Stouts - Just can't get into them.

Just give it time. I didn't really like stouts at your age (I'm 27 now.). In the past couple years, I have become very into stouts.

 

I'm the same way. I have never been able to get into stouts. The only time I really drink them is at beer fest events.

 

The more you drink the more you will start to crave them unexpectedly.

Which is probably what happened with you and IPA's.

I'm still learning to appreciate what makes a good stout, I too am a huge hop head!

 

Start with some sweeter non-imperial stouts and porters and work your way up. I recommend Left hand milk stout and nitro milk stout, young's double chocolate, Sam smiths oatmeal stout, Great lakes Edmund Fitzgerald, Founder's porter if they are available to you. Also some people just aren't into certain styles and that's ok.

 

Start slow. Just because the highest rated stouts are Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial 15% Syrups doesn't mean you have to buy those. Start with single stouts and porters that are easier to find. Deschutes Black Butte, Sierra Nevada Porter/Stout, Young's Double Chocolate. Then move on to classics like Old Rasputin.

Also, take a break from them. Sometimes I hate a style and wait a month or two, and all of a sudden I love it. If you really want to start liking stouts, start drinking black coffee.

 

I don't like pilsners. I can appreciate them for the fine style that they are, but personally I don't care for 'em at all. I also consider myself to be something of a beer geek. Does this make me a bad person, or a bad beer nerd? No. Your palate likes what it likes, and while it's always worth experimenting and trying new beers and new styles, there's also no shame in simply admitting that a particular beer or style of beer has its own merits but simply isn't for you.

 

I highly recommend Fuller's London Porter or Sierra Nevada Stout/Porter.

 

No worries man! I was dieing to get into stouts and the first couple I tried just made me sick as hell. Then I tried a ten fidy and I started to learn to appreciate them. Im still getting into them, but I just recently tried Founders Breakfast stout and Rogue's chocolate stout in the past couple weeks, and I am already craving them again. Try a food pairing with them, or if you have a chocolate/coffee/oatmeal stout try enjoying them with a dessert. Makes a world of difference. Now I am searching for a Southern tier Choklat and a Rogue's Double chocolate stout. Keep trying when you get the chance, your palate will deffinately change in your twenties. I couldnt even drink beer when I was 20, I was completely a liquor person. Now I live with a plethora of different beers in my fridge at all times. Good luck man!

 

Same as others have said. First time I tried an IPA I wondered at my sanity, now I love them. Same with Stouts/Porters. At first they were just too much, now I find myself looking for the stronger ones. I love a good Imperial and I love a good DIPA, etc. I think a new style will in general need to be an acquired taste, except for Belgian trippels with me, took immediately.

 

Drink some Guinness and some other lighter Stouts now and then, and eventually you will develop a taste. If anything just start mixing 6er's with lots of different styles, the more things you try, the more things you might enjoy.

 

I'm 40 and I'm not "into them" either but you can ease your way in. I'm finding that flavored porters/stouts are a good start...Southern Tier Plum Noir & Warlock are good. Also finding milk stouts helps, don't jump into American or Russian Imperial stouts until you've been drinking other stouts for a bit

 

I remember first trying Weyerbacher Old Heathen when I was 15 expecting something like Budweiser, and thinking it was spoiled because I wasn't familiar with the style. Haha. Stouts are definitely an acquired taste. You have to develop the palate to appreciate them. Give it time. You aren't going to enjoy a RIS right off the bat. Just ease yourself into the style with something like Guinness Extra Stout and slowly work your way into the more complex ones.

 

I'm sorry but I laughed out loud when i pictured you gagging on a ten fidy.

 

And that is what I find funny, most 'regular' people swear that Guinness is the thickest beer ever. If they only had a clue as to what a real stout is like...

 

I started off with some easy Oatmeal Stouts such as the tasty New Holland brew The Poet, and melded for a few years until I started pounding heavy Imperials such as Breakfast Stout, Founders Imperial, and Plead the 5th. It's not an instantaneous graduation, but when your stout light flickers, it really flickers =D

 

Don't drink them if you don't like them. Every beer drinker doesn't need to like every beer.