Meanwhile, my Lemmy feed…

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.

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.

All alcohol tastes bad it has poison in it, lol.

I used to think I didn’t like beer, but I later realized I just don’t like lagers.

Guinness is pretty good actually

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Chocolate oatmeal stout. :9

Funny enough I thought the same when I was in college, cheap beer tastes horrible(then I didn’t drink much it was only weed). But a good beer in a hot day? Man that is the most refreshing thing in the world. A sensation we have shared with other people for 5000 years or more.

Something something acquired taste

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.

Lagers taste like cold watered down piss to me.

Stouts are too bitter for me but that doesn’t mean some aren’t great. Only had a handful though.

American craft beer is drinkable at a stretch but the taste seems artificially enhanced and is too much. They just don’t know how to make beer and are trying to make up for it.

(Real) IPA and pale ales are where it’s at. Wide variety, some are good some and amazing most are good. More flavour than lager, not too overpowering like American or stout’s.

Copper/amber beer. That can be great too but I prefer IPAs.

Wheat beer is also awesome it’s what lagers try to be.

Ciders can be great but I’m not some huge farming bloke so don’t tend to drink then too much because you can’t get good scrumpy near me.

Fruity ciders are good but only for one or two or you get diabetes.

Pilsners can be okay/good but they need to come from central Europe.

I can get people not liking them and being a baby about the whole situation. But the flavours are so varied you either come from a country that makes shit beer or you haven’t tried enough. You’re just thick if you can’t imagine how anyone could like them. It’s like saying every curry in the world is terrible and everyone is just pretending.

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.

Agreed, I tried many fancy, crafty, european beers, IPAs and whatnot. In the end they all tasted pretty bad and I only drank that stuff to … get drunk. Almost any other alcoholic beverage there is tastes better than beer imo.

say you have an unrefined palette without saying you have an unrefined palette.