Least Favorite Styles

Scotch Ales and Barleywines

 

munich helles lager and dopplebocks ...the worst

 

I haven't been able to do Farmhouse Ales or Saisons yet. I hope to but right now those are the only two I don't prefer.

 

Belgian Wit (something about the spices), most fruit/veg beers, and anything with cloying amounts of crystal malt.

 

Sours and Lambics

 

Brown Ales- Most of them are just meh to me.
AMERICAN Barleywines- If they are less that a year old I want nothing to do with them. English on the other hand...
Dubbels- Candied sugary messes for the most part. IMO
Black IPAs/Cascadian Dark Ales- Piney hops and roasted characters don't bode well with me, and any hopped up Imperial Stouts or Porters for that matter. I want the roasty chocolately goodness not piney citrusy chocolate coffee.

 

Light American Pilsner, hefeweizen, witbier.

Though I can enjoy all styles, these are the least interesting to me at this time.

 

According to my username, IPA's. However, over the last month I've been drinking nothing but hopped up beers and they're my current favorite flavor!

Outside of that, I'll try any beer once but I've never had a Pilsner that I really like - just too blah.

 

Me too + all the ones that have "pale" in the style-name. Have you ever had Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale, The Bruery Autumn Maple, Cigar City Good Gourd and Avery Rumpkin?

 

Pils in general, but we will definitely try anything once, objectively.

 

Sours. I try different ones from time to time and haven't found one yet that makes me want to order a second.

 

IPAs are probably the style I order the least. I'm fairly open to beer styles depending on my mood. I'm more interested in whether the beer is well constructed. I don't always need to be bowled over by big flavors. Sometimes an easy drinking lager, brown ale, amber, blond, etc. can really hit the spot.

 

I wish I could find such an animal, it would save me money. The style I find myself purchasing the least of would be IPAs (hopped up beers in general). Not because I dislike them, but because their presence has been disproportionate for the last few years and I'm a little wary of them. Still buy them from time to time, though. And definitely enjoy good examples of them.

 

American Hefewiesen: gives German wheat bears a bad rep to the beginner craft beer drinkers.

 

as defined by what I buy the least? probably Golden/Blonde ales. Its gotta be hot out, and they better do some dry hoppin to high hell.

 

Smoked beer and most with peppers in them. I appreciate most others for their diversity and general awesomeness.

That being said I'm really surprised to see Pale ales make anyone's list here. I feel they are literally the base of beer and everything else just makes it's way from there. Well to each their own!

 

Anything with IPA in the name.

 

I'd say anything too sickly sweet, like some (D)IPAs. Brown ales have a certain "burnt hair" taste I don't like either. I haven't found a brown ale that didn't have that taste so I have avoided them.

 

Lagers and pils generally suck, with about one exception each. Definitely not into barleywines, but Old Horizontal has made me both old and horizontal more than once! Most rauchbiers are not good, but Shiner Smokehaus and Schlenkerla marzen are fabulous. Fruit beers are generally too perfumey to take seriously.