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Recommend me booze! I don't drink. Hate alcohol taste.

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You have the Asian alcohol intolerance genetic makeup. Try a quarter shot of high quality vodka mixed with fresh lemonade. Drink slowly until you feel a buzz. Then stop.
 
I'm just wondering - how can you hate the taste of alcohol if alcohol is virtually tasteless? It's other byproducts of fermentation that lead to taste, not the alcohol.
 
Soybomb said:
To be honest alcoholic drinks can be incredibly delicious too. Does it take a while for your palate to adapt and appreciate them? Probably, but the same applies for bitter tastes too and you don't hear people saying things like "Coffee itself tastes like utter shit, we only drink it because of the side effects." There are lots of flavors that are only alcohol soluble, there are lots of incredible scents and flavors put off by alcohol producing yeast, the bite of alcohol can refreshingly palate cleansing. Just because you don't appreciate it, doesn't mean everyone else that drinks it is just out to get a buzz. To me there's nothing as refreshing as a gin and tonic on a hot day, a good beer just about anytime where you really taste the malt and the hops, or a delicious smoke filled scotch sipped on a cold night.
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Of course alcoholic drinks can be tasty, but its not tasty -because- of the alcohol. The alcohol makes some flavors possible that wouldn't be otherwise, but it in and of itself doesn't taste good


It's like salt. Salt makes pretty much everything taste better, but straight salt tastes like ass
 
yh125d said:
Of course alcoholic drinks can be tasty, but its not tasty -because- of the alcohol. The alcohol makes some flavors possible that wouldn't be otherwise, but it in and of itself doesn't taste good


It's like salt. Salt makes pretty much everything taste better, but straight salt tastes like ass
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Straight salt tastes ok. MSG would've been a better example. I've never met an edible substance that tasted so foul by itself, but enhanced other foods so well.
 
yh125d said:
Of course alcoholic drinks can be tasty, but its not tasty -because- of the alcohol. The alcohol makes some flavors possible that wouldn't be otherwise, but it in and of itself doesn't taste good


It's like salt. Salt makes pretty much everything taste better, but straight salt tastes like ass
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It seems like a disingenuous argument about semantics to say that a tasty drink that derives flavors from having alcohol isn't tasty because of alcohol. But even assuming that you're just trying to say that alcohol itself is tasteless, it still really doesn't hold up. Take a sniff and a swig of that tasteless grain alcohol. Certainly has a scent, and I don't think you'll be denying that it has an effect on your palate. Would you really argue that those properties don't relate to taste in a drink?

A more practical illustration. Make a grain alcohol and tonic and pour a glass of tonic. That totally tasteless alcohol will certainly change the way the drink tastes to your palate. The sensation and scent of alcohol itself is most certainly an important component of many drinks ranging anyway from a subtle crispness in the background to a warm sensation as your brandy goes down.
 
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