Craft beer drinkers?

What was the date on the bottles? You drink it straight from the bottle or pour it in to a glass? Envie is a very hoppy pale ale, especially when fresh. Not everyone likes hops, especially if you are used to drinking lagers and pilsners.

Find some fresh Envie. That stuff was probably 3 weeks old. Eeewww

You just had the beer equivalent of an uber peaty scotch. Some people love it, but it's too much for most, and it's certainly not something you hand a beginner.

This is just my opinion, but if you're trying to break into craft beers, you should be staying away from IPAs entirely.

Downvotes, awesome.

Start looking for build your own Sixpacks and mix up a bunch of different styles.

Tale notes or download untappd so you can track the beers you have tried.

My intro beer recommendation has always been Anchor Steam. It covers all the bases in swoop without throwing too much at you. Go to the Chimes and grab a pint of it. After that, get some samplers.

I hated my first hoppy beer (SN Torpedo) and now I love hoppy beers.

My advice is to keep trying, go to bars and get small pours of different styles and keep track of what you like or don't like, but also don't write off a style just because you had one of them that you don't like.

There are many bad craft beers out there (although Envie isn't one of them) and I think a lot of people get turned off by trying a bad craft beer and then just assume they all taste like thay or similar.

My advice would be to figure out which style you like and go from there. Your palate will develop and naturally deviate over time.

It literally takes years to develop a taste for "craft" beers.

15 yrs ago I thought Abita Amber was the best beer ever. Then graduated to Turbo Dog and Andy Gator. Then started to try out all of the other local craft breweries that popped up. Eventually tried IPAs and slowly developed a palate for the hops/malts.

Keep drinking different beers and eventually it all comes together.

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Not much into the bar scene these days

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I'm not into the bar scene, either, but craft beer bars/taprooms are different. Most are low key, with no loud music, so they are relaxing, imo. Good places to have a conversation. I usually stop for one one the way home from work. If I like it, I might pick up a sixer, later.

If you're just trying to get into craft beer, you need to start really basic with easy drinking, (most probably) unhoppy beers. The things that made me realize I could drink stuff outside of BMC products were things like Shiner Bock, Abita Amber, Magic Hat #9, Blue Moon. Those would all get serious down votes now, I hardly ever drink those anymore, but those were the beers that made me realize I could start branching out. If you want a Pilsner with some flavor (vs. something like Miller Lite), try Oskar Blue's Mama's Little Yella Pils. Then you go to things like Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan, Sam Adams Boston Lager, and so on.

There's a million things to try, just start off easy, and go from there. It took me years to get into hoppy beers, now they're almost all I drink. If you want a super easy drinking IPA, start with New Belgium Citradelic.

When you go out, sample different things, try different flights, do the make-your-own six packs when you go to the store. You'll eventually decide what you like, and go from there. I'm sure you didn't love whiskey the first time you tried it, but grew into it. Good beer's the same way.