This thread is sort of the corollary of https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f5/what-beer-did-you-want-really-like-but-just-didnt-28485/ as well as this little story that Forrest from Austin Homebrew mentioned in a thread;
So what beer did you taste that you expected to hate that surprised you and you ended up loving?
I have three actually.
The first one was the afore mentioned Bud American Ale. I thought I'd give it a try when it first came out, thinking of course that since it came from AHB it was going to royally sucked. And I was surprised and impressed. It was maltier than I thought it would be, and had some nice flavors and was balanced pretty well. It kinda reminds me of a "low rent" attempt at cloning Rogue Dead Guy. Not what I was expecting.
Plus I like the bottles, so I 've drunk about a case of it, and found that on tap it is really nice when it's fresh.
The second one was Hoegaarden. I don't like most wheat beers, in fact a lot of wheat beer styles casue a back of the throat sourness/gag reflex, that is pretty nasty to me. But one day my bottle shop had a couple in their mixed sixer fridge, so I grabbed them with some other struff. I was truly blown away, and it's sort of become my favorite style. I've brewed a fairly decent clone of it. And liking that led me into trying more wits and also led me to try Saisons as well.
And the biggest surprise came from my trying out differrent wits. It's Blue Moon.....I've totally ignored it since it first came out thinking it was the orange sliced purview of frat boys. But I was in a pizza joint over the summer and the only non BMC Lager they had was it, and since I had just got into trying different wits, I thought I would at least give it a try.
And again, it wasn't what I thought it would be. As a commercial Macro interpretation of a Wit, it is pretty good. A little sweet, but you do get some of the notes of spices and the orange.
It's another one of those beers, that if there's nothing else on tap or in a grocery store and I want to grab a sixer and not drive to a better stocked beerstore, I know I can get it and not be dissapointed.
So how about you. What beers out there did you really want to hate...but found that you just can't hate?
I had a snob of an employee try a beer he thought was mine. He really liked it and even commented on specific things that he liked. He told me it was very good and he wouldn't change the recipe. When I told him it was Budweiser American Ale, he told me "I wish I would have known that first, I am not supposed to like that beer."
Forrest
So what beer did you taste that you expected to hate that surprised you and you ended up loving?
I have three actually.
The first one was the afore mentioned Bud American Ale. I thought I'd give it a try when it first came out, thinking of course that since it came from AHB it was going to royally sucked. And I was surprised and impressed. It was maltier than I thought it would be, and had some nice flavors and was balanced pretty well. It kinda reminds me of a "low rent" attempt at cloning Rogue Dead Guy. Not what I was expecting.
Plus I like the bottles, so I 've drunk about a case of it, and found that on tap it is really nice when it's fresh.
The second one was Hoegaarden. I don't like most wheat beers, in fact a lot of wheat beer styles casue a back of the throat sourness/gag reflex, that is pretty nasty to me. But one day my bottle shop had a couple in their mixed sixer fridge, so I grabbed them with some other struff. I was truly blown away, and it's sort of become my favorite style. I've brewed a fairly decent clone of it. And liking that led me into trying more wits and also led me to try Saisons as well.
And the biggest surprise came from my trying out differrent wits. It's Blue Moon.....I've totally ignored it since it first came out thinking it was the orange sliced purview of frat boys. But I was in a pizza joint over the summer and the only non BMC Lager they had was it, and since I had just got into trying different wits, I thought I would at least give it a try.
And again, it wasn't what I thought it would be. As a commercial Macro interpretation of a Wit, it is pretty good. A little sweet, but you do get some of the notes of spices and the orange.
It's another one of those beers, that if there's nothing else on tap or in a grocery store and I want to grab a sixer and not drive to a better stocked beerstore, I know I can get it and not be dissapointed.
So how about you. What beers out there did you really want to hate...but found that you just can't hate?