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25 Feb 2016, 3:52 pm

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I suspect that most beer lovers have less bitter taste receptors so it tastes good to them. the only beer I could tolerate was keystone light, as it lacked the bitter hops [hence next to no "head"] that make 99% of beers [or anything with major alcohol in it] taste horribly bitter to me.

I don't like Keystone Light but I don't like light beer in general. I do drink Keystone & other light beer thou when I'm in situations where tit's available for free.

do you like bitter?

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25 Feb 2016, 3:54 pm

I like cooking with beer, especially dark beer, as it richens the flavor. also like cooking with port or any dark wine.

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25 Feb 2016, 5:32 pm

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I don't like Keystone Light but I don't like light beer in general. I do drink Keystone & other light beer thou when I'm in situations where tit's available for free.

do you like bitter?

I'm not sure.

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25 Feb 2016, 5:35 pm

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I don't like Keystone Light but I don't like light beer in general. I do drink Keystone & other light beer thou when I'm in situations where tit's available for free.

do you like bitter?

I'm not sure.

if you've ever had a stout and enjoyed it, then the answer would at least be maybe.

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25 Feb 2016, 5:52 pm

auntblabby wrote:

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auntblabby wrote:

nick007 wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

I don't like Keystone Light but I don't like light beer in general. I do drink Keystone & other light beer thou when I'm in situations where tit's available for free.

do you like bitter?

I'm not sure.

if you've ever had a stout and enjoyed it, then the answer would at least be maybe.

Yes I have

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25 Feb 2016, 6:52 pm

I really prefer other alcohols like rum, wine, whiskey, etc, because its thicker, tastey and smoother

Beer only tastes like bitter water to me, and makes the stomach get big... If I must a beer, I am OK the thick smooth beers like Guinness.

I think beer is more a social drink with friends.

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25 Feb 2016, 7:04 pm

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Guinness!

35% content drinks usually don't end well for me. I tried drinking some 15-20% stuff before like Apple Cider and Sake. Dangerous combination, almost as easy to drink as beer, but far more potent. The sake was weird though, tasted like pine trees if that makes sense.

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25 Feb 2016, 7:18 pm

other than keystone light and other women's beers, [along with the original dark dos equis] sweet hard cider is a good tasty non-bitter drink with a bit of a bite, that I can handle. :hic:

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25 Feb 2016, 7:31 pm

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You know I have no idea. I'm a relatively heavy drinker but always really, really hated beer to the point where I can't stand it's smell. I did used to live about two miles from a Budweiser plant though. Talk about a HORRIBLE smell.

I'll stick with vodka, tequila, some brandy or bourbon thanks. Wine is tolerable. But beer, no thanks. And I've tried to acquire the taste when I was much younger and couldn't.

Just as well, it would probably pickle your vagina.

MY vagina??? Bro, I will drink you under the f*****g table for real.

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25 Feb 2016, 7:34 pm

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25 Feb 2016, 7:58 pm

Feyokien wrote:

I tried drinking some 15-20% stuff before like Apple Cider and Sake. Dangerous combination, almost as easy to drink as beer, but far more potent.

Apple cider is about 5%.

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25 Feb 2016, 7:59 pm

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I tried drinking some 15-20% stuff before like Apple Cider and Sake. Dangerous combination, almost as easy to drink as beer, but far more potent.

Apple cider is about 5%.

mebbe he was referring to apple jack?

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25 Feb 2016, 8:05 pm

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At some points water was turned into beer to make it drinkable...there is a documentary, How Beer Saved the World or something but can't find it on youtube but it goes into a lot of why one could say beer=civilization.

Yes, it might have been the motivation for growing grain crops. It certainly saved many lives where the water was contaminated with bacteria. Most people until relatively recently drank weak beer instead of water. For breakfast. Also cider.

I concur. The first time I heard this was a history professor asking the question: "Why is beer legal and marijuana not?" Of course his theory was that beer has been around since the start of civilization itself therefor it's so woven into the social fabric of humanity that it's considered innocuous, whereas marijuana being relatively new to civilization (western civ at least) is an unknown quantity and thus "dangerous".

But marijuana is hardly new to civilization, where on earth did this professor pull that crap out of? Not to mention it has recorded use in ancient civilizations which would imply some knowledge of how it works, what it does and how it makes people feel.

In the ancient world cannabis was never used on it's own, it was always with a concoction of other mild intoxicants, generally as a pain relief medication-- this tells me not everyone knew about it, only the knowledgeable medical class. Meanwhile alcohol was used in everyday life by basically everyone because it was the only guaranteed clean source of water. So when I say unknown, I should clarify, unknown to everyday people. It's the equivalent of us going to the future and someone making the claim that people in our era knew what dextromethorphan was because it was written about in literature...yes some of us know what it is, but most don't. But you are correct, their societies knew about it, I'm not denying that and I doubt my old professor would either.

Also of note, cannabis in ancient literature isn't our cannabis, which is either sativa or indica. Ancient cannabis was actually ruderalis, which is almost inert (less than 1% thc). So, when the Americas were opened up and sativa spread to Europe the Europeans might not have made the connection between the two because not only do they look radically different (ruderalis is a midget, basically just ground covering), but the effects were vastly different as well. You may actually have tried a strain with around 10% ruderalis-- in the last decade breeders have been crossing it to create autoflowering plants out of sativa and indica, but it's home growers that would gravitate towards autoflowering and not anyone dealing large commercial.

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25 Feb 2016, 8:48 pm

MissAlgernon wrote:

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I tried drinking some 15-20% stuff before like Apple Cider and Sake. Dangerous combination, almost as easy to drink as beer, but far more potent.

Apple cider is about 5%.

It might have been called apple pie, I can't remember now, but it was 20%. I should know, I christened my apartment kitchens floor with it! :drunken:

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26 Feb 2016, 2:57 pm

Feyokien wrote:

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I tried drinking some 15-20% stuff before like Apple Cider and Sake. Dangerous combination, almost as easy to drink as beer, but far more potent.

Apple cider is about 5%.

It might have been called apple pie, I can't remember now, but it was 20%. I should know, I christened my apartment kitchens floor with it! :drunken:

Distilled cider is called apple brandy.

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08 Mar 2016, 1:26 pm

Because it tastes great and it's cold and refreshing.

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