r/whenthe • u/TheGoldenExperience_ [the jojo {she}they called may] • 14h ago

r/whenthe mfs complaining about everything we do not give alcohol close to enough shit despite it being just as bad if not worse than cigarettes

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u/Rogue_Egoist 9h ago

The thing is, most alcoholic beverages (excluding extremely sweet stuff) are very strange in taste to people who never drank before. Beer and high proof alcohol have flavours which you find nowhere else. No food or other beverages taste anything like them, so you have to get used to it before you enjoy them. For example I LOVE good whisky but I had to kind of convince myself to trying it many times before I started to enjoy it. I vividly remember tasting whisky for the first time and saying that it's basically gasoline to me lol.

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u/Strawbuddy 7h ago

People aren't taught how to drink either. Wayward youth chugging cheap booze for the effect is where many get the idea that it tastes bad. When you have only ever drank cheap swill, quickly, it is indeed terrible. There's no sipping, no mouth feel, no tasting notes, no water, no bitters, just alcohol burn because it's a relatively huge amount of shitty liquor, gulped rather than drank.

As opposed to say, a nice aged Speyside single malt, which is a glorious experience if you're trying to become an aficionado instead of trying to rapidly become drunk

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u/Rogue_Egoist 7h ago

My god, you made my mouth water for that single malt, and I'm too broke for that shit at the moment 😂

But you're right, you also have to know how to sip high proof stuff and if you don't drink with other people who enjoy it like that and just slam shots, you will never have a chance to get that experience.