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Darth Wong wrote:Beer tastes awful and gives me a headache. I honestly can't figure out why anyone likes it.
I'd presume because it's cheap to buy in large quantities for getting wasted, but at that point you may as well just drink bleach.
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ray245 wrote:I thought it would be a interesting question to ask. Is there anyone here who does not drink alcohol at all? Even if is is drinking in moderate amount during social events?

For me, I don't drink alochol at all, simply because I hate the taste of alcohol, and I hate the feeling of me getting high and being drunk. I also have a extremely low alcohol tolerance, where the smell of alcohol is enough to have an effect on me, and my face will start turning red.
I occasionally drink. Don't like the taste, and living with an alcoholic parent has made me twitchy about drinking. I don't think I'm afraid about turning out to be an alcoholic, but I just have an involuntary revulsion to alcohol.
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Darth Wong wrote:Beer tastes awful and gives me a headache. I honestly can't figure out why anyone likes it.
I'd presume because it's cheap to buy in large quantities for getting wasted, but at that point you may as well just drink bleach.
I honestly can't figure out this mindset. I don't buy Sunny D just because it's shitty cheap high-volume crap; I buy high quality orange juice. Why would I treat alcoholic beverages any differently? I'll drink a $5 bottle of imported English cider before I would drink a shitty $1 beer. I'll buy a bottle of Disaronno or Kahlua before I'd buy a sixpack of Molson.
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I'll freely admit that my affinity for beer is an acquired taste; one that I picked up in my younger days when drinking a lot was not really thought of as a big deal so long as you didn't drive, etc. That said, I no longer drink it in order to get drunk, I drink it because I enjoy it. And I don't buy cheap garbage, I buy quality beer from one of the local(ish) breweries, of which there are at least 4, or brew it myself.

As I hyperbolically commented in one of the other threads to Coyote, I believe, I'd rather drink Draino than the cheap crap.

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Darth Wong wrote:Beer tastes awful and gives me a headache. I honestly can't figure out why anyone likes it.
I'd presume because it's cheap to buy in large quantities for getting wasted, but at that point you may as well just drink bleach.
As our Sith Lord points out, it is an acquired taste. I certainly didn't drink my first taste of beer and say "where has this been all my life".

Anyways, I drink a fair bit in the summer -- mostly after softball games -- and I'm glad that I live within walking distance of the bar. (Not because I'm blasted out of my mind drunk, but because after a couple of beers it's not worth the risk of driving and potentially blowing over. Or worse.) I'm one of those drinkers that really wouldn't care if there wasn't any alcohol available. It isn't an important part of my life.
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I'd presume because it's cheap to buy in large quantities for getting wasted, but at that point you may as well just drink bleach.
That's only true for the bottom-of-the-barrel stuff like Keystone Ice. Some people do genuinely enjoy the flavor of beer, barley notwithstanding- I frequently have a bottle of dark beer with dinner. Honestly, if you were to tell me you were to make a delicious beverage by fermenting anything I'd be incredulous, but hey, here we are.
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Garibaldi wrote:Honestly, if you were to tell me you were to make a delicious beverage by fermenting anything I'd be incredulous, but hey, here we are.
I don't see why you would be incredulous. Hard apple cider still tastes like apple cider; it's just alcoholic now. I like hard apple cider, and I like non-alcoholic apple cider. It's not like barley, which tastes like crap and which people think tastes good as beer just because they've "learned" to like it.
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SCRawl wrote:As our Sith Lord points out, it is an acquired taste. I certainly didn't drink my first taste of beer and say "where has this been all my life".
I won't say that my very first sip of beer caused a choir of angels to sing Hallelujah, but that's only because I'm sure my first sip of beer was when I was a kid and bugged an older male relative to try it at some family gathering or another.

When I actually made a serious attempt to try beer, a few days after my twenty-first birthday, I thought, "OK, this stuff is alright, I guess. What else is out there?" And I never drank beer regularly after that, until I went to Germany and tried fresh German beer. There I had the "Where the FUCK has this been all my life?!" reaction. Since then, I've tried basically essentially every single beer I've come across. I've liked a bunch, loved maybe half a dozen, abhorred half a dozen more, and have been ambivalent to the rest. I've no doubt that it's an acquired palette one must develop to fully enjoy beer, but I can state with personal conviction that were it not for Weihenstepher Kristallweizen, I probably never would've taken the time to do so.
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Darth Wong wrote:
Garibaldi wrote:Honestly, if you were to tell me you were to make a delicious beverage by fermenting anything I'd be incredulous, but hey, here we are.
I don't see why you would be incredulous. Hard apple cider still tastes like apple cider; it's just alcoholic now. I like hard apple cider, and I like non-alcoholic apple cider. It's not like barley, which tastes like crap and which people think tastes good as beer just because they've "learned" to like it.
Heh. There is a place in Alameda, that kept a giant tally board of people that signed up and how many beers they drank. When you reached a 'Keg' you got a plaque with your name and date on it that was bolted to the wall. As you got more and more 'kegs' you would get a newer plaque with a different color (I can't remember the color rank system). I drank three 'kegs' of cider over the years.

I hate beer*, with the exception of Mendicino Brewery's Eye of the Hawk, and have always taken shit for drinking cider.
The big pittfall with it though, is that because it actually tastes good, it's very easy to gulp it down, and get shitty really fast.

*This doesn't mean I wont drink beer, it is just that i won't buy it myself. After a few shots of Whiskey, it doesn't really matter anyway.

P.S. I may have mentioned that I drink a bit and probably shouldn't even be posting in this thread. :D
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Darth Wong wrote:I honestly can't figure out this mindset. I don't buy Sunny D just because it's shitty cheap high-volume crap; I buy high quality orange juice. Why would I treat alcoholic beverages any differently?
This mindset, although obviously stupid, is quite prevalent with regards to all food. A friend of mine whose family sells fish at a marketplace told me how, with the onset of the economic crisis, the first thing people saved money on was food, buying shittier but cheaper stuff. They kept buying overpriced purses or Hello Kitty products at his store, though.

But, is it surprising? Many people eat at McDonalds or Burger King after all, and would rather have some mac and cheese than buy and cook a decent steak. :roll:

I must also support the notion that drinking alcohol doesn't mean getting drunk, lots of people drink wine with their food, for example, or a beer while watching a movie, and don't get drunk at all.

I personally don't go past two Mojitos. At that point my brain starts to feel as if it was wrapped with a wet towel, and I get sensory lag (I turn my head quickly, and notice how my brain takes some time to inform me of the change), and I'm really paranoid about losing control of what I'm saying or doing.
I must note that I drink Mojitos because I like the taste, I really don't understand people who force themselves to drink awful tasting stuff just because they must. Like rum and coke, wich mostly everyone drinks around here, as it is considered the standard partying drink, yet I can't stand the thing.
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Havok wrote: Heh. There is a place in Alameda, that kept a giant tally board of people that signed up and how many beers they drank. When you reached a 'Keg' you got a plaque with your name and date on it that was bolted to the wall. As you got more and more 'kegs' you would get a newer plaque with a different color (I can't remember the color rank system). I drank three 'kegs' of cider over the years.

I hate beer*, with the exception of Mendicino Brewery's Eye of the Hawk, and have always taken shit for drinking cider.
The big pittfall with it though, is that because it actually tastes good, it's very easy to gulp it down, and get shitty really fast.

*This doesn't mean I wont drink beer, it is just that i won't buy it myself. After a few shots of Whiskey, it doesn't really matter anyway.

P.S. I may have mentioned that I drink a bit and probably shouldn't even be posting in this thread. :D
Woah woah woah they give you a plaque?? Thats hilarious! Its like being awarded for a vice!
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Beer is definitely an acquired taste and the cheaper the less "taste it has. Keystone, natural light, budweiser, miller, they're all the first ones people are introduced to in at least in my experience and i can totally see why no one would want to drink after them. On the other hand they are commonly used in volume drinking situations bcause you'd throw up much faster with a heavier beer. Shipyard pumpkin ale, or actually winter warmer is the one they're selling at the moment has loads of cinammon and brown sugar.

A game of flip cup or a kegstand will end your night by having you go straight from sober to throwing up with no buzz in between. on the other hand, if you're at a bar playing trivia night, like i do every tuesday, one or two over the space of two hours is pretty much like drinking tea. ultimately the dumber you are about your drinking the cheaper the beer you drink, the more leaborate your games get and the lighter and more foul tasting it is. beer is an acquired taste as much as coffee is but there seem to be three types of responses, those who like it, those who don't and the idiots who are just trying to get drunk.

Wine for me is what beer seems to be for the rest of you. I never know what to do with it, I'll play along at a holiday toast but for the most part its not worth buying to me. That being said I went to a wine and cheese tasting a few weeks ago and i can see nhow if I got over my initial resistance I could become one of those people who knows what wine goes well with everything. one of the guys i was with was able to identify cheeses and wines by taste alone, and i can pretty much do that with beer.

By the way is a cider closer to a beer or a wine, because it seems to be in both palces in the supermarket, Same thing with mead :wtf:

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I've never drunk alchohol and never really been tempted to.

I more or less missed out at socialising during the period when most people start to drink so I never really got into it being a social thing.

Now a days I think I'm to worried about the loss of control it could cause and I'm aware of the health implications.
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Bedlam wrote:I've never drunk alchohol and never really been tempted to.

I more or less missed out at socialising during the period when most people start to drink so I never really got into it being a social thing.

Now a days I think I'm to worried about the loss of control it could cause and I'm aware of the health implications.
The funny thing is that I am more likely to drink at home than at a social event. At a social event, I'm usually planning to drive home, and that means I don't drink.
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Garibaldi wrote:Honestly, if you were to tell me you were to make a delicious beverage by fermenting anything I'd be incredulous, but hey, here we are.
Well originally a large part of alchoholic drinks was that the alcohol would actually make water safe to drink, while actual water wasn't that safe due to not having proper water distillation systems.

As for it tasting good, I have no idea why people think that. Every single alcoholic drink I've had (which isn't much, I'll admit) has an extremely noticable bitter taste I can only assume is the alcohol.
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Yogi wrote:Every single alcoholic drink I've had (which isn't much, I'll admit) has an extremely noticable bitter taste I can only assume is the alcohol.
Some liquor is sweeter than others, like Schnapps, which has a very syrupy taste and texture. Others are close to flavorless, like Vodka. So the bitterness isn't really tied to the alcohol itself, even if there is a 'bite'.
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As for it tasting good, I have no idea why people think that. Every single alcoholic drink I've had (which isn't much, I'll admit) has an extremely noticable bitter taste I can only assume is the alcohol.
For the second time, pure alcohol has no taste of its own, and any bitterness is due to the type of drink, not the alcohol content.
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Count me as another who doesn't drink. Mostly reasons that have already been mentioned: Beer doesn't taste good to me and wine just tastes like sour grape juice (at least the brands I've tried), alcoholism runs in the family, liver issue (elevated ALT), and I don't like the idea of impairing my thought process.
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I might be on the borderline. I have basically one beer a week (as in "one can"), and often not even that.

Beer is, well, meh. The only beer I've had that I thought actually tasted good was some Killian's Red I had while in Denver for two days. The rest generally tastes mediocre to outright awful - I much prefer stuff like Hard Lemonades and wine, where the taste of the drink actually blends well with the alcohol.
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I don't drink, partially because my sense of smell (and hence taste) sucks pretty badly so it isn't like I could enjoy it. That and I fear anything that I could get hooked on... although I appear to have made an exception for the internet.
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I don't drink. Most alcoholic drinks don't taste very well to me and the few that do I have no real desire to consume more than maybe once a year. Drinks with Kaluha are good, as are some ports. Anything involving fruit tastes better to me than grain based drinks.
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My last drink was at my sister's wedding back in July of 2007. I got pretty hammered, and yes, it was mainly to be sociable. My original plan had been to just drink the toast, but I admit I succumbed to "peer pressure". I woke up the next day with a fierce hangover and glad that I at least had had the sense not to try and drive myself back to my hotel. Even before then I had only drank rarely, but I haven't had one since.
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I've never had a drink in my life. When I was a kid, and learning my multiplication tables at the kitchen table, I had a glass of apple juice in a steel glass, while my dad had some Crown Royal in a matching glass. I mixed them up, sprayed the contents across the table, and got a quick whack on the back of the head for my troubles. Never really wanted to try after that, I've always enjoyed driving and that led me to always be the DD after parties. So I managed to stay sober during that early drinking phase, and haven't felt any pressure since.

Plus my family has a bunch of alcoholics on both sides, a couple of uncles have died due to health problems associated with drinking, and my mother would kill me. :P
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I don't drink. I've never even been more than mildly curious what it's like; outside of some cough medicine with alcohol and some wine I thought was Kool Aid as a kid ( quickly spat out ) I've never so much as tasted the stuff. Mostly due to that lack of interest, but also because my mother was an alcoholic and I don't want to see if I inherited that. I do not however have any particular feelings against other people drinking around me, as long as you don't drink to the point of being obnoxious or dangerous.
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I largely do not drink. I do not care to alter my mental state, so I don't drink to get a buzz. I have no desire to get drunk. I only drink what tastes good. Most alcoholic beverages taste like crap. I will have an occasional Mikes Hard Lemonade or something along those lines. Maybe one a year.
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+1 for teetotaller. Well, ok, I enjoy food cooked with wine etc, but I don't drink alcohol at all.

I really wouldn't want to meet me drunk, it'd be an ugly scene. Considering how much effort it takes to keep the veneer of civility up on a day to day basis, getting drunk would either involve me becoming a jackass or crying into my beer, neither experience worth paying for.

I also think I'm a prime candidate for succumbing to alcoholism, which is another good reason not to waste money on alcohol.
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