/ck/ - Food & Cooking

This seems like a good thread to ask. Because of a puritan lifestyle I postponed drinking alcohol until much older than most people, and now that I recently tried beer it tastes salty as fuck, how do people enjoy drinking this?
My tastebuds are very mature. I drink coffee and sencha tea without sweeteners, so bitter tastes don't bother me, but I didn't expect it to be this salty, it felt like drinking liquid bread. Wouldn't that drink be much better if it had a bitter and sweet after-taste instead of a salty one? Has no one thought of that so far?