Having been gluten-free all my life, even when I drink (about once a year) I don't drink beer. This very day, we decided to make some fish & chips and found a gluten-free beer.
Had to see what the fuss was all about. And... it tastes like a very mildly sweet alcoholic soda. Lovely drink that I would like more of, but I expected something more... stout? Earthy? Hoppy?
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Best First wrote:I didn't like it. They don't have mums, or dads, or children. And they turn into stuff. And they don't eat Monster Munch or watch Xena: Warrior Princess. Or do one big poo in the morning and another one in the afternoon. I bet they weren't even excited by and then subsequently disappointed by Star Wars Prequels. Or have a glass full of spare change near their beds. That they don't have.
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Maybe it's the typical weirdness of gluten-free items. Nothing quite tastes the same.
Clearly, it took my inexperience with beer to make me a real dweeb, not my ability to quote most Transformers 80s comics verbatim.Karl wrote:Dweeb.
Best First wrote:I didn't like it. They don't have mums, or dads, or children. And they turn into stuff. And they don't eat Monster Munch or watch Xena: Warrior Princess. Or do one big poo in the morning and another one in the afternoon. I bet they weren't even excited by and then subsequently disappointed by Star Wars Prequels. Or have a glass full of spare change near their beds. That they don't have.
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If that's the case, I am the Dweeb King, as I know not what beer nor other spirits taste like. If it tastes as it smells, I'm probably not missing anything.
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Too funny!Brendocon wrote:It takes like a 3D version of a mediocre comic.
You'll love it.
Anyway, the long and short of beer diversity would be that the "earthy, stout, hoppy" taste of the beer in your imagination comes directly from being imbued with intense qualities of all things gluten: hops, barley, wheat, stuff like that. So it's like being a vegan, having some tofurky, and asking why it doesn't have the bloody, irony taste of a rare steak.
If we move to American lagers, ie the Budweiser/Coors/Miller type beers, I could CERTAINLY see those being described as a "mildly sweet, alcoholic soda." Except with less sweetness and more horse piss.
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