Hatchbrew
Well-Known Member
I always get told about someone or another that they know brews too.
//RANT//
Maybe I'm just an unfriendly jackass, but I sorta miss the days when I could tell a group of people I was a homebrewer and get nothing but a bunch of half disgusted stares. Now it seems like every fratboy and hipster either homebrews or claims to know enough about it to tout himself as an authority on the topic. When did homebrewing become soo trendy all of a sudden? It's not that I want homebrewing to be some type of selective club, I just don't want it to become some meaningless, blase activity that is associated solely with the likes of those ****** canoes who care to blog about their new ipad or Ray-Bans.
It's like food. It used to be fine to cook nice things and enjoy them in anonymity. Now some a**hole makes a pot roast and feels impelled to blog it all over the freaking interwebs and provide snide commentary on how special it is; as if the world never saw a pot roast before. Beer is not wine, it is not cigars, or fancy cars. It's worth as a product and hobby should not be determined by how unique it is, or how many ****** line up to buy a bottle of it, or how many ****** use it as a launching pad for their own pitiful egos.
Homebrewing doesn't need tv shows with cheerleader sam calagione telling everyone how cool beer is, or magazines telling you your beer sucks because it wasn't made by monks or touched by vestal virgins; or organic hops that will help save the whales, and other nonsense. I brew beer because I want to and enjoy doing it, not because I care about the latest fad or how cool it will make me look. I brew beer, I drink beer, and I think our hobby's future would be better off it's popularity rested in brewing beer rather than allowing some **** to live their life "vicariously" through it.
(and If I offended you... too freaking bad!)
//End Rant//
I recently discovered REAL BEER about a year ago, Until then I didn't like the stuff you could buy at the store...Miller Bud etc... for the past year I have been going to a few Brew fests and really enjoying what I was tasting about a month ago I woke up on a Sunday morning after a fest and decided I wanted to give it a try so I went to the store and got a Mr. Beer and made that shady little kit a few days later I went to the LHBS and picked up a BB kit I'm hoping what I'm making is going to be at least drinkable I have been using every spare second I have to read these threads here and books and watching videos about it, I need a mentor but I'm the only person I know that home brews in my area. I don't want to give up maybe in a few years i'll be good at it! I never looked at it as a fad.
I recently discovered REAL BEER about a year ago, Until then I didn't like the stuff you could buy at the store...Miller Bud etc... for the past year I have been going to a few Brew fests and really enjoying what I was tasting about a month ago I woke up on a Sunday morning after a fest and decided I wanted to give it a try so I went to the store and got a Mr. Beer and made that shady little kit a few days later I went to the LHBS and picked up a BB kit I'm hoping what I'm making is going to be at least drinkable I have been using every spare second I have to read these threads here and books and watching videos about it, I need a mentor but I'm the only person I know that home brews in my area. I don't want to give up maybe in a few years i'll be good at it! I never looked at it as a fad.
I recently discovered REAL BEER ...
One of the goals of the bjcp is to promote "real beer", which seems to suggest the promotion of craft beer. It's a pretty tongue-in-cheek goal for an organization that wrote a style guideline for American Lite Lager.
I guess I worded that wrong I didn't mean to make false assumptions about a adult beverage that others may like, I'm not trying to be a snob or anything of the sort.. your right that's not my cup of tea.
I think someone is "miss-suggestng" what they mean by "real beer"
Can you make "real chili" with beans? Or "real ribs" on the grill and in the oven?
I no longer care who brews what or who drinks what. I think beer is beer, and this is the best time to drink/brew beer. There's plenty for everyone...those who like light lagers and those who like ales...we have plenty to choose from. Hell even in my chain grocery store, there's now more craft beer on the shelves than BMCs.....
Can you make "real chili" with beans? Or "real ribs" on the grill and in the oven?
And don't forget, Sushi from Kroger's....which I just had for dinner, with a Leffe blonde, and wish I had another tray of. It was damn skiffy.
That's me! I'm so not cool. But maybe I'm trying to be. The problem is that I'm always late for all the cool stuff. By the time I realize it would be cool to ____________, the fad is over.
I totally missed out on Birkenstocks, 8-track players, pot smoking, and cell phones. By the time I tried any of those things, it was no longer "cool" and everybody was onto other things. I still don't have a cell phone, besides a pay-as-you-go tracfone.
Or, maybe I'm not trying to be cool. I really don't care what people think so I have no one to impress.
I'm so uncool that maybe I'm cool. Um, no. I'd say not.
I LOVE that more people are interested in brewing. That's a great thing for all of us. There are some sneaky ways that our legislators are trying to increase revenue- sometimes adding taxes to brewpubs or microbreweries. Since more of us are brewing and aware of craft brewers now, we can help support them. I think commercial breweries are beginning to love homebrewers, realizing that we still buy way more beer from them than non-craft beer drinkers. Homebrewing doesn't really decrease their sales- but we actually raise awareness of great beers.
I say that we should start a movement to get everyone to brew! Whether it's Mr. Beer, all-grain, an all electric HERMS, a micro, or a macrobrewery, it's all beer. And that's a good thing.
Too popular? The more the merrier as far as I'm concerned.
If somebody wants to talk about brewing I'm all for it. I might just learn something.
Hey guys, just want to say goodbye.
Homebrewing was cool as long as I was the only one doing it.
Now it's trendy. I'm out.
Yea, when I say I homebrew, people look at me like I have two heads, then ask how I get the alcohol in there.
Now it seems like every fratboy and hipster either homebrews or claims to know enough about it to tout himself as an authority on the topic.
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