Sour beers / goses. I keep coming back every couple of years to see if my tastes have changed and they always taste awful to me. I’m glad most brewers hopped (pun somewhat intended) on the IPA train because I much prefer them over the sour options.
Must be one of those cilantro situations, I’m the complete opposite. Give me sours all day and take away all the IPAs, blech
I don’t think I could drink a ton of sours all the time, but the super hoppy IPA trend was the worst thing to ever happen to craft beer. Give me a nice rich stout instead. Even in the middle of the summer!
I could and have drinken Guinness all day
Fine by me, you take all the sours and I’ll take the IPAs. Cheers.
Excellent!
IPA tastes like the bottom of a shoe.
Energy drinks.
Like okay, Monster Java to me is awesome to have once in a while. But, I’ve tried numerous energy drinks in the past and the flavors don’t always hit. I’m drinking some overly artificial liquid garbage and it’s telling me that it’s “Strawberry Aggression” on the can.
If you tried just one energy drink or two just for variety, you’ve tried them all.
I can’t get into sparkling water either.
A lot of fancy stuff would not appeal to the average persons pallate. Its kinda like beer and coffee which I think some people like but many get used to. Anyway for the bulls 3rd victory my sister got dom perignon or whatever. everyone hated it but its dry which I guess is the fancy pallet appeal. although fancy pallet to me are folks that convince themselves they like it because they think it makes them better. the refined pallet.
Flavored Sparkling water with no sweeteners of any kind. I’m looking at you Bubly
Sorry but you’re utterly wrong
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Shit tastes like someone else is thinking about the flavor
Reminds me of this.
Unironically I like La Croix, specifically lime.
However if I’m feeling splurge-y I’ll get Topo Chico Lime or Grapefruit.
Oh, you just reminded me how much I hate Topo Chico specifically. You shouldn’t be able to taste the minerals in the water, especially when it’s mixed with other stuff. But the minerals are soooo forward that’s all I can taste.
Topo chico solos lacroix
It’s also waaaay more expensive than La Croix, which is why I don’t always buy it
Most teas smell like a wet forest floor to me.
I agree, and that’s why I like it.
and that’s a… bad smell, to you?
I don’t want to lick a wet forest floor, much less ingest it.
It is a nice smell like a campfire, which I also don’t want to ingest.
a campfire, which I also don’t want to ingest
See, now you’ve completely lost me. Do you not eat barbeque? Or, like, half of Mexican cuisine?
I meam the literal campfire.
BBQ has a different smokey smell.
Do I have the perfect tea for you!
Moss loose leaf tea!
So… what does it taste like?
A wet forest floor… in Iceland
Lapsang Souchong. Smells like a campfire
Best tea ever! It’s like drinking liquid smoke
Ted Lasso has it right: pigeon sweat.
Only exception for me is southern-style sweet tea where the tannins make the 'beetus juice taste a little caramel-esque.
Baiju
Is that the one that tastes like medicine? My (HK) friend calls it Chinese poison
Nah! It’s a pretty unique taste. A little bit like vodka but an after taste of dry cheekpea maybe
I haven’t drank enough baiju to form an opinion, but I always thought it was more of a class of liquor then anything specific (think whiskey, as opposed to jack Daniels). I had one person tell me it was the moonshine of China. And then I go to a liquor store and see some highly prized bottle of it for 3 or 4 hundred usd or more.
Yes. It’s a denomination. There’s also Taiwanese Baiju that taste like jaggermester
If I’m not mistaken it’s only mean « clear liquor » so
Energy Drinks. Yes every single sickly disgusting rancid smelling one of them.
bad for your kidneys too.
Bitters. Come to scandinavia and taste our schnaps. I dare yall
Seltzer water. I don’t understand why it’s even sold at stores or offered in cafeterias. Stuff tastes like cement.
Edit: grammar
I love seltzer water. I think the taste of cement you hate is carbon. Even if the bubbles are gone, I can still taste it.
Maybe it’s like cilantro. To some people it tastes like soap.
It’s carbonic acid and doesn’t taste good to me.
It’s like drinking static though, it’s lovely
It feels like the water is angry, why drink angry water???
Lol I actually refer to it as angry water
Because, like water, I too am angry
My dad used to get weekly deliveries of the stuff. Couldn’t stand it.
This is a personal question, different people have different taste. And it changes over time too. I can’t like anything that is tooth-shattering sweet but can appreciate bitter flavor now.
My answer to this is always a Negroni. I cannot apprehend it, and I like cocktails. The Negroni is a cup of bitter sugar syrup and I cannot taste whatever it is that people like in it. It’s like someone drank Campari and said “not sweet enough” what the heck?
Tequila, scotch, bourbon, all those I drink “lengthened” with some soda water to appreciate them and can taste the delicious flavors once they are diluted. Gin is good with tonic & lime. But the very strong, oversweet stirred drinks I don’t enjoy and Negroni is the most beloved of them.
Are you familiar with the concept of subjectivity?
I’m really not sure you are.
I don’t get hard liquor. Some are drinkable mixed, but it’s like you just made the mixed drink a bit worse. So far I only had one liquor, which did benefited the mixed drink. Licor 43 with milk, but I guess you could just make this without alcohol. Of course I didn’t drank all types of liquor and I never tasted premium stuff. I don’t even like wine. The only thing I do actually enjoy is beer. There I do like the taste. With mixed drinks, it looks to me that they just wanted a version that is drinkable, so you can get drunk. To me loosing control from alcohol is not fun. A bit light headed is fine, but for me beer does this as well.
Licor 43 with milk,
Did they serve it in a tiny beer mug? Our bar served those as Tiny Beers and you are right, those are delicious!
I didn’t drank it at a bar. First one I drank at a birthday party and afterwards also always at home.
Most regular energy drinks. Red Bull and regular Monster taste like battery acid to me. Remember NOS? That too. Also Rockstar. All battery acid.
The flavored variants can be better though.
I’ll go one step further and say, most energy drinks in general.
It’s not even so much the flavor as it is the chalky texture and aftertaste that just about every one of them seems to have. I’m not sure if they’re all powder-based or what, but there’s a residual feeling left on my tongue that I can’t stand.
bawls are the only good energy drink
What about V8?
I love V8. My dad always had it in the fridge when I was a kid so I grew up drinking it, although I’ve since learned that opinions on V8 can heavily differ.
It also just hit me you’re probably talking about V8 Energy. Yes I like that. It tastes like juice to me.
Oh the white peach is genuinely habit forming. One day I opened the fridge to find out hubs had picked me up one on the way home and genuinely felt myself salivate.
Oh dang. I already shared a comment above about how much I can’t stand Red Bull, but we have a slushie machine at work and last summer one of the guys filled it up with white peach red Bull, and HO-LY SHIT. I couldn’t stop drinking those things!
Monster energy drinks. Tastes like what I imagine dumpster juice is like.
And any drink with Stevia in it. Instant dealbreaker if I see it in the ingredients.
The smell too. Idk what it is about the smell of Monster when it gets warm, but it’s god awful.
Probably ethyl butyrate I think it’s in Monster too, but there’s a lot of weird crap in energy drinks to make it taste/smell medicinal. The recent Lab Coatz vid reverse engineering Red Bull has a whole laundry list of bizarre chemicals.
I’d say that, even aside from anything specific to Monster, most carbonated beverages are optimized for drinking cold and aren’t great when warm.
Fair enough. Tho there’s something about the smell that just permeates a car after you open Monster if you don’t immediately toss it when empty. Not that I’m even a fan of the flavor anymore. Liked it when I was in high school, but can’t stand it as an adult.
I’ve tried a lot, and never really liked any of them, but I thought Monster was the best tasting of the energy drinks. Red Bull was by far the WORST energy drink I’ve ever had.
Interesting about the stevia! May I ask what it tastes like to you? A couple of years I bought a liquid stevia sweetener on a whim (the “regular” one might have been sold out), and was surprised that it tasted… Idk. Sweet, but way warmer than regular sweetener. Hard to describe. Used up the bottle, then bought my regular sweetener again and somehow, it tasted awfully bitter to me now. Somehow, I can’t go back now and really like stevia.
Its hard to describe but I’d say it’s not the immediate taste so much as it is the aftertaste (both are bad but the latter is worse). It’s just a lingering, unpleasant fake sweetness that sticks around for way too long.
Interesting. I can’t relate, but I guess just goes to show his subjective the question is.
Original Monster tastes like battery acid and I don’t know why I love it (especially khaotic)
Our local coffee shop only has sugar in the raw, and stevia. Blech.
there isnt much options for sweetners, its either sugar, stevia, somehow they might have ethyrthiol, but that can causes loose bowel movements, so itas uncommon
I know it’s not for everyone, but I personally prefer Splenda or sucralose.
Agree on the stevia. It’s sweet but not like sugar. And leaves a weird aftertaste
I suspect lager/beer/IPA/RealAle etc.
I love almost all of it now, but as a teen first trying it it was disgusting and I had to pretend to like it because thats what Real Men drink. I can’t be sure if its an acquired taste, or something that only comes with age, or my main suspicion is that its like Stockholm Syndrome for your tongue.
