Coffee beers and most sours
Fruit Juice Beers - Beer flavored fruit juice is absolutely disgusting. For example: New Belgium Citradelic
I think the closest to "can't stand" that I get is American "malt liquor." I've only had it maybe twice, but I had to try to force myself to gag it down and in the end, I ended up pouring like 80% of it down the drain. That stuff is nasty. I can't understand the appeal. And, yes, it is beer, even though "beer" isn't in the title. I don't know why malt liquor is made that way.
Dislikes are:
Sours (although as a beer judge I've had a few I could "appreciate")
Belgians
Lambics
Saisons (but tame ones are OK)
Wild Ales
Hefe's
most wheat beers (some are good) love Sam Adams (cherry wheat)
Gose
Gouse
Anything funky
Any of the "Belgian" hybrids. i.e. "Belgian" IPA, Pale, etc. The esters of Belgian yeasts just do not meld well with the different (contrasting) fruity hop aromas and strong bitterness. You can't just ferment an otherwise good style with Trappist yeast and call it a success. It's just plain lazy, and I tend to not respect the opinion of anyone who likes those styles.
I don't get why you have to go as far as to not respect someone's opinion because they like Belgian hybrid beers. It's not like they think Blue Moon is craft beer, they like a hybrid style that you don't. I also don't see how it's any more lazy to ferment an American IPA with a Belgian yeast instead of American, particularly when some actually take care into the hops additions and grain bill to pick something out that would work well with Belgian flavors.
belgian IPAs
I love Belgians and I love IPAs
I want to love Belgian IPAs but havent found one yet that worked for me.
No a fan of huge barrel aged stouts
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