• Agent641@lemmy.world
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      I hate the taste of red wine. Know what I do when I meet oenophiles? I drink a beer, because I like beer. But a non-alcoholic beer, because I’m a recovering alcoholic.

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    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.

    • the16bitgamer@lemmy.world
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      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.

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        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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        If beer “burns”, you’re doing it wrong. Sure there’s the odd Jamaican Ginger or Cinnamon that might be spicy, but I’ve never had a beer strong enough to get that burning sensation that stronger alcohols can give.

        Are you allergic? Did you try a beer so far gone that it’s basically formaldehyde?

        You’re of course welcome to chose not to poison yourself with alcohol and I don’t want to push anyone into drinking …… but if you legit were willing but didn’t like the taste, microbrews have a huge range of tastes and strengths that could appeal to many different people

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          Its been a while since I had alcohol. The last thing I had was Vokda since my wife is using it to make Mint Extract, and sip was enough to remind me why I don’t like the drink.

          As for Beer proper. I think it was a fresh bottle of mikes hard lemonade, and what I can recall was overwhelming bitterness mixed with a burning sensation. But that could just be the alcohol drying out my throat.

          I also did a rum and coke shot, again bitterness and burning.

          Not sure if allergic, but I can see a sensitivity to it. Especially with my strong sense of smell.

          I personally see it more like an aversion like how some people avoid carbonated beverages

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            mikes hard lemonade, and what I can recall was overwhelming bitterness mixed with a burning sensation

            Wow, humans sure are different: I find that cloyingly sweet. Then again, I generally go for strong bitter flavors: black coffee, dark chocolate, the bitterest style of beers, the Cabernets of wines

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      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.

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      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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      When someone says “I don’t like the taste of X”, 90% of the time they mean “I don’t like the taste of bad X”.

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      Except there are wines from certain regions that are inexpensive and absolutely fantastic. It’s typically American wine that is really bad if it’s at a low price point.

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        Wouldn’t even say that. Zinfandel is a Californian wine and it doesn’t break the bank, a bottle here being less than 5€. Although, to be fair, I’m in Europe and they probably don’t import the shit wine from overseas.

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          That’s probably true. There definitely are a lot of mediocre zins out there.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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        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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    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…

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    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.

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      I think we should all agree that anything that’s considered an “acquired taste” tastes like shit, you just get used to the shit taste eventually

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        You’re not wrong!

        I don’t like hoppy beer myself, which is the flavour most people associate with “beer”, that gross bitter greasy sort of thing.

        There are quite a few different kind of hops, though, with different flavours. Some are stronger than others, though the entire class has that base flavour.

        Beer is way more than just hops, though. It’s a broad category of beverages made from many different malted grains, and can be very different than your standard Budweiser (which some people love!).

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      If I can’t see light pass through it, I won’t like it. Stouts and Porters can fuck all the way off. I don’t need an alcohol laced milkshake, tyvm

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        It’s okay to not like things!

        But I do love me a nice lactose beer.

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    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.

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    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.