I may not be the most conventional person when it comes to trying out new beers. I might actually take the advice of one of the people at Bevmo and take home a bottle of beer like Wells Banana Bread Beer. Now I'm not the kind of person that likes fruit in my beer, but in this case I was willing to take a risk based on a recommendation from an excited Bevmo staff member. I thought "this beer can't be that bad, can it?" I should have put the beer down and run the other way. This malt beer was an amber color with a thin head, weak lacing and distinct banana nose. The initial taste was surprising in that I didn't know what I had just tasted. The second and third taste were to decide what it was I didn't like about the beer. By the fourth taste, I was pouring the bottle down the drain. At a younger point in my life I would have remembered my masculinity, and sucked back that beer considering it a lesson learned. At this stage of my life, I consider myself man enough to throw out a perfectly cold beer because I didn't like it despite the fact that it was $7. Besides, I had a Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast waiting for me in the fridge. Life is too short for bad beer.
