How can I make myself like beer?

[hdmoto]

See if you can find a homebrew club in your area. These guys know how to make beer!
If you show up during a club meeting, it'll be free!
I've been brewing my own for several years, I control the taste, mouth feel and aroma.
(Although I do keep Bud Light around for my "heathen" friends)
Try a cream or brown ale, these are the less hopped varieties, but feel good on your tongue.

 

[aborgman]

I question people really liking the taste of beer. I've tried, oh lord how I've tried.

I like it... and I liked it the first time I ever had any reasonably good beer. Same thing with coffee.

Neither were an acquired taste for me... but then I'm a hophead, and love nothing more than a good IPA.

One of my favorites is Mad Hatter IPA (by New Holland Brewing) run through the Hopinator (a dry hop infuser between keg and tap).

 

[aborgman]

Bridgeport Pale Ale.

An awesome, awesome beer that I truly miss having left Oregon. I preferred the Bridgeport Pintail Ale, but they quit making that a few years ago.

 

[spade2you]

See if you can find a homebrew club in your area. These guys know how to make beer!
If you show up during a club meeting, it'll be free!
I've been brewing my own for several years, I control the taste, mouth feel and aroma.
(Although I do keep Bud Light around for my "heathen" friends)
Try a cream or brown ale, these are the less hopped varieties, but feel good on your tongue.

Now yer talkin'! I think around 90% of what I drink is brewed on site at home. The other 10% is from going to bars and drinking some Belgian specialty beers (saison and tripel) that I may eventually try to brew.

I keep a few Leiny beers on hand for people who like American domestics, but that's about it.

 

[jazzy grille]

You'll never go back.

 

[jobu3]

The American brews you've tried are mellow watered down "American Lagers." Most of them are crap.

You need to tell us what you like and what you don't.

You lumped Yuengling Lager in with the rest saying it tasted like all the rest. Yuengling lager is a far cry rom Busch Lite or Bud of any type. It has a light to medium body and a mildy hoppy finish, but is very smooth.

Try a Blue Moon. It will have a wheaty finish and will likely be cheaper than Hoegaarden with a similar taste to it. Some people put fruit (oranges mostly) in it. I hate wheat beers.

Do you like bitter but complex tasting drinks?
IPA's may be the way to go. Think yuengling lager but with a much fuller body, more bitter/sharp, and often with a fruity finish.

Bitter and more traditional beer taste?
Molson Golden. Skunks easy so hopefully you get a nice fresh one.

Smooth and even with a little kick?
Molson Canadian Lager. Chances are that you won't find too much to like about it if you didn't like anything at all about Bud and Heineken and the like.

What do you like what don't you like about each beer you've tried?

A lot of the beers that have been recommended in this thread are great beers but many of them would likely overwhelm your palate. It's kind of like with wines. Many wines of the same color all tend to taste the same at first but as your tastes change and develop you notice subtle differences and that's kind of what you crave. Find one you like and figure out what you like about it. Think of why you don't like certain others.

Let us know and we can tell you things to try and save you some time and money.

Have fun testing.

 

[Slapp Addict]

Ok, well, I give up. I'm just a guy who will never like the taste of beer. I figure im just a liquor guy, and that's just the way I am.

Tonight I bought a 6 pack of Hoegaarden. My girlfriend bought a 6 pack of Chuck's Cider (Raspberry), a 6 pack of Michelob Ultra Light, and a 12 pack of Bud light. The only one I liked the slightest bit was the Chuck's Cider, and I think that was only because it was Cider.

Now don't get me wrong, Hoegaarden was good for a beer I guess, because I had half a glass of Hoegaarden, decided it wasn't really for me, took a sip of the Michelob Ultra Light, and thought that stuff tasted like complete garbage. So even though im not a beer drinker I can still distinguish good beer from bad beer.

I think it's the hops though. It's just that beer taste. No matter how good or bad the beer is, it will always have that taste, and honestly I don't think il be able to down a full glass of the stuff. The 2 main reasons why I wanted to really try and like it was because I had seen so many beers that looked good, and because beer is just simply the social alcoholic beverage of choice. I mean c'mon... when you go to a barbeque with your family they are going to have a cooler full of cheap beer, not a fifth of Captain Morgan's on the counter with some glasses, ice, and a 2 liter of coke.

Oh well... im tired, partially drunk, and rambling. Seems as though I can enjoy a good cigar but will never be able to enjoy a good beer.

Thanks for all you suggestions and advice.