dontman
Well-Known Member
I'm a volunteer server at a lot of the Beerfest in Portland and about once a shift I have someone come up to me and say, "I normally drink Bud Light (or some other crap beer), what do you think I would like?"
My standard reply is, "Well all of the beers here have a thing called 'flavor'"
This reminds me of the a huge tasting I attended this past Summer. There were about 50 commercial breweries present and maybe 5 or 6 homebrew booths as well.
Walking around, every single one of the commercial brewers was ready willing and eager to talk about their beer, craft beer, laugh and joke with people, and just be great diplomats for their company and beer in general. They made you want to like their product.
OTOH, a lot of the homebrewers acted like you were about to take a test and likely not worthy of their "product." They made you want to hate their product.
There was a cask ale being served and each time the guys there served a beer they said "you'll probably hate this but this is what good real ale tastes like." They were right about one thing. I did hate it. But it was a terrible real ale that tasted like bitter fresca. But this still stands as the stupidest comment that I've heard about a home brew.