BaconBunch
[[I don't know how you guys drink beer, ugh]]
[Well, I like beer for several reasons:
1. The first human inventions were genocide, controlled fire, agriculture, and beer. It's theorized that we invented the third to make the fourth easier to produce. Don't know if I buy into that.
2. A good beer is a delightfully tingly and refreshing beverage with a complex palate and a multitude of flavors. You can use beer in cooking, and there are more beer-food pairing options than wine-food pairing options.
3. Good beer.
4. Developed taste. At your age, I would expect you to have tried Default High School Party Beer. So... Miller Lite, Natty Ice, or other forms of cat piss beer. That was my first beer experience, and I didn't much care for it.
I'd point you in the direction of a few beers that actually taste good and aren't exceptionally hoppy from the list, but I don't think you'd care. Meanwhile, for anyone else (and especially women, these beers are how I convinced many female friends to drink beer / how my best friends convinced their girlfriends to drink beer) who wants to have good beer:
Lambic beer. It's the fruitiest and sweetest of beers, and closest to wine. Like, it straight up tastes like fruit more than beer. Lots of fruit and wild yeast, with just enough hops and grains to give it depth. I totally intend to get French vanilla ice cream, and make a lambic beer float out of my next bottle.
Down the scale in sweetness is the Tangerine Wheat or the Apricot Ale. They have a beer flavor with strong fruitiness to them. All of the Tangerine Wheats I had were kind of thick, and you could almost sense tangerine pulp in it. Shock Top and its derivative are also pretty good, but you'd want to orange them up to get that fruitiness. From there, I'd point out Kona Brewing Co's Wailua Wheat. The beer is light in flavor, and you can taste the passionfruit in it. It's a summer seasonal.
Going into the tastes-like-beer category is Stella Artois. It's again light in flavor, but pairs well with a lot of beverages. Then, in rough order, it's Pacifico, Longboard, Blue Moon (squeeze an orange in it!), Moosehead, Fat Tire, etc.
I suggest avoiding IPA's and dark ales, unless you REALLY like bitter. Once you get used to them, the bitter sort of washes away and you can taste all the subtle flavors, like caramel and brown sugar and the sweetness of the hops and such.]
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