Least Favorite Styles

Generally not a fan of Belgian IPA, BSPA, or Tripel, though I've had a few particulars from each style that I did enjoy.

 

1. A badly made one (see 2 & 3)
2. An oxidized one (with a couple exceptions).
3. A flavorless one.
4. One beer dicks say you should like : )

 

American Adjunct Lager- or just about every substyle including light lager, malt liquor. I don't hate them-they just aren't good.

Barleywine- Generally I just can't tolerate the sweet fruity booziness. There's a handful that I like but I'm pretty much not into them

Honorable Mentions
Black IPAs, because usually they are a hot mess of flavors that don't blend well (same goes for sour stouts and porters)
Dubbels and Biere De Garde. I am a total Belgian beer geek- and while I will even get all excited about a tripel or witbier there is absolutely nothing ever exciting about a dubbel or biere de garde
Old Ale- very similar to barleywine for me. Just not into it.
Altbier- its just a really boring german brown ale

 

i dislike anything red. the least offensive red i ever tasted was steeltoes rainmaker on my last trip to Minnesota
but otherwise i cant stand any red ales.

am i alone?

 

Pilsners, Belgians, Hefeweisens, Pumpkins.

 

I am pretty sure that I don't favor the the imperial lager/imperial pilsner style and I am not really warming up to the winter warmer either.

 

havent had a scotch ale I really care for yet. but I've yet to have a BA'd one.

 

Have you tried Tart of Darkness by The Bruery? If you enjoy sours, I would highly recommend giving it a shot. It's the only sour stout I have thought has been 100% on point.

 

Wheatwine is my least favorite style. There are a few exceptions but I find most of them to be terrible. I'm also not a fan of hoppy wheat beers and think that black IPAs are kind of pointless. I've tried a bunch of them and have only had two or three decent ones.

 

Fruit beers, pumpkin beers, sweet stouts

 

Glad you said "least favorite" as opposed to "don't like" because I've yet to meet a beer that I can't find something positive to say about it... moving on...
My least favorite styles so far are reds, browns, and wheats... in that order because I don't mind having a wheat at times and there are some browns that I'm actually quite fond of - particularly Sam Adams Hazel Brown. I have yet to try a barleywine, but from what I've heard I think I'll like it, and I also have not tried a lambic or sour, neither of which sound appealing but I will try one eventually to make sure. I like Belgian's but only in moderation, a little goes a long way.

 

Lagers by a wide margin.

 

ESB's, Browns (most of the time), strong for the sake of it Barleywines (Shmaltz, I'm looking at you). Love sours, belgians, wheats, russians, wits, schwarz. There's a certain character about browns and ESBs that I just can't pin down, some astringency/bitterness that lingers with them.

Overall, I think there are good examples of almost every style. But then again the realm of beer "species" if you will is not easily confined.

 

Marzens, Kolsch, pilsners, brown ales... I just want more from my beer.

 

Spicy ales are bad as a whole, but if you take mole, curry, jalapenos, anything based on a meal or too much of the spicy ingredient is an absolute drain pour for me.

 

Add pumpkin and Christmas beers to the list, hate cinnamon or allspice in a beer, tastes like shit IMO.

 

Scotch ales . I'll keep trying them, same way I keep trying scotches, but peat smoked malt just doesn't do it for me.

 

Kolsch! I absolutely hate Kolsch.... It takes like Dirty Water to me

 

Keep trying a 16 yr old Lagavulin is a thing of beauty, Islay whiskeys are tremendous , but an acquired taste. Love peat, smoke, seawater, but I hate smoked beers too.

 

American lagers,rauchbiers (they make my allergies crazy),Scottish ales (too malty) and for whatever reason I'm always underwhelmed by porters.
I used to also dislike wheatwines as I had tried a handful and did not like any of them. Perennial Heart of Gold was the first I liked.