I find the statement "beer tastes like shit" to be somewhat moronic. There are hundreds of different types of beers and there are some really distinctly different ones. If what you call "beer" is natty light, PBR, MGD, corona, or whatever other garbage then I will agree with you, but real beer is great, and it covers many different flavor profiles. "Beer" is not a flavor, it is a category of beverages.

To each his own, though.