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[type_wild]

Isn't it funny how I never needed to know the defintion of "malty" to know what it tastes like anyway?

I suppose the fact that I fell for IPA after the first sip should say all there is about my tastes in beer, but nearly all the bottle down in this Dobbeltbock, I found myself digging the aftertaste even if I thought it was foul to begin with.

The 7,5% could have something to do with that, but I'm pretty sure it didn't because I'd still take the IPA, thank you, and not just because my recent studies took me to the place where I'm engaging with the other IPA with curiosity rather than rage (give me the right name, and I'll consume both chocolate and eyeshadow of questionable quality just because of the associations. This is the power of language). I'm at the place where I've googled "where to buy Eisbock" in German and being torn between regretting the fact that I lived there for two years and never took the chance to truly experience the world of beer happening there... and, you know, being happy that I lived there for two years and learned to like beer, and reminding myself that all the supermarkets just carried the big brands and local breweries anyway.

I'd like to know to what extent the 5-8% beverages are a matter of aquired taste anyway, because a recent attempt at harder-than-usual cider left me with "well, it's good but there's definitely that alcohol taste to this that I'm not sure I'm digging" that was there with both times I tried bock.