I'm just gonna go ahead and be the guy that says... all alcohols.

I've tried beer, wine, tequila, vodka, hard liquors, spirits, fruity drinks, creamy drinks, coffee flavored rum, hard seltzer, hard cider, champagne, you name it. They don't all taste horrible-- coffee (even though I don't usually drink it) and fruit flavored drinks can be acceptable-- but I haven't ever tried a single drink that tastes good because it has alcohol, it's always because the alcohol is overpowered by something else. Just give me the something else please.

I’ll have to give that a try!

I assume that's why Tab and Fresca stayed on store shelves for decades

Nashville or Chattanooga... I'm going with hipster Chatt

Our local coffee shop only has sugar in the raw, and stevia. Blech.

Not exactly true.

I really wanna try it, just to try it.

I can't imagine continuing to drink it though.

I had LOTS before I had one from a friend who really knows wines.

That changed my opinion of champagne as a whole, but most of it (especially in the US, or the Brut style) just sucks.

But that's wine in general. I've had lots of mediocre wine and a few that were fantastic (to my tastes).

Consider all the varieties and vintages, then everyone's personal tastes, and it's no wonder opinions are all over the map.

I have a working theory that the availability of sweeteners has altered drinking preferences over generations.

When I was growing up everybody drank coffee and beer (and smoked cigarettes, which is probably a little related but a different story).

Coffee and tea were the only feasible way to get caffeine. Sure, cream and sugar was available and used, but as you get more acclimated to the taste you can forgo the stuff and just drink it black.

Likewise, beer is what you had. That was it. There were no sweetened alcoholic drinks in the can or 12 oz bottle form. With the exception of wine coolers but that was marketed more towards older women. And those usually only came in 4 packs. You could do wine or hard liquor with a mixer, but that was expensive and/or likely to get you hammered too quickly. If you wanted affordable casual drinking with friends you were drinking beer. And there weren't even craft beers or microbrewers, just watery chilled donkey piss like Budweiser, Coors, etc.

Most people who started drinking did so with beer. By the time you had a year of sneaking beers with your buddies you were already used to the taste. Hell, I remember when Zima came out and it was a big deal (it was one of the first widely available easy to drink sweetend adult beverages, probably malt, I would guess).

And weed wasn't common either, except in very secretive circles, so if you wanted a buzz, you were drinking.

Anyway, now you've got a whole cornucopia of alcoholic drinks that are easy to sip, caffeine that tastse like a soda, and vapes that taste like candy.

Nobody has to ever acquire a taste for bitter things again.

Mimosa just exposes how most champagne/sparkling wine that most people are familiar with just sucks already.

If it didn't, you wouldn't mask it's great taste with orange juice.

Good champagne/sparkling wine doesn't need that. What bars put in mimosa is the cheap crap that no one should drink in the first place.

Excellent!

More for me. I sip it straight.

I’ve never seen an opinion be so terribly wrong before.

Tastes like sugary lawn clippings

I want to get a little drunk, but I also want some pancakes

– Dave Attell

I can't stand most I've tried in stores. But I've made a few batches myself that were very good.

I'm gonna drink my ice water and I'm gonna like it

So… what does it taste like?

Like many others here, you're getting my upvote because you've expressed a valid opinion, even if I happen to quite like the drink in question.

You get this comment because a bunch of people either don't get the distinction, or are put off by the profanity. Not really sure which.

It's Christmas, alcohol in custard is the least boozy thing on offer. Brandy butter on Christmas pudding with brandy on fire with a glass of Bailey's, and that's just boxing day breakfast

Some people notice the taste of alcohol a lot more, and when you're younger it's also the case of it being more distinct. I'll say as someone who does like to drink their alcohol, if you don't like it, please don't force yourself into it. If anything you may be able to serve as the DD for friends who like to have a few drinks while out.

You must be new here.

Your perspective is appreciated. Luckily (with some minor exceptions) my social circle is supportive of my choice not to drink and enjoys my chauffeur services.

I don't even want the buzz, so if I'm going to drink socially it's all about taste.

I've tried a lot, and never really liked any of them, but I thought Monster was the best tasting of the energy drinks. Red Bull was by far the WORST energy drink I've ever had.

• eggnog
• milk

Possibly not liking the former is due to not liking the latter. I've never liked the taste of plain milk. I use it in cooking. I drink chocolate milk a couple of times a year. I've not drunk plain cow milk more than a couple of times in my life and didn't like it. I threw up when quite young (preschool/daycare) to cereal with milk on it and again when I was like 6-8ish when my then-new stepfather tried to make me eat it. That probably didn't help anything.

Negroni with prosecco

Lol thanks mate. I just say what I say and people can do as they wish. Both are meaningless to me.

Don't drink anymore but loved me some neat gin in my time. The more juniper the better. St. George's Terroir and Never Never Triple Juniper were my poisons of choice.

I don't think I could drink a ton of sours all the time, but the super hoppy IPA trend was the worst thing to ever happen to craft beer. Give me a nice rich stout instead. Even in the middle of the summer!

You should be in marketing. "Have some Malört. It really ain't that bad."

This is what I say to my wife when she suggests I try some wine that she likes, which almost guarantees I won't.

I cut back my regular Coke addiction with Coke Zero, and was not happy. I found Pepsi Zero tastes closer to what I like than Coke Zero does. And if I add a teaspoon of sugar, it's almost pleasant to drink.

I have no evidence but this has always been my working theory.

It explains why people become so adherent to a specific brand or brewing method.

The same applies to cigarettes.

It's pricey too. I've been drinking alcohol since my early teens. If I had to estimate how much I've spent on booze during that time, it would probably be enough to pay for a decent car.

Chocolate milk has tons of sugar in it.

Try different fat contents of milk. Fat free is like water, full fat is much thicker. Of course I find milk doesn't really taste like anything.

I'm quite surprised nobody has mentioned Scotch. It's revered by old dudes, with super expensive, hard to find bottles only pulled out for the most special occasions. No matter how expensive the bottle it always tastes like it was decanted straight out of Sasquatch's butthole

I haven't drank enough baiju to form an opinion, but I always thought it was more of a class of liquor then anything specific (think whiskey, as opposed to jack Daniels). I had one person tell me it was the moonshine of China. And then I go to a liquor store and see some highly prized bottle of it for 3 or 4 hundred usd or more.

*matcha lattes

Girlies would never drink traditional matcha

It's a nice theory, but you're forgetting about ciders and drinks like mead, which can be very sweet.

As for caffeine, I found that if you started drinking it with sugar, you have to actually want to give up sugar to switch to black. There's no need to ever drink it black otherwise. I gave up sugar in my 30s and had to acquire a taste for black coffees. I gave up milk around the same time, which also dulls the bitterness. My parents, who are now in their 60's and 70's still drink milk and sugar. My gen z brother also prefers black.

Also that doesn't explain things like german marzipan, which is bitter AF, and used in desserts. Same goes for cocoa, or dark chocolate. They're entirely optional bitter products that are still popular.

Additionally, new craft beers are selling their bitterness as a feature in the form of IBU listings. (Successfully, I might add, I'm a sucker for a high IBU beer)

Bitter is just another flavour profile, and some people like it, some people don't.

I get the past must have been boring. Water, tea, milk. Water, coffee, milk. Something fizzy and sweet was earth shattering.

What’s weird is ciders exist that taste just like juice yet they are the niche drink.

I've had full-fat milk as well, fairly recently even, and didn't like it. It definitely tastes like something to me.

Tap water anywhere near London.

It's like drinking chalk.

I love red wine, but white wine tastes like vomit.

This vomit has notes of corn and carrots...

Nasty.

I love V8. My dad always had it in the fridge when I was a kid so I grew up drinking it, although I've since learned that opinions on V8 can heavily differ.

It also just hit me you're probably talking about V8 Energy. Yes I like that. It tastes like juice to me.

Beer

Oh dang. I already shared a comment above about how much I can't stand Red Bull, but we have a slushie machine at work and last summer one of the guys filled it up with white peach red Bull, and HO-LY SHIT. I couldn't stop drinking those things!

Beerr, Spirits, Wine, Dr Pepper

Licor 43 with milk,

Did they serve it in a tiny beer mug? Our bar served those as Tiny Beers and you are right, those are delicious!

Is it supposed to taste like Pinesol? Because that's all I could taste the first and last time I drank it straight.