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agreed, but some beers do taste of chocolate to me

if it's very faint I can like and enjoy them

It's not unlike wines when they are described as charcoal or cigar box or toasty-- it's an attempt to describe the subtle, complex flavors that are coming through as a result of the tannins, or the oak barrels, or whatever else has imparted flavor to the wine.

One actual used wine descriptor is "cat pee", really, usually with sauvignon blanc.


11 Of The Weirdest Wine Aromas | VinePair

One actual used wine descriptor is "cat pee", really, usually with sauvignon blanc.


11 Of The Weirdest Wine Aromas | VinePair

Some of the ones for Scotch are just as weird.  "Band-aid" and "dirty sweat socks" are not uncommon descriptors, especially for the Islay whiskys.

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Ugh, Good Lord above save us from green-bottle beer.

Sounds to me like you should try more dark beers.  They're among my favorites.

Wine can be "corky" or "corked", depending on who is saying it, which means the cork was contaminated with a specific chemical compound (TCA) that makes it smell and taste awful in varying degrees.  This is why you taste a wine at a restaurant first.  Don't smell the cork though, look at it to make sure the bottle isn't counterfeit and there is no bleed through.  Crystals of tartrate may be on it if it's an aged bottle, which can be OK.

I have my wife taste the wine, she's better at it than I am.

I have liked nearly every dark beer I've tasted. But, at most, that's about a dozen different beers.

I would apply the "dirty sweat sox" description (with the addition of "nicely aged") to green-bottle Heineken.

I was reading one of the books about the 101st in Holland(Netherlands).A couple of the GIs took a German machine gun nest on top of a 4-5 story building.The Gerries in turn started dropping mortars on them and collapsing the roof as it caved in the GIs were saved about 15 ft down.It was stacked cases of Heineken,they were most happy in more ways than one.And the Gerries must have thought they were dead as they didn't return