I learned to like both Gin and Olympia at a friend's frat party I went to many years ago. He bought the cheapest liquor and keg he could. Nothing else there. And they only had limes, no lemons. So we did lime drop shots. At least we didn't have to substitute salt for sugar.Gin can be a bit of an acquired taste. It's that resiny flavor many people don't like on their first few encounters. As with many things, give it a few tries, it may grow on you. Have you tried a Gin Martini?
I'm with you, I love Gin, too.
Now, did you really like it the first time you had it? Or did desperation ("the only thing around") play a factor?
I "inherited" someone's liquor cabinet. At some point I "forced myself" to drink mint liquor.
It still may be best in ice cream with dark chocolate poured over it.
Anything carried by Sam's Club
I used to think the same until I had a Lagunitas Lil Sumpin. I enjoyed it for while before I even realized that it was a wheat beer.Any beer brewed with wheat!!! And I can even drink a Bud Light, just to be polite. But no way will a wheat beer pass over my lips.
Redundant statement. Martini = Gin. There is no other legit martini, just posers served in a Martini glass.Gin can be a bit of an acquired taste. It's that resiny flavor many people don't like on their first few encounters. As with many things, give it a few tries, it may grow on you. Have you tried a Gin Martini?
I'm with you, I love Gin, too.
Now, did you really like it the first time you had it? Or did desperation ("the only thing around") play a factor?
I "inherited" someone's liquor cabinet. At some point I "forced myself" to drink mint liquor.
It still may be best in ice cream with dark chocolate poured over it.
Gueze. Makes me wretch. My wife called it dirty sock beer.
I agree with your assessment on Pubwriser, I believe it is the flavor, or lack of, that totally turns me off. However back in the 80s I visited their breweries in St Louis and Tampa and the samples they gave us were actually good.I’d choose black label over Bud. There‘s something about the flavor of Bud I have never liked.
Any American lager. Or any watered down beer. I think we should bring back the Babylonian Hammurabi's law and drown the big commercial brewers in their own shitty diluted beer.
The two that immediately come to mind as absolutely undrinkable are PBR and Heineken. I have no problem with cheap beers - I'll drink Coors Light or Miller, and I'm known to bring a 30pack of Milwaukee's Best Light with me to cookouts. But PBR and Heineken taste like they were either aged on zinc-coated framing nails, or they ran out of aluminum cans and used rusty old tin soup cans.
On the other hand, I've only tried maybe a half-dozen non-alcoholic beers in my lifetime, and Heineken 0.0 was by far the best one.
This is the thing with green and clear bottles and shipping beer long distances. I’d say 9 out of 10 Heinekens we get in the US are skunk. The other one is Corona. Bars put a lime on top of the Corona bottle when they serve it and people drink it with the lime to try to cover up the skunk flavor. If I want that kind of beer I buy Landshark. Basically the same thing and I’ve never had a skunky Landshark. Because its made much closer and is always fresher when I get it.Have you had Heineken in The Netherlands, Amsterdam? It is a fantastic beer over there on draft.
This is the thing with green and clear bottles and shipping beer long distances. I’d say 9 out of 10 Heinekens we get in the US are skunk. The other one is Corona. Bars put a lime on top of the Corona bottle when they serve it and people drink it with the lime to try to cover up the skunk flavor. If I want that kind of beer I buy Landshark. Basically the same thing and I’ve never had a skunky Landshark. Because its made much closer and is always fresher when I get it.
Then there’s the question of where these beers are actually made. All of our Heineken might not be coming from Holland, and all of our Corona might not be coming from Mexico. All of our Fosters, for example, does not come from Australia. Fosters beer for the US is contract brewed by Molson in Canada.
Rolling Rock wasn’t bad when it was made in Latrobe, PA. The brand was acquired by AB a few years ago and now the bottles say St. Louis Mo and its just another Bud brand. Through some kind of legalese they still have the paragraph on the bottle that mentions the glass lined tanks and it could appear to the unknowing that the beer is still being made in Latrobe. Its almost false advertising.Mickey’s. Makes me gag just to type it. And Rolling Rock…ugh.
Hah! Youngsters.....The two that immediately come to mind as absolutely undrinkable are PBR and Heineken. I have no problem with cheap beers - I'll drink Coors Light or Miller, and I'm known to bring a 30pack of Milwaukee's Best Light with me to cookouts. But PBR and Heineken taste like they were either aged on zinc-coated framing nails, or they ran out of aluminum cans and used rusty old tin soup cans.
On the other hand, I've only tried maybe a half-dozen non-alcoholic beers in my lifetime, and Heineken 0.0 was by far the best one.
I've had some that were drinkable, but I've never actually had a pumpkin beer I really liked. On the other hand I've had some really delicious pumpkin ciders that I seek out every year.Pumpkin spice Beers. I haven't had one I liked, and most of my friends feel the same. A couple years ago I had a big fridge full of beers left over from a beer tasting event. Everything went fast except the pumpkin stuff - it was there till the end.
Agreed on the green glass, I’m to the point where I don’t even consider it any more. Cans are great, I’m really liking the 500ml / 16.9 oz cans being used by Euro brewers and others. Also there are variations in brown glass, some are lighter color than others and I’ve detected skunk in lighter brown glass beers. I do appreciate that Pilsner Urquell abandoned the green glass. I wish Grolsh would take their lead and return to their brown glass bottles. The 500 ml Weihenstephaner bottles are superb, as are any bottles used by Ayinger, these are plenty dark enough. I save these bottles for my own bottled batches, they are great quality.
The worse part of all this are those store beer coolers that still use beer-skunking UV fluorescent light. Some have thankfully been converted to LED’s, but many still use old fluorescent technology. How many of you would drink a six pack of green-bottled beer stored 6 inches from a 40-watt fluorescent light? !!!
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