Tastes like chemicals to me, it’s disgusting.

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.

It's because you haven't tried actually good beer, bro. Try just one more, bro. I swear they don't all taste like rotten cheese, bro. Try real craft homebrew fruity Belgian IPA, it's totally different from real craft homebrew fruity German IPA. This time you'll like it, bro. Please bro I'm not an alcoholic, I swear, I legitimately like the taste of cold piss.

Yeah, I usually follow with something like "not for any moralnreasons, I just hate the taste of alcohol."

like your drunk dad hitting you with planks

This is such a weird thread. I love the taste.

Give me a petey whisky that tastes like a campfire and my whole evening is improved.

Yeah, like why would other bitter flavors be ok but not alcohol? Not everyone wants to just eat sweets all day

Drinking an NA right now, they have come a long way and I guess I'm an alcoholic

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'll drink anything but beer just about. I think beer is gross, but I love hard alcohols and sometimes mixed drinks like piña coladas.

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.

For a very long time, the Cosmopolitan was considered a "man's drink"

I dislike sugar in drinks because it can make the hangover worse and I've kinda weaned myself off of sweet drinks long time ago (meaning including tea, soda, etc). So generally my most preferred booze is non flavored Soju, possibly with a little lime juice. When cold it kinda just tastes like water with a little lime. There is a flavor but it's so mild it's easy to miss. Varies by brand. DAON original doesn't really even need lime for me.

Girly drinks vs manly drinks

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)

i once had someone tell me about a drink called “the date rape” (he was a gay dude joking about straight guys date raping women).
drink is: one beer with a shot of everclear snuck into it.
which i’m sure your question is getting at.
but no, i think girls just tend to dislike more bitter drinks.

Good vodka tastes good neat.

I still don't drink, and I'm in my 40s.

And ciders. Like beer, but tastes sweet and sometimes like actual fruit

I would not ever say wine tastes like grape juice, lol.

The absence of sugar is pretty alarming. That said, specific types of wines are really amazing experiences. I'd argue it's an acquired taste for sure, though.

Asking as you're willing to have a (1) drink with folks socially, I'd say that's very true.

People who abstain entirely are not seen favorably by most people.

Yeah most IPAs aren't great. Hard liquor depends, whiskey can be good but most aren't that amazing, vodka is bad on its own, gin is almost all bad, rum is mid, other stuff really depends and most of it's better with something actually nice. I have a love hate relationship with a bottle of mead I got for my birthday last year (it's 50% but I kinda love meads). IPA should taste like the cans look tbh, they always have the silliest designs then I get let down by it just being IPA again.

Moscato is adult grape juice, it's so good

I will literally murder a box of moscato!

gin is just rescued, shitty vodka.

A £20 bottle of whisky ... will never taste good

[Laughs in japanese]

I dunno, there are plenty of cheap spirits that taste perfectly fine. The less expensive (but not cheap swill) gins I see in my local markets (Beefeater, Tanqueray, Gordon's), and the whiskeys or scotches (like Teachers, Jack, etc) are all under the equivalent of 20 pounds, and they're easy enough to drink.

Or maybe the UK just has expensive spirits? I know in Australia you can't get a bottle of literally any spirits for much less than $50-60.

evan williams is fantastic

Alcoholism, and the biggest risk factor of which is liking the taste of alcohol, is a positive evolutionary pressure to a certain extent cuz y'all kind of slutty TBH

You're not broken, you're selected for!

Soup isn't poisonous, but I'm glad we've decided you can't make memes about your personal experience unless it's universal.

If the price range is $20-$30, there are a dozen or more great cheapish whiskeys.

They call it a milkshake, foreign sounding right?

While I do like lagers and pale ales (sans IPAs, I guess), I thought I just didn't really like beers (and that taste wasn't being acquired, despite my earnest try) because I started drinking at the height of the IPA hype.

First stout I ever had absolutely blew me away.

Until the next morning when you realize youve drank 4000 calories and have the worst hangover

Definitely but I’d feel bad telling them that. They can just not drink and that’s a pretty good choice, honestly.