That's like the worst part about alcohol, it tastes like stale bleach. 

I very much enjoy the taste. In the evening I like a cup of coffee with a bit of dark chocolate mix and a shot of baileys. Tastes delicious. Then sit down with a game and it really enhances the experience. Add a weed cookie and by the time that starts kicking in (takes about an hour) it's like your playing VR it gets so real. Last night I was marveling at the costumes during the fights in Ghost of Tsushima.

A cold beer after a 3 hour cycle ride tastes amazing. Pares well with spicy food. Oddly, I don't like beer in winter at all, just on hot summer days after cycling for hours. Rum and Coke, especially the lime variant (of rum) tastes great. My wife loves the coconut rum with coke.

I don't like to get actually drunk or stoned to the degree you can't move anymore or end up with a hang over the next day, yet at the right measure it can enhance everything. From food to nature to sex. (Although that last one doesn't go so well when you get the giggles lol) Taking a walk through the forest while slightly high is an amazing experience. But it's very rarely I do that, since it's quite a walk to get to the forest haha. (Do not drink/smoke/vape/consume and drive ever)

But I do take some weed every night as it helps me sleep and get much better rested than without. I went without from 2002 (emigrated) until it was legalized here end of 2018. I'm so much better rested now which makes everything easier and more enjoyable. Gone are the days that I fall asleep while cycling and clip a pole or ride into a ditch!

Anyway it's fun to explore different states of mind. Although some of the things you might find out about yourself can be scary or you end up sharing a whole lot more than you wanted to. Make sure to be with friends!

I guess I'm quite the degenerate, coffee + alcohol + weed and I guess chocolate is a stimulant as well haha.

Every time I'm on this website, for some weird reason.

Alcoholic drinks are a lot like food; they come in many different flavors, even within the same type of alcohol (eg beer, wines, cocktails, etc). Perhaps you haven't met the right kind yet? There's a reason we cook and bake with it too, after all!

No, Alcohol tastes like alcohol. what the alcohol is IN has unique flavour profiles and tastes and so on and so forth. What the alcohol was fermented in effects the flavour. But alcohol itself is one flat flavour: Burning bleached asshole.

Everything that has Alcohol in it likely tasted fine before the alcohol was put in it. Wine? Ew. Grape Juice? Delicious! Cocktails? The ingredients taste fine, but as soon as you add alcohol it ruins the flavour by making everything taste like turpentine and Novocain. 

Alcohol free beer does not taste fine! But sure, when cooking with wine, sometimes the last stage is 'flambee' or burning off the alcohol.

Btw you don't put alcohol in stuff, it's a natural process. Leave your fruit sitting too long and it can ferment on its own. The alcohol gives it a 'kick' like adding spice to food. You don't straight up eat black pepper either, but it's a great seasoning! Of course if you can't stand the taste of black pepper, it will ruin every food you put it on.

Vodka is the closest to pure alcohol 'taste' I guess, and it does taste like what I imagine turpentine tastes like. Not a favorite.

Yes, I am well aware of the science behind it. I know that fermenting results in a distinct flavour and alcohol as a byproduct. I know you don't just take 100% pure alcohol and infuse it into things. However, the alcohol itself does have a distinct chemical compound and a flavour. 

Beer tastes terrible regardless. Like Barf and goat piss. I was referring mostly to 'girly' drinks like cocktails and mixes. 

'girly' drinks? Does that term still exist in 2021!

To each their own, a nice Belgium blonde is delicious!

it's just the term I know as a blanket statement for all the fruity or fragrant ones. It's not an insult or anything (Even when I did drink, it was the only type of alcohol I liked), it's just a sort of lingering term.