I believe that I am extremely sensitive to certain tastes. The mild hot sauce tastes like fire to me. When I taste hot sauce I can sort of taste something delicious, but the heat covers it all up. Same thing with beer. There's something delicious behind all that bitter taste. It took many different tries, but I finally found my hot sauce. Looking to do the same with beer, so i'd love recommendations. The beers that i've liked the most so far is Smuttynose Old Brown Dog, Spaten Optimator, and Abita Strawberry Harvest Lager. So I guess I like malt and fruit?
Questions similar to yours show up here on a regular basis, and it's just a matter whether someone is looking for malty beers or hoppy ones. Here is a link to a search that I did of this forum that asks for threads that use 'newbie' in the thread's title. Enjoy the reading. https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/search/112379795/?q=newbie&o=date&c[title_only]=1&c[node]=39 I'm like you when it comes to hot sauce, so I'm curious of the brand that you discovered that would be more flavor than heat.
Try the standard: Boston Lager fat Tire anchor steam lager If you want to try something a bit hoppy Prima Pils, Pivo Pils or bit more hoppy Sierra Nevada Pale Ale When fall rolls around try some Oktoberfest beers and the Sierra Nevada fall pack which usually has tumbler, brown ale, and a great Vienna Lager.
I would roll with a solid pils or a nice sour? It is so hard to pinpoint because you know best what sets off your tastes for the bad. If I was in your shoes I would sample from each style till I knew what was enjoyable and all, good luck!
A Taste Of Thai Garlic Chili Pepper Sauce Thanks for the recommendations. Adding all to my shopping list.
Westbrook services NY try their Key Lime Gose, even I like that one. I hate the regular Gose it’s was to salty and sour, it tastes like seawater.
Paulaner Oktoberfest is available all year and has very little bitterness to hide all that malty goodness.
Most local breweries will give visitors free samples to taste. Try some different styles and see what you like. Beer festivals are a relatively inexpensive way to taste many different beers from many breweries. Beer Festivals can be fun too, often with live music, door prizes, food, etc... take some friends and enjoy the day. Many beer fests also support a charity with the proceeds.
I'll second (or maybe third) the notion of trying everything you can and not restricting it to style. Often times either your tastes change or some other factor will influence whether a beer tastes great to you or not. Just because a style is "supposed to be" something does not mean that is how you will perceive its taste. And don't be afraid to revisit - I didn't like IPA's until I rolled into the OG Stone Ruination - the light shined brightly and understanding dawned after that revelation. Mix-a-six pack stores, beer festivals, in-store samplings, flights at breweries, brewery tours with tastings - take advantage of as many as you can and try as diverse a field of beers as possible ignoring the style designation - what's the worst that happens? You don't like something and don't drink it - happens to everyone regardless of their stage in beer-volution. Hot sauce - I love hot sauces because of the flavors. Like some other things in life, it's all about how you use them. If you are playing quien es mas macho and dousing half a bottle onto a chicken wing, good on ya - that's not my bag. Guy here was playing that game with "nothing's too hot for me" and we almost had to take him to the hospital after he ate a ghost chili. I have several hot sauces from friends in the Caribbean and a couple from Africa that are ludicrously hot and I've made my own from Carolina Reapers and Ghost Peppers (one pepper per pound of fresh pineapple and still hot, but tasty) - so one or two drops goes into a couple gallons of chili. The heat is there - no doubt about it - but the fruit flavors of the peppers are also present when used judiciously with other foods. Some sauces are made without the seeds and membranes - those would be ones that would feature flavor over heat as well. Then again, I dig Habanero Sculpin so what do I know? It's like my opinion, man.
@Opeth , it sounds like you may be a supertaster and more sensitive to heat and bitterness. If that's the case, then focusing on the maltier and milder styles such as these listed will still leave you with plenty of territory to explore.
