It is a brand. Merica Bourbon.

And I don't need tips on whiskey. I know whiskey.

And it is completely fucking disgusting. No one on the planet would think it is good, and the flavor sticks with you: can't even rinse it away.

All your other drinks for the evening will taste like that toxic shit.

Christ, just give a stout or porter, please.

Fernet

People have failing taste buds or just like the flavor of TV static.

That's why you start with iced coffee and plenty of milk and sugar, and acclimate from there.

Red wine, dry white wine. Sweet white wine is okay.

Oh, you just reminded me how much I hate Topo Chico specifically. You shouldn't be able to taste the minerals in the water, especially when it's mixed with other stuff. But the minerals are soooo forward that's all I can taste.

I like it a lot. Athletic is the best imo, but even the Heineken and Guinness options are pretty solid.

Germany has a much better NA beer scene than the US though.

Bwahaha I feel exactly opposite this. Dry, elegant white is usually good, and not sweet red wine can be so good (not Grenache or Syrah but Cabernet, Nebbiolo, Merlot)

Sweet wine makes me want to gag!

yeah you're right. 28 bucks is a bit steep for what you're getting. but still, i didn't find it as repulsive as people make it out to be.

I don’t get beer

neither do I ...... gotta buy it to have it

I don't think anyone considers it "amazing", but what in the holy fuck is with 'gluten-free', and why the holy hell would I ever not want gluten if I'm not allergic? Are people conflating it with "glutton"? Do they think it'll make them fat? Gluten-free muffins sound like fucking torture devices from hell.

I'm the opposite. Sucralose and aspartame are fine to my palate but stevia and monkfruit sweeteners are horrid and I can taste them through everything if they're the primary sweetener.

Because it's easy to make compared to other styles. Better profit margins and a good way for a new brewery to get their foot in the door. It's also the first "craft beer" most people try so there's a culture/image factor.

Late 20s you need to revisit all the shit you didn't like before, especially moldy cheese. Sweet starts to suck a bit and bitter gets good.

Also not sure if it's my addiction but black coffee is amazing. It's an acquired taste and most people go milk and sugar - > milk - > black. Green tea, black tea, mushrooms, spicy, wasabi, mustard, strong gouda, grana padano and so much more are all so good.

I've had two styles I liked, a lambic and a Berliner weiss. They aren't really "beer" the way most people think of it.

Yeah, café coffee is very often stupid strong and dark roast to serve the addicts that crave bitter (like me)

I'm addicted and I like all of them as long as it doesn't have sugar. Filter, espresso, mocha, americano, instant, pour over, Arabic, golden and they can be anywhere between 0C and 85C in temperature.

My issue with room temp coffee is that I drink it too fast, lol

The crema on top of espressos is also worth mentioning. If you get a big cup of strong coffee from espresso machine and remove the foam from the top it tastes waaaaay less bitter.

Battery acid sounds like someone stewed the beans too long. Burnt is popular though, dark roast is standard at cafes

Beer.

I might have missed it but did nobody mention Raki?

Anise seed flavored...gag....

There are... Uh... Other purposes to drink red bull than just caffeine. It completely kills dry mouth. Useful in some cases.

You're all good. And you know, they announced they changed the chemistry in the water, nice right, and so don't drink the water or shower for a week.

Champagne. It tastes of bitter, sour and fizz and because of its stupidly intense carbonation, drinking it needs to be done in tiny little wincing sips, lest it bubble up through your sinuses and come out of your nose.

I swear people only pretend to like champage because they believe it's the drink for 'classy' celebrations, so disliking champagne is, in their mind, a 'low class' and ungrateful thing to do.

I'd say 50-75% of NA beer is peepee water. Peroni NA is good as are a few others. Nobody needs to drink it though. I always tell my friends to not drink and save their money because even NA beer is kind of expensive.

I've been drinking beer for nearly 20 years, and I agree. The only time it tastes good is when I'm craving alcohol. I would never drink it casually for the taste. And given that I'm a Millennial, I've tried pretty much every variety of beer in existence. They're all bad.

Peroni is awful and so is any other beer that comes in a green or clear bottle. If I wanted something that tastes llke a skunk, I rather just smoke weed instead.

Saying Decaf isn't coffee is implying that caffeine is what makes coffee, coffee. I disagree with that assessment as I enjoy the flavor of coffee as well.

A frappuccino doesn't need sugar to be a frappuccino. It needs milk (well, milkshake) and cappuccino. Neither of those is a pure sugar ingredient.

Try a radler on a hot day. It is a light beer like a pilsner mixed 50:50 with lemonade, either fizzy or flat lemonade. It is also called a shandy in the UK

It is very thirst quenching without being too sweet from the lemonade.

Thanks for trying but I've had shandys (shandies?) before and they're among my least favorite beer varieties.

I am of the opinion that alcohol and sugar should never mix. I swear it makes the hangover worse. FWIW I don't drink for the taste (because all alcohol tastes bad), I drink to get drunk.

You are now banned from visiting Greece.

Coca Cola used to have cocaine in small amounts. A friend of a friend of mine had an old sealed bottle from that time period. That could explain the popularity of Coke.

I used to always win the Pepsi challenge back when they did that in stores. I would tell them my winning strategy which they never liked, the one that tasted the worst was Pepsi.

Pretty much all premade gluten free stuff taste horrible or the texture is weird. I agree, wheat is top tier. But since I can’t have it, homemade gluten free goods is 100% the way to go. Does is taste the same as its wheat counterparts? No, but at least the homemade stuff is fucking delicious.

Decaffeination is often associated with less flavorful coffee because it is a bit tricky to remove only the caffeine and not any of the numerous flavor chemicals, and decaffeinated beans are notoriously difficult to roast properly.

The most-common methods of decaffeination involve chemical solvents, usually ethyl acetate or methylene chloride. In the direct method, the coffee beans are steamed and then rinsed repeatedly with the chemical solvent to flush away the caffeine.

the entire mediterranean in fact

Definitely coffee. I know it's super popular but I can't stand it. I kinda like the smell of it, but the taste I find awful and the aftereffects are excruciating and longlasting. Someone suggested I might have an allergy. I might or might not look further into this at some point

I have tried decaf though, once... chasing the hope that it would still -despite the absence of caffeine- trigger bowel movement at a critical time in my life. and it did! Apparently caused by gastrine, from my superficial reading.

This, coffee tastes like arse

Gin is the only hard liquor I like strangely enough. I think because it's "dry" and doesn't coat my mouth like rum or vodka, both of which I find absolutely disgusting without exception.

You don't like perfume and carbonic acid in your water????

Yeah fair enough.

I like it but...like a shot glass amount is already my consumption limit lol

Red Bull tastes like ass. I never understood how it became the most popular energy drink.

Shit literally tastes like medicine soda. If I wanted medicine soda I'd just drink some of that weirdass Fentiman's curiosity cola

FFS hops are a preservative that make beer taste terrible. Why would anyone want an extra hoppy beer.

Oh man, I absolutely adore coffee, it’s one of my all time favorite things. It like happy in a glass. But I’m getting old, and I can’t deal with the caffeine like when I was a kid, and decaf is just ruined coffee (not sure if it’s the process or the missing caffeine flavor, but I’ve never tasted a decaf I like).

But the unaltered stuff, I even munch plain beans every now and again. Then again, I’ve never bought a can of coffee, my entire life I’ve only drank beans I ground myself, sometimes at the store, but it’s always started as a whole bean.

Not suggesting you try it, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Frankly I’m glad because it leaves more for me :)

Kombucha. Man that shit is nasty.

I quit drinking many years ago. I liked beer, but I would have said that it didn’t taste that great, even the best ones were at best…interesting . Once I quit though, I think it must be the alcohol flavor or something because I have found I really like stuff like hop water. Nice and fruity and bitter (in a good kind of way), it’s just lovely.

There are so, so many beers that aren't bitter.

The first beer I had was a very, very good homebrew. Going from that to a commercial IPA was very disappointing.