n0nsensical

It's really an acquired taste. I never liked the taste of beer or any alcohol when i started drinking, I've always liked the effects, but now i can appreciate there's little better than the taste of a cold one on a lazy day. Even some hard alcohol I don't mind so much, like a good tequila (served the proper way with salt and a slice of lime ). Most beer does taste similar but there is a wide variety of strength, bitterness, and flavor.

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GSRIDER

All I know is this. I love been, almost a beer snob. Then one day I notice I'm overly gassy. This goes on and on.
I catch the flu and don't drink for a couple weeks and they gas goes away. Oh what the hell. I'm not drinking cheap beer. I'm trying to isolate what specific types of beer. It could be the bitter ales I drink.

There's always whiskey

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carrot glace

whiskey is always an acceptable answer

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ASU2003

Beer just tastes nasty.

That's better. I don't see how anybody can drink the stuff personally. There are so many other drinks that are better out there.

Psycho Dad

Cans, bottles, glasses and the occasional keg-stand.

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cdwonderful

I was being PC. But now that I am in ohio , I guess the need is somewhat lessened

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There - I fixed that for you

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cdwonderful

from the land of fosters? hardly..

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MSD

This is the single most helpful and informative post in the history of the Internet. Your award will be arriving in the mail shortly.
Branch out and try Rogue Shakespeare Stout and Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout.
Alcohol has calories because it will burn, but they're not usable by the body.
If they all taste the same, macrobrews aren't for you. Try some microbrews and craft brews. I can give you some ideas if you want.

inBOIL

+1 on Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout. They also make a Nut Brown Ale that's excellent.

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FelixP

Is it all beer, or just canned stuff? I know canned alcohol gives me gas cramps like you wouldn't believe.

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Xerxys

OK, I will regret this.

Tell me the micro's 'n'all try them, then...

noodle

I can't drink the beers that are more carbonated without becoming nauseated.
Therefore I do better with the stouts. Young's Double Chocolate, the Oatmeal Stout mentioned above, the London Porter as well... and of course Guinness and Murphy's. I'll on occasion, enjoy a fabulous Old Speckled Hen when I can get it on draft.

I stopped drinking any beer from bottle and that helped.
Even just pouring into a glass or ordering it on draft made Stella and Harp back on my list of Yummies.
I learned that it was the carbonation because I can't ever, EVER drink soda without seriously getting sick to my stomach. Cran and Stoli Vanil if my draft choices are limited.

If you like the taste and actually want to drink beer, try it from a glass and let it sit just a bit. Might help. G'luck.

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Nisses

If you don't like beer, then don't drink it

As for wine: don't fall for those snobs

Try something like whisky, or another "manly" drink if that's what you're looking for when out with your buddies.



(If you enjoy em, you'll order roughly 1 to each 3 beers they order, so in the end, it'll only be slightly more expensive)

Can't make any real suggestions on beers I know in the States. Though I've heard good thing about Fat Tire (call me a chauvinist )

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longshanks

ITT: Pussies who can't drink beer.

LOL you all need to man up.

Shadowex3

I used to be mr. unbreakable stomach... and then WHAM practically overnight I went to barely being able to take dry toast. I lived off of some dry cereal and oats for months before finally saying fuckit and seeing my doc. The idea is I had/have either a bad case of GERD, possibly including a hiatal hernia (basically a bit of your stomach above your diaphragm, like a DIY stomach-band), and/or an ulcer. Burping does make you feel a lot better usually, but it's not a magic cure-all. Same with the pills. If you want to get better you need to do get checked out to make sure you dont have H. Pylori and then probably be religious about your reflux meds until your doc clears you. This is one of those "easy to make worse again" things.

Also @Carrot: I get the exact same thing with just about everything i eat, it's wierd isnt it? Especially when you feel that you have to burp but cant figure out how to get it out.


Yeah that sounds actually in the range of things I start asking people if they have an epipen over... If it's just hops though there ARE beers that are made without hops.


THIS. SO MUCH THIS. I used to be THAT guy. The guy that could drink straight whiskey without making a face but thought every beer basically tasted the same. It's VERY much a learned taste, after tasting (and checking) around I've found in general even american microbrews tend to be extremely hoppy compared to a lot of non-american beers. Part of it is bitterness being more palatable as you age, part of it is pure expansion of palate, and part of iti s that beers really are amazingly diverse. Weihenstephaner Hefeweisen tastes extremely different from Sam Adams Coastal Wheat which tastes surprisingly different from PBR.

I'm a firm convert to the "you just haven't found YOUR beer yet" school of thinking, because saying "beer" is practically like saying "motor vehicle" for how broad the category is.

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chinese crested

Do you not get Bishops Tipple or Tanglefoot? I can manage a small glass of the latter, then it does what the name says. Fraoch I find quite nice - and that is made from heather not hops.
Must be getting old, a nice cold beer at the waters edge watching the sun go down is about the only time I drink it now. Of course I have memories of nights in far off days, kneeling on the dubious carpet in front of the big white telephone hurling like a goodun - then going back out for more. Probably bits of carrot or tomato stuck in my hair - which if one had only thought to call it a 'fascinator' at the time, could have become the height of fashion. I will leave the hurling and hangovers to those who choose to earn them.
On the acid reflux and IBS - sorry, snowy is quite right, you need to rest your tum - they put me on loads of stuff, but now mostly I try to use kaolin, which is just like drinking monkey mud. You will probably get to the stage where you know how much discomfort a thing is going to cost you personaly.