Does anyone like beer at first

Beer comes in a variety of flavours and each one is different from the other. Ranging from pale ales to stouts, beer flaunts of different tastes. Let's know about some of them. Pale ales are typically orange or blonde in colour with an overpowering bitterness against the sweet flavour of malts or the fruitiness of yeast. Brown ales or porters include a flavour where the barley is roasted like coffee and cocoa, giving it a chocolate-coffee flavour. They are typically less bitter, and have a lower percentage of alcohol.

Stouts are much like porters, just the flavour is a little more roasted. There is no real answer to this. You like what you like. The best option would be to try a sip of every option available, if possible. Part of adulting is figuring out what you like and dislike, and for some of us, beer is firmly in that latter category.

But when everyone and their mother seems to love nothing more than a cold lager on a hot day, you might wonder why beer tastes so bad to you. Turns out, a surprising scientific explanation reveals that your genes could be to blame, which means you can officially stop trying to like beer.

It's true that — for some people — beer is an acquired taste, and I've met very few people who took their first sip of beer and said, "Wow, this stuff tastes great. But, let's get back to the science. What happens is that some people are actually genetically programmed to dislike the taste of beer, Live Science reported.

A study published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research found that genetics, specifically a variation of a particular gene , actually play a role in whether or not you find the taste of beer bitter. Once the taste buds identify specific flavors, taste receptors send this data via nerves to the brain stem.

There are a whopping 25 different types of taste receptors for bitterness in the human body. In comparison, there are only two different kinds of salt receptors. Meanwhile, beer's bitterness largely comes from hops. The alpha and beta acids found in hops, as well as the low concentrations of ethanol in beer, bind to three of these 25 bitter receptors, signaling a strong bitter taste to the brain when you take a sip of lager, Lovelace said.

But what makes bitter flavors hard to swallow? The next time your friends delight in introducing you to a new craft IPA , you can tell them that their singular tastes are in direct opposition to evolutionary instinct. Humans actually evolved bitter taste receptors for our own safety — to identify poisonous foods that could be harmful.