Lost said:
Isn't that the truth.
Whenever i meet people that think Bud, Coors...etc is what real beer should taste like, then it becomes a project for me. Usually these people drink these sorts of beers because they don't like "bitter beer". So I start working with that, i'll bring em a porter and observe as they realize that dark beer doesn't mean bitter beer (of coarse here we know that usually the darker, the less bitter and more malty). If they aren't into porters then i'll try to get them into a good wheat beer, and i'll just work with different beers that aren't bitter and almost 100% of the time i'll get them into something good.
My wife was the biggest project. When I first met her she hated every beer known to man except Corona. Whenever i would have her taste one of my beers should would look at me in disgust and say "HOW can you drink this crap?" I started working with wheat beers and now Sunshine wheat is one of her favorites. Then I got her into Laughing Lab, which is a dark scottish ale, she LOVES it! I would step up a little bit at a time, working her palate and now she enjoys Titan IPA, Hercules IPA, even Arrogant Bastard. I still can't get her into any Belgium Beers like St Bernardus, Westmalle...etc. But that's okay. 3 years of work paid off, she even likes going to beer festivals now!
