It’s an acquired taste. Do you think people “delude” themselves into liking coffee and spicy foods too? Most people just need to drink a couple and they will begin to enjoy it as their pallet adapts and becomes more sophisticated

the "everyone with different subjective tastes than me is delusional" tone of this comment is incredibly reddit

Taste is subjective, it's the same with all sorts of things. It's like coffee, some people hate the taste, some people will only drink it with milk/cream/sugar, and some people like the taste of coffee all on its own. What tastes delicious to one person can be disgusting to another, both are correct.

Edit: people can even have preferences within categories of drinks. Sticking with the coffee example, I don't like darker roasts because they just taste burnt to me, but medium/light roasts have a better flavour. It's similar with beer, personally I'm not a fan of domestic beers like Coors/bud/Molson but there are other beers that are pretty tasty, but again it's to each their own

Different beers have different tastes. Sour beer tastes like vomit to me. Dark beer tastes much nicer.

I know a German who had their first taste of beer at like 8 years old and immediately loved it. Probably has to do with ones familiar cuisine and maybe genetics a bit.

I actually like the taste and drink it to enjoy it. Mind you I usually only drink 1-2 beers a month when I go out for dinner as a treat. I even try different types of beer and some types I like more or less than others.

One of my most unpopular takes is that toxic masculinity is at the root of people pretending to like/deluding themselves into liking beer

Ehh, I think the acquired taste comments are true, but I used to think I liked double IPAs, but that was out of wanting to get drunk cheap and quick, nowadays I like a good stout or porter cause most of them taste like dark chocolate.