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How can I make myself like beer?
- Thread starter Slapp Addict
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I hate it and always have but I keep seeing those damn Sam Adams commercials and they all just look so tasty. So does that new Bud Light Lime. I've just never really liked the taste of ANY beer though.
Is there anything I can do to make myself like it?
Go to a micro brewery where they make it fresh. Most commercial beer is dreck and tastes like it because of all the addative they put in it to make it last forever.
Same adams is one of the better tasting beers, but you will find even better at a microbrewer. Just have a designated driver because it takes a lot less of a good beer to get you drunk.
Do some heavy work in the sunshine that makes you sweaty. You'll enjoy beer when you take a break. I learned to like beer when I was 17 and working on a house of a friend of my family. I remember a hot afternoon when me and my twinbrother were mixing concrete in the sunshine and transported it into the house. We did that for a couple of hours, then the owner of the house offered us a beer. That was the first time beer tasted good to me. 
Create some good/fun memories while drinking it. Eventually your brain will associate the taste with fun and you'll enjoy it more! Go camping or floating with a bunch of friends.
PSA: Don't become an alcoholic.
PSA: Don't become an alcoholic.
If you are having trouble liking beer it may mean that you are much more sensitive to bitter substances and cheap ingredients. You may want to try a beer with a strong bready flavor and some subtle sweetness. Actually, most of such beers are technically more bitter than lighter ones, but their strong pleasing flavors mask the bitterness (i.e., their flavors are balanced). Trappist-style Belgian strong dark ales or some German doppelebocks might be more to your liking. Beers that actually taste better as they warm up, unlike most of the cheap common beers.
First you have to liquify yourself then you have make yourself golden and bubbly and full of everything that is good in this world. I would model yourself after Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.
Seeing as a lot of people say I should try Hoegaarden, im gonna go get me a 6 pack tomorrow. Hopefully I like it, if not, my other half will always drink the rest since she's the beer lover in the relationship. 
Seeing as a lot of people say I should try Hoegaarden, im gonna go get me a 6 pack tomorrow. Hopefully I like it, if not, my other half will always drink the rest since she's the beer lover in the relationship.
Just a warning, it's expensive. I think the last 6 pack I bought was $9.50
I remember as a kid of around 14 hating beer, having to choke it down. Then one day it just happened. I opened one up and it tasted reaaal good.
You are really better off with mixed drinks. Especially if you avoid soda. Helps prevent the dreaded beer gut.
You are really better off with mixed drinks. Especially if you avoid soda. Helps prevent the dreaded beer gut.
John Coltrane was an acquired taste for me. Does that mean I should have stopped listening?
Go to a nice local grocery storey (if any are in your area) and build yourself a six-pack of whatever you want. It's a great way to try things out. I've always liked the taste of beer, so I never had to 'get used to it.' I'm not a fan of many American beers (Coors, Bud Light, Etc.)
Some of my favorites include: Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat, Guiness Draught, Warsteiner, Pilsner Urquell, Heineken Dark (the other's aren't bad either).
I'm not a fan of the lighter beers, but do enjoy one every so often.
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Some of my favorites include: Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat, Guiness Draught, Warsteiner, Pilsner Urquell, Heineken Dark (the other's aren't bad either).
I'm not a fan of the lighter beers, but do enjoy one every so often.
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I was talking about actual 'taste', not preferential 'taste'.
I'm not telling anyone what they should or shouldn't do. I just think it's silly to try and force yourself to enjoy the taste of something that isn't essential to your body, if you don't like it.
'Cause it makes ugly girls purty.
If people didn't drink something because it tasted bad, would Budweiser still be in business?
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I agree. I have given beer a shot on probably a dozen occasions but I just can't stand it. Given that I know I like the taste of scotch (and didn't have to "acquire" a taste for it), I just drink that instead. If I'm in a "beer bar," I drink soda or water.
