What styles can you not drink?

[Borisbbadd]

Not big on wheat or fruit beers.

 

[velotech]

I haven't found a style I don't like, just some styles not very well executed. Like some bock's that are just waaaay too sweet.

 

[nutcase]

I used to think I didnt like fruit beers but I recently had Pyramid's apricot ale and I change my mind. There are no styles of beer i dont like.

 

[smellysell]

I can't stand Ambers.

 

[Ceedubya]

So lately I have been trying just about every brand and style I can find locally. Most are decent, some are great, some are not for me.

What kind of beers have you found that you simply can not drink?
Like a lot of folks I do not care for BMC, but I have also found that I really do not care for the belgian witbiers I have had (blue moon, sam adams white ale...etc.) Something tells me there is a witbier out there I would enjoy, but I haven't found it yet.
What about your personal tastes?
Anything you can not bring yourself to drink?

I don't care for most of the Belgian Witbiers you have listed either, but I just shared a sixer of hoegaarden the other night with a buddy who loves that beer. I do appreciate that beer a whole bunch!

I don't care for just about any fruit beer (where the fruit is the dominant flavor) like the cherry porters, etc with the exception of lambics. They are aweful fun to cook with though.

Other than that, I can't deal with the IPA's. It just seems to me like its a never ending dare contest with these things.

 

[cimirie]

I'm not a fan of American wheat's (but love Belgian Wits and German Weizens for those not feeling the love for wheat beers ). They're just...boring.

I do not enjoy overly sweet beers (like some Scotchales , barleywines, and some bocks).

I can't stand straight geuze (even though one of my favorite styles of all times is fruit lambics) .

IPAs... really??? I'd like to swallow without my throat burning and my mouth puckering, thank you!

Having said all of that, nobody will ever offer me a beer that I won't try. I'd love to one day, enjoy every style. That won't happen if I refuse to drink them all - except Bud, Bud Lite, Miller, Coors... Those are perfectly acceptable to ignore!

 

[Mr. Nice Guy]

If its beer I'll drink it! Single, Dubble, Tripple, OG tripple OG, etc...

BMC sucks, but if it is free...

 

[Revvy]

Interesting.

Do you prefer the ale Baltic Porters to the lager ones?

WOW Remmy...and once again your ONLY contribution to a thread is being obnoxious and trollish about another member's answer...Seems your stock and trade around here....No wonder no one likes you (I try to cut you some slack, figuring you're a lonely heart sad sack, but some of the names other's have for you is down mean.....)

I can see why they think that way about you, I mean, Not bothering to share what you don't like, EXCEPT another person's answer....But to everything "Troll Troll Troll," I guess eh Remmy?

Some people's ONLY experience to lagers initially are of the BMC variety, and haven't yet come around to trying some of the amazing non Bohemian varieties....I've been drinking Micro/craft brews for probably a lot longer than you, and I'm only now discovering the wonderful world of other Lagers...

Especially Vienna's and Maibocks, and Swartzbiers....anything other than the fizzy yellow kind, though after brewing some of my own this winter I've actually come up with some BMC-esque beers that are full bodied and complex, as any good beer should be...

And it took be a couple decades to get there, someday he might stumble upon a bottle of a vienna or a bottle of Rogue Dead Guy, and discover the DGA is an Ale version of a Maibock, and he might decide to investigate Maibocks for himself and re-evaluate his generalized ideas about Lagers...

But not because of any help from you....

 

[snailsongs]

Too many "I don't like wheat beers" here, damnit! I had my first Dunkelweizen this last year (Franziskaner , hell-yeah!) and I have been obsessively brewing beers with WY-3068 ever since.
I love some IPA's but I hate others.....the IPA's that just taste like hop-juice are horrid, but I had an IIPA at a local brew-pub, 1.090 and 125IBU, that was just awesome. You could literally feel the hop resin on your lips and a nice light spice in the back of your throat (not to mention it put me the **** to sleep, night cap beer anyone?), but it still managed a great balance. It was excellent.

I hate Paulaner Salvator. Cloying sweetness with burnt grass/mint overtones...I dumped it.

 

[Proofman]

Most all lagers of any kind. To me, they have an aftertaste that I just cant get past anymore. Sometimes I can do a good micro/craft, or home-brewed pils, but that is rare. The last time I had a lager I enjoyed was ~3 years ago. And I use "enjoyed" loosely.

 

[wildwest450]

Wheats and fruits, you can keep them. I keep an open mind on anything else. I just had a $5 bottle of Delirium Tremens I found at a liquor store. I didn't care for it. It had a champaign taste to me, but swmbo swilled it like a dehydrated desert rat.

 

[the_bird]

I haven't found a style I don't like, just some styles not very well executed. Like some bock's that are just waaaay too sweet.

Sweetness in general is the key thing. In addition to barleywines, there are some imperial IPAs I dislike because they are SO cloying it's undrinkable. I don't drink a lot of Old Ales and Scottish Wee Heavies for the same reason (although neither have to be QUITE as dominantly sweet as some people make them). Had someone's weizenbock that was like drinking beer candy (not in a good way).

Attenuation is your friend, my friends! Even big beers, like dopplebocks and Imperial IPAs and old ales, make them drinkable!

 

[CBBaron]

I'll drink (2) HOT 30pks of mixed Coors, Miller, Bud before I'll ever attempt to drink another Lindemans Geuze Cuvee Renee'.

I even tried sugaring it as is suggested the locals do, but blech!

And I like sours.

Now that is the only Lindemann's I can drink, and I like it very much. The rest of the Lindemann's "Lambics" are overly sweetened and have an artificial fruit taste. Kind of like a koolaid gone bad.

I can't stand American Lite lagers or the afore mentioned Lindemann's. Don't care for Blondes or wheats. I havn't liked most fruit beers and used to think it was just wrong to fruit beer, but recently I have experienced some very good fruit beers. The first was a blueberry amber ale from Willoughby Brewing Company (local brewpub), which was quite good. Another one was a raspberry russian imperial stout from BrewPastor. That beer was incredible.

Now i plan on making a fruit myself.

Craig

 

[CBBaron]

Too many "I don't like wheat beers" here, damnit! I had my first Dunkelweizen this last year (Franziskaner , hell-yeah!) and I have been obsessively brewing beers with WY-3068 ever since.
I love some IPA's but I hate others.....the IPA's that just taste like hop-juice are horrid, but I had an IIPA at a local brew-pub, 1.090 and 125IBU, that was just awesome. You could literally feel the hop resin on your lips and a nice light spice in the back of your throat (not to mention it put me the **** to sleep, night cap beer anyone?), but it still managed a great balance. It was excellent.

I hate Paulaner Salvator. Cloying sweetness with burnt grass/mint overtones...I dumped it.

I doubt many of the "I don't like Wheat beers" crowd is referring to Dunkelweizen or WeizenBock, including myself. Those are not my favorite styles but they are good. However they taste very little like a Hefe and almost nothing like the common American Wheat.

Craig

 

[Bopper]

I'm not a fan of really big malty beers I enjoy them on a rare occasion when I'm in the mood for one but I don't really get the urge to have one very often. Case and point: I have about 30 bottles of barley wine left that I brewed in early 2006 (It still keeps getting better by the way).

I mainly brew and drink session ales: wheats, wits, milds, bitters, ambers. I also really enjoy a nice IPA and the occasional IIPA. And I'll admit it - I really enjoy my blackberry wheat (made with real berries) on a hot summer day.

 

[gabeweisz]

I'm not a big fan of Rauchbiers

 

[Saccharomyces]

I have also found that I really do not care for the belgian witbiers I have had (blue moon, sam adams white ale...etc.) Something tells me there is a witbier out there I would enjoy, but I haven't found it yet.

Blanche de Bruxelles or St. Bernardus Wit. Can you get either of those? Those are the best two commercial ones I have had so far though I'm biased, my favorite Wit is the recipe in my dropdown.

I haven't met a beer I couldn't drink yet, though I will say American Amber ales are my least favorite style... A waste of perfectly good wort which could be turned into a wonderful Belgian Pale Ale simply by using a different yeast strain!

 

[Sigafoos]

The only beer I've ever had to choke down was Rogue's Chipotle ale. Ugh. I had a homebrew made with I think jalapenos later that was much more balanced... there was just no beer flavor in the chipotle.

 

[Saccharomyces]

Some people's ONLY experience to lagers initially are of the BMC variety, and haven't yet come around to trying some of the amazing non Bohemian varieties....I've been drinking Micro/craft brews for probably a lot longer than you, and I'm only now discovering the wonderful world of other Lagers...

Speaking of dark lagers, have you had Shiner Black? I love that stuff... definitely in my top five favorite beers. It's a Schwartzbier. After I discovered it I set about trying trying to find a suitable recipe to brew as an ale or hybrid lager/ale to rotate on tap with my smoked porter. My last batch of AHS Black Ale is already 2/3 gone a month after I started on it (that was after three months of conditioning). It's like a schwartz but has a little too much roasty character to be as swillable.

 

[Saccharomyces]

The only beer I've ever had to choke down was Rogue's Chipotle ale. Ugh. I had a homebrew made with I think jalapenos later that was much more balanced... there was just no beer flavor in the chipotle.

Fruit beers, hoppy beers, strongly malty beers, and pepper beers. In all of them balance is the key... and I have had more bad examples than good... but that doesn't mean there is something wrong with the style itself. Just the brewer!

 

[Saccharomyces]

There is one beer down here I absolutely cannot stand: Lone Star

+1,000,000. Hangover in a bottle. I swear that stuff is full of fusel alcohols!

 

[Revvy]

Speaking of dark lagers, have you had Shiner Black? I love that stuff... definitely in my top five favorite beers. It's a Schwartzbier. After I discovered it I set about trying trying to find a suitable recipe to brew as an ale or hybrid lager/ale to rotate on tap with my smoked porter. My last batch of AHS Black Ale is already 2/3 gone a month after I started on it (that was after three months of conditioning). It's like a schwartz but has a little too much roasty character to be as swillable.

No I haven't. Actually the ONLY swatzbier I have ever had is Decojuicer's recipe, which after drinking his for a year, we brewed 10 gallons of it and split the batch, I need to bottle it up this weekend....

I'll look for Shiner Black...And if you want I'll try to find my copy of Deco's recipe and send it to you...I'll have to write it up, since it was handwritten.

It rocks!!!! Even before I discovered Vienna's, it was the beer that made ME think twice about Lagers.

It's his wife's favorite beer...In fact the running joke is that if they ever divorce, she want's in the divorce settlement that he would have to provide her a keg of it a month.

 

[Saccharomyces]

I feel like a failure in some respects because I just don't care for barleywines. I can *appreciate* the craft in a barleywine, but I hate the overwhelming sweetness. Even when properly bittered, it's just too much.

Please don't stone me for admitting this!

What about Old Guardian? I swear one bomber has enough hops in it to bitter a 5 gallon batch of IPA.

 

[Revvy]

What about Old Guardian? I swear one bomber has enough hops in it to bitter a 5 gallon batch of IPA.

I just had my first one last week....I didn't take good notes because I was , but yeah it does have a huge hop presence...Yum!

 

[IBUPIMP]

I really have not found a beer style that I do not like (and i have tried most of them:cross with the exception of fruity beers; even if they taste good there is still just something not right about them.

Although I guess I am the same way with food, I like it all!!!

 

[lurker18]

Also, I forgot pumpkin beers. Who was the first person to think this was a good idea?

 

[cimirie]

Also, I forgot pumpkin beers. Who was the first person to think this was a good idea?

I don't know. But whomever it was deserves a medal. It was a GREAT idea!

 

[Aguirre]

I haven't enjoyed the lambics I've tried. I've had a couple of really strong ales that didn't do much for me either....

Bitters, Browns, & Stouts are easiest for me

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

Also, I forgot pumpkin beers. Who was the first person to think this was a good idea?

Antiquity thought that one up. In modern times I believe President Washington brewed a very famous pumpkin beer.

 

[madavis25]

...I have also found that I really do not care for the belgian witbiers I have had (blue moon, sam adams white ale...etc.) ...

I don't care for most of the Belgian Witbiers you have listed either, but I just shared a sixer of hoegaarden the other night with a buddy who loves that beer. I do appreciate that beer a whole bunch!

I can't believe it took to page 7 of replies for someone to suggest to the OP to try Hoegaarden! It defines the style.

Please do not judge a witbiers on Blue Moon. Do yourself a favor and try some Hoegaarden. If you like hefeweizens, I suspect you will like a good Belgian Wit.

I usually alternate what I brew for summer-one year a wit-I use the Hoegaarden yeast, and the next a hefeweizen for which I use the Weinstephan yeast. The hardest part of brewing the wit is crushing the unmalted wheat.