@brad
My German beer doesn't "burn my throat". Lemme guess, you don't like black coffee either because its bitter? The drinking age in Germany is 16 for beer and wine for a historical and cultural reason. Actually in most euro countries it's that low. Just let this thread die now
@terryenglish

@igeljaeger @terryenglish I should probably specify that beer (having less alcohol in general) doesn't burn the same way rum and such will, but going back to what I said previously about hating sipping on something gross for a long time, I lean toward the higher alcohol content stuff so I can just get it over with. I can almost understand the logic behind taking shots, although they're quite uncomfortable compared to taking a small pill, which at worst will be bitter or salty but just for a second.
>you don't like black coffee either because its bitter?
Correct, yeah. I'm not huge on coffee or tea. I do sometimes wonder if my tastebuds are used to having a lot of sugar so that I don't react as well to bitter things. My parents also don't like coffee or tea. My older brother seems fine with both, but for all I know he had to train himself to like him, which I'm probably unwilling to do.

@igeljaeger @terryenglish s/like him/like them

@brad @terryenglish I've been drinking coffee and beer since I was 15 and never drink "strong alcohol". Only wine and beer. Drinking vodka etc to "get it over with and get drunk" is pretty degenerate

@igeljaeger @terryenglish I've literally never been drunk in my life to be clear, it's more of a mindset (drinking the hard stuff to get it over with) than how I actually live my life. I will always turn down alcohol. I've made the effort to give alcohol a chance maybe 3-5 times, but in general I don't touch even a drop of the stuff.

@brad @terryenglish it's just very surreal to me that you just lump stuff like german beer and medicine tasting vodka under one term. Both have a very different audience

@brad @terryenglish audiences*

@brad @terryenglish they dont share the same audience*

I cant talk

@igeljaeger @brad I hear the Belgians have better beer 😉

@terryenglish @brad pfahahahahahaha

@igeljaeger @terryenglish I kinda get what you're saying... As far as considering alcohol's main purpose to be getting drunk, that's probably just a personal thing that stems from it all tasting bad to me. I get people probably taste beers or wines in the way you'd have an expensive dinner, but I can't get into it so I dismiss that part of it. I can relate more the the people who buy the scary-cheap vodka or whiskey to drink by themselves. I've seen friends drink stuff from all across the board when hanging out. Seems like sometimes they're trying to get drunk, and sometimes not so much.
I'm not trying to insult germany or whatever. I know you guys have oktoberfest which is probably almost entirely about beer. I'd just rather have good food or drinks that taste nice so it's hard to relate to this culture of drinking alcohol all the time.

@brad @terryenglish youre friends are retards who I'd never hang out with honestly. They sounds like the people I avoided meeting on the weekend in my time in highschool

@brad @terryenglish >youre friends are retards
and Im one too

@igeljaeger @terryenglish jesus... I just feel like I've misrepresented them now if they strike you that way. It's like they'll hang out on most Saturdays and sometimes they'll go pick up some alcohol before going over. Usually someone picks out something new they wanted to try and shares it with other ones. It's not like a wild party, everyone is sitting at a conference table and there's a big TV where they play youtube videos.

@brad @terryenglish people who meet to get drunk and nothing else are about as degenerate as druggies to me.

@igeljaeger @terryenglish Well, they meet up the same way whether anyone brings alcohol or not. It's often a bunch of them separately playing a game on a computer or console with some idle chatter, and the group goes out to eat at some point.

@brad @terryenglish sounds like a bunch of awkward nerds
t. awkward nerd

@igeljaeger @terryenglish yeah, that I can agree with

@brad @igeljaeger @terryenglish think of beer as if it were just another really tasty traditional food instead of alcohol.
That should make it easy to understand the german take on it.

@brad @igeljaeger Clearly you just have too good of a sense of taste. Once you're older and more of your tastebuds die your tastes will change. When I was younger I hated beer too.

@terryenglish @brad I've never not liked beer in my life

@igeljaeger @brad Well you sir are hardcore. I had develop a taste for it while trying to cope with social situations like a normal person. 😉

@terryenglish @brad I had my first beers together with schnitzel and such. My mom bought it for me when I was 15

@igeljaeger @brad Damn schnitzel 🤤 you Germans sure know how to eat

@brad @terryenglish btw oktoberfest is just the one foreigners know. Every village to city here has their own wine and beer festivities. Most have multiple a year. Most of the time with a live band and no, you cant just buy coke instead there. Even german christmas markets (which dont exist in the US I think), mostly revolve around glühwein/mulled wine.

@igeljaeger @brad @terryenglish No, they mostly revolve around Indian guys selling fake leather wallets and native accessories :^)

@cereal @brad @terryenglish die leute gehen da wegen crepes hin :^)

@brad @terryenglish @igeljaeger you haven't had good beer