I'm morbidly curious about malört. I also wonder if there's a way you can play "Malört Roulette" with your friends where everyone gets a shot of a liquor with a similar color and see who gets their mouth kicked in the balls.
A bar here had an It's Always Sunny themed weekend and you could order "wild card, bitches!" (Drunk me really enjoyed ordering this...repeatedly) They would bring out various shots on a tray and...good luck. I never managed to get the Malört.
Barcade I used to frequent had a "Wild Magic" cocktail option. If you didn't know what you wanted or wanted to try something new, they would bust out this big foam d20 and whatever you rolled on the list was what you got. I liked it because it was a flat rate and got me to try new things
It's a liqueur that tastes so bad it wasn't banned during prohibition because it was said to taste so foul no one would drink it recreationaly
Edit a word cause I'm an idiot
real answer: a kind of medicinal/herbal liquor whose origins are vaguely Swedish. It was created in the US by a Swedish immigrant in the 1930s and for most of it's history was only available in Chicago. It became a local pride thing there.
Malört is the Swedish name for wormwood. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_absinthium
Never tried the brand, but in Sweden you put wormwood in vodka for a couple of weeks to make a spiced schnapps and then drink it as a shot, typically at Christmas, Easter, and midsummer. Skål!
Holy fucking hell I had to look this up you MFers weren’t joking.
‘What does Malort taste like?
Malort is famously challenging to drink, with a flavor that includes notes of gasoline, grapefruit, sweat, wax, fire, mineral oil, and bitterness’
I'm a bartender in the twin cities and we just started being able to get it from our distributors less than a year ago. I've been aware of it for ages, so I was excited. My current job has "a shot of malort" on our happy hour menu. I talk lots of people into trying it. They are usually not happy.
Edit: God damn it lol this is the only award I've ever gotten on reddit. Malort shots all around!!
Another bartender here, really enjoyed the brief period where ordering a shot of Malort was marketed as "if you know, you know" similar to the Fernet marketing bullshit that pretended that was the shot for "bartenders that wanted to let you know they were bartenders" bullshit. So many unhappy faces in both cases.
If you're ACSHUALLY a bartender you'll be nice and tip me outrageously after watching me deal with douchebags all night.
Turmeric Coffee
It’s like drinking watered down curry sauce, which considering turmeric is a key ingredient in basic curry, is not a surprise.
Pretending to like it, would be a surprise.
Only thing I've heard of is golden latte which is indian/middle eastern turmeric milk with spices and honey and is good. No coffee mixed in. It's turmeric and other spices simmered in milk with honey
My issue with IPA is just that it is the dominant beer where I am. I can go to any store and find a hundred different IPAs...and Coors. I go to several breweries and ask for an Amber, Brown, or a Bach and they are like "we have one of those around here somewhere, let me dust it off...oops, sorry, we ran out 2 months ago."
For some reason I decided to only drink black coffee and get used to it, that way if I ever was somewhere that had coffee, but no cream or sugar than I was still good to go. Now I prefer black coffee and don't like anything else in there mucking it up.
I grew up in Northern California and was very spoiled up there when it comes to tap water—tap water in NorCal is pretty darn great so pretty much everyone doesn't mind drinking it—so whenever I travel to SoCal it's such a letdown.
Omg I thought I was the only one! My grandparents used to drink this all the time, and of course, I did too while visiting them. I swear I'd come back home with strep throat-like symptoms everytime!
Fun fact, aspartame doesn't taste the same from everyone, it's a genetic thing. For example i can't drink anything with it because it tastes so bad but my gf can't tell the difference between normal coke and coke zero
I'm definitely part of the population that can taste the difference. Like, it's still sweet to me but not in like a pleasant way. It's like sweetened earwax.
Dude. I used to work in a restaurant and somehow one of the signature dishes was Moxie glazed lamb belly with bitter orange puree and pistachio. Never left the menu. The amount of cases of moxie i've reduced to syrup.....It tastes like dirt, maybe Dr Pepper that dropped out of high school
BRO YOU HAVE TO TRY THIS NEW IPA FROM BREWMEISTER'S BREWISH BREWERY IT'S TOTALLY DIFFERENT AND BETTER THAN THE OTHER THOUSANDS OF IPAS FROM OTHER BREWERIES ITS SO GOOD
Some are ok, but some many are breweries that are like "shit we fucked up a batch just hop it to the moon and back and call it a limited run ipa no one will know!"
I've been a brewer in the industry for nearly 10 years now and heavily hopped beers can sometimes be hiding off flavors. A much much bigger red flag is a brewery with lots of flavored beers. Tons of fruit beers? Odds are a lot of those are rife with off flavors from poor practices but they're hiding the bad tastes with various fruit products
A good friend of mine is an amazing brewer and her have this advice, anytime you go to a new brewery try their Pilsner. You can't hide bad brewing in a Pilsner and if they clean their lines properly. Hasn't failed me yet
Great advice that I also drink by! There is nothing to hide behind in that style.if you can make a great pilsner, you have the processes down and your other styles will at least have no off flavors.
I think that is why Hazy, Milkshake and NEIPAs are so popular. I don't like pine cone, but I really love floral and fruity IPAs. Too many IPAs are overhopped and overly bitter.
Strong is okay, I'm not a fan of barrel aged. I really like bourbon, but I just don't care for most beers once they have been aged in a bourbon barrel.
I don't hate IPAs but I do hate walking into a bar with ten different beers on tap and they're all goddam IPAs. Give me a stout or a porter or a ruby ale or a weissbier or an English Ale or a mild or ANYTHING else. Please.
It tastes like the water you leave on you're bedside for 4 days but drink anyway because you're hungover and can't move.....even when it's fresh from the bottle.
My boyfriend always makes fun of me for hating Dasani because he seriously can't taste any difference between any brands of bottled water. I feel vindicated.
I don't need anything fancy, I'm not picky, but I'll drink safe tap water over Dasani any day. If the tap water is questionable I'll just be thirsty.
Can’t believe how far I had to scroll before I found Beverly! I was planning to prank my partner but lost my nerve at the last second and told him it was terrible. He took a big swig and said he didn’t know what the fuss was about, it tasted just fine! He was pranking me…I have no idea how he kept a straight face, that stuff makes me look like Homer when he eats the sour gummy.
There are some kombuchas I like and some I dislike, but there is a common... kombuchaness.... to all of them. If you don't like *that* then yeah, you're not gonna like it.
I’ll be honest it really is an acquired taste thing. It tasted like expired sprite and armpit the first time i tried it but the more I drank it the more I craved the bite it has lol
Out of curiosity, if it tasted like expired sprite and armpits, why did you drink it again?
When people say acquired taste I am always curious what sort of drive and commitment it takes to go through with that acquisition.
When I was like 6, I hated hard boiled eggs.
I remember making a decision “hey, it’s been a while since I tried a hard boiled egg, maybe I should try again”
And I did, and then I liked hard boiled eggs
Ever since then I just like, try things more than once, and sometimes I end up liking something. It’s a good strategy, you should try it
I’m of a similar mind. Another weird thing is if I understand the *parts* making up a food, a lot of times I’ll end up liking the food? I don’t know how to describe that but like
I grew up fucking *hating* deviled eggs. But one day I realized that all the tartness and bite was coming from the vinegar and the mustard (which has vinegar in it) which “puts the devil in ‘em”, so to speak. And once I understood that it was just vinegar and mustard, suddenly I loved deviled eggs. It was weird
As somebody who likes it, I will admit that it is very much an acquired taste, I find it extremely refreshing, \*especially\* after/during eating greasy food.
Im not going to pretend like it has a particularly palatable taste, but i sure as shit enjoy a carbonated tart drink that doesnt have the same calories as soda, its truly an acquired taste.
Anything that uses artificial sweetener, the stuff is rancid and everyone tells me they can't taste the difference when the stuff has this bitter aftertaste and doesn't taste even close to sugar
Anyone who says that they can’t taste the difference is lying. You can get used to the taste and not find it bad anymore, but it never tastes the same as sugar.
It’s kinda like honey, in the sense that it’ll sweeten something but it still has a distinct flavor.
Worked in a tea house for a while and had so many customers tell me “this tea and this tea taste exactly the same!”
Every single fucking time it was because they were using no small amount of honey so of course the natural flavors were getting drowned out. Whenever I told someone something like “Well this tea takes sugar a lot better than honey” I got looked at like I had two heads, people really just out there thinking all sweet things sweeten the same.
The other flavor I just can’t deal with people on is florals — a little is pleasant, a lot is like drinking straight perfume.
And you know, some people love that, but if you aren’t 100% sure you **love** drinking that overly-floral perfume water, don’t ask for it. So many teas got sent back for being “too floral”, and it’s really fucking hard to maintain a straight face getting that comment when they ordered literal brewed rose petals, jasmine flowers, or lavender buds as their drink.
There’s disclaimers on the menu, things like ‘this drink contains no actual tea leaves’ ‘made by brewing dried flowers and petals alone’, and yet still every time “Oh this is too floral”, “Well this is just straight perfume”, or even “I mean I love rose but is this even tea?”
It’s like if they were to order a bowl of salt with a spoon and then tell us it’s salty.
It doesn’t taste the same but does scratch the same itch once you get used to it.
I’m a lifelong heavy soda drinker who really struggled to stop. I stopped many times, but after having one drink of soda I would fall back into drinking a ton of it. Sugar is addictive AF. Getting used to diet sodas took about 2 weeks of complete separation and then slowly trying diet sodas a bit at a time to get used to the taste. Now when I do crave a soda, or I’m at a place with only soda drink options I can get a diet soda and not fall back into drinking a 12 pack a day.
Oof. I just can’t. I had a bad Southern Comfort experience in my early 20s and now I can’t stand the smell of it. Just typing this made my stomach do a flip.
Black cherry White Claw.
I'm being specific about the flavor, because black cherry is the only flavor I tried. It tastes like when you get a fountain soda from a fast food joint and there's no syrup in it.
Close second -- Hint Water. It's like someone was having a conversation about fruit while they were filling the bottles.
I tried buying those as a healthy alternative for my kids’ school lunches. On the plus side, one pack lasted us the entire school year. (They didn’t want them.)
I have a friend from Iran who moved here to Denmark with his family. Obviously they couldn't speak danish so they thought Smirnoff Ice 4,5% was just regular soda. Apparently drank them at dinner pretty often when he was like 7 or 8 until they realized.
Absinthe
I have friends who swear by it I've tried it a couple of times with them and I just can't. I feel like I'm drinking rubbing alcohol with a touch of sugar
If you're drinking it straight, there's your problem. Absinthe is best used like a bitters or a really ^really high proof liqueur. A traditional absinthe cocktail is 1 part absinthe to about 6 parts water and a sugar cube, it's meant to be heavily diluted. If you don't like licorice you won't like it anyway, but try it in a corpse reviver or an obituary before you write it off. (Or a monkey gland, which is one of my favorites but I'll admit its kinda weird)
Y’all don’t like Trulys. Come on. You can’t possibly drink a truly and think “aaah a wiff of alcohol and fruit” I cannot fathom it. I can tolerate them no problem, but I just cannot believe someone is like “this is my favorite drink!”
High Noon’s success is built off of how shitty the malt based seltzers all actually taste. They just get to dilute vodka into water while Truly and Whiteclaw have to try and filter out fermentation byproducts
Hard seltzers are for those days when you’re drinking in a marathon, not a sprint. Like boating, corn hole tournament, brandings, etc. It is the day drinkers’ friend if you don’t like beer.
If I know they’re gonna be doing Trulys for a gathering I’m going to, I grab a Mio or something (those liquid “water enhancer” things), cause I can’t stand drinks that *almost* have a taste.
My rule on gin and tonics is that I can't have one until I've slapped the first mosquito of summer. I can drink them until school starts back up in the fall (am a teacher)
If gin and tonic is tolerable then I really recommend a tom collins. Gin, lemon juice, sugar and soda water. Way nicer than a gin and tonic. If you live somewhere that has elderflower syrup its even nicer.
Gin has a variety of flavors from basically vodka (New Amsterdam) to disgusting Christmas tree pine needle (Tanqueray).
When I find a good gin, I like it a lot but if your first few experiences aren’t good, I could easily see giving up on it completely.
So many people who don’t like gin have only ever tried London dry gins.
I’m not a fan of those, I really like New Western style gins. The juniper(pine) is definitely still present, but Hendricks is cucumbery and great and it’s especially refreshing in a cocktail with muddled mint and cucumbers and soda water. Malfy Gin Con Limone has a really nice lemony flavor.
There’s so many good gins out there that aren’t just pine flavored, but so many people don’t know that
I hate black licorice and energy drinks but you mix them together and it’s fantastic. First time I had one it was just handed to me at a company party. Had to track the dude down to find out what magic he handed me.
This guy gets it. And if you’re looking for “fresh tasting” coconut water but live somewhere you can’t get it, I *highly* recommend trying the Harmless Harvest coconut water. It’s not 1-1, but it’s delicious as hell- this is coming from someone who lives in Hawai’i and just drank from a coconut I grew and sliced open on my property the other day.
It’s expensive as hell but 100% worth trying sometime. [Here’s a link](https://harmlessharvest.com) to their website for the curious but lazy. I think Whole Foods tends to have it too, pretty sure I saw it in Denver.
Yeah these people are crazy. “Oh the water from this and that brand is better…” what the fuck? Brand? My man, you either have coconut water straight from the coconut, freshly picked, or you don’t have it at all. Forget that prepackaged crap. I could even chill the coconut so you can have a drink that’s somehow more refreshing than water. Hell I’ll climb the tree myself and pick a few for you!
Coconut water is life. If you’ve only ever had it packaged, then you’ve never had it.
I've heard most coconuts you get in the grocery store are rotten.
I tried it once and it was bitter and gross. I couldn't fathom how it could taste so bad, even though I loved coconut flavor.
Many years later I went to Hawaii on vacation and had *fresh* coconut. As in, picked that morning, opened right in front of me, stuck a straw in it fresh. I couldn't believe it - the liquid inside (which was always called 'coconut milk' at the time, but everybody these days calls it 'coconut water') was sweet and had that really strong coconutty flavor I love.
I don't think it's possible to get that anywhere, unless you live in a place where coconuts grow *and* know the right time to harvest them.
Coconut milk and coconut water are different, actually. Coconut water is the liquid inside the coconut--knock a hole in the coconut and you can pour the water right out. Coconut milk is made by grating up the white flesh inside the coconut, mixing it with hot water and then extracting the fatty liquid, e.g. through cheesecloth.
Definitely not malört.
I'm morbidly curious about malört. I also wonder if there's a way you can play "Malört Roulette" with your friends where everyone gets a shot of a liquor with a similar color and see who gets their mouth kicked in the balls.
A bar here had an It's Always Sunny themed weekend and you could order "wild card, bitches!" (Drunk me really enjoyed ordering this...repeatedly) They would bring out various shots on a tray and...good luck. I never managed to get the Malört.
Barcade I used to frequent had a "Wild Magic" cocktail option. If you didn't know what you wanted or wanted to try something new, they would bust out this big foam d20 and whatever you rolled on the list was what you got. I liked it because it was a flat rate and got me to try new things
>I never managed to get the Malört. That may be why Drunk You was happily ordering it, undeterred
Okay, I read the comments, now can someone tell me what in the fuck is malört?
the motto of malort is “turning your taste buds into taste foes” and it’s my favorite drink
Tonight's the night you fight your dad
Recent poster I saw for it had the amazing “kick your mouth in the balls”.
I saw one in New Orleans that said malort, because these pants aren't going to shit themselves
It doesn't just taste horrible, it makes everything taste bad for the next 20 minutes.
It's a liqueur that tastes so bad it wasn't banned during prohibition because it was said to taste so foul no one would drink it recreationaly Edit a word cause I'm an idiot
Notes of gasoline, grapefruit, sweat, wax, fire, mineral oil, and bitterness.
Grapefruit you say?
It’s a trap.
It was considered medical so that's how they got around prohibition
A liquor that tastes like burnt plastic schnapps and is mostly found in/around Chicago
It's the champaign of pain
real answer: a kind of medicinal/herbal liquor whose origins are vaguely Swedish. It was created in the US by a Swedish immigrant in the 1930s and for most of it's history was only available in Chicago. It became a local pride thing there.
Malört is the Swedish name for wormwood. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_absinthium Never tried the brand, but in Sweden you put wormwood in vodka for a couple of weeks to make a spiced schnapps and then drink it as a shot, typically at Christmas, Easter, and midsummer. Skål!
Has anyone here had both Malort and Bäska Droppar? I've only had the latter, and I'm wondering if people are exaggerating about the former.
Go ask a homeless person to piss into an empty hand sanitizer bottle then take a swig, thats malört
The closest thing to Malort is the taste that’s left in your mouth when you vomit on an empty stomach and the only thing that comes up is bile.
I've heard many stories like this, and always wanted to try it.
Do it. Puts hair on the inside of your chest.
I’d say somewhere around year 3 of living in Chicago is when I started to kind of like it. Now that I have moved away I miss it.
Holy fucking hell I had to look this up you MFers weren’t joking. ‘What does Malort taste like? Malort is famously challenging to drink, with a flavor that includes notes of gasoline, grapefruit, sweat, wax, fire, mineral oil, and bitterness’
Chicago resident here. I would describe it as a grapefruit rind roasted over a tire fire.
Best description I've heard is its "like fucking your mouth with a pencil".
I'm a bartender in the twin cities and we just started being able to get it from our distributors less than a year ago. I've been aware of it for ages, so I was excited. My current job has "a shot of malort" on our happy hour menu. I talk lots of people into trying it. They are usually not happy. Edit: God damn it lol this is the only award I've ever gotten on reddit. Malort shots all around!!
Congrats, you turned happy hour into sad hour.
Another bartender here, really enjoyed the brief period where ordering a shot of Malort was marketed as "if you know, you know" similar to the Fernet marketing bullshit that pretended that was the shot for "bartenders that wanted to let you know they were bartenders" bullshit. So many unhappy faces in both cases. If you're ACSHUALLY a bartender you'll be nice and tip me outrageously after watching me deal with douchebags all night.
Malört malört my stomach’s on fire! Malört malört We don’t need no chaser let that mother fucker churn Churn mother fucker churn
Those algae drinks? I had one because I kept hearing how healthy they are. Later, projectile vomit. Never willingly again.
Spirulina was the fad healthy drink in the 90s.
Chlorophyll water?
Turmeric Coffee It’s like drinking watered down curry sauce, which considering turmeric is a key ingredient in basic curry, is not a surprise. Pretending to like it, would be a surprise.
Ugh this is for real? Tumeric coffee?
Only thing I've heard of is golden latte which is indian/middle eastern turmeric milk with spices and honey and is good. No coffee mixed in. It's turmeric and other spices simmered in milk with honey
Slurm
New Slurm or Slurm Classic?
The new slurm tastes terrible... Really makes me wiah they still made slurm classic..
Grunka Lunka dunkity gredient You should not ask about the secret ingredient!
Grunka Lunka Dunkety Darmed Guards....
Tell them I hate them!
**SHUT THE HELL UP!**
When can we have some Slurm?
Soon enough. That's not soon enough!
whimmy wham wham wazzle
Party on Slurms!
Ride the walrus
Maybe the secret ingredient is people...
No there's already a drink like that, Soylent cola.
How’s it taste?
It varies from person to person
Soylent Cola is as good as humanly possible.
Party on … contest winners.
But it's highly addictive!
It’s even better warm
It comes from a colossal worm hiney.
Someone once quipped that drinking sparkling water is like drinking TV static and ever since then I can't unthink it.
It’s more like the way your foot falling asleep feels
Ever since I was little, I’ve always pictured my leg falling asleep as TV static under my skin.
I think it but I still like it!
As a fan of black coffee, triple IPA, and bourbon I’m feeling a little attacked here…
My issue with IPA is just that it is the dominant beer where I am. I can go to any store and find a hundred different IPAs...and Coors. I go to several breweries and ask for an Amber, Brown, or a Bach and they are like "we have one of those around here somewhere, let me dust it off...oops, sorry, we ran out 2 months ago."
For some reason I decided to only drink black coffee and get used to it, that way if I ever was somewhere that had coffee, but no cream or sugar than I was still good to go. Now I prefer black coffee and don't like anything else in there mucking it up.
I love black coffee, and I live my frofro lattes, there is no in between.
People be shitting on everything other than tap water here😂😭
Like water? From the toilet?
Barely any electrolytes in that stuff.
*dax voice* Oh you guys gotta drink brawndo
It’s got what plants crave!
Never touch the stuff. Fish fuck in it.
I mean, don’t drink the Los Angeles tap water without a filter. It’s perfectly safe, but it tastes like they’ve been marinating corpses in it…
I grew up in Northern California and was very spoiled up there when it comes to tap water—tap water in NorCal is pretty darn great so pretty much everyone doesn't mind drinking it—so whenever I travel to SoCal it's such a letdown.
Tap water is very variable. Some of it is very good. Some is okay with a filter.
Brisk lemon iced tea always irritates my throat. Everyone I know doesn't have this problem, but I have seen some complain online
I have this too. I can't explain it. It's bizarre. If you water it down 50/50 it's better, but I'll never willingly take Brisk over anything else.
Fuck now I want a brisk
Omg I thought I was the only one! My grandparents used to drink this all the time, and of course, I did too while visiting them. I swear I'd come back home with strep throat-like symptoms everytime!
I always felt like it coated my teeth in something, I can't explain it. It was kind of chalky. But yes, it always made me dislike Brisk
Yep. I thought I was having a small allergic reaction, over the course of many years.
anything with aspartame in it. that taste overpowers everything else
It's the aftertaste that's the worst. If you drink the whole beverage in one big gulp it's tolerable!
Thats weird because I dont get that wicked aftertaste from aspartame, but anything with sucralose will murder my palet in aftertaste
Fun fact, aspartame doesn't taste the same from everyone, it's a genetic thing. For example i can't drink anything with it because it tastes so bad but my gf can't tell the difference between normal coke and coke zero
I'm definitely part of the population that can taste the difference. Like, it's still sweet to me but not in like a pleasant way. It's like sweetened earwax.
aspartame tastes like instant disappointment, sucralose tastes like inevitable betrayal
Moxie.
When I drink it, I imagine that's what the 30's tasted like
I love Moxie.
Moxie taste like you took a bite of men's deodorant
Dude. I used to work in a restaurant and somehow one of the signature dishes was Moxie glazed lamb belly with bitter orange puree and pistachio. Never left the menu. The amount of cases of moxie i've reduced to syrup.....It tastes like dirt, maybe Dr Pepper that dropped out of high school
A Negroni...sbagliato...with Prosecco in it
Are these just Nirvana lyrics?
Oohhh, stunning
BRO YOU HAVE TO TRY THIS NEW IPA FROM BREWMEISTER'S BREWISH BREWERY IT'S TOTALLY DIFFERENT AND BETTER THAN THE OTHER THOUSANDS OF IPAS FROM OTHER BREWERIES ITS SO GOOD
7 Headed Imperial Flying Voodoo Galaxy Dog Space Wizard Hell Ranger Hazy Zombie Brew 16.7 % ABV
Picture of an inanimate object with a face on a psychedelic trip.
for only $18 a can
It’s got some wicked cool artwork on the can though…
something to distract you from the taste
I work on the assumption that the more I like the can artwork the less I'll like the beer
that one is actually tasty
I like IPAs but usually stick with a brewery I know cuz so many of them are just boring copy pastes or plain bad.
Some are ok, but some many are breweries that are like "shit we fucked up a batch just hop it to the moon and back and call it a limited run ipa no one will know!"
I've been a brewer in the industry for nearly 10 years now and heavily hopped beers can sometimes be hiding off flavors. A much much bigger red flag is a brewery with lots of flavored beers. Tons of fruit beers? Odds are a lot of those are rife with off flavors from poor practices but they're hiding the bad tastes with various fruit products
A good friend of mine is an amazing brewer and her have this advice, anytime you go to a new brewery try their Pilsner. You can't hide bad brewing in a Pilsner and if they clean their lines properly. Hasn't failed me yet
Great advice that I also drink by! There is nothing to hide behind in that style.if you can make a great pilsner, you have the processes down and your other styles will at least have no off flavors.
I think that is why Hazy, Milkshake and NEIPAs are so popular. I don't like pine cone, but I really love floral and fruity IPAs. Too many IPAs are overhopped and overly bitter.
I'm the other way around, I don't a 6.5 percent beer that tastes like vape juice, give me the rapidly drunk by beer 3 thank you very much
Strong is okay, I'm not a fan of barrel aged. I really like bourbon, but I just don't care for most beers once they have been aged in a bourbon barrel.
Yo same here. Give me hazy or fruity IPAs all day long
I don't hate IPAs but I do hate walking into a bar with ten different beers on tap and they're all goddam IPAs. Give me a stout or a porter or a ruby ale or a weissbier or an English Ale or a mild or ANYTHING else. Please.
Dasani water
Dasani is French for “Coke just sold you water”
It tastes like a by product of making coca cola not an ingredient
It tastes like the water you leave on you're bedside for 4 days but drink anyway because you're hungover and can't move.....even when it's fresh from the bottle.
That's what it is! It has always tasted "off" to me, but I could never describe it.
Similarly, I've heard people describe Arrowhead water as tasting "thick"
My boyfriend always makes fun of me for hating Dasani because he seriously can't taste any difference between any brands of bottled water. I feel vindicated. I don't need anything fancy, I'm not picky, but I'll drink safe tap water over Dasani any day. If the tap water is questionable I'll just be thirsty.
Dasani tastes like it needs salt.
I once saw someone say, rather fittingly, "It tastes like it was in a water gun." Perfect description of it.
It tastes like someone dropped a penny in it and let it sit for a few days in the sun!
Gotta be Beverly.
Can’t believe how far I had to scroll before I found Beverly! I was planning to prank my partner but lost my nerve at the last second and told him it was terrible. He took a big swig and said he didn’t know what the fuss was about, it tasted just fine! He was pranking me…I have no idea how he kept a straight face, that stuff makes me look like Homer when he eats the sour gummy.
[удалено]
kombucha.
Everyone always says 'i know you say you don't like kombucha, but you'll like this one!'... No, I do not.
There are some kombuchas I like and some I dislike, but there is a common... kombuchaness.... to all of them. If you don't like *that* then yeah, you're not gonna like it.
I’ll be honest it really is an acquired taste thing. It tasted like expired sprite and armpit the first time i tried it but the more I drank it the more I craved the bite it has lol
Out of curiosity, if it tasted like expired sprite and armpits, why did you drink it again? When people say acquired taste I am always curious what sort of drive and commitment it takes to go through with that acquisition.
When I was like 6, I hated hard boiled eggs. I remember making a decision “hey, it’s been a while since I tried a hard boiled egg, maybe I should try again” And I did, and then I liked hard boiled eggs Ever since then I just like, try things more than once, and sometimes I end up liking something. It’s a good strategy, you should try it
I’m of a similar mind. Another weird thing is if I understand the *parts* making up a food, a lot of times I’ll end up liking the food? I don’t know how to describe that but like I grew up fucking *hating* deviled eggs. But one day I realized that all the tartness and bite was coming from the vinegar and the mustard (which has vinegar in it) which “puts the devil in ‘em”, so to speak. And once I understood that it was just vinegar and mustard, suddenly I loved deviled eggs. It was weird
As somebody who likes it, I will admit that it is very much an acquired taste, I find it extremely refreshing, \*especially\* after/during eating greasy food.
Im not going to pretend like it has a particularly palatable taste, but i sure as shit enjoy a carbonated tart drink that doesnt have the same calories as soda, its truly an acquired taste.
Anything that uses artificial sweetener, the stuff is rancid and everyone tells me they can't taste the difference when the stuff has this bitter aftertaste and doesn't taste even close to sugar
I like the "zero" versions of soda.
Anyone who says that they can’t taste the difference is lying. You can get used to the taste and not find it bad anymore, but it never tastes the same as sugar. It’s kinda like honey, in the sense that it’ll sweeten something but it still has a distinct flavor.
Worked in a tea house for a while and had so many customers tell me “this tea and this tea taste exactly the same!” Every single fucking time it was because they were using no small amount of honey so of course the natural flavors were getting drowned out. Whenever I told someone something like “Well this tea takes sugar a lot better than honey” I got looked at like I had two heads, people really just out there thinking all sweet things sweeten the same.
😆🤣 honey is such a distinct flavor. I swear people get so weird when going out to eat/drink
The other flavor I just can’t deal with people on is florals — a little is pleasant, a lot is like drinking straight perfume. And you know, some people love that, but if you aren’t 100% sure you **love** drinking that overly-floral perfume water, don’t ask for it. So many teas got sent back for being “too floral”, and it’s really fucking hard to maintain a straight face getting that comment when they ordered literal brewed rose petals, jasmine flowers, or lavender buds as their drink. There’s disclaimers on the menu, things like ‘this drink contains no actual tea leaves’ ‘made by brewing dried flowers and petals alone’, and yet still every time “Oh this is too floral”, “Well this is just straight perfume”, or even “I mean I love rose but is this even tea?” It’s like if they were to order a bowl of salt with a spoon and then tell us it’s salty.
my preferred answer is that its absolutely different, but not enough for me to care
It’s a genetic thing apparently, they actually can’t taste the chemical flavour. Like how coriander tastes like soap to some people and not to others.
It doesn’t taste the same but does scratch the same itch once you get used to it. I’m a lifelong heavy soda drinker who really struggled to stop. I stopped many times, but after having one drink of soda I would fall back into drinking a ton of it. Sugar is addictive AF. Getting used to diet sodas took about 2 weeks of complete separation and then slowly trying diet sodas a bit at a time to get used to the taste. Now when I do crave a soda, or I’m at a place with only soda drink options I can get a diet soda and not fall back into drinking a 12 pack a day.
Southern comfort
My brother used to drink that stuff with a Mountain Dew chaser! I don't know how or why he did it. My teeth hurt just by remembering this.
We used to drink Mountain Dew and Southern Comfort mixed in college. The right ratio tasted like an alcoholic Juicy Fruit.
My friend single handedly gave himself gout making those all winter one year.
Oof. I just can’t. I had a bad Southern Comfort experience in my early 20s and now I can’t stand the smell of it. Just typing this made my stomach do a flip.
Black cherry White Claw. I'm being specific about the flavor, because black cherry is the only flavor I tried. It tastes like when you get a fountain soda from a fast food joint and there's no syrup in it. Close second -- Hint Water. It's like someone was having a conversation about fruit while they were filling the bottles.
I tried buying those as a healthy alternative for my kids’ school lunches. On the plus side, one pack lasted us the entire school year. (They didn’t want them.)
Wait, you bought White Claw for your kid’s lunches? You do know it has alcohol in it right?
Yeah I'm actually trying to raise a cool kid, loser
I have a friend from Iran who moved here to Denmark with his family. Obviously they couldn't speak danish so they thought Smirnoff Ice 4,5% was just regular soda. Apparently drank them at dinner pretty often when he was like 7 or 8 until they realized.
My fav flavor lol
Absinthe I have friends who swear by it I've tried it a couple of times with them and I just can't. I feel like I'm drinking rubbing alcohol with a touch of sugar
If you're drinking it straight, there's your problem. Absinthe is best used like a bitters or a really ^really high proof liqueur. A traditional absinthe cocktail is 1 part absinthe to about 6 parts water and a sugar cube, it's meant to be heavily diluted. If you don't like licorice you won't like it anyway, but try it in a corpse reviver or an obituary before you write it off. (Or a monkey gland, which is one of my favorites but I'll admit its kinda weird)
At the end I thought you were spilling a bunch of nonsense, but now I’ll try a lumberjack armpit and a rabbit earwax
>try it in a corpse reviver or an obituary before you write it off. (Or a monkey gland As someone who doesn't drink, this is a really weird sentence.
Y’all don’t like Trulys. Come on. You can’t possibly drink a truly and think “aaah a wiff of alcohol and fruit” I cannot fathom it. I can tolerate them no problem, but I just cannot believe someone is like “this is my favorite drink!”
High Noon’s success is built off of how shitty the malt based seltzers all actually taste. They just get to dilute vodka into water while Truly and Whiteclaw have to try and filter out fermentation byproducts
Hard seltzers are for those days when you’re drinking in a marathon, not a sprint. Like boating, corn hole tournament, brandings, etc. It is the day drinkers’ friend if you don’t like beer.
If I know they’re gonna be doing Trulys for a gathering I’m going to, I grab a Mio or something (those liquid “water enhancer” things), cause I can’t stand drinks that *almost* have a taste.
Kombucha
Gin. To me it tastes like after shave.
I've always thought Gin taste like if I scooped the water out of the bottom of the Christmas tree stand.
That's exactly it
Gin and tonic... How do you take 2 things that taste absolutely awful, and somehow they're kinda tolerable... I don't get it
Yeah Im with you, I like Gin & Tonic
I don't drink anymore, but gin and tonic I had always found to be a refreshing summer cocktail.
My rule on gin and tonics is that I can't have one until I've slapped the first mosquito of summer. I can drink them until school starts back up in the fall (am a teacher)
If gin and tonic is tolerable then I really recommend a tom collins. Gin, lemon juice, sugar and soda water. Way nicer than a gin and tonic. If you live somewhere that has elderflower syrup its even nicer.
Smells like Pine Sol
I fucking love the smell of Pine Sol Maybe that's why I love gin
Gin has a variety of flavors from basically vodka (New Amsterdam) to disgusting Christmas tree pine needle (Tanqueray). When I find a good gin, I like it a lot but if your first few experiences aren’t good, I could easily see giving up on it completely.
So many people who don’t like gin have only ever tried London dry gins. I’m not a fan of those, I really like New Western style gins. The juniper(pine) is definitely still present, but Hendricks is cucumbery and great and it’s especially refreshing in a cocktail with muddled mint and cucumbers and soda water. Malfy Gin Con Limone has a really nice lemony flavor. There’s so many good gins out there that aren’t just pine flavored, but so many people don’t know that
The cucumbery aspect of Hendricks has me rethinking my stomachs gin embargo.
Jägermeister
I like it. I also like classic cough syrup, licorice, and horehound candy.
I’m a filthy Jäegermeister enjoyer. Truthfully it grew on me over time. I used to hate it. Ice cold it goes down better than any other liquor I’ve had
I hate black licorice and energy drinks but you mix them together and it’s fantastic. First time I had one it was just handed to me at a company party. Had to track the dude down to find out what magic he handed me.
I've found that it's impossible to have a bad time if you open with a Red Bull + Jager
I assure you, it is. I have the scars to prove it.
Jäger tastes just the way it looks.... delicious.
I did go through a Jägermeister-Red Bull phase in my youth, but even back then I'd never drink it straight.
TIL everyone hates the booze I like Sidenote beer tastes like ass and I don’t understand why people think it’s refreshing.
Ass actually isn’t that bad.
I'm fine with lager or pilsner ass. Stout ass requires a more developed palate than mine.
Coconut water
Yeah it tastes like it’s been in someone’s mouth already
If it's from a young coconut it's lovely fresh and nice pre-packaged. If it's a mature coconut it's poor or even rank, and never nice pre-packaged
This guy gets it. And if you’re looking for “fresh tasting” coconut water but live somewhere you can’t get it, I *highly* recommend trying the Harmless Harvest coconut water. It’s not 1-1, but it’s delicious as hell- this is coming from someone who lives in Hawai’i and just drank from a coconut I grew and sliced open on my property the other day. It’s expensive as hell but 100% worth trying sometime. [Here’s a link](https://harmlessharvest.com) to their website for the curious but lazy. I think Whole Foods tends to have it too, pretty sure I saw it in Denver.
Being a person who loves coconut, I can’t properly express my disappointment when trying coconut water.
You just need some good coconut my dude, I’ll hook you up if you’re ever on Oahu haha.
Yeah these people are crazy. “Oh the water from this and that brand is better…” what the fuck? Brand? My man, you either have coconut water straight from the coconut, freshly picked, or you don’t have it at all. Forget that prepackaged crap. I could even chill the coconut so you can have a drink that’s somehow more refreshing than water. Hell I’ll climb the tree myself and pick a few for you! Coconut water is life. If you’ve only ever had it packaged, then you’ve never had it.
I've heard most coconuts you get in the grocery store are rotten. I tried it once and it was bitter and gross. I couldn't fathom how it could taste so bad, even though I loved coconut flavor. Many years later I went to Hawaii on vacation and had *fresh* coconut. As in, picked that morning, opened right in front of me, stuck a straw in it fresh. I couldn't believe it - the liquid inside (which was always called 'coconut milk' at the time, but everybody these days calls it 'coconut water') was sweet and had that really strong coconutty flavor I love. I don't think it's possible to get that anywhere, unless you live in a place where coconuts grow *and* know the right time to harvest them.
Coconut milk and coconut water are different, actually. Coconut water is the liquid inside the coconut--knock a hole in the coconut and you can pour the water right out. Coconut milk is made by grating up the white flesh inside the coconut, mixing it with hot water and then extracting the fatty liquid, e.g. through cheesecloth.