/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I do, some beers actually taste good, when I want to just get wasted I drink something like vodka though and that does taste like shit

>>6533713
>He doesn't like oatmeal stout

Depends on the bear.

I would rather drink a red wine though.

Good Wine > Good beer > Shit Wine >>> Shit Beer

>>6533713
>no one actually drinks beer "for the taste"

so you never had german beer?

>>6533713
Underaged Natty drinker detected

>>6533713
You need to be at least 18 to post here.

I only drink beer for taste, the slight buzz is just bonus. Beer tastes good though. If I wanna get drunk I just pound vodka.

I do

Here is your reply

I drink expensive beers for the taste and cheap ones to deal with my anxiety.

>>6533713
No, that's liquor for me.

>>6533713
Poor quality bait pasta.

>>6533713
yeah, if it didnt give me a head change i wouldnt drink it. that said ive grown a taste for it now.

>>6533713
Nothing tastes better than a good beer for breakfast. Nothing.

Tbh I don't get beer. I give it to you that spanish beer is horrible, but the experience has made me not want to try any more beer.

Looks like someones never had Weihenstephaner. Forget that fucking macaroni, this is the true liquid gold.

>>6533713
yes.

>>6533725
yeah, I had german beer when i visited europe. tasted like most beers from other countries. not good.

>>6533713
I do.
I hate the fact that it gets me drunk.
If I could get non-alcoholic versions of all my beers that tasted the same, I'd do it in a HEARTBEAT.

I'd pay DOUBLE for it, since alcohol is calories and beer makes me fatter.

I fucking LOVE how most beers taste.
If I didn't, I'd just buy the cheapest swill with the highest alcohol content. Instead, I spend $12 a bottle on chimay.

>tfw couldn't taste the difference between tripel karmeliet, sierra nevada pale ale, and sam smith nut brown ale

>>6534664
You must have done something to your tastebuds.

>>6533713
I do. I'm sorry you're a child though

>>6533713
No.

There are some beers I drink only for the taste. Pic related. You fucking idiot.

I drink natty light and I enjoy it.

Get BTFO

I drink beer for the taste, because this tastes amazing.

>>6534681
Mix that with wells banana bread beer.

>beer tastes good
no chocolate milk tastes good

people convince themselves that ethanol tastes good to give themselves an air of sophistication and to receive validation from others that think it also "tastes good."

If it taste good, mixers and chasers wouldn't be a thing.

>>6533713

I do, but that's just me.

I hope your troll thread goes well, Anon.

>>6534734
Ethanol is odorless and tasteless. Is does not taste, what people are tasting are impurities and metabolic byproducts, even in triple distilled vodka.

The acquired taste thing is more about associating a certain effect with an action. Once that action, or agent, and its consumption is wired into your mind as proxy to the desired result, your perception of its taste changes.

I drink vodka straight, with no chaser nor mixer. Right out of the bottle. Whiskey I have a bit of trouble with, or at least I used to. Same with rum. They don't taste "bad" so much as just making me gag.

This is less a matter of the biology of taste, and more a matter of psychology (and by extension neurology). Perception is key.

I drink beer for taste.

Pic related.

I thought beer was gross until I moved to Germany. Then I thought "I'll give it another try. IT's part of the culture after all." When I took my first sip of legit German beer it was like a light went off in my head, and I heard angels singing.
"THIS is what beer is supposed to taste like!" I thought "This is why people drink beer!"

So yes, it does taste good to some people. Some people do drink it for the taste. I think beer is delicious, and fuck you.

>>6533713
ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED.
HOLY SHIT. YOU BETTER BE TROLLING.
BEER TASTES LIKE THE TEARS OF ANGELS.
FUCK YOU.

>see this topic on the 4chan page
Oh cool, a beer thread, could be inter-
>read this thread
This board is shit. You're all shit.

>>6534746
>ethanol is tasteless and odorless
Ethanol is an acid, it tastes and smells like chemical burns

>>6533729

>NEW BELGIUM trippel

liquid feces.

>>6534756
>I thought beer was gross until I moved to Germany

I am amazed at how people find great beers in germany, the land of sausages, and not in belgium, the land of beers.

i agree with OP

>>6534176
I agree, good stuff, and not hard to find at most decent bars. Similar to Hoegaarden, I enjoy them both. Always a good bet;)

The only times when I drink beer is for taste.

If I just want to get wasted I'll probably only chuck down shots since it's the cheapest way.

>>6533713
How do I learn to enjoy beer? I go out with my buddies for a night out and I don't get any alcohol because it isn't very nice. It feels bad.

>>6534857
Order those fruity drinks, they're alright. Do things other than drink.

Alternatively, don't go out with your buddies.

Plot twist: OP just wants recommendations for tasty as fuck beers.

>>6534695
fuck I wish I could get this in the UK, it's a meme-beer posted everywhere these days & I love grapefruit.

I thought pic related would be good enough, but it was a let down. Odd because everything else they make is amazing.


>>6534734
>Has a babby palate
>sees other people enjoying beer, wine, capers, oysters etc.
>convinces himself that they're deluding themselves to try and appear sophisticated

lmao. Nice projecting, 4k resolution.

I had this beer back in LA that was like a Blue Moon except it was made with mandarin peels or something. I still dream of it. It's been 4 years.

>>6533713
I used to think like you. Can't explain it though. I used to tell people to shut their lying faces when they said they did but one day I just realized I was drinking it for the taste.

>>6534868
Anything grapefruit is a good starter tasty beer.
Great summer drink for all beer drinkers.
Richards has a new one that doesn't even taste like beer if that's your kinda thing.

>>6534681
Passed this one up at the market last night. Worth giving a shot?

>>6534795
>implying Germany isn't also the land of beer

Oh anon.

>>6533713
>>6534933

the don't drink it ONLY for the taste.

if I'm gonna tie one on, I don't want to vomit immediatly after taking a sip. I want it bitter enough that I'm not just gonna guzzle it down on the first go and I want it sweet enough to not cringe when I take a sip.

>>6534920
Keep an eye on http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk, they sometimes sell Ballast Point stuff. I'm actually trying to get a bottle of Sculpin myself.

Shame about that Beavertown one, actually got a can of that I've been meaning to drink.

Faggot

>>6533725
>le ebin german beer

US microbrews have surpassed german beer

>>6535303
>le ebin obsolete pisswater maymay

here we go again

>>6533716
I enjoy a bottle of it every now and then. It isn't something I would want to drink every day.

>>6533722
Yeah, nah. I'd rather have shit beer than shit wine. Shit beer is bland, and maybe tastes skunked. Shit wine is downright terrible.

>>6535303
i live in michigan so i am always finding new seasonal and micro brews on the shelves everywhere. i enjoy a lot of them. however i do have my trusted standbys of guinness or stella artois.

>>6533713
lay off the sodas and sugars fatty and try it again after a year, youll be sick of it
>>6535303
maybe, but i still love german beer

>>6534921
They make a lot of stuff with orange peels these days here in Finland

>>6534766
Idiot confirmed

>>6533713
>can we all just admit that no one actually drinks beer "for the taste"?
funny joke

>>6534637
>If I could get non-alcoholic versions of all my beers that tasted the same, I'd do it in a HEARTBEAT.
Same. I don't mind getting drunk but I'd really like to be able to drink my favourite beers when I want and not have to worry about drink driving or concentrating on work.

>>6534766
by that logic, water is a solvent, it tastes like dissolving

>>6535409
>drink driving
why do britbongs say this

they get bent out of shape about shit like "aluminum" and yet they still refer to drunk driving as drink driving

>>6535414
Have you ever actually interacted with a britbong outside of 4chan? No one gives a shit about aluminium or colour or tyres, the reason people fly off the handle so much here is that there are a lot of children on this site, for whom this is their first time actually exchanging typed words with foreigners, and with the anonymity things get out of hand quickly.

>>6535419
oh, I meant specifically on 4chan

>>6535303
US food has never surpassed anything

Sam Adams Rebel IPA is the best tasting liquid on the planet.

>>6533714
You've never had good wodka. Just like beer, it depends very much on who you're drinking not what.

I recommend Luksusowa. And if you so much have considered smirnoff in the writing of your post, I hope you die in a fire, the least you deserve if you call that shit vodka.

Not saying you did. Just saying if you did.

>>6535453
>good vodka

>>6533713
I do.
I've been drinking because of the other reasons for a while before it was for the taste, though.

>>6535303
I don't get why we have to "surpass" beers from other countries.

I love American craft for the interesting flavors and styles but any time I see a german lager I think "Yes I'd like five gallons of it in my face please"

I drink spirits over beer because alcohol and carbonation together make my stomach unsettled more easily, but the flavor is perfectly enjoyable.

I don't enjoy bready, yeasty beers, though

>>6533713
for sure some good tasting beers brought up in this thread!

Thanks OP!

>>6533713
I have a beer at some pub down the street. everytime I go there I get it. I could be drunk, sober, anything, I always get it. always.

I get it because holy damn wow, its a good beer. everything tastes perfect and the texture is legendary. ill always love it.

shit tastes so good.
then of course I have the beer I buy a 12pack of and take home.
that's the beer beer.

>>6535514
truth. i'm always fond of trying as many american crafts as i can but i rarely will order one on a repeat basis. but give me some weihenstephaner lager or weiss and i can drink it literally all day without even beginning to get sick of it.

>>6535893
>>6535514
They've had centuries to figure it out. We've had approximately 60 years since our brewing culture had to be restarted from zero.

We'll get there, eventually, once we get this overreaction to post-prohibition flushed out of our system. You can already find many decent balanced beers around and it's only getting better. By the time our kids are of drinking age they'll be posting "beer gore" threads on the future version of 4chan, filled with pictures of mid-2010s Surly Naga Jholokia Cunt Destroyer Three Mile Island Nuclear Toxic Wasteland ale, much as we post these pictures of jello and ketchup casserole from the 50s.

>>6533713
Is that why there's no craft beer movement?

>>6533713
I've been working with beer for the last 3 years and if I ever heard someone say that in real life I would honestly bitch slap them

>>6534695
Mix this with the habanero sculpin. Half and half. Tried it at the brewery when I was in SD

>>6535303
You're 100% right

>>6535933
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?

>>6535921
more than a few times i have paid an absurd price for a single bottle of some absurd beer and wondered how i would be able to explain myself ten years down the line

>>6535945
You heard me. Fire me nerd

I've tried all of your micro brews and I still prefer pic related

Let the hate roll in

>>6535303
US craft brewing has taken a different path than zee germans. They have purity laws that only allows you to brew using certain ingredients, whereas in USA you can have a burbon barrel aged belgian quad with sour cherries.

Most US breweries can't do traditional german styles as well as zee germans.. but a few good ones can.

>>6535962
i'm sure carlsberg is perfectly fine on draft but anything in a green bottle automatically sucks dick

how do i mix vodka and beer? What parts?

>>6536044
how's high school?

>>6536090

how's pretentious twat school?

>everybody replies with their one specific beer which just 'tastes amazing' and is from their local homosexual microbrew

>>6535449
shut up nigger sam adams is as bad as shock top and blue moon now. the fact they call themselves a microbrewery is out of this world

>>6536115
/ck/ is full of alchies you arent bamboozaling anyone

>>6533713
OP needs to try some tasty Belgian ales sometime. Not Belgian 'stye', but from fucking Belgium. Or better yet, brew some himself with authentic Belgian microorganisms.

>>6534795
Idk I've been to both and still prefer American beer

>>6533713
>no one actually drinks beer "for the taste"?

Why else would you drink it? Are you ten years old?

>>6536119
Not really. The bombers they put out are pretty good and once in awhile they'll have a legit series that doesn't sell well because the people who regularly buy Sam Adams don't like craft beer and craft beer fags just overlook 99% of their stuff. Like you.

Ok muffugas, what beer would you suggest to someone so he insta-likes beer?

I'm in EU

>>6536186
Budweiser

>>6536186
Get your hands on a weizen from weihenstephaner or franziskaner.

Nice and smooth, extremely balanced taste and absotely not boring.

>>6536200

Are trappist beer a must try or...?

>>6536217
Later on. Not as a first time beer.

>>6536217
Not as a first try, they have a very distinct taste that can be very offputting and you'll probably love belgians or hate them later on. As for Trappists especially, they're obviously quality beers, but a different belgian abbey style ale can be just as good.

Belgian beers have 4 prominent styles. Blonde, dubbel, tripel and quadrupel. Blonde is probably the easiest, it's usually the most bitter and lowest ABV.

>>6536198
Seconded as a real true fact

>>6536257

I hated bud

>>6536244

Not exactly a first try, I tried judas ways back, was kinda nice, much better than the beers available in here.

Tbh I might not be into beer because spanish beer is dreadful.

>>6535453
>wodka

>>6536198
yeah.

face it dickheads.

budweiser is the king of beers.

>>6535449

>>6534795

is it me or are belgian beers too carbonated?

>>6533713
>can we all just admit that no one actually drinks beer "for the taste"?
I don't know, man. I feel you, I really do, but I like the taste of some beers. Liquors not so much but I get how some people could like the taste.

This being said though I drink to get drunk and wouldn't drink purely to "enjoy the taste", thats fucking stupid. I don't even drink that often either

>>6536123
Do you seriously keep your trip on when you leave /k/?

>>6536186
Try to get your hands on some Samuel Smith. Most of their beers are great.

I actually love the flavor of beer and malt sodas. I wish beer were non-alcoholic though because I hate getting drunk. I only have one when I drink, usually a milk stout because I love the creamy chocolatey coffee flavor.

I also sometimes buy the MADD alcohol free beer which is actually fairly okay. Not the best, but definitely on the same level as something like blue moon or yuengling.

>>6534681
OH FUCK YES

test

>>6536676
>I wish beer were non-alcoholic though because I hate getting drunk.
If only there was such a thing as non-alcoholic beer.

>>6536722
None that taste good. Well the bitburger isn't bad.

>>6536676
you hate getting drunk? are you a woman or child?

Single malt or blended, can we all just admit no one actually drinks scotch "for the taste"?

>>6533725
German beer is shit. Bavarian or nothing.

When I first started drinking, in high school, it was to get drunk. My parents are cool though, so they would buy me nice beers sometimes to take to parties, so I started drinking for the taste. Now, 10 years later, I'm back to drinking to get drunk.

>>6533722
shit beer>shit wine

Shit wine is really bad, man. Like, it actually tastes bad. Shit beer is just bland.

>>6533713

honestly after a long day of work all i want is one bottle of a cheap domestic like Miller Lite or PBR. I don't even get a buzz off of one so I guess it has to be the taste, I'm not the kind of beer drinker that wants an IPA every time I'm in a drinking mood, I see that as more of a special treat

>>6534695

I feel like such a pleb for not liking this, I'd take dogfish head 60 min over it any day

>>6534746

i work in a lab where we use 200 proof pure ethyl alcohol for making solutions.

i assure you, it has a smell, and that smell burns.

>>6536920

He read "neutral spirit" and thought it meant humans can't detect it.

>>6536920

True 100% has to use a non-azeotropic method like vacuum distillation and whatnot.

>>6536920
the hygroscopic nature of alcohol makes actual 200 proof alcohol impossible unless you keep the atmosphere away from it.

>>6536945
>>6536948

well whatever, 100% before I open it and 99.9% pure after, at that point it becomes a "if a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it..." kind of thing

>>6536909
>I'm not the kind of beer drinker that wants an IPA every time I'm in a drinking mood, I see that as more of a special treat
I agree with this. I'm reasonably knowledgeable about beer and try a lot of different kinds, I love IPAs, stouts and porters, but I still drink cheap lager most of the time.

>>6533713
Nobody drinks shitty beer for the taste. Now adays I drink hard liquor to get drunk and I drink craft beer purely for the flavor.

>>6534716
I like Well's BB beer pretty good. I should try mixing them because I like banana+chocolate as a food combo already quite a good deal.

>>6535039
It's pretty rich. And very dark. If those sound like the sort of thing you like with beer, then hell yes it's worth it. It is a little pricy, but aren't most of the "higher" shelf drinks anyway. Treat yourself. It's better than some of the similar attempts by Samuel Smith's or Rogue for chocolate stouts. I love SS Oatmeal Stout and they make my favorite oatmeal stout but as far as I'm concerned, Young's has the upper hand in the chocolate stout department, by far.

>>6536915
To each their own mang.. just cause I love it doesn't mean you have to.
Dogfish 60 is ok, I probably dont get it as fresh as you do.

>>6533713
But I do, you disgusting casual.

>>6533722
Shit beer is better than shit wine, imo.

>>6537198

with food especially i prefer a cheap lager or something. an IPA has too much taste to it to drink with something else i want to taste

>>6533722
switch shit wine with shit beer. shit wine is awful, undrinkable swill. shit beer tastes watered down at worst

>>6533713
Wrong. You have under developed taste buds.

>>6536764
Woman. I just do tons of ketamine if I want to be intoxicated. It has the good effects of being drunk minus the part where alcohol turns me into a shrieking harpy.

>>6536722
There are no good non-alcoholic beers available locally. The MADD one is merely passable and no where near the tasty stouts I like.

>>6533713

Little kid, how old are you? Be honest now...

>>6533722

shit beer is better then shit wine

stop being a pleb that wants to look like he isn't pleb

>>6533713
I've been coming to a realization that beer tastes good when you're feeling bitter. In a "you are what you drink" kind of way.
When I'm happy, drinking kind of throws off the feeling.
When not happy, drinking is much easier. Tastier maybe.

>>6539234
That's called alcoholism.

its taste relative to other beers. a bottle of expensive craft beer is likely going to taste better than some pisswater in a can going for 50c a pop, but you wouldn't compare it to taste of a slice of cake or a joint of ham cause they're completely different things where the term 'taste' is used in a different context

One of better southern bavarian brews

>>6534767
lolwut are you talking about

>>6533713
Orygone reporting in, beer tastes good. OP is a fag

>>6533713
See >>6539522
>the taste buds really dislike the flavor bitter as a child; we're adaptive eaters so things that are bitter are more likely to be poisonous. as kids we're expected to be fed what adults have tried and found safe to eat, so over time, as we eat those, we begin to enjoy the flavor of them. anybody who's ever tried to cut salt out of their diet and succeeded knows that after a few weeks of changing diet, your tastes adjust. theoretically this is supposed to keep us safe from eating dangerous things- also works with rotten meat or foods... some cultures like the fermented/bad tastes despite it being a warning sign at first for us to spit it out.

tldr; once you eat/drink something and it doesn't kill you, you're more inclined to find it tastes good in the future.

I feel like most people who like beer like the taste of beer in general ("good" beer and cheap beer) but just have personal preferences for certain kinds that they do drink for the taste

I 100% like the taste of cheap piss-lager as well as craft/microbrews of all kinds, but only buy the cheap stuff because I'm a kike

I drink to get drunk, if someone offered me a top quality beer I would of course drink it and enjoy it but I'm not willing to pay more to have my 12 pack I'm going to slam taste slightly better

Basically yes people drink beer for the taste you fuckwit, most people who drink beer genuinely like the taste of beer

Actually I drink one of the cheapest beer from around here because its tastes the best.

god I hate beer

need drunk faster

I was in Bavaria recently a brought back a few of these home. Some local people were swearing that this is the best beer there.

While I don't believe it's the best it's still really good

>people drink beer to get drunk

top fucking kek

>>6534857
try beer cocktails, perhaps?

or just do what this guy said >>6534867

don't be ashamed to drink "girly drinks", life's too short.

Or just go for spirit mixers, everyone likes a bourbon and coke, right?

Alternatively, just drink beer until you like it. If you keep drinking it, you will eventually like it (probably)

>>6533713
>beer-fag or non beer-fag, can we all just admit that no one actually drinks beer "for the taste"?

>drinking a non-alcoholic beer right now

>>6541170
it is the best beer from munich. source: i'm from munich.

Never drank any stouts, should I try guinness?

Corona extra is the one and only.

>>6541308
It's relatively cheap and inoffensive, but once you've tried anything actually good, you'll realize just how bland and tasteless it really is. If you're used to much lighter beers, go for it just to get the idea of what a stout is, but remember that it is far from what your average stout will be like if you're getting quality beer.

>>6534746
>ethanol is odourless and tasteless.
What? That is rediculous, pick up a bottle of pure ethanol formed by ethylene hydration, and therefore completely chemically pure and you'll find out just how bitter and strong tasting/smelling pure ethanol is.

>>6534746
>Ethanol is odorless and tasteless.
>I'm a fucking moron and don't know what I'm saying.
fix'd

>>6535303
I will take whatever American microbrew that's within 10 miles anytime, and it's top notch 99% of the time.

Granted, less variety, but I did have some really good beers when I was in Germany,

>>6535449
>maybe if we copy Brewdog's tactics people will drink our shitty no-longer-craft beer

Super-regionals like Sam Adams and New Belgium deserve respect for sparking the industry revival, but need to step up their game and actually stary brewing something that compete taste and price-wise to good local beers. Marketing and branding won't save them in a market base that us becoming increasingly proficient and picky.

you are dumb and wrong, but mostly dumb and for that i can forgive you.

>>6533713
but I do. I'm guessing you've never had anything but macrobrew. kill yourself

>>6541170
hmm. my last name is augustine and im going to munich this summer. will have to try this

>>6533713
>can we all just admit that no one actually drinks beer "for the taste"?
You mean, ''can we all just admit that no one actually drinks alcohol "for the taste"?''

>>6535453
Vodka is just 40% ethanol in water. The only possible difference in quality would be fusel alcohols and other contaminants that weren't distilled or filtered out.

>>6534766
>Ethanol is an acid
No, it's an alcohol. When it oxidises to acetate (vinegar acid), that's when it becomes an acid.

>>6536044
One pint beer one shot vodka. It's called a U-boot (pronounced ooh-boat).

OP has clearly never tried a lambic

>>6533722
Nice Dubs

>>6543582
But I do. Beer without alcohol tastes weird. Refreshing lagers can get away with 4-5% alcohol, but a lot of the richer styles, like oatmeal stout and dubbel, seem cloying to me at less than 9%. I also really like the warming sensation of ethanol in these higher ABV beers.

Same with mulled wine on a cold winter day; it just wouldn't be the same without the alcohol.

Also, vodka with the right accompaniments is amazing. Pickles, herring, onions, garlic, rye bread, cured lard, potatoes...

>>6533713
I liek cheap beer like Keystone.

These bait-threads are getting so half-assed transparent it's pathetic.

>>6543691
No, you just want to believe you do.

Alcohol is inedible. Theres a reason it makes you drunk and throw up among other issues.

Anyone who says they like the taste of alcohol is shitting themselves

>>6543751
Alcohol is great for cutting through fattyness and cloying sweetness.

>>6535303

>>6543733
this

>>6535303
Has German beer ever been amazing? I wont claim to be an expert on German stuff but all I've had from there is either boring lager or piss sweet shit like Paulaner. Not very nice if you ask me. I'd rather have a porter or a pale ale any day.