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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.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
My dad let me sip his beer as a kid. It was disgusting. Never did acquire a taste for alcohol.
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.
Cocktails, Margheritas, and coolers are usually pretty tasty, though there's still the bite of ~~87~~ alcohol
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
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!
While I do like lagers and pale ales, 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.
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.
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.
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.
A ÂŁ20 bottle of whisky ... will never taste good
[Laughs in japanese]
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
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!
I never thought it tasted good but the image comparison is more like:
"how alcohol makes you feel at first" vs "how alcohol makes you feel later."
And it works for both short and long term. Short term, how you first feel when you get drunk when the night is young and then later have a hangover. Long term, how alcohol makes you feel when you first start drinking vs what alcohol really does to you and makes you feel after a decade of heavy drinking.
I love the taste of beer, and a bunch of other drinks (Gin & Tonic, variety of wines, vodka drinks including martinis and sweet drinks, etc).
But I also don't care for seafood at all, while it seems most people love it.
You should use a smaller brush when painting.
Sherry paired with a cheesecake is absolutely divine.
I remember having a lot of fun making ice cream floats with anisette, too (though it's much harder to strike the right balance between the two just right).
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.
