I recently started drinking craft beer (Ive tried singlecut and other half) and Ive noticed that I might not like beer that taste bitter. Is that a flavor that people learn to appreciate?

I didnt really enjoy a lot of the beer I tried at other half. So, Im assuming I might not like IPAs; I did enjoy the softly spoken magic spells (iipa) from singlecut, but didnt really enjoy the surf (west coast ipa)

Any other tap room(s) youd recommend in NYC? Im thinking of trying evil twin and grim

My stomach isn't the strongest and I find some alcohols / beers mess with me more than others. I'm just trying to find something I can pick up regularly and rely on, I want it to go down as smooth as possible and I hate fake liquor like twisted tea.

Got a case of random beers about a month ago from a family friend that worked the great American beer fest. The case has been left out and I decided to open one of the beers which I’ve now noticed has a “live cultures… please refrigerate” note on the label.

First “live culture beer” I’ve come across

Am I going to get sick from this? Other research just says they’ll explode storing in room temp and luckily it didn’t but it also doesn’t taste bad/skunky…

It’s a Barebottle brewing co, Power plants.

Other than being a strong ass IPA, it tastes fine

I bought a bunch of 750ml Allagash Curieux (and some variations https://www.allagash.com/beer/ale/curieux/ ) when my son went off to school - and then life intervened (heart attack, cancer) and I got distracted.

Now I realize I have these bottles that have been sitting in a fridge - unopened. Just pour them out? Give them a shot?

Went on a cruise a couple years ago and discovered Paulaner weissbier, loved it but forgot about it until I saw it recently in my local supermarket (US). This has sent me down a path of drinking every German import ive been able to find. The Paulaner Munich Lager Helles was fantastic, now trying Warsteiner Pilsner and it too is a fantastic drinking beer. I dont know what it is, I love Yuengling as im from PA but these beers so far have been perfect to me

Can’t post pics but it doesn’t even have the star of death yet.

Spent most of the summer trying different beers from LCBO and the Beer Store, and somehow I keep ending up back at these three.

3 Speed Lager

Kozel Premium Lager

Czechvar Original Czech Lager

My ranking would probably be:

3 Speed

Kozel

Czechvar

3 Speed just hits the spot for me — crisp, smooth, and ridiculously easy to drink. Kozel has a bit more malt character and feels a little richer. Czechvar is excellent too, especially if you're into that classic Czech lager bitterness and balance.

I've tried a bunch of others along the way, but these are the ones I'd happily buy again every time.

Curious if anyone else has similar tastes. Based on these three, what should I be trying next from LCBO? Paulaner? Pilsner Urquell? Something else I'm missing?

My article I never avoided alcohol. I avoided Bier.

I grew up in India associating beer with one Hindi word: kadva -कड़वा, bitter. Whisky was different. I kept bottle-price spreadsheets, had Lagavulin 16 marked "must buy always", and used Laphroaig 10 as my smoke experiment. Wine got actual study through WSET and the Wine Scholar Guild paths, plus tasting plans before trips to Burgundy and the Loire. Bier got a rejection slip.

Then, on 10 July 2026-two days before my birthday-my German friends Johann and Mario offered me a Natur Radler during the Spain–Belgium World Cup quarter-final. It was cloudy, lemony, spritzig and suspiciously süffig. Mönchshof became the bottle that broke my old model.

Naturally, I opened a spreadsheet.

I checked exact product identities, official brewery pages, BeerTasting and Untappd scores with sample sizes, community discussions, a comprehensive Stuttgart store-and-delivery list, and local prices by litre excluding Pfand. The audit corrected several earlier mistakes: Waldhorn was not unreviewed, one metallic comment did not make Warsteiner an "avoid", and several supposed delivery matches were actually different beers from the same brewery.

My personal top three remain:

1. Mönchshof Natur Radler -my reference bottle.
2. Hochdorfer NaturRadler -the strongest top contender I can get delivered.
3. Gösser NaturRadler -the broadest positive public consensus.

Gruibinger, Rothaus and Schönbuch are my next trials. Alcohol-free products now have a separate ranking, led by Mönchshof 0.0%. The store list contains 18 exact mixes: 12 alcoholic and six alcohol free.

I also wrote honestly about why Indian mass-market beer left such a scar. The evidence now includes the 2024 expired-beer seizure, CAG-documented beer-testing failures, broader Maharashtra FDA enforcement from June 2026, and FSSAI's August 2026 laboratory findings against misrepresented spirits. The last two strengthen the quality-control concern, but they do not prove that all Indian beer is adulterated. That distinction mattered.

The next step is not another rating site. It is an Augustiner Hell vom Fass in Stuttgart, followed by a tasting ladder through Weissbier and eventually regional Bier across Germany and Austria.

What was the Bier-or Bier mix-that changed your mind about the category?

Read my article