I am something of the opposite, I drank wine and didn't like it, finding beer a little later and a little more palatable. My partners father used to own a bar and she not only appreciates wine but understands it. She has taught me a that I can really enjoy wine, particularly rich reds.
Anyway, I had banana bread beer for the first time on Wednesday and it was good. Really good. Very rich, sweet but not sickly and quite malty.
Where as I'm a neither beer nor wine person, for the above aforementioned reasons. Most wines are too "dry" (I think that's the right term for it), and most beer, is well beer. :)
I've never been a beer person either, and growing up in England, that's not easy: it always seemed like drinking bread. My wife introduced me to Brazilian Chopp (closest canned equivalent: Antarctica), and it opened a door: now I can have a social beer, even a pint of bitter, if it's cold enough.
I don't have much of a taste for it, though, and I still can't tell a good one from a bad one. The coffee thing just sounds scary.
I came to beer via dark beers (probably for the same reason - otherwise too bitter). Now, alas, I am beerless because the darned things have too much carbohydrate for my diabetes - they jolt my blood sugar up into the stratosphere. Liquid bread and all...
Fortunately there's still red wine and distilled alcohol.
If you're able to be drinking espresso porters, you could find you enjoy Guinness. And a nice way to ease into Guinness-drinking is a drink alternately called the Snakebite (at least in the south), a Black Adder, or the Poor Man's Black Velvet (a true Black Velvet uses champagne). If the drinkery pours Strongbow-brand cider, it's called a Crown Float, but I suspect that nowhere save for incredibly authentic Irish/English pubs will know that.
It's a layered pour of cider on the bottom of the glass and Guinness on top. Drink them together and the apple/pear crispness of the cider contrasts wonderfully with the bold taste of the Guinness.
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Anyway, I had banana bread beer for the first time on Wednesday and it was good. Really good. Very rich, sweet but not sickly and quite malty.
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I don't have much of a taste for it, though, and I still can't tell a good one from a bad one. The coffee thing just sounds scary.
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Fortunately there's still red wine and distilled alcohol.
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If you're able to be drinking espresso porters, you could find you enjoy Guinness. And a nice way to ease into Guinness-drinking is a drink alternately called the Snakebite (at least in the south), a Black Adder, or the Poor Man's Black Velvet (a true Black Velvet uses champagne). If the drinkery pours Strongbow-brand cider, it's called a Crown Float, but I suspect that nowhere save for incredibly authentic Irish/English pubs will know that.
It's a layered pour of cider on the bottom of the glass and Guinness on top. Drink them together and the apple/pear crispness of the cider contrasts wonderfully with the bold taste of the Guinness.
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