Source: Explosm
“It’s an acquired taste” = “it tastes like shit, but eventually you won’t care because you developed a dependency”
Nope, good beer actually tastes good. And I only drink beer at most once a week, so no dependency here.
1, you’re partner is wrong. Alcoholism is a dependence that affects your daily life.
2, it’s not at the same time, just the odd beer with friends if we go out.
Probably people act shocked because of how much you trash a thing they like.
Telling people that a thing they like is equivalent to “wet grains that have been fermenting in wet newspapers that have been next to a vat of raccoon piss” is going to offend people. By so dramatically demonstrating your huge disdain, in so far as to create new creative ways to describe how bad it is, it implies that the person who likes it is making a bad choice/has bad taste/is otherwise an idiot.
People likely aren’t offended that you don’t like beer, they are likely offended by the way you are treating them.
You need to try better beers, there is a ton of variety and flavours, and not everyone is going to enjoy all of them. I don’t like IPAs, but I love a good Wheat beer.
Oh yeah, tell me about the wheat beer. What’s your go-to; Franziskaner, Rothaus, Weihenstephaner?
Weihenstephaner is my number one, love the standard and the dunkel. Erdinger is also very good. Blanche de Chambly is quite nice and I get it when I can.
The first time I tasted beer, I was alone having dinner at a restaurant. I was over 30. There were no peers pressing me. I live in a valley full of Mormons.
Some beers I like a lot, some I don’t. I didn’t have to acquire the taste. So sue me.
And sometimes a beer that’s usually just okay hits just right. I don’t think our taste is always consistent day to day.
Wasn’t Stockholm syndrome fake? I remember reading how it’s not a medical condition but some writer invented a name for it and used it in a book or something.