Beer is so nasty

[mangopositive]

It tears up my stomach these days, so I only drink it on the weekends. Got a nice Founders KBS (Vanilla variant) warming in the snifter next to me. Who knew that at 45 I'd be thinking of quitting drinking, not because of the negative impact it was having on my ability to perform daily functions, but because it gave me sour stomach in the mornings? I can't even do caffeine in the morning anymore. Fortunately, pot seems to be doing the trick. Every time I do a "month off", I think I could probably just keep going indefinitely.

 

[Deleted member 5745]

Any kind of Oktoberfest and Guinness are my favorites. Though I can drink Bud/Coors/Miller if I just want something lighter.

Now Steel Reserve/Hurricane, that shit is nasty but I don't buy it for the taste lol. It's just one of the cheapest ways to exit this reality.

I'd like to get into more German beers, though so far I've only had Warsteiner pilsners and dunkels.

 

[Stath]

Bad beer is gross. Good beer is pleasant though, and of course there are a ton of varieties and flavors out there.

I wouldn't drink it if it wasn't alcoholic, though. Not really something I would seek out for flavor alone.

 

[masud]

If we're talking IPAs or stouts I agree but I love a good wheat beer, some lagers are pretty good especially with spicy food and I recently discovered sour beers and they're amazing. I'd recommend sour beer to anyon that doesn't like beer normally, it's a completely different taste.

 

[The Fabled Englishman]

I don't love the taste, but like, who drinks beer for the taste?

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Uh, lots of people? This honestly seems like something an American would say. We aren't all out here drinking Bud lights, there are a million varieties of beer in the world that taste vastly different.

I enjoy IPAs personally, but I also happen to enjoy more bitter tastes.

 

[Riddler]

Alcohol should taste like candy?

 

[demosthenes]

It's an acquired taste and varies tremendously. It can taste amazing.

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This.

Had a Great Lakes barrel aged Christmas Ale with my wife last night and it was perfect.

 

[That1GoodHunter]

I'm horrible at identifying flavor profiles, but in general, if the beer has a nutty taste, I like it. Anything else? Tastes like straight acid.

What are some good "nutty" beers?

 

[JasonV]

I did my best to try to like it since people are so conditioned to "get a beer"; everything I tried went from awful to tolerably bad. The best tasting beers were things like ginger beer, fruity stuff, Krik lambic. Basically what tasted nothing like beer. Outside of the alcohol it seemed pointless.

 

[Conditional-Pancakes]

Beer is great.

 

[Amathene]

Good or Bad beer is irrelevant to people that don't like beer. It's more: does it taste like literal 1:1 fruit juice or not?

 

[Last_colossi]

I agree OP but I'm sure the majority of people don't drink it for it's taste.

 

[Henry Jones Jr]

I kinda agree. I can't see why I would ever choose a beer over a mixed drink/cocktail or wine.

 

[Meatfist]

Beer is great, but by my mid 20's I discovered that big boozy IPAs/stouts/sours aren't worth the extra calories and stomach problems anymore. I love a refreshing lager/kolsch/hefeweizen, beyond that I'm just going to have liquor

 

[Qvoth]

that's like saying pasta or rice is nasty
beer is so varied

 

[Tavernade]

I've yet to have a good alcoholic beverage that wasn't basically just really strong fruit juice.

 

[zswordsman]

I used to think the same. Just gotta find the one that resonates with you. I'd recommend going to a liquor store that has variety instead of getting the super mass produced stuff that a grocery store usually carries.

 

[ZeoVGM]

Agreed. All of it.

I stick to vodka and wine.

 

[ArrogantBastard]

This is always one of those things when I'm just shocked. Do you have any remote idea how many styles of beer are out there? I would imagine at this point it is more varied than wine.

I agree OP but I'm sure the majority of people don't drink it for it's taste.

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Well, you would be wrong.

Stop drinking shitty beer.

 

[Last_colossi]

Well, you would be wrong.

Stop drinking shitty beer.

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I'm not a fan of lager, my favourite beer is a stout but the quality of it seems to vary wildly wherever I go, so I usually just go with a cider, rum & coke or just have a soda cause I honestly don't give a shit about alcoholic drinks. My point was that if beer was never alcoholic to begin with I doubt it'd be so popular, therefore the taste doesn't seem to be as relevant for most people.

 

[Fat4all]

im usually not a fan of ipa's but i had one a couple days ago that was pretty nice

tasted more like a pineapple than a pinecone

 

[Enduin]

I find all alcoholic drinks abhorrently disgusting tasting.

I can't stand wine the most, but beer is pretty foul as well and baffles me how people enjoy it. No mixed drink is ever enough either, the taint of alcohol always comes through ruining it, so on the rare occasion I do drink I just do shots to get it over with fast.

 

[Inugami]

It's awful... But I may have been "tainted" by the fact that my father was way into micro brewing... And if you think beer smells awful, the making of beer smells way worse.

 

[Sanjuro]

What

 

[MidnightMania]

Not a habitual beer drinker. But every once in awhile I'll crave one. No better beer than a cold Guinness off the tap in my opinion

 

[TAJ]

I think a big obstacle to me enjoying beer is that alcohol doesn't do anything for me. If I actually liked getting buzzed or drunk, like at all, I think I'd start to associate that feeling with the taste and convince myself that the taste was getting better.
It's funny though... beer drinkers tend to sneer at malt liquors, and some of them taste far, faaaaaaaaaar better than any beer, at least to me.

 

[Piggus]

I used to think that, and yes, some of it still is pretty gross. The typical trash you find at college parties and whatnot (before craft beers took over) didn't help. But a good beer tastes amazing now.

 

[Cheesy]

It's what I imagine urine tastes like.

 

[Post Reply]

Blue Moon with orange juice squeezed into it is the only beer I've even remotely been able to tolerate

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

I have never managed to finish a beer in my life. I have never understood the idea of "acquiring" a taste for something that tastes that awful, and is just as awful for you.

I always say, if I'm going to ingest a drink that unhealthy, it might as well be a soda. Cause at least they taste good.

 

[Big Boss]

Agree. Liquor >>>beer

 

[djplaeskool]

Cracking open a Modelo to celebrate beer owning the poll

 

[Jarrod38]

If I want to go the cheap route at the bar I go with Miller High Life when the bar has $1 domestic night. If I go with my normal beer at the bar I go with Rhinegeist Truth.

 

[Deleted member 2595]

My headcannon is that most people who like beer only like it because of reinforcement/conditioning: you definitely don't drink beer for the taste, yet getting drunk off beer is the best drunk. It's giggly and floaty and fun. So you get used to that feeling, and the sense of relaxing, and then the taste of beer represents those things , even if it's actually nasty. I'm proudly one of those people.

Out of the hundreds or thousands of brews of beer, I'd honestly say only one or two are genuinely nice. (I've given them to non beer drinkers who loved them.)

 

[guiloahhhhh]

If you don't like PBR you can eat only caviar because you hate blue collar america

Only beer I don't really like is coors and bud just tastes like nothing. Drinkable but not good

 

[Tendo]

Cracking open a Modelo to celebrate beer owning the poll

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Yo. Sipping one right now myself. Cheers!

 

[TAJ]

I have never managed to finish a beer in my life. I have never understood the idea of "aquiring" a taste for something that tastes that awful, and is just as awful for you.

I always say, if I'm going to ingest a drink that unhealthy, it might as well be a soda. Cause at least they taste good.

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Wine, all wine, tastes bad, but I can always power through a glass. There are some beers that I couldn't take a second sip of if you paid me. My body would revolt.

 

[FinFunnels]

I used to think that way, too. I hated the first several beers I tried at parties and such. But it turns out I'm just really picky and only like certain beers.

 

[ArrogantBastard]

I'm not a fan of lager, my favourite beer is a stout but the quality of it seems to vary wildly wherever I go, so I usually just go with a cider, rum & coke or just have a soda cause I honestly don't give a shit about alcoholic drinks. My point was that if beer was never alcoholic to begin with I doubt it'd be so popular, therefore the taste doesn't seem to be as relevant for most people.

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Yah, I got your point. As you said, you don't give a shit about alcoholic drinks...so why you here?

You are wrong though, this isn't the era of shit beer. I frequent a place weekly that has 30+ different beers on tap then another 50+ on bottle. You don't like beer, cool. But acting like people only drink it because it is alcoholic is dumb as shit, I promise you there are cheaper and easier ways to get some alcohol than paying north of $6 a pour.

 

[lunarworks]

It's disgusting, but you grow fond of it.

 

[lvl 99 Pixel]

There are many kinds of beer. Some are nasty, some are not. Its like coffee, where if you're given instant coffee and decide all coffee ever sucks and can't possibly ever be good.

 

[nStruct]

I love it. I have three great local breweries within 5 minutes of my house and it's awesome.

I hadn't been into IPAs until relatively recently. I seemed to get more into them as I also got more into coffee, so my palate must have shifted.

 

[Crossing Eden]

Agree. Liquor >>>beer

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[Shadow]

I prefer to keep my mind in saying it tastes nasty. Don't know if it does or not, but I'm not going to get started on it because why.

 

[Twstr709]

Once I found the right kinds, I started to love it. Craft is the way to go. There are even fruity beers out there. I had a pineapple wheat that was really good. Golden Rod Mango Cart is really good too.

 

[I am a Bird]

I'm gonna assume you're drinking a light beer because if your pee looks like a dark beer you should probably see a doctor.

 

[Mesoian]

Looks like piss and tastes like melted down pennies in your mouth

I used to put pennies/coins in my mouth as a kid.

Do you drink beer? How can you stand it?

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What kind of beer you drinking?

I'm sipping on a nice milk stout right now, it's pretty delicious.

 

[Tendo]

What kind of beer you drinking?

I'm sipping on a nice milk stout right now, it's pretty delicious.

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Local brewery has an incredible nitro milk stout. One of my favorite "treat myself" dinners is to go there and get a big ol' steak and drink it on tap.

 

[Mesoian]

Local brewery has an incredible nitro milk stout. One of my favorite "treat myself" dinners is to go there and get a big ol' steak and drink it on tap.

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Yeah, as I get older, I find myself getting deeper and deeper into darker beers. If I'm gonna have a light beer, I'll usually go down to the "local" korean fried chicken place and eat that with a japanese lager.

 

[andymcc]

Yeah, as I get older, I find myself getting deeper and deeper into darker beers. If I'm gonna have a light beer, I'll usually go down to the "local" korean fried chicken place and eat that with a japanese lager.

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I like light beer in spring and summer, dark beer in fall and winter. Season really impacts my tastes haha