Big beers have ruined my palate

Don't drink beer for a while.

 

Drink what you are in the mood for style wise, Pliny is a great beer but far from a palate killer.

 

Take a trip to Bamberg. Drink a fresh Fässla pilsner and try and tell me it is not awesome. Or any other beer in the city. I guess that is not the most feasible thing to do, but otherwise I don't know what to tell you.

 

It could possibly be your mindset at the moment. Our minds can really alter our tastes at times I believe. I would like to say, I've had beers with fond memories of them and the incredible tastes and come back to them and they were like total garbage. It will subside. This beer, will taste wonderful at another point in time to you for sure

 

BMC it up for a week or two.

 

Longing for a beer of your palate past is like a woman in her 40s with frizzy 90's hair wishing she was still 20.

I ruined my palate a long time ago. You'll come to terms with the new reality of your palate. its actually not a bad thing in my opinion. just look into more sours. Time is constantly moving forward. so is our tongue

 

This is actually common among whiskey drinkers; palate fatigue. It's happened to me and I just stop drinking for a while. I'll go sometimes a week or two with nothing to drink to kind of reset. As mentioned above, mindset, or emotional state can affect how we taste along with state of health and what we eat prior to drinking.

 

Palates change over time as you try more beers with different flavors. I'm not sure that it's exactly that the beer tastes bland, just that perhaps it's not a very good beer and drinking better beers have made that apparent to you. Example: when I first got into craft beers, I loved the big DIPAs and barrel-aged stouts, and I thought styles like saisons were boring and flavorless. Over time, my palate changed to the point where I could appreciate the subtleties of styles like that despite the fact that I honed my palate drinking largely big beers. On the other hand, beers that I used to love (Fat Tire, for example) taste incredibly mediocre to me now because they are mediocre beers.

Your problem is not that big beers make small beers taste like water. Your problem is that drinking good beer makes bad beer taste bad.