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Americans until a relatively few years ago had very little in the way of variety to choose from in the beer department. Miller, Bud, Stroh's, Pabst, Coors all emulated the same style which is now known as an 'American lager' (light body, light gold color, low alcohol, medium bitter,). In the last decade or so the availability of microbrews and popularity of imports of various different styles of other beers (porters, stouts, amber ales, IPA's, etc) has expanded our taste repertoire considerably.
I think beer is my favorite adult beverage. It was not always so, though......I remember as a lad of 17 staggering around the beach on Holland, Michigan with my friends after imbibing several tepid cans of Goebels (a particularly poor example of an American lager) stolen from my friends fridge while his parents were gone for the weekend. I remember choking down the first few gulps and thinking just how awful it tasted. Hell, the only reason we were drinking it was because it would get us drunk.......the years pass and while I cannot pinpoint a particular place or time I somehow came to LIKE the taste of beer. I'm sure that expanding my horizons from Goebels was a help, but even now if I drank a Goebels it would not evoke the physical revulsion I experienced in my youth. What changed? Why is it the body can say 'no' at one point and 'yes' later on? Or does the mind exert such control that it overrides the bodies 'yuck' signals and tells you 'no, this is yummy'?
I think beer is my favorite adult beverage. It was not always so, though......I remember as a lad of 17 staggering around the beach on Holland, Michigan with my friends after imbibing several tepid cans of Goebels (a particularly poor example of an American lager) stolen from my friends fridge while his parents were gone for the weekend. I remember choking down the first few gulps and thinking just how awful it tasted. Hell, the only reason we were drinking it was because it would get us drunk.......the years pass and while I cannot pinpoint a particular place or time I somehow came to LIKE the taste of beer. I'm sure that expanding my horizons from Goebels was a help, but even now if I drank a Goebels it would not evoke the physical revulsion I experienced in my youth. What changed? Why is it the body can say 'no' at one point and 'yes' later on? Or does the mind exert such control that it overrides the bodies 'yuck' signals and tells you 'no, this is yummy'?