Cool that you're enjoying them so much. It really is an intriguing and exciting little 'quest' to be on. I still get a thrill when I go into a pub and see a hitherto-unknown beer for sale.
As far as tastes go, Plough Boy's story might be of interest.
I introduced him to a variety of (what I considered to be) steady eddy bottles back in about 2006. He reported back that some ones he liked, but others he hated, and rated very poorly. I was a tad shocked because some of the ones he disliked were the ones I preferred.
After months and and years of trying loads of beers, he revisited the original selection, and most of his opinions had changed on them. What were once winners were mostly now rather bland; whereas the unpalatable horrors were now interesting and satisfying. It's just a gradual re-conditioning of the palette.
Perhaps his most extreme transformation occurred with Innis and Gunn original. Upon first taste, he loathed it, and considered it undrinkable. The buttery taste really disagreed with him. He tried it again over the years, even the different varieties, but the same outcome was always delivered. Until, one day, upon meeting a mate who knew he liked beers, he was presented with a bumper bottle of I&G. He told me that his heart sank, but it felt ungrateful and antisocial to refuse it. To his absolute surprise, this time he liked it. A remarkable turnaround, and although it's fair to say that it's a bit of an extreme story, it does serve to prove that tastes and palettes can change and heavily adapt. I wouldn't dream of saying that some stuff you'd hated, you'd end up liking, but when I think of all the food and drink I've experienced a shift of opinion with, it's an eye opener. Olives are the most recent thing I've moved from hating to loving.
Myself, beer-wise, I've gone from liking just bitters, to dark beers, to Belgian Trappist beers, to heavily hopped American IPAs - many of which would have been undrinkably bad ten years ago. I sometimes surprise myself at how I grow to like certain styles and brews. :-)
As far as tastes go, Plough Boy's story might be of interest.
I introduced him to a variety of (what I considered to be) steady eddy bottles back in about 2006. He reported back that some ones he liked, but others he hated, and rated very poorly. I was a tad shocked because some of the ones he disliked were the ones I preferred.
After months and and years of trying loads of beers, he revisited the original selection, and most of his opinions had changed on them. What were once winners were mostly now rather bland; whereas the unpalatable horrors were now interesting and satisfying. It's just a gradual re-conditioning of the palette.
Perhaps his most extreme transformation occurred with Innis and Gunn original. Upon first taste, he loathed it, and considered it undrinkable. The buttery taste really disagreed with him. He tried it again over the years, even the different varieties, but the same outcome was always delivered. Until, one day, upon meeting a mate who knew he liked beers, he was presented with a bumper bottle of I&G. He told me that his heart sank, but it felt ungrateful and antisocial to refuse it. To his absolute surprise, this time he liked it. A remarkable turnaround, and although it's fair to say that it's a bit of an extreme story, it does serve to prove that tastes and palettes can change and heavily adapt. I wouldn't dream of saying that some stuff you'd hated, you'd end up liking, but when I think of all the food and drink I've experienced a shift of opinion with, it's an eye opener. Olives are the most recent thing I've moved from hating to loving.
Myself, beer-wise, I've gone from liking just bitters, to dark beers, to Belgian Trappist beers, to heavily hopped American IPAs - many of which would have been undrinkably bad ten years ago. I sometimes surprise myself at how I grow to like certain styles and brews. :-)
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