I don’t drink beer often anymore, maybe 3-4x a year at this point, and it is still just exactly as nasty as the first time I had a Coors, 6 years ago. I spent a lot of time drinking beer in college and it just stayed nasty. I keep waiting for the flavor to kick over from disgusting to tolerable (at least, if not good), and it just hasn’t happened. I’ve tried ales, ciders, wheat beer, it’s all fucking nasty. The ***only ***beer I’ve had that was slightly less repulsive than other beers (but still quite repulsive) was Amber Bock.
I mean, remember being a kid and hating savory flavors like coffee and bleu cheese, but as I grew older these things suddenly started to taste good… I didn’t have to invest a lot of effort into liking them. My palate just matured on its own. I like TONS of different flavors from the foods of many, many different cultures. It’s very baffling that I can’t make myself like beer.
Does anyone have any recommendations? I hate feeling beer-oken.
Some people will never even acquire the taste for alcohol period. Of course some people will never like beer. Why is it important that you do?
I like beer and wine but liquor doesn’t do it for me. It’s not the taste (obviously the tastes under the banner “liquor” are legion), it doesn’t seem to get me buzzed. I don’t want to bother with the calories and the price if I’m going to move straight from sober to headache with no fun in between.
I’m no beer expert and I’m sure the beer-erati will be here in a second but Belgian whites, very cold, have given me a great deal of pleasure.
I could barely tolerate beer when i was in college and that hasn’t changed in the past forty years. A few years ago a friend got me to try something from a local (Chicago at the time) micro-brewery and the best thing I could say about it was that I managed to finish the bottle over the course of the evening without feeling like I was drinking horse piss.
I’ve also never cred for coffee, although I do like some coffee-flavored products. No idea if there’s any relationship between these two facts.
I have tried chocolate beer, butterscotch beer, raspberry ale <which isn’t bad…for the first sip; then it tastes like beer and my stomach says ‘FARK OFF’> and all the usual types of beer. I don’t like beer, period. Maybe it’s the hops; dunno, don’t care. Tried for about 20 years to like beer, in states with LOTS of microbreweries, but, bottled or fresh-brewed, nope. Can’t stand it.
If you want a substitute, try hard cider. Looks like beer. Tastes kinda like…beer! But it’s so totally different…my stomach won’t throw that up, so…it’s good. Oh, and it tastes really good too, to me anyway. I’ve seen apple, pear and raspberry ciders; love the apple, ADORE the pear but only in one place I’ve had it; other places it…sucked. Tasted like water. Haven’t tried the raspberry yet.
One hard-won lesson, from me to you, another non-beer drinker: if you drink cider, stay with cider. That whole rule about not mixing boozes, like if you start with beer, stay with beer; if you start with hard alcohol, stay with it? Never had that problem, since I don’t drink beer. But the ONE and ONLY time I had several ciders and later had several irish coffees and…my ONE and ONLY total blackout. I’m not much of a partier in the last few decades, but I was before that, and NEVER blacked out, ever. All I can think is that I mixed boozes, since I’d never had to worry about tha before.
Anyhoo, check out cider as a replacement, and don’t worry about finding beer you like. Knowing our luck, you’ll find exactly ONE beer that you adore…and then it will stop being made, immediately.
I’ve never had an alcoholic beverage, including beer. My father used to drink beer, so I have smelled it. Beer has, in my opinion, an acrid, uriney aroma. Why anyone would voluntarily ingest something that smells so vile I haven’t a clue. Then again, I probably eat some things that someone somewhere finds disgusting.
I’ve never developed a taste for either beer or coffee. Coffee always smells like boiled/burnt sweatsocks to me, but I have found a few beers I can tolerate, like Shiner Bock, Corona, or McMenamin’s Ruby Ale.
I like cider and usually order that if it’s available, but it’s got so much sugar that it usually gives me a headache.
I adore cilantro, and loathe celery, for what it’s worth.
Probably. I mean, I have always hated coffee. It’s also supposed to be an acquired taste, but I sure as hell have never acquired it. The taste and smell have always made me gag. I see no reason that some people might feel similarly about beer. Granted, there’s more variation in beer than in coffee (there’s only the one bean, compared to the dozens of plants and yeasts that can make beer) but I don’t doubt that beer is simply not going to be palatable to some people.
The good hard ciders taste nothing like beer, they taste like apple cider. Bad hard ciders (that is most US hard ciders) are made by beer companies and have a beer taste to them. I thought it was the yeast used, but apparently that is not the case. But whatever the cause, there are some that have this nasty beer bitterness, but the better ones and all the UK ones I’ve tried taste like non-alcoholic apple cider.
I don’t particularly like alcohol and I’ve never been drunk, but it is helpful to have fall-back beverage when in a beer-drinking location - like England.
I don’t like beer but I love coffee. In general, I don’t like most alcohol. When I do drink, I get the stuff where the alcohol is not as pronounced (like Mike’s Hard Lemonade or hard cider).
