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.
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.
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
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
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.
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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.
Tastes like chemicals to me, it’s disgusting.
Surprise! It is literally chemicals.
How whiskey tastes:
like your drunk dad hitting you with planks
Good ol' days
I dunno, I enjoy the taste of beer 🤷
Yeah, like why would other bitter flavors be ok but not alcohol? Not everyone wants to just eat sweets all day
Just drink better quality booze
Good vodka tastes good neat.
Good vodka tastes of nothing
It's the most boring of drinks
It's the one drink I avoid
My dad let me sip his beer as a kid. It was disgusting. Never did acquire a taste for alcohol.
Opposite here. My uncle's girlfriend, at the time, saw me asking for "soda" at some event. Might've been somebody's company picnic. She convinced my mother to let me have a sip, hoping and expecting a giggle at the "bitter face" reaction. That didn't happen and Mom had to keep an eye on her "sodas" the rest of the day.
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.
I think you're drinking the wrong alcohol for your palate.
Definitely but I’d feel bad telling them that. They can just not drink and that’s a pretty good choice, honestly.
My dad did something really smart, he saw me looking at it and said here try a sip. Of course I try to sip and it was the worst drink I've ever drank and I didn't drink till my 20's
I still don't drink, and I'm in my 40s.
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
Cocktails, Margheritas, and coolers are usually pretty tasty, though there's still the bite of ~~87~~ alcohol
And ciders. Like beer, but tastes sweet and sometimes like actual fruit
can confirm. never liked it.
Obviously wine just tastes like grape juice but better, and they get you started on that pretty early. I didn’t enjoy my first taste of beer, but that’s because my dad has never really been a drinker and had a tinny of some shitty lager like tenants at the dinner table once.
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!
It really depends on the alcohol itself, especially it's quality.
Most cheap commercial alcohol tastes like crap, because making them taste good is effort and money. A ÂŁ20 bottle of whisky or vodka or gin will never taste good, because at that price point, you can't get the high quality ingredients, can't afford the purification process and so on.
Good news is, you can fix clear spirits, to some extent, with a cheap Brita filter. Take a crappy bottle of vodka, pass it through a NEW Brita filter (wash it through with water first to activate the charcoal properly), and BAM, you removed the nail polish remover flavour, and now it tastes much closer to a ÂŁ50 bottle. Watch out though, brown and flavoured spirits (whisky, rum, gin, etc.) will lose their colour and have their flavours muted by this process.
And often it's worth splurging on the fancy bottle of liquor. A bottle of Cirroc or Grey Goose might be ÂŁ40-60, but you'll notice the difference immediately. Those are actually pleasant vodkas to drink.
gin is just rescued, shitty vodka.
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
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.
Bro I will metaphorically MURDER a box of Moscato from the local package store because it really does taste like the left picture
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
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