Man, Guinness stout for starters? lol. That will knock him on his feet and maybe turn him off to trying new beers forever!

If you drink apple juice this would probably be a good beer for you to try. I haven't had it but I do enjoy Hornsby Hard Cider

They have a cider Amber draft or a cider crisp apple. These are great summertime beers that are very easy to drink.

Maybe you might like Wheat beers or witbier/weissbier? I like Franziskaner Hefeweizen.

Boddingtons

Solution: drink it out of the bottle!

re: cider, I have fond memories of making snakebites with Hornsby's. Not a lot of memories actually, and most of them fuzzy, but still.

thanks for the feedback guys. gonna try a darker beer next time out to see what's up.

Snakebite is the nectar of the gods. I've been trying to re-create it here but haven't really been able to. No idea where to get that blackberry currant stuff or what exactly they used.

will be trying this on the weekend, though its quite expensive at my local store

Schlafly makes a killer helles, but I'm not sure if its seasonal to summer only. They're the first US brewery that comes to mind. Weihenstephan and Lowenbrau are two German examples you should be able to get just about anywhere. Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold is also a great brew, and while its a Dortmunder lager instead of a Munich Helles, the two styles are close.

Two schools of thought on this: first, try fairly light, simple craft brews, and ease into things. Kolsch, cream ale, golden ale, blonde ale, those types of beers. The thinking is that they won't bombard a new beer drinker with lots of unfamiliar, over-the-top flavors, but be an easy transition from US macro beers to other styles.

The other school of thought is quite the opposite: find the biggest, blackest, roastiest coffee imperial stout, and try that. Some people claim they don't like beer because all they've known is macro lager, and they think that's simply what beer tastes like. Ask them if they like black forest cake, and they'll say, "Sure," so you hand them a chocolaty stout aged on cherries, and say, "Here, this is beer, but it tastes like a black forest cake."

I'm pretty sure there's nobody out there that doesn't like beer, but not everybody has found a style they like. The variety of flavors in beer is just too wide for someone not to like anything.

Bar Harbor blueberry ale is pretty rad and more blueberry-y than I would have thought. Like going down on a drunken blueberry goddess.

Just tried 6 pils in class interestingly enough. 3 American and 3 other. The American were high life, rolling rock, and pbr. I can definitely pick these three apart from eachother 100% of the time. The other 3 were bitburger, spaten, and warsteiner. I could pick the bitburger out of those but would have a tough time with spaten\warsteiner.

Im gonna pick up Mirror Pond Pale Ales tonight, one of my go to favorites

i'm not blind

bells two hearted obviously

i've also found it a general beer to get people into better beer

Great advice. I hated beer for the longest time because of that very reason. The first time I tried Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale, I loved it and began to branch out from there. 2/3 years later I was enjoying 90% of any micro I picked up randomly.
If the dark beer route doesn't work for you, maybe try a blueberry beer...I can remember liking wild blue back when I didn't like much beer...gl

yea, it's pricey... def a once a month beer for me
plus is is super rich and complex, couldn't drink it very often
well worth the price though
enjoy!

I'm going to go completely amateur with my choices (im guessing) because im 19 and from the UK.

1. Budweiser
2. Corona (no lime)

Just like your username, YouFaiiiilllll!

I can't think of the last time I personally had a lager I would want to drink more than once, but otherwise I agree with this. Some of the beers I consider my favorites recently are:
St. Bernadus Abt 12
Old Rasputin Imperial Stout
Brooklyn Local 2
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout (really hope budweiser doesn't **** up this year's version).
I really enjoy these and other similar beers, but I have a hard time pairing them with food. Also, sometimes I just want one beer, and one bottle of a high abv beer is basically two beers. Because of this, I drink a lot of beers that are less complex and 'smaller,' like
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Dogfish Head 60 Minute
Hazed and Infused
Three Floyds Alpha King
One beer that I had recently that I really liked (even though I think people in this thread had bad things to say about it) was the Stone Cali-belgique IPA (I think that's how it's spelled). It was complex but it didn't overwhelm the palette and I could see drinking it with different types of food.

Love this stuff!!! haven't had it in a while, ty for the mention...will have again soon

Here, let me add you to the list of people who have ran a joke like this. I can assure it it's a very short list and those included are extremely intelligent.

Still failing

I like this beer a lot. I like it because I don't find it to be too heavy on the blueberry, like say Wachusett blueberry.