Help Me Like Beer
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Was just going to state the same thing. Most breweries will let you sample a "flight" of 4 - 6 different beers, usually starting with the lightest going to the darkest. Most people can find a beer type that they like in that grouping. Like most folks, I didn't particularly care for beer when I first tried it. It's just one of those things that the more you try it, the more you like it. One of my biggest joys now is to stop in at Boone Valley Brewery and see what's new. They just tapped a Maibock which is quite yummy.
Go find a brewpub and do some flights... You like what you like. i HATE IPAs and living in the NW it's basically a sin. I won't/can't drink lite beers (you like what you like) but love everything considered an amber.
Beers are getting TOO into themselves lately and all the new ones have to differentiate themselves by doing something different - peppers, extra hops, fruit, nun sweat - when "beer" is good in and of itself.
In the end - it is merely a delivery vehicle for alcohol.
IMO, one of the best tasting beers comes from the oldest brewery in the country - Yuengling beer is just pretty damn good. The only problem is, I have to have a buddy bring some back when he goes out east.
I do like that stuff. I got spoiled traveling out east a couple summers back and spent half the summer in east Tennessee where it was on tap a lot of places.
Not a regular drinker (used to be), but I really like the various types of Sam Adams (regular, light, summer ale). Interesting tastes.
If you don't like beer then try some of these alternatives.
Bud Light - resembles beer but without the beer taste. Beware of hangovers laced with diarrhea.
Newcastle Brown Ale - very mellow for an ale. And it comes in a clear bottle so people will think you're a complete hard a*$ for drinking a dark beer.
7&7 - This is seagrams 7 whiskey and 7up. Sweet tasting, but if anyone asks you what you're drinking you get to say whiskey.
Smirnoff - the man's wine cooler. Original flavor only, never go fruit punch.
Redd's Apple Ale - Looks just like beer if you put it in a coozie. I drink these at the beach and have yet to be ridiculed.
Stay away from anything that says "hard" or "wicked." It's pretty lame holding a bottle that is going out of its way to explain to everyone that it's really a man's drink.
Hope this helps!
Bud Light - resembles beer but without the beer taste. Beware of hangovers laced with diarrhea.
Newcastle Brown Ale - very mellow for an ale. And it comes in a clear bottle so people will think you're a complete hard a*$ for drinking a dark beer.
7&7 - This is seagrams 7 whiskey and 7up. Sweet tasting, but if anyone asks you what you're drinking you get to say whiskey.
Smirnoff - the man's wine cooler. Original flavor only, never go fruit punch.
Redd's Apple Ale - Looks just like beer if you put it in a coozie. I drink these at the beach and have yet to be ridiculed.
Stay away from anything that says "hard" or "wicked." It's pretty lame holding a bottle that is going out of its way to explain to everyone that it's really a man's drink.
Hope this helps!
Drink what YOU like. Those that make fun of you probably are concerned that their wanker is smaller.
Yuengling on tap at a dive bar in Bayview Idaho in the middle of the summer in the sweaty clear plastic cups is a great memory I make many times during the summer.
I drink a cosmo from time to time and the secret to a man drinking a cosmo is either lots and lots of estrogen, or OWNING THE FRIGGIN DRINK! YEAH - I'm drinking a cosmo. YEAH - it's in a decorative glass. And YEAH - these are fancy straws BUT I STAND UP TO P DADGUMMIT!
Honestly I rarely stand... Any "alone" time is special.
If you don't like beer don't drink it and if someone gives you a hard to tell them to STFU. I love hard cider. Angry Orchard is available most places but I have had many others and have liked most of them. Smirnoff Ice is good. I also like Hard Mikes.
I've been 6 or 7 drinks in and beer still tastes like crap to me. I will drink it if it is the only thing available but prefer other drinks.
Playing drinking games like flip cup or beer pong help you acquire they taste for beer. You have no choice but to chug it over and over again.
