Least Favorite Styles

Porters and stouts, disgusting...

 

I enjoy a good steak medium rare...ohh wait beers I don't like. The one I am not drinking but will be soon

 

witbier.

 

1) AAL
2) Wheat beers (some are OK, majority I've tried I don't care for)

 

I try not to let style descriptions dictate if I will try a beer or not anymore, as I have found that there are surprises in pretty much every category to date. But with that being said, I find that Belgians and Amber Ales seem to be far more misses than hits with me.

 

I've lost my appreciation for most barley wines, with Old Foghorn being the exception.

I have little interest in beers aged in bourbon barrels. This year will be the first in many years where I won't seek out KBS.

That's about it for me




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Pumpkin - wife loves 'em but there are only a couple I can tolerate. Close second would be anything with blueberry that I have tried - keeping an open mind on that one since I generally dig bleuberries.

 

Pilsners - with a focus on German Pilsner

 

Sours and I second the pumpkin- no cinnamon for this girl!

 

I'm not sure if there are any styles I dislike as a whole. I don't like Czech pilsners (or certain English ales) that have a strong diacetyl character, but that's pretty much it.

 

Amber lager

 

Doppelbocks and Bourbon Barrel Aged. I'll do a shot of bourbon though.

 

Beers made with chili/hot peppers.

 

Doppelbocks, rauchbiers, "radlers", and most Tripels. Other than that, I'm willing to give just about anything a go.

 

Anything lighter than Wesley Snipes.

 

Pumpkin.......too much spice going on

ESB.....tastes like butter

Scotch ales....not sure why.....maybe I have not had a good one, I have had Founders DB

Quads.....sweet and intense

Dubbel....

Most spiced winter warmers



I still try these styles when offered but stopped buying them


Enjoy

 

arbor gold super overrated in the realm. Cersei always trying to get me to drink it...she's been acting sketchy lately and keeps giving me a flagon before I go hunting. Curse the Gods they know my thirst is too strong though

 

FLANDERS RED ALE/GRAND CRU

rodenbach grand cru is like drinking vinegar. just disgusting stuff... i am open to trying some sour beers... but really, i don;t see myself "coming around" to sours... as many have said: "i will try one but...."

lambics, it is just not beer for me. it works at a picnic with some cheese and crackers. but i would not drink one after dark.

i am surprised anyone still makes a BROWN ALE, and then i see some brewery like DFH with a "special brown ale!" with added booze and etc etc. that is just a science experiment... brown ales are a thing of the past.

like... WHY did anchor make the "small beer"? ok, it is historically interesting and in a sustainability sense, i get it, you are using every last drop.... and if you are the brewer in the small 19th c. town and you can't afford to let a drop hit the ground (the town is counting on you!), then ok, you make a Small Beer and the pub serves it for lunch.... but i mean come on.

what's next? barrel-aged small beer?

RED/AMBERs and WHEATS --- i know why they're there, but i rarely rarely consider ordering one. on a saturday afternoon in july when it is 98 degrees and i am sitting outside ordering a wood-fired pizza, i might order a wheat beer with lemon, and think, "i'll get a beer next."

Sam Adams and Flat Tire... oh never mind.

 

I dont like many fruit beers, Dark Horse Tres Blueberry Stout EXCLUDED of course, that shit is the chronic. I REALLY have to be in the mood for a Belgian, but thats a bullshit statement, because of the HUGE variety of Belgians, because I freaking LOVE so many of them.... Is this a trick question? Heres one that will make you think, Im not into anything barrel aged. I dont like whiskey, period. I dont want my stout to taste like whiskey. If someone gave me a bottle of BCBS dont get me wrong, Im sure I could choke it down, (never had it) and Id actually like to try it, but the last time I had something like that I gave it to my dad and said geeeeez no thanks. I dont get much into pilsners, or adjunct lagers i.e. BMC. But theres another bullshit statement, because I really dig a Grolsch here and there and I started off drinking Miller Light and Heineken. I just cant say I "dislike" any style. There is ALWAYS one that I will like, and if there isnt, I dont let that stop me from trying more and more different breweries take on that style. What kind of BA would I be if I didnt do that? I like to take my own advice- you just havent found the right one yet. I have said that to a hundred different people that tell me they dont like beer. Just cuz of all the negative things said about a particular style actually make me WANT to try it. So Im totally buying a Lambic next time I see one, cuz Ive never had one!

 

Not counting adjunct lagers, probably brown ales and witbiers. I'll still drink 'em as I still don't hate those styles, they're just the least exciting to me.