Why does beer taste all the same to me?

[Anonymous No.20363353]

I've been trying to pick out different brands of beer and seeing which ticks for me, but most of them taste like shit. Is beer supposed to taste this bad? Do I need to make an attempt to "taste" the flavor of the beer depending on which I pick out? Do I need to keep drinking until I get attuned to alcohol or do I just have bad taste buds?

[Anonymous No.20363359]

drink it with a straw! It needs the air boubbles!

[Anonymous No.20363364]

>>20363353
Just give up on drinking and get a hobby

[Anonymous No.20363368]

What's the point of forcing yourself to like something that can become a bad vice?

[Anonymous No.20363391]

>>20363368
THE point is to SHOVE it in my ass AND let my ass DRINK it

[Anonymous No.20363393]

>>20363353
you're drinking the same brand/style.
try maredsous.

[Anonymous No.20363410]

>>20363353
beer is literally fizzy piss

[Anonymous No.20363416]

>>20363353
>why does x and y taste the same? Also im not going to tell you what x and y are.
Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.20363418]

>>20363353
beers are on a spectrum, if you tried pilsners or something try stouts and vice versa, I dont even really like beer and I know theres a pretty big difference

[Anonymous No.20363474]

>>20363353
I was the same way in my beer journey. Eventually I found a few beers I liked. If you dislike the "beer" flavor more beers have, might I recommend Miller High Life? I think it's mild and refreshing, the beer for someone who doesn't like most beer. I've also become fond of Mickey's malt liquor. I appreciate the occasional Guinness.

Those aside, I've also enjoyed Blue Moon and a few of its offshoots, Dos Equis, Modelo and some of Sam Adams offerings.

[Anonymous No.20363475]

>>20363353
Have you tried growing a pair?

[Anonymous No.20363497]

>>20363353
if you're drinking american domestics they're all going to taste the same. go to a brewery and try all the styles of beer they have. i worked at one and you have your people that only drink ipas, or stouts and porters, or sours, or you have your people that just want the lightest beer you've got. either way, all beer has alcohol so it's going to be icky to you if you don't drink.

[Anonymous No.20363504]

>>20363353
probably because you're trans

[Anonymous No.20363522]

Every beer tastes different, but I'm also an alcoholic destroying my body every day for a mediocre mental escape from the pain of being alive.

[Anonymous No.20363555]

>>20363522
life is a self curing disease anon, cheers bro

[Anonymous No.20363610]

>>20363353
try different kinds and not just different brands of macro lagers (aka big name generic beers)

[Anonymous No.20363672]

>>20363353
beer is expensive in the long run, try being pretentious and buying a 6 pack style from the country you wanna like their beer of.
turns out i like carlsberg. thanks, madds

[Anonymous No.20363815]

>>20363353
>>20363418
This, different types of beer taste different from each other but similar within their category. If you just tried Heineken, Budweiser, and Stella Artois, you drank the same type of beer.

[Anonymous No.20364308]

Grab a double IPA, you'll hate me for it and it will sure as shit make you hate yourself for even asking. Then get something like Gulden Draak or another Belgian beer, could be same result or you will be surprised.

[Anonymous No.20364484]

>>20363410
It literally isn't

[Anonymous No.20364498]

>>20363353
You've been sucking too much D and your taste buds are gone.

[Anonymous No.20364583]

>>20363353
former alcoholic here. yes all beers taste like shit and don't let anyone lie to you otherwise. The best beer I ever tasted was something called Frio 6.0% in Texas and it tasted like nothing, that's why I liked it.

[Anonymous No.20364602]

Maybe try adding different things like raisins or shaving cream?

[Anonymous No.20364679]

Yeah most beer tastes the same. Try black beer, it's sweet(er).

[Anonymous No.20365193]

serve it warm in a glass and drink it slowly. then pour two or more at a time and be attentive when comparing the smell and taste. the more differences you can detect the more you will build a mental log of references. most people just aren't looking for that much detail and will simply only drink for effect.

[Anonymous No.20365235]

>>20363353
You need to try different styles. You're probably buying nothing but either shitty piss-tasting blue collar adjunct lager, or shitty dehydrated-piss-tasting hipster IPAs.

[Anonymous No.20365258]

>>20363353
You can't rush having a sophisticated palate. People think they can inherently discern quality but they can't.

[Anonymous No.20365494]

>>20363353
Funny because after trying many styles of beer last saturday I finally found the one I like: amber ale. The one I tried was a caramel/fruit noted belgian amber ale, tough, it's supposedly the same thing as pale ale (not ipa)

[Anonymous No.20365619]

>>20364679
>Try black beer, it's sweet(er).
I noticed this too. When I'm drinking Colt 45 or Steel Reserve, it's definitely sweeter than white beers like PBR and Rolling Rock.

[Anonymous No.20365892]

>>20363353
Well what have you tried, Coors and Budweiser? You have to at least mention it, or you'll be like that guy who started a thread about whiskey being boring but revealed he has only tried Jack Daniels, which expectedly is mass produced inoffensive boring whiskey.

[Anonymous No.20366102]

>>20363416
>>20365892
If it'll really help, these are the 8 brands I've had thus far.
>Coors
>Budweiser
>Kronenbourg 1664 Blanc
>Molson
>Corona
>Guinness
>Heineken
>Stella Artois
Admittedly, they're all just big name beers.

[Anonymous No.20366135]

>>20366102
Most of those are shitty beers, Guinness being the exception, and Budweiser is passable.
Go to a bar or restaurant and drink whatever they have on tap. Beer tastes much better when it comes from a keg instead of a bottle or can.
Also try some wheat beers, they’re my favorite and have a much different taste than the pilsners or lagers you’ve tried. Weihenstephaner is my favorite, I find it on tap fairly often and most liquor stores have it in my small Indiana city so it’s not that uncommon.

[Anonymous No.20366781]

>>20366102
>Coors
>Budweiser
>Kronenbourg 1664 Blanc
>Molson
>Corona
>Guinness
>Heineken
>Stella Artois
bro,,,

[Anonymous No.20366807]

>>20363368
real man shit

[Anonymous No.20366838]

>>20366102
lmao.
Retards shouldn't drink

[Anonymous No.20366840]

>>20366102
Literal retard
>I keep buying the most mass produced cookie cutter watered down things and they all taste the same???
If you hate these brands you shouldn't even be drinking beer because these taste like sparkly water with a little beer flavoring, except Guinness lager, that stuff is vile.
Just grab a bottle of something you don't recognize, try it to taste what a beer actually tastes like and then never drink beer again.

[Anonymous No.20366844]

>>20366840
>Just grab a bottle of something you don't recognize
He'd probably pick 5 IPAs or go for an Imperial stout and chug it

[Anonymous No.20366845]

>>20364484
when I piss it out it is

[Anonymous No.20366846]

>>20363368
REAL based life enjoyer and shit.. let no toxic chemical dictate how good you feel

[Anonymous No.20366947]

>>20363474
>Miller High Life
>Mickey's
>Guinness.
>Blue Moon
>Dos Equis
>Modelo
>Sam Adams
kroger connoisseur. might i suggest shocktop or perhaps even a kona big wave

[Anonymous No.20368300]

>>20363353
Go grab a variety pack of voodoo ranger or something.

[Anonymous No.20369017]

>>20363353
>>20366102
Focus on trying different styles rather than brands. Try weissbier, IPA, stouts, porters, schwarzbier, branch out into mead, cider etc.
Don't bother with normiefaggot brands, they are all diluted flavorless slop.
You'll be shocked by how watery Guinness is compared to a real stout. Buy craft or on tap, check out stuff from your local breweries.

[Anonymous No.20369823]

>>20363353
You're not wrong. It's all the same basic ingredients. Some taste better than others but they mostly have the same flavor profile. Cigars are the biggest offender when it comes to this, kikes trying to charge $100 cigar when a cheap $10 cigar is just as fine

[Anonymous No.20370235]

>>20363353
You're not wrong, OP...

[Anonymous No.20370431]

Wheat beer is the only beer for me

[Anonymous No.20370438]

>>20370235
>There are no good tasting beers

[Anonymous No.20370589]

>>20363353
I’d suggest going to a Total Wine or a Whole Foods or wherever and getting a build your own 6pk, while drinking each beer type up your thoughts in a google doc and give it a rating. Try this with as many beers as possible over the next few months, and in your head you’ll be able to be like okay Tecate tastes a bit better than Corona Extra, or Miller High Life tastes a bit better than PBR, and so on. This is basically what I did when I got bored with slamming 12pks of Busch Ice every weekend for ages, it really helped to show me what actually good beer is.

[Anonymous No.20370660]

Just start trying out Belgian beer. That's where the real shit is made...Duvel, Westmalle, Chouffe, Orval, Hoegaarden, Rochefort, Sint Bernardus, etc

[Anonymous No.20371046]

>>20363364
spbp

[Anonymous No.20371068]

>>20366135
>Budweiser is passable

[Anonymous No.20371088]

>>20366102
>lager
>lager
>French
>lager
>stout
>lager
>French
You've tried 2 types of beer, French beers suck dick.

[Anonymous No.20371097]

>>20370235
I don't understand this mentality pf "I can't enjoy it. Everyone else must be pretending."

[Anonymous No.20371103]

>>20371068
I've had bud twice. Once when it was being give out as a cheap sample for a new "premium" version, and the second, years later knocking back a few lights with friends. Truth be told, the premium was wprse. It had the promise of being a nice beer with toasty malt, but it fell flat then left an unpleasant aftertaste. The light shit was hardly recognizable as something other than straw coloured water, so it was less offensive than I'd expected.

[Anonymous No.20371124]

>>20370235
Stouts literally taste good

[Anonymous No.20371132]

>>20371103
The reason it tastes like nothing is because they use rice instead of barley. So not only is it bad, its not even really beer.

[Anonymous No.20371138]

>>20370438
this might be the gayest thing I've even seen posted on 4chan

[Anonymous No.20371140]

>>20371132
Yeah you can taste the rice in the bud. Like if I wanted rice beer Id get a Japanese beer

[Anonymous No.20371146]

>>20371088
Chouffe is good
fgt

[Anonymous No.20371366]

>>20371138
Alright nerd feel free to never enjoy anything in life because you're insecure LMAO

[Anonymous No.20372223]

How do we stop the ever growing tide of shitty DOUBLE EXTREME MEGA HOPPED shitty IPAs? They just taste like water and hops, I fucking hate it.

[Anonymous No.20372290]

>>20371097
People assume of others what they know to be true of themselves

[Anonymous No.20372460]

>>20371132
Yeah, I'm aware of the adjuncts. I thought it was corn though, or maybe they change that based on what ever is cheaper. But I'm pretty sure some portion of it does have to be barley for it to be advertised as beer, what percentage that is is up in the air though. But it was the aftertaste, of the so called premium, that put me off so much.

[Anonymous No.20373655]

No one tries beer for the first time and thinks it tastes amazing, just like cigarettes. Even if you claim you did, you'd be an outlier.
The taste only becomes good to the user after habituation associates the taste with its dopamine pumping effects, basic conditioning.

[Anonymous No.20373667]

>>20363353
You will enjoy beer for the first time when you're physically a bit tired from doing some manual/outdoor work, on a hot day, when the beer is ice cold out of the bottle. Chef's fucking kiss

[Anonymous No.20373676]

>>20363353
Buy beer from the UK. British food might be a meme but they brew some of the tastiest ales in the world

[Anonymous No.20373990]

You're changing brand but not style of course it tastes similar.

[Anonymous No.20374051]

>>20363353
When trying to figure out what types of beers you might enjoy, don't filter by brand names.
Google what the different styles of beer are and try one or two random beers of that style.
When you try a beer, remember (or jot down notes somewhere) what it was and try to describe what you liked and disliked about it.
Presuming you don't have any knowledgeable friends on the subject, after you've got a little bit of understanding of what flavors or things you think you like and don't like, you can just go to a beer shop and ask for advice.

[Anonymous No.20374242]

>>20366102
Bro, the only been you had that wasn't a lager was Guinness and you're asking why it all tastes the same.
Try looking into different styles of beer than brands. If you just grab major brands they're probably going to all be the same type of beer, so of course they're going to taste similar.

[Anonymous No.20375617]

[Anonymous No.20375761]

>>20373667
Opposite for me, I hate drinking beer when it's hot and especially after labor/exercise. Plus bottles are my least preferred after pint glass and can.
For me, the most refreshing and satisfying sip is on a mild evening to kick off a fun few hours.

[Anonymous No.20376196]

>>20375761
Yeah I get that. For me it's the scene in the shawshank redemption where they're putting tar on the roof or something in the baking heat, and when they're done someone cracks out an ice cold cooler box

[Anonymous No.20376389]

>>20370660

The only sensible post in this thread. Chimay and La Blanche del Namur are also too tier.

[Anonymous No.20377090]

>>20366135
I second Weihenstephaner.

[Anonymous No.20377124]

>>20371366
Not the person you're arguing with, but going on the defensive is the most insecure thing a person can do. Also, enjoy whatever the fuck you want and don't care what other's think.

[Anonymous No.20377142]

I wish all beer tasted the same so I wouldn't constantly pick out a six pack I've never heard of and been disgusted by whatever motor oil/pinecone taste they put it in

[Anonymous No.20377740]

>>20363353
ask your boyfriend for recommendations

[Anonymous No.20377750]

Beer goes bad very quickly. You're probably in a place with shit distribution where all beer is old and bitter. It's why you used to only be able to get good beer from a bar tap.

[Anonymous No.20377908]

>>20363353
>Why does beer taste all the same to me?
because normal beer all taste the same.

[Anonymous No.20378968]

>>20363353
>guys I enjoy cheap beer just as much as expensive beer, how can I stop enjoying cheap beer?
Youth truly is wasted on the young.

[Anonymous No.20379590]

>>20363353
Your tastebuds have been so assblasted by sugar, salt and sneed oils for 20 years or so that when they come in contact with something natural and different they tell your brain it’s bad. Maybe you’d prefer a nice sugary Coca Cola instead…

[Anonymous No.20379866]

>>20363353
You should try something other then Pilsner or Lager. They do indeed taste very similar. If you don't have much experience its natural they you feel that way.
For example, to me all the wines taste same, like all reds or all whites taste like each other but I know that its because I rarely drink wine. Same I can say for hard liquors, unless they are flavoured with non essential ingredients I wouldn't be able to pinpoint the difference easily.

I would start with Belgian beers if they are avaible in your country. Then move on to different type of beers across different brands. There is absolutely a difference between beers. But it comes down to psychology a lot. If you don't like beer it would be probably hard for you to understand that difference, which is true for all other food and even all other hobbies.
One can say a fried chicken is a fried chicken no matter what, but when it comes to KFC, Popeyes, Chick-fil-A there is absolutely a difference, very subtle but also very huge in the same time.

[Anonymous No.20379869]

Try Erdinger hefeweizen

[Anonymous No.20379920]

The day I turned 21 I bought king cans of pretty much every beer available in the grocery store and drank them all that night to find out which one I liked the most. I immediately recognized all the diversity between flavors and I stuck with blue moon all these years now

[Anonymous No.20379936]

I thought I was the only one who hadn't tasted a beer they liked. To me beer tastes like an awful, bitter, green tea.

[Anonymous No.20380249]

>>20374242
>Duchesse
Love this beer ice cold

[Anonymous No.20381306]

>>20371138
>>20370438
I've actually had this a couple times and it is delicious. Gay? Maybe. But delicious? Definitely.

[Anonymous No.20382821]

>>20371088
Stella is Belgian.

[Anonymous No.20383443]

>>20363353
if you keep buying one style (plisner, lager, amber) then yea they'll all taste the same.

[Anonymous No.20383635]

>>20379920
>drinking blue moon in winter