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I don't get beer

All diet drinks. Whatever sugar substitutes they use taste awful no matter what. Now there are products I can't consume because the default version has fake sugar as well. Nasty stuff.

Monster energy drinks. Tastes like what I imagine dumpster juice is like.

And any drink with Stevia in it. Instant dealbreaker if I see it in the ingredients.

Coffee

I get it, it's an acquired taste. But I sure don't like it.

Energy Drinks. Yes every single sickly disgusting rancid smelling one of them.

there will be lots of personal opinions here ... mine is that champagne is -not awful but still- overrated.

I'm just gonna go ahead and be the guy that says... all alcohols.

I've tried beer, wine, tequila, vodka, hard liquors, spirits, fruity drinks, creamy drinks, coffee flavored rum, hard seltzer, hard cider, champagne, you name it. They don't all taste horrible-- coffee (even though I don't usually drink it) and fruit flavored drinks can be acceptable-- but I haven't ever tried a single drink that tastes good because it has alcohol, it's always because the alcohol is overpowered by something else. Just give me the something else please.

Matcha. Every everyone says it's this wonderful day and when I try it it's like drinking blended lawn clippings.

Just skimmed through the thread. You know what beverage I don't see in here? Ginger Ale, because it is objectively amazing.

Most teas smell like a wet forest floor to me.

Most regular energy drinks. Red Bull and regular Monster taste like battery acid to me. Remember NOS? That too. Also Rockstar. All battery acid.

The flavored variants can be better though.

Beer.

Flavored Sparkling water with no sweeteners of any kind. I'm looking at you Bubly

I see like 50 mentions and alcohol and energy drinks. I got something different.

Kombucha.

Holy shit, it's like a soda that went off, and I don't even like soda. It is pungent and awful and I hate that it's marketed so well. Any time I see it on a shelf I'm like "Ooh, what's this fancy looking juice? That's a nice looking bottle. Oh, it's Kombucha, I would rather drink a cup of foamy dog vomit"

For me it's anything diet or zero branded. Fucking aspertane. That bitter aftertaste just feels like someone raped the sugar out of the beverage.

That will be IPAs for me. If I wanted to drink grapefruit pith I can think of better ways to do it.

Beer.

Sincerely, a German.

Pretty much any non cocktailed alcohol. It all tastes kinda like shit except for some wines.

Malört is really popular here and I have no idea why. Some kind of hipster shibboleth.

I tried Red Bull once and it tasted like shit medicine juice. Never tried it again.

Every energy drink ever invented.

Red Bull tastes like ass. I never understood how it became the most popular energy drink.

Eggnog. 🤢

1. Alcohol generally, beer more specifically.

I dont particularly like the taste of alcohol, and beer is just way to bitter for me generally. Ive had some wine that was decent, and occasionally ill have a cider, but I generally just don't understand why people drink alcohol.

2. Energy Drinks.

I don't get why people like them, they taste awful. Red bull in particular makes me wanna throw up. Its so carbonated and so bitter they add so much sugar, and then you just get this sweet-bitter taste that is just awful.

Malort.

Gin. It's garbage.

Saw several coffees mentioned and that got me wondering.

I have had good cafe coffee once in my life. Most of the cafes make sugar nonsense. When I order black coffee, it's a coin flip between burnt bitter mess and fucking battery acid.

Now what are the chances that many people haven't had a decent cup of black coffee?

Sparkling water. Water is great, why make it taste funny?

Beer

Champagne. It tastes of bitter, sour and fizz and because of its stupidly intense carbonation, drinking it needs to be done in tiny little wincing sips, lest it bubble up through your sinuses and come out of your nose.

I swear people only pretend to like champage because they believe it's the drink for 'classy' celebrations, so disliking champagne is, in their mind, a 'low class' and ungrateful thing to do.

Beer.

Definitely coffee. I know it's super popular but I can't stand it. I kinda like the smell of it, but the taste I find awful and the aftereffects are excruciating and longlasting. Someone suggested I might have an allergy. I might or might not look further into this at some point

I have tried decaf though, once... chasing the hope that it would still -despite the absence of caffeine- trigger bowel movement at a critical time in my life. and it did! Apparently caused by gastrine, from my superficial reading.

Sour beers / goses. I keep coming back every couple of years to see if my tastes have changed and they always taste awful to me. I'm glad most brewers hopped (pun somewhat intended) on the IPA train because I much prefer them over the sour options.

Kombucha, I can't stand the taste but people who like it seem to be obsessed with it. It's good for making vegan leather with though.

Carbonated flavored water. I do not understand how people can drink something that’s only claim to flavoring is that it at some point sat near a fruit of some kind.