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Beers are very much an aquired taste. There's your commodity beers and your piss beers from the big national brands like Pabst, Miller, Coors, etc. which largely are trying to sate a pallete that never liked the moonshine from the prohibition era (and all are crap in my personal opinion as someone who still hasn't acquired the taste for beer but can at least tell when something is good. The commodity stuff is good for getting you buzzed and that's about it), then there's your microbrews which will vary wildly in style and flavor (if it's on tap you can just tell the bartender you've not really had beer before and ask what they recommend and if you can try it before you commit to a full glass. They might even have the option for a flight of beers, with a bunch of shot glasses of beers for your to try a bit of each) and then there's the stuff people don't talk enough about: ciders (it tastes like apple juice but with a sharper, fuller flavor!) mixed drinks (again, ask the bartender for suggestions if you're unsure), and probably some other ones I'm not thinking of before you move onto the whiskeys and bourbons.

So basically it's a wide world of alcoholic beverages and honestly people don't encourage experimenting enough