favorite being Pilsner Urquell.

But if I'm out drinking with friends, my Preferance is Guinness. I know some people refer to it as motor oil, and I wasn't too thrilled the first time I tasted it. But the second time I tried it, it got much better. And most of all, the thing I like about Guinness is that it has a lower alcohol content than most beers (4.1%), and it fills you up which helps to take away the problem of drinking on an empty stomach.

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lordjeebus

I enjoy many beers. I usually drink Pacifico when I'm thirsty, Guiness when I'm not, and Chimay when I can get it in small bottles. I like to match international food with a beer from the country.

I don't drink them to get drunk because that involves drinking so much that I have to pee every ten minutes, plus it takes too long.

I think many people have trouble drinking it because they've grown up expecting a drink to be sweet, which beer is not. I think you can acquire the taste when you drink enough for your taste recognizers to get used to a drink that isn't fruity.

I can completely understand why someone wouldn't want to drink all that beer to develop a taste for it. It took my 2 years under the guidance of a guy from Denmark who knew what was good. After the first year it was "not that nasty," after the second it was "pretty good."

I'm working on acquiring a taste for Scotch now, which has been difficult but not as bad as beer.

sailor

Beer is OK. We drink it a lot here because being underage, in a state where the ABC controls all spirits, getting liquor is damn near impossible. So we drink beer, and lots of it. Hey, thats what college is for, isnt it?

Beer is definitely an acquired taste. When I first tried it in HS, I thought I was going to throw up. Now, I can handle it fine--there are other drinks I prefer (mmmmm bourbon), but I still drink it all the time.

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MichaelFarker

If you don't like it, don't let it bother you. Lots of people don't drink beer. If you tell beer lovers they're wrong though, it'll just piss them off. Live and let live.

Mr.Deflok

Never has a drop of alcohol entered by body, it disgusts me, I've seen my friends in such a pathetic state from drinking it, it makes me sad.

mingusfingers

It's only decent when as cold as possible. I got distracted by secret method's avatar

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