Spazzergasm wrote:
I don't like beer.
That's a bit like me saying I don't like wine. I do like some wines very much - I just never get an opportunity to try them, nor the inclination.
Spazzergasm wrote:
The only kind I ever enjoyed was once I had in Austria that was made with apples as well.
Apple fruit beer? Or Apfelwein? I've never had Apfelwein (warm, hazy apple 'cider') but I want to, at some point. Perhaps if I ever get to Germany...
Spazzergasm wrote:
The only times I've ever gotten drunk I downed hard liquor mixes because I hate the taste of alcohol, but just wanted to see what being drunk was like.
The mark of a good beer is masking or working with the alcoholic taste as much as possible. Which is why some 9% beers are dangerously quaffable whilst others just taste like Tennent's Super or worse.
Your main brand of beer in Turkey, Efes, is pretty awful actually and there doesn't look if there are any good microbreweries in there, in part because Turkish people don't seem to be a massive fan of drinking, what with being a) Muslims and b) part of the Southern European drinking culture. If that's all the beer you've had - along with Budweiser, possibly John Smith's, etc - I can understand why you don't like beer much!
Out of the Efes beers I had in 'Northern Cyprus' (Efes Dark, Efes Pils, Efes Xtra) they all without exception tasted absolutely appalling. I had to throw away the Efes Dark and the Efes Xtra because I just couldn't finish it - the Xtra was far too harsh tasting (I know it's a European strong lager but it's a pretty awful attempt) and the Dark was so marzipan-y, sweet and sickly that almost all of it went down the gutter. The Pils was drinkable, just, but it wasn't a brilliant lager and it's certainly not a beer I could choose. Wasn't too bad though considering the climate. I would have gone for KEO instead though.
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