This is like saying all soup tastes bad.
Soup isn’t poisonous, but I’m glad we’ve decided you can’t make memes about your personal experience unless it’s universal.
The big reason why I don’t drink isn’t because I don’t like being drunk (love it), but because I just cannot stand the taste of alcohol
All y’all are talking about IPAs and whatnot when the real king of beer is a heart stout! Hell yeah, I wanna get drunk on chocolate and coffee!
While I do like lagers and pale ales (sans IPAs, I guess), I thought I just didn’t really like beers (and that taste wasn’t being acquired, despite my earnest try) because I started drinking at the height of the IPA hype.
First stout I ever had absolutely blew me away.
Until the next morning when you realize youve drank 4000 calories and have the worst hangover
When I was drinking, most alcohol tasted good to me. Even now when I have my monthly drink, most of them still taste kinda good. I think some of us are just kinda broken
Alcoholism, and the biggest risk factor of which is liking the taste of alcohol, is a positive evolutionary pressure to a certain extent cuz y’all kind of slutty TBH
You’re not broken, you’re selected for!
Now I’m just slutty and sober. Well alcohol sober, I took mushrooms today…
The system works
Sherry paired with a cheesecake is absolutely divine.
I remember having a lot of fun making ice cream floats with anisette, too (though it’s much harder to strike the right balance between the two just right).
Frozen fruit, rum, ice and a blender
Just drink better quality booze
Nah, just drink quicker
Good vodka tastes good neat.
I’m with you on this! Provided it’s shaken with some ice fist, it can be a really nice drink.
Good vodka tastes of nothing
It’s the most boring of drinks
It’s the one drink I avoid
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin’ can be a real cool drink.
Like most fermented foods, alcohol is absolutely an acquired taste and if you haven’t acquired it yet then I’d say you’re not missing out on much of anything. I’m still not at the point where IPAs and hard liquor taste like anything except poison to me.
Yeah most IPAs aren’t great. Hard liquor depends, whiskey can be good but most aren’t that amazing, vodka is bad on its own, gin is almost all bad, rum is mid, other stuff really depends and most of it’s better with something actually nice. I have a love hate relationship with a bottle of mead I got for my birthday last year (it’s 50% but I kinda love meads). IPA should taste like the cans look tbh, they always have the silliest designs then I get let down by it just being IPA again.
Respectfully, entirely disagree on gin; it’s made with flowers.
But – especially if you like citrus – the real joy of gin is the way you can play with flavors in many of its cocktails.
Entirely agreed on IPAs, though; there’s so many more interesting beers out there.
Asking as you’re willing to have a (1) drink with folks socially, I’d say that’s very true.
People who abstain entirely are not seen favorably by most people.
Bro I will metaphorically MURDER a box of Moscato from the local package store because it really does taste like the left picture
Moscato is adult grape juice, it’s so good
I will literally murder a box of moscato!
There’s plenty of cocktails that taste like the left, you just have to be willing to leave your toxic masculinity behind and order a drink that’s “for girls.”
also anyone else think it’s kinda fucked that the drinks “for girls” often seem like they’re trying to hide the taste of alcohol entirely?
For a very long time, the Cosmopolitan was considered a “man’s drink”
I’ve heard plenty of people say this to me and no one has been able to back it up. Drinks that attempt to hide the taste of alcohol would be better without alcohol in them in the first place.
Give me a fucking capri sun over a cocktail any day
I mean look, I don’t get any positive effects from drinking. Usually I just think “why did I pay for something expensive that tastes bad?” So maybe I’d change my tune if it actually made me feel happy or relaxed or whatever, but from a flavor standpoint alcohol just sucks.
Even if you liked the taste of alcohol look me dead in the eye and tell me it doesn’t clash flavor wise with basically everything. Bitter citrus flavors work okay and the same with juniper or other herbs like in gin, but seriously why do you even want to drink something that tastes like a tree in the first place?
Ah yes I want to drink the taste of bread but I prefer it when it has inescapable notes of literal poison and also the taste of the smell of weed (technically hops).
Ah yes gotta love that this other drink mostly just burns my throat but also has the subtle taste of wood. Gotta get the high end stuff though so that also has flavor notes that taste like a peat bog.
Here have some lemonade but worse. Don’t like that? how about this other cocktail that is peach lemonade (but also worse).
Do you know what else we should make worse? Chocolate milk. (Baileys)
God this is an insufferable rant.
It’s OK to not like something and respect others do.
Sweet citrusy alcohol sounds like what you’d enjoy, I’d recommend mikan, yuzu, or plum wines. They have a bit of a fermented ish taste that you don’t find in their fruit juice variants and they have a mild sweetness.
I think part of the issue with alcohol is that its all grouped under one tag, but different preparation makes wildly different flavors. Harder alcohols like whiskies and vodkas are moreso what you describe as not liking.
Sorry dude, you just haven’t got the pallet for it. Not trying to shame or anything, I disliked alcohol for a long time so I totally get it.
But now? Holy shit, a good single barrel bourbon is quite literally the best tasting thing I can get on my tongue without going to a Michelin star restaurant. The complexity is off the charts. The flavor is amazing. I wish I could get it without the actual alcohol so I could drink more.
Hey now, my pallet is high definition lol; it’s just that I really dislike the taste of ethanol
I can pick out flavor profiles pretty well, especially since I have family members who enjoy doing so, but having a good sense of taste doesn’t mean I’m going to like everything I taste.
I’ll admit it is interesting to notice complex combinations and just interesting from the chemistry standpoint that we can create notes of fruits or vanilla just by selecting the right brewing container material. But complexity =/= goodness.
If you gave me the decision to choose between a well made Michelin Star level dish but with a strong flavor I greatly dislike (like fennel) or choose a basic homemade grilled cheese sandwich, I would probably take the sandwich
why do you even want to drink something that tastes like a tree in the first place?
Fragrant herbal/woody flavors can be very refreshing. One of my favorite drinks on a hot day is spruce flavored sparkling water.
Yeah I loooove a good gin
i like a shitty gin. gimme bankers club or gordons or whatever. drown it in club soda and add a bit of lime juice
Alcohol literally carries flavor different from water or oil.
All solvents do this, doesn’t mean I want to drink THF or hydrazine.
I don’t think god’s own drink (a negroni) would taste right without the alcohol. The alcohol allows extraction of the wonderful botanical flavours that go into it.
Why would you want to drink something sweet? I’m big into herbal teas, and bitter greens in meals. Maybe people enjoy different sensations?
Yep, tea are literally “tastes like a tree/plant” n that they are hot leaf and sometimes stick water.
Fair, to each their own.
One of my siblings likes those flavors and has often made cookies or cakes with flowers as ingredients. They’re not inedible but definitely not my favorite kind of baked goods
To be fair I actually do kinda like bitter greens like kale, but not as a drink
This post has potential in the Stop Doing Math meme template, but I can’t be bothered to rekajigger it myself
You’re lucky. I love pure tequila , and vodka. If I can’t taste the alcohol its a bad drink to me.
Ive always had super strong taste preferences though. Super spicy stuff, really bitter black coffee etc ever since little. I wonder how much that plays into it.
I’ve heard plenty of people say this to me and no one has been able to back it up. Drinks that attempt to hide the taste of alcohol would be better without alcohol in them in the first place.
As someone who enjoys rum in various forms, I’ll take virgin mojito over alcoholic one any day
I dislike sugar in drinks because it can make the hangover worse and I’ve kinda weaned myself off of sweet drinks long time ago (meaning including tea, soda, etc). So generally my most preferred booze is non flavored Soju, possibly with a little lime juice. When cold it kinda just tastes like water with a little lime. There is a flavor but it’s so mild it’s easy to miss. Varies by brand. DAON original doesn’t really even need lime for me.
i once had someone tell me about a drink called “the date rape” (he was a gay dude joking about straight guys date raping women).
drink is: one beer with a shot of everclear snuck into it.
which i’m sure your question is getting at.
but no, i think girls just tend to dislike more bitter drinks.
Definitely for the better that you don’t like it. I enjoyed it from the word go and oh the money wasted and stupid shit I have done while shitfaced.
When I tell people I don’t drink they sometimes think I used to be an alcoholic or something. I just think it tastes like shit lol
That’s funny, when I tell people I don’t drink they ask me if I just don’t like the taste or if I am a “health nut” or something. I’m actually an alcoholic.
It’s because you haven’t tried actually good beer, bro. Try just one more, bro. I swear they don’t all taste like rotten cheese, bro. Try real craft homebrew fruity Belgian IPA, it’s totally different from real craft homebrew fruity German IPA. This time you’ll like it, bro. Please bro I’m not an alcoholic, I swear, I legitimately like the taste of cold piss.
Yeah, I usually follow with something like “not for any moralnreasons, I just hate the taste of alcohol.”
Tastes like chemicals to me, it’s disgusting.
Surprise! It is literally chemicals.
Depends
Cheapest beer is sulphur + urine. Next step you get actual beer. After that you have craft beer…and that’s mixed bag. Every beer with “light” in name is piss. Either commit and drink 0%, which taste less beery but better, or drink normal but a bit pricier.
Cheapest whiskey is vodka with coloring and less %. There is no good cheapish whiskey, but if you drink for taste and occasionally, one bottle can last long enough to justify expense.
I don’t drink vodka, every type I drank was just a hammer to the brain without anything taste wise. I mean dunno, not my kinda fun.
Drinks are fun but, ultimately, all they do is try to mask alcohol…and non-alcoholic versions taste better xD
With everything else I have little to no experience, and I never aim to get hammered so these are my blindspots xD
If the price range is $20-$30, there are a dozen or more great cheapish whiskeys.
How whiskey tastes:
This is such a weird thread. I love the taste.
Give me a petey whisky that tastes like a campfire and my whole evening is improved.
like your drunk dad hitting you with planks
Good ol’ days
i thought the planking trend died out but it’s good to see parents still getting some exercise
You got planks?
I got rusty jumper cables.
That’s why I drink malört
This plus fire.
I like to call my whisky collection “liquid camp fire”
If its peated, add 1 drop of bong water.
Wtf bong water tastes like peat?
I once tried a coke with vodka, it tasted better without the vodka and im not even a fan of coke.
There are fancy cocktails and weird alcohols. Look at fancy gins, absinthe, some fine whiskeys (stay the fuck away from rye), some wines when properly paired, plum wine…
Then there’s cases where already tasty stuff can be enhanced with booze that’s not good to drink on its own.
But generally yes alcohol tastes bad and people are just trying to make getting drunk less harrowing.
Angry beaver noises.
I like rye, it’s bourbon that sucks. It tastes like sugar.
Personally im good with drinking alcohol maybe once a month usually less
