Believe it or not, I hate beer. I believe my entire life time intake of beer is not much more than two six pack. I never buy it. I never ask for it. However, people meaning to be good hosts and hostesses have handed me a beer or offered me a beer, and each time this has happened I think "Maybe my taste buds will have changed."
But they have not.
I think I've managed to get down an entire can or bottle a few times by sipping politely. I've also gone to the ladies room and dumped some of it down the drain so I wouldn't have to drink the whole beer, more than once! Letting a can sit without drinking it past a sip has been another one of my tactics of beer avoidance.
I am so beer adverse that years ago when some German friends invited me to go to a special bar that boasted hundreds of beers from around the world (while most of their patrons probably had Buds or Iron Cities or some other production line beer) and I ordered (do not laugh) a "whisky sour."
It makes no difference to me if beer is ice cold or warm. I hate it.
At the time that I ordered that Whisky Sour I knew of only two drinks based on what friends drank and those were a Whisky Sour or a Rum and Coke! Maybe this is because I was raised to be a lady and the ladies were at the time ordering mixed drinks rather than beer. Beer was for the men!
Tonic water made me want to gag. I couldn't imagine imbibing any hard liquor "on the rocks!"
Eventually I learned that I liked wine best, and to this day, though I drink rarely, I'm still trying various wines in some attempt to understand which ones I like best and why.
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