beer styles you used to love?

I used to like wheat beers. Now I can't stand them. It's mostly because I now noticed their complete and utter lack of taste. I will still have an adjunct here or there out of lack of options but I won't drink wheat beers anymore.

 

You're drinking the wrong wheat bears bro.

 

Agreed

 

Styles*

Tripels. Started my (craft) drinking career with Golden Monkey (which I don't like much anymore), and since then, I've run the gambit of many of the great tripels out there and still can't find another one that impresses me. I have a La Fin du Monde aging so we'll see if my opinion changes after having that.

 

Here's some delicious examples FFF gumballhead, modern times fortunate islands, off color troublesum. Actually I believe most berliner weiss and gose are wheat beers too which I love in warmer weather

 

Aventinus ≠ Aquafina

 

I am almost ashamed to admit this, and I don't understand why, but I know I am not alone......

Marzen, and ambers. I used to go out of my way, and now I avoid. I have no clue why, but while they used to dominate, they now run together, and honestly, somehow the appeal is gone.

Don't hate me because I speak the truth.....

 

I've had belgian/saison/farmhouse or whatever you want to call them fatigue for a year or so. I used to absolutely love them. Now they all taste like rotten bananas to me. I'm sure I'll come back to them at some point.

 

I guess I should have specified. I'm not talking about "pale wheat ales" like Little Sumpin Sumpin or Oberon. I am talking about Witbiers. Blue Moon, Hoegaarden, Shock Top, etc. The lack of taste and the abundance of heart burn are disconcerting.

 

There are many other beers in the witbier category that far better represent the belgian style than blue moon, hoegaarden, shock top. i.e. Allagash white?



However I do agree with you that Witbiers are my least favorite of the what beers. Ill take a Hef or Berliner Weissbier any day over a Witbier

 

Pilsners

 

I guess I run counter to this. I just keep adding to the styles I appreciate and none really fall off the list. I may go for a time without having a particular style because of season, availability, or just 'cuz I'm stuck exploring a new style, but I always cycle back around at some point.

 

I think I OD'ed on Belgian ales. I need a break from them for a while. It's embarrassing to even say it... especially because I once loved val dieu triple with all my heart.

 

Pumpkin beers.

 

It seems like the beer dorks wet their short pants every time every time some no-name brewery puts out an overpriced four pack of (insert arbitrary color/grain/hop) IPA.

I'm tired of IPAs and their hype.

 

have you tried hoegaarden and / or sierra nevada kellerweizen? i would agree with you save for those.

 

i'd say very strong belgian ales. i really like leffe blond, duval, and la chouffe and i can drink the blond belgian ales and i used to love belgian ales in general but the quads and triples have started to taste the same to me, or else purely of alcohol.

 

Pale lagers. Double IPAs. Regular stouts.