How to Enjoy the Taste of Beer?

How to Enjoy the Taste of Beer


People who have had beer before but thought it tasted terrible and wonder why people
even drink it then perhaps this wiki. How will help you find that acquired taste.
Beer drinking, believe it or not, is too many people like tasting fine wine or single malt scotch.

1) Learn about beers. Learn the difference between lagers and ales, lights, reds, and everything in between.
2) Understand how different beers are made. The hops in beer are often the taste that many people do not like.
The amount and treatment of hops in beer can change the taste. For example:
• Hefeweizens (wheat beers) generally have a good, sweet note and
minimal hops flavor (the taste of the bitter hops plant is the flavor component that most neophyte beer drinkers dislike).
• Ciders are not technically beers but are made in a similar way using apples, pears and sometimes other fruits. Try a cider.
3) Try a stronger tasting beer, like a Guinness or other very dark beer.
• Drink it lukewarm. The purpose for this is to be exposed to a stronger flavored beer than you may be used to.
You may find that a full-bodied beer or ale will taste better to you even if you haven't enjoyed beers before.
4) Try a lighter beer, like Coors Light or Bud Light for your next beer. Rolling Rock is also an excellent starting beer.
Make sure it's cold and hasn't been exposed to light for a significant amount of time as
light may make these kinds of beers skunky and undrinkable.
• Most good American beers should be served in the "cool" range of temperatures (45-55 degrees F) to get the full range of flavors and undertones.
Good beers often taste of things like banana, strawberries and cloves (in lighter wheat beers), to bitter chocolate and coffee (in darker beers like porter and stout).
5) Choose cask beer. Drawn beers often taste better than branded bottled beers.
6) Visit a brewery and sample local or small production run beers.
7) Try higher-priced beers, which may be called "craft beers." Some choices may include:
a. Affligem
b. Aventinus
c. Dogfish Head
d. Goose Island
e. Magic Hat
f. Samuel Adams
g. Sierra Nevada
h. Summit
i. Weyerbacher
8) Try beer from vastly different cultures. Beer making has a long history in almost every culture and
often different tastes and flavors. Try a Japanese beer, for example, which can have subtle
and barely noticeable differences.
9) Don't mix beers with other drinks. Mixing with shots or other drinks mask the taste and varying characteristics of beer.
Enjoy the beer on its own and study the subtleties and individual complexities of the beer, not trying to "keep up with your buddies."
10) Try something else! Commercial pilsners and lagers (Bud, Miller, etc.)
are mass-produced and cheap, and sacrifice taste and quality for quantity.
Try smaller-production beers or different kinds of beer.
Get a stout (dark roasted with coffee or dark chocolate notes). Or a limbic (made with wild yeast). Or a cream ale (floral notes).
11) Try purchasing your beer somewhere other than the corner convenience store.
Upscale grocery stores and specialty liquor stores are stocking more craft beers and an otherwise tastier selection,
and may have someone very knowledgeable about beer.
Ask them for help. Most love talking about beer and helping you find something you'll find enjoyable.

Tips

• Drinking should be fun. Bars are full of alcoholic beverages other than beer.
Try something new and perhaps come back to beer in a while.
• Be aware of the fact that what you eat and/or drink prior to taking a sip, gulp or swig of your beer will affect how it tastes.
Guinness and Killian's Irish Red taste fantastic after taking a bite of summer sausage with yellow mustard on it.
• Try cooking with beer. Hefeweizen can be great for cooking, especially when baking white breads.
Darker beers such as Guinness can be used in a saucepan to heat up your pastrami for sandwiches.
Be aware of how the beer is being used as it can result in reduced,
concentrated beer that makes a horrible ingredient.
• Beers are not soft drinks, so don't drink them with ice.
Beer becomes watered down by ice, adversely affecting the taste.

Putting ice in your beer will also make you look foolish.
• Every kind of beer has to be enjoyed in a certain way. Research on the internet for the best temperature,
the most appropriate glass, possible mixers, etc. Drinking a beer the way it is supposed to be drunk is the only way to determine if you really like it or not.
• If you have microbreweries near you, give them a try; there is a reason they still exist in this corporate world.
• Tasting a food or drink on ten separate occasions is usually enough to acquire the taste.
If you don't like the taste at first, try it a couple days later, and it should gradually begin to taste better.
• Beer is good for any occasion so you will be having fun at that time so
just enjoy the beer with your friends and family.

1 Warnings

• Beers contain chloride, phosphates, sulfates, nitrates and fluoride.
Many people are allergic to sulfates, and a few people have problems with these other chemicals.
If you suspect that you don't like beer because you are allergic to the drink, and then don't drink it.
• Please be aware of the consequences of excessive alcohol consumption before drinking.
• Don't drink and drive.