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Sounds similar to people trying to get me into alcohol, never liked it much, but everyone always keeps pushing it as if I need to "learn" to drink it.
Fucking no. It's disgusting. I like my occasional light alcohol drink but I ain't chug down litres and piss it, and my money, away because it's "cool".
I'm fine with some alcohol, but some people are like that specifically with beer with me.
I just don't care for it. I keep getting the "you just haven't had the right kind of beer!" line and then I try their suggested beer and I do not like it.
Some people can't accept that you just don't like the taste of something they enjoy. But it happens in weird ways. No one tells me I just haven't had the right banana yet when I tell them I don't like bananas.
Different people have different tastes, and some folks are just not going to like certain flavor profiles.
Within beer though, there is so much variety, I’d be shocked if there wasn’t at least one beer out there that you’d thoroughly enjoy. It’s just not likely worth the effort of finding that one.
Yeah I thought I didn't like beer because each year on our camping trip I'd try one but it just tasted like piss. Then one time at a work thing my supervisor ordered a black and tan so I got one to and it was pretty good. Turns out I just liked darker beer than all the light beers my friends would get at camping. Then my beer journey started. I also learned beer on tap at a brewery tastes much much better then anything bottled or canned. After getting into beer I pretty much just got into anything fermented like kombucha, ginger beer, kefir etc
I'd love to find it because there's a brewery in my city that has metal music playing there and I'd love to hang out there and meet people, but I never found a beer that I like, and I'd feel cheap ordering rum n coke or anything that's not beer at a freaking brewery.
There’s a reason they sell it, dude. The fact that a brewery sells rum and soda is because they realize if you don’t like beer, but your friends do, you might not tag along, and they wouldn’t get an opportunity to sell you anything!
This reminds me of when I went to a restaurant with some friends and we had a variety of beers to taste. I'm not a big drinker, and have never liked beer, but whatever, it won't kill me. So we try 5 or 6, some are better and some are worse, but there's one that's far better than the rest. I say, "Well, this one is almost worth drinking," and they all respond with something along the lines of "Yeah, this one is really good." That's when I came to the conclusion that my perception of good and bad were on point for beer, it's just that my standard for what I was going to enjoy was higher. They can keep their beers, I'll stick to tastier beverages, alcoholic or otherwise.
Never had a beer thats done a thing for me. Ciders on the other hand...
Try a Lambic.
Love that shit, just wish it weren't so expensive. It basically costs as much as wine, although TBF it has the same alcohol content. My favorite was the framboise (raspberry) until I tried the peche (peach).
Belgian beers in general can be so lovely. Of the three big brewing traditions, the Belgians seem to have the most variations. The Germans with their lagers and hefes, and the Brits with their various ales are both very strict with regard to rules for ingredients and methods. The Belgians, however, went crazy with their ingredients and adjuncts and methods. They are also the culture whose monasteries make some of the best beers in the world, the Trappist ales. Those are pretty tightly regulated, but so are any other culturally significant historical products like Parmigano Reggiano…
One of the best beers I’ve ever had, bar none, was a saison I brewed myself from an extract kit I got from Northern Brewer. It was amazing. It was unlike any beer I’d ever had before. It was malty, slightly hoppy, and I used some coriander seed during the boil. Absolutely lovely.
Well, maybe not banana, but I suppose someone could make that argument about an Apple, there are so many different kinds.
Millennial here.
I read zoomers are less likely to use peer pressure to get others to drink. It's also the reason why so many non-alcoholic beers are out in the market now. Really cool.
Millenials and Zoomers are drinking less overall. It’s a good trend.
Yeah, I never really felt pressured to drink by people my age. Occasionally I'll be hanging out with older people and they'll act like I'm lame for turning it down. That's okay, before they know it it'll all be prune juice, anyway.
Different kinds of alcohol is just different flavours of hand sanitiser.
People don't drink because it tastes good. People drink it because they like getting high and alcohol is one of the few legal drugs you can do. People who drink it because it's the cool thing to do are being idiots.
If alcohol isn't your thing you should probably get out there and try other drugs. The good thing about drugs is how many different kinds there are. There really is a substance for almost everyone if you look hard enough. Now if only stuff was legalized and people didn't abuse it to the nth degree and get themselves in trouble.
Edit: also forgot to mention that brewing is probably the easiest and cheapest way to make a psychoactive substance known to man, and is an entire hobby people (such as myself) have. While lots of homebrewers spend money on fancy equipment and ingredients you don't need to spend much at all to make alcohol that will get you drunk it can literally be done using a used plastic bottle and a fucking balloon. You can make pretty drinkable stuff with even fairly basic equipment like a hydrometer, couple of plastic or glass fermenters, yeast + nutrients ordered online, and supermarket ingredients.