Another reason why some "beer snobs" are idiots.

[makomachine]

I agree that most of the people on BA are idiots, but is this place REALLY any better? This place is the anti-intellectual counterpoint to the other beer sites on the web. If BA is the sport of polo, this place is NASCAR.

NASCAR = anti-intellectual? Let's see chasing a ball around while riding horseback trying to hit it with a stick vs fast car turns left - I'll call it a draw!

 

[j1laskey]

I see where the poster on BA is coming from.

Personally, I have abstained from contributing to Clown Shoes revenue because of their sophomoric antics. Plenty of good beer around that doesn't cater to the lowest common denomenator.

Too many stupid people in society as is, no need to encourage more of them.

So you judge books by their covers???

 

[gclay]

I actually like their labels.

 

[dantheman13]

You know what I find the saddest thing about this BA article? The last comment where Jason locks the thread, and the comment he makes...

"Do I like the Clown Shoes branding? Not really, though I am not going to ban them from our fests or stop drinking their beer minus their latest creation ... sorry not going to order a beer called lubrication. Seems to me that Clown Shoes is getting exactly what they are looking for ... free press."

This guy runs the damn site, and he won't buy a beer based on the friggin' name. I don't mean to harp on the guy; I'm sure he does wonders for the craft beer world and is well respected, but to me this really just proves the OP's point.

Another thing that erks me about beer snobs is that they can't drink a beer that has 'floaties'. At least as they become more educated about beer (usually via homebrewing or homebrewers), they grow out of this.

 

[danorocks17]

I have a hard time reading anything at BA. the overall sense of entitlement there is nauseating. Maybe i'm exaggerating a little, but most of the beer reviews are the same regardless of who is tasting them.

 

[scrambledegg81]

Amazed the guy gets butt-hurt over an "insinuated robot dong" and doesn't even bother going after some of the more risque labels. Some that came to mind:

And a rather awesome series I found via Google:

 

[dfc]

The poster is right, everyone...we really just "don't need to go there" to sell beer.....we should be putting Bible verses, white doves, and cotton balls on our beer labels...what is this craft brew world coming to????

On a somewhat related note my buddy is making up a label for me. My brewing company (I use the term loosely since I don't have any licenses and don't make money from this) is called Bad Christian Brewing. I've got names like Eternal Darkness (Imperial Stout), Hellfire And Brimstone (Chile Pale Ale), Irish Catholic Red (Irish Red), Black And Blue Congregation (Blueberry Chocolate Stout), etc.

The logo he's working on is a Priest getting smacked in the face with a newspaper. Do you think that logo might offend the author of the linked article?

 

[dfc]

I agree that most of the people on BA are idiots, but is this place REALLY any better? This place is the anti-intellectual counterpoint to the other beer sites on the web. If BA is the sport of polo, this place is NASCAR.

I resent that. I LOVE this site and I HATE NASCAR.

 

[Big_Belgian]

The poster is right, everyone...we really just "don't need to go there" to sell beer.....we should be putting Bible verses, white doves, and cotton balls on our beer labels...what is this craft brew world coming to????

This is why I only drink beer brewed by trappist monks who have taken vows of poverty, silence and celibacy, and flog themselves daily.

 

[unionrdr]

Or Salvatoran monks...

 

[cadarnell]

I think the label is clearly "Treading Water in a Sea of Retarded Sexuality and Bad Poetry" ~ST

 

[WhiskeyR]

Whoa... where can I get me an El Che?

 

[lextasy23]

 

[Revvy]

Guys can you please have the courtesy to shrink your pictures to around 500 pixels wide? It's really a bitch to try to read posts when we have to scroll back and forth because folks don't take 2 seconds to see if they're posting ungodly over sized pics, and remedy the situation.

 

[8rnw8]

I resent that. I LOVE this site and I HATE NASCAR.

+1 on site loving, and another 1 for NASCAR hating.

I'll admit I'd never heard of this clown shoes brewery, but now I'm curious enough to give them a try, so all this guy is doing is creating free publicity for them. Wait... That was his ploy all along wasn't it?! Sigh... Suckered again...

Someone had a beer called Hedonism a few years back, after initial controversy, sales tripled.

 

[dfc]

I enjoy Hebrew: The Chosen Beer.

 

[JoeyChopps]

I enjoy Hebrew: The Chosen Beer.

Damn right I love there ripa double rye double ipa awesome brew

 

[aerialmedical]

....uh, so is it true, guys, that Clown Shoes brewery is a business start-up by Insane Clown Posse? Those damn juggalos...

 

[dantheman13]

Translates to "Godless". The brewer donates one Danish Crown for every bottle sold to the Danish Atheist Society.

If there is anything more sensitive than sex, its religion!

 

[Refly]

I was with a bunch of friends at the beer tent last week and saw a
Polygamy Porter tee shirt. Shockingly we survived the experience and had a few chuckles over it. I thought it was a "fake" beer until I saw the label.

 

[billf2112]

How dare a beer company use sexually suggestive advertising. The big Beer companies like Coors, Bud or Miller would never stoop that low. Everyone knows drinking cheap crappy commercial beers attracts super models.

C'mon get over it.

 

[Willum]

Guys can you please have the courtesy to shrink your pictures to around 500 pixels wide? It's really a bitch to try to read posts when we have to scroll back and forth because folks don't take 2 seconds to see if they're posting ungodly over sized pics, and remedy the situation.

Get a bigger monitor imo

 

[bigbeergeek]

i dont think that post makes that person a beer snob. i think it makes them an idiot.

nailed it, pwndabear.

 

[j1laskey]

Here's Stacey George's (Clown Shoes' artist) rebuttal. Brilliant!

http://staceygeorge.com/2011/07/06/sometimes-a-pipe-is-just-a-pipe/

 

[Revvy]

Here's Stacey George's (Clown Shoes' artist) rebuttal. Brilliant!

http://staceygeorge.com/2011/07/06/sometimes-a-pipe-is-just-a-pipe/

Awesome!!!!!!

 

[JetSmooth]

GASP! The illustrations were done by a WOMAN!?

Who let her out of the kitchen?

</end REAL sexism>

(of COURSE that was meant sarcastically, don't jump on me about it)

 

[dfc]

GASP! The illustrations were done by a WOMAN!?

Who let her out of the kitchen?

</end REAL sexism>

(of COURSE that was meant sarcastically, don't jump on me about it)

Lies! You're really a misogynist. Admit it.

 

[user 21663]

Ass Antlers lol

Went home and took out the Brown Angel from the fridge. Fantastic!!!

And I hung the bottle on my wall next to my Farah Fawcett poster

 

[Homercidal]

ASS ANTLERS!

That is SOOO much sweeter than the "ASS MATTER" name I was going to use for my next Brown Ale recipe! I think it would also make a better label...

 

[unionrdr]

I used to call those "Tail Tats". I always thought it was just something to look at when you got'em on all 4's...?
I like the Von Dutch style ones.though.