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But beer does taste good...

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.

What?? I drink non-alcoholic beer, because it tastes great and I dont want to get drunk.

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.

Its wild how some people can't comprehend that other people like things they don't

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.

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

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...

Meanwhile, my Lemmy feed...

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.

Chocolate oatmeal stout. :9

Something something acquired taste

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.

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.

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

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.

Guinness is pretty good actually

A lot of America hasn’t recovered from Prohibition; they’ve lost the taste for it. During Prohibition, all you’d get is bathtub gin or still hootch, and that’d be mixed and flavored. When the bad times ended, Americans didn’t return to ales in the same way, but Budweiser, with added Rice as a grain mix, was popular because of the smoother taste and in the next few generations it quickly became the leading, and definitive, American beer taste. 1970s-1990s found imports. Craft brew became more popular as people, generally folks who traveled abroad and knew that good ales existed and also didn’t mind paying more for a bottle, started to migrate from imports like Bass and Guinness to local microbrews if they were available (hello Colorado) and slowly it all took a foothold.

I feel that beer & ales can be a generational taste, swinging like fashion (who really drinks Becks now, right?). Maybe a bit like “pizza cognition theory”, where your earliest experiences with a slice define what you think “real” pizza should taste like.

Edited for grammar. Man, mine sucks now.