# I don't like coffee or beer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 24, 2002, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385 "2002-09-24T01:38:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/21 "2002-09-24T13:21:34Z")
Hate beer. Hate coffee. (love the smell of coffee) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/22 "2002-09-24T14:11:10Z")
Hate coffee, love beer (too much.) ---
**Author:** ![IcicleFuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ba8739/32.png) [@IcicleFuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IcicleFuzz)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/23 "2002-09-24T14:52:32Z")
mmm…beer 🙂 Coffee on the other hand, I can live without. The smell is nice though. I find tobacco smells pleasent as well, but the smoke stinks. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/24 "2002-09-24T14:56:47Z")
I do also. However, I love the smell of coffee. Even in the can. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/25 "2002-09-24T14:57:50Z")
Okay, i meant, in the canister, not the bathroom, for those of you wont to be funny. Nothing like taking the lid off and having a good whiff. But it tastes rank. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/26 "2002-09-24T15:38:30Z")
Oh, dear **Freyr** , your comment that you “can’t stand beer” was about to diminish the high regard in which I hold you. Thankfully you redeemed yourself with “I have some friends who brew their own and their stuff tastes pretty good.” Yes Homebrew is good. But the coffee thing still disturbs me. I cannot imagine life with out beer and coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/27 "2002-09-24T16:47:16Z")
[joking] Interesting with so many people not liking coffee and beer, but as most if not all of you are Americans I am not altogether surprised, having had both coffee and beer in the US. :rolleyes: [/joking] ---
**Author:** ![pendgwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@pendgwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pendgwen)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/28 "2002-09-24T17:20:22Z")
Me too. Beer is disgusting. Even the fancy schmancy microbrew stuff that people keep telling me, “You’ll like this one, really.” Coffee is not quite as bad. I have learned to tolerate the smell. In high school I wouldn’t even go in to a coffee shop because I thought they smelled so bad. I like coffee flavor if it’s very well sweetened like ice cream or something. ---
**Author:** ![hazel-rah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/29 "2002-09-24T17:30:27Z")
Don’t like coffee because I’ve never tried it. Hot drinks make me gag. I’ve mastered drinking tea, and that’s as far as I’m willing to go. I like beer all right… even crap like Lone Star which is what my friends drink. But I rarely buy it for myself, and when I do, it sits in my fridge for months. I like Perrier or lemonade. -fh ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/30 "2002-09-24T19:33:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by moe.ron \* > **Remain calm, and quiet, as that is your nature, due to your lack of alcohol and caffeine** Who said I was lacking in alcohol and caffeine? I love Coca-Cola, and readily drink various kinds of wine and booze. Mmmm, booze . . . ---
**Author:** ![Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/2bfe46/32.png) [@Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xavier)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/31 "2002-09-24T19:59:08Z")
I think I like coffee when you add cream and sugar - or lots of milk with sugar. It’s got this aromatic flavour that wakes you right up in the morning whilst you’re in your underwear. But I don’t drink it - I figure caffeine loads are bad for a guy as “energetic” as I am. Beer, I totally agree - most flavours are jus’ plain nasty. I remember trying out my first Carlsberg - I swear you could dry up some ink in a glass and serve it in a can of that putrid crap and no-one would be the wiser. On the other hand, if you’re going for sweetness, the best (lager) you can get is Fosters. It’s Australian. Yeah I know. But you could try it and check it out. The biggest let down of my beverage consuming passions was cappucino. I was _sooooooooooooooo_ expecting that to be a hit. I telz ya as soon as the brownish goo hit my lips I knew. You could burn rubber with that taste. I threw most of it in a nearby plant pot, disguising it with a newspaper. I didn’t notice this waiter standing _behind_ me. I was “expelled” shall we say from that dining house, never to be allowed in again. As you can see, it has been cappucino’s fault for most of the failures in my life. ---
**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/32 "2002-09-24T23:57:47Z")
I like coffee a lot, although I don’t drink that much of it. Beer however is evil and vile. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/33 "2002-09-25T01:21:08Z")
Don’t like beer. Can tolerate those malt beverages. Coffee I live on. But just standard coffee, with lots of cream and sugar. Has to be almost to dessert level of richness and sweetness. And I can’t stand Starbucks coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/34 "2002-09-25T01:48:27Z")
I hate coffee and beer. I get my caffeine and alcohol the way the gods intended–caffeine from colas, Barq’s root beer and chocolate and alcohol from rum. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/35 "2002-09-25T04:47:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Xavier \* > **On the other hand, if you’re going for sweetness, the best (lager) you can get is Fosters. It’s Australian. Yeah I know. But you could try it and check it out.** \ Americans actually like _Fosters_! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/36 "2002-09-25T05:30:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by **vanilla** \* > … in … the bathroom… Nothing like taking the lid off and having a good whiff. But it tastes rank. _snicker_ ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/37 "2002-09-25T13:45:30Z")
:rolleyes: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/38 "2002-09-25T15:32:18Z")
Beer. Ick. The only times I use beer is for cooking: beer boiled shrimp, anyone? 😃 Coffee on the other hand, I generally like. Some varieties I like plain, some I can only stand if they’re in a mocha or the like. But I’m not going to go out of my way for a cupp’a joe. I can take it or leave it, and I don’t go into coffee shops much. Why pay through the nose for something I can make at home, exactly the way I want it? (Almond Roca mocha, made with half-n-half. Yummm.) * * * \<\< COFFEE: The 100% natural subsitute for sleep. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/39 "2002-09-25T15:42:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*I hate coffee and beer. I get my caffeine and alcohol the way the gods intended–caffeine from colas, Barq’s root beer and chocolate and alcohol from rum. \*\* You’re going to have to drink a whole lot of Barq’s to get any kind of caffeine kick: [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcaffeine.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcaffeine.html) > [@](#): > > Of the soft drinks you list, my sources indicate that Jolt Cola does have the most caffeine (71.2 milligrams per 12 oz. can). It’s followed by Mountain Dew (55 mg, but apparently no caffeine in Canada), then Coca-Cola (45.6 mg), then Pepsi (37.2 mg), then Barq’s (at 22.5 mg). Give me a strong cup of java, upwards of 150 mg/5 oz. cup. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/40 "2002-09-25T17:47:10Z")
I like _good_ coffee and I like _good_ beer. I had to cultivate a taste for both, though. Until my mid-twenties, I thought beer was vile. I also put tons of cream and sugar in my coffee. Now I like a good beer and only put cream in my coffee. If the coffee’s really good and there’s no cream around, I can even drink it black. That being said, I think coffee and beer are like red wine. Not many people like merlots or cabs the first time they taste them. They’re acquired tastes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385.md?page=3)