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Wean me off cider!

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  • #32
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,050 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    pdebarra wrote: »
    BeerNut, would Bishop's Finger not be a bit strongly flavoured for someone unused to drinking beer? I don't think I'd have enjoyed it if I'd tried it at the beginning of my career.
    You mightn't have enjoyed it at any point in your career, but you'd never find that out without drinking it. Not drinking things because of what they might taste like is a bit daft, IMO.

    It's like if someone announced that they wanted to try whiskey for the first time and you suggested that they stay off the Black Bush or Jameson 1780 and maybe go with the Dunphy's instead. Or, instead of starting wine with the Chateauneuf, some Black Tower would probably be best to be going on with.

    In both these examples, of course, there's a big difference in price between the good stuff and the mass market crap. The great thing about beer is that this doesn't happen: you can go out and buy a world class beer for about the same price, and sometimes cheaper, than tasteless factory-made rubbish.

    Yes, there's such a thing as an acquired taste. And it's quite possible that anyone new to flavoursome beer will not like the taste of some of it. But you never know until you drink it.

    I did suggest wheat beer (Paulaner, Erdinger) as an easy-drinking alternative earlier in the thread, but I can't see the harm of trying lots of different types of beer on the off-chance that you hit one you love.

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  • #33
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
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    cson wrote: »
    Kopperberg is an excellent warm weather drink - easy to go down even if its warm. Dunno why I'm telling someone who wants to get off the cider about that though :p
    It's awful sweet for warm weather, I prefer something a bit sharper personally if I'm drinking in any significant quantity.


  • #34
    Fall_Guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Fall_Guy


    pdebarra wrote: »
    Aldi are selling Tyskie (Polish lager, perfectly drinkable (I rather like it)) and Spaten, a pleasant and easy-to-drink German offering - both for something around the €1.80 - €1.90 mark.

    Both good for someone who's not yet sure if they like beer.

    BeerNut, would Bishop's Finger not be a bit strongly flavoured for someone unused to drinking beer? I don't think I'd have enjoyed it if I'd tried it at the beginning of my career. The O'Hara's Red would be decent, though.

    Or maybe something sweeter would be more appropriate for the cider drinker? I'll leave that to you, as I'm not a fan of the sweet beers.

    My thinking would be, if someone hasn't yet acquired a taste for the crappy beers, it would if anything be easier for them to adapt to more tasty beers than someone who has gotten used to bland tasteless beers over the years!


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