Definitely for the better that you don't like it. I enjoyed it from the word go and oh the money wasted and stupid shit I have done while shitfaced.

There's plenty of cocktails that taste like the left, you just have to be willing to leave your toxic masculinity behind and order a drink that's "for girls."

also anyone else think it's kinda fucked that the drinks "for girls" often seem like they're trying to hide the taste of alcohol entirely?

When I tell people I don't drink they sometimes think I used to be an alcoholic or something. I just think it tastes like shit lol

How whiskey tastes:

I dunno, I enjoy the taste of beer 🤷

Just drink better quality booze

My dad let me sip his beer as a kid. It was disgusting. Never did acquire a taste for alcohol.

I once tried a coke with vodka, it tasted better without the vodka and im not even a fan of coke.

My dad did something really smart, he saw me looking at it and said here try a sip. Of course I try to sip and it was the worst drink I've ever drank and I didn't drink till my 20's

I think you're drinking the wrong alcohol for your palate.

Depends

Cheapest beer is sulphur + urine. Next step you get actual beer. After that you have craft beer...and that's mixed bag. Every beer with "light" in name is piss. Either commit and drink 0%, which taste less beery but better, or drink normal but a bit pricier.

Cheapest whiskey is vodka with coloring and less %. There is no good cheapish whiskey, but if you drink for taste and occasionally, one bottle can last long enough to justify expense.

I don't drink vodka, every type I drank was just a hammer to the brain without anything taste wise. I mean dunno, not my kinda fun.

Drinks are fun but, ultimately, all they do is try to mask alcohol...and non-alcoholic versions taste better xD

With everything else I have little to no experience, and I never aim to get hammered so these are my blindspots xD

Cocktails, Margheritas, and coolers are usually pretty tasty, though there's still the bite of ~~87~~ alcohol

can confirm. never liked it.

All y'all are talking about IPAs and whatnot when the real king of beer is a heart stout! Hell yeah, I wanna get drunk on chocolate and coffee!

Bro I will metaphorically MURDER a box of Moscato from the local package store because it really does taste like the left picture

Like most fermented foods, alcohol is absolutely an acquired taste and if you haven't acquired it yet then I'd say you're not missing out on much of anything. I'm still not at the point where IPAs and hard liquor taste like anything except poison to me.

The big reason why I don't drink isn't because I don't like being drunk (love it), but because I just cannot stand the taste of alcohol

Obviously wine just tastes like grape juice but better, and they get you started on that pretty early. I didn’t enjoy my first taste of beer, but that’s because my dad has never really been a drinker and had a tinny of some shitty lager like tenants at the dinner table once.

It really depends on the alcohol itself, especially it's quality.

Most cheap commercial alcohol tastes like crap, because making them taste good is effort and money. A £20 bottle of whisky or vodka or gin will never taste good, because at that price point, you can't get the high quality ingredients, can't afford the purification process and so on.

Good news is, you can fix clear spirits, to some extent, with a cheap Brita filter. Take a crappy bottle of vodka, pass it through a NEW Brita filter (wash it through with water first to activate the charcoal properly), and BAM, you removed the nail polish remover flavour, and now it tastes much closer to a £50 bottle. Watch out though, brown and flavoured spirits (whisky, rum, gin, etc.) will lose their colour and have their flavours muted by this process.

And often it's worth splurging on the fancy bottle of liquor. A bottle of Cirroc or Grey Goose might be £40-60, but you'll notice the difference immediately. Those are actually pleasant vodkas to drink.