Ah, but I don't want clones. I want to branch out, but I don't want to spend 30 dollars on a batch of beer I hate.
I like
Shiner Bock
Shiner Dortmunder
Celebrator dopplebock
Paulener....uh...what I get with schnitzle
I liked the flavor of Rasputin (I think it was a stout) but the 9% ABV was too much for me to finish a bottle.
ETA: I figure I'd add what I don't like too. You can learn as much about what someone likes by knowing what they don't like as what they do.
I don't care for
Shiner Hefewizen, too sour
I really dislike Miller High Life (not my choice, it was offered to me at a birthday party)
Ummmm, that's all I can think of right now. Thanks in advance!
I like
Shiner Bock
Shiner Dortmunder
Celebrator dopplebock
Paulener....uh...what I get with schnitzle
I liked the flavor of Rasputin (I think it was a stout) but the 9% ABV was too much for me to finish a bottle.
ETA: I figure I'd add what I don't like too. You can learn as much about what someone likes by knowing what they don't like as what they do.
I don't care for
Shiner Hefewizen, too sour
I really dislike Miller High Life (not my choice, it was offered to me at a birthday party)
Ummmm, that's all I can think of right now. Thanks in advance!
Unless you can lager, which most new brewers can't, then Bock's are out of the question as is Miller High Life. A stout you can do.
That's a good start! Since you like malty beers, why not try Rogue's Dead Guy? It's different than the beers you mentioned, so it would be branching out without going so far out there that it would shock your taste buds!
Another choice is Newcastle. Oh, I know that many beersnobs turn their nose up at it, but if you like Shiner bock, you may find that you like English brown ale too. It's different, but not wildly so and the color is very similar. Its a pretty good beer to try to see if you like mildly flavored beers with an English sort of character.
Both of them are easily done as extract batches (I happen to have recipes posted for both I guess) but you could even purchase either of them to see if you like that style. The English brown I have posted isn't really a "clone" of Newcastle, but it's similar. The Dead Guy I have posted IS a clone.
Oh, and I really didn't like Captain Bastard Oatmeal Stout. Bitterbitterbitter. Almost to the point of gaggy-ness.
Guinness tastes like iron, I won't drink it.
Becks is so-so, but it smells like feet.
Ok, so I like hoppy beers. That's good to know.
Part of the problem is that I know what beers I like, but I don't know the terms associated with the various flavors. It's one thing to say "This is a hoppy beer" and it's another thing to drink it.
Or, if you can wait that long, take a road trip down to see me in Jan/Feb/March. We only have hoppy beers on tap, but my neighbor only likes malty beers and he brews malty beers while I brew hoppy beers. We could walk over to his house and drink his beer, and then walk back to my house to try mine! (We winter north of Rockport, south of Port Lavaca.).
Seriously, trying every beer you can will go a long way to helping you pick out what you like or even what you like in beers that you don't care for. Like in Becks. Ok, it smells like feet- but what else is there you taste or smell? Do you like that level of sweetness? What about the hops? Do you smell those?
I know that some stores let you "make your own sixpack" but I don't know if Spec's does. That would be a great way to dabble in beer drinking as part of your study program. With only one beer, you're not committed to entire six pack of beer you don't like.
HEB offers the "mix and match" 6 pack option and offer a pretty good selection (I seriously miss HEB, as there is NOTHING in my home state that comes close to the combination of quality/price/service).
Personally, my quest is for the perfect wheat beer. It's what I like, it's what I want to brew. So, I've been sampling every example I run across. LOTS of variations on that theme.
Good luck on your adventure.
Yes there is. The name is Tiffany's and they are in Kalamazoo. They have the biggest selection of beer I have ever seen and the price is just right.
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