Beer: eat the geese in the fall, when they are fat and tasty. Now there's a hunt I'd like closed: the winter goose hunt - driest, skinniest, worst tasting geese ever. We get gifted with geese and ducks after every season, and I really hate the winter ones - husband likes them, so I cook 'em, but the ducks taste of old fish and the geese of the muddy eelgrass they eat.