Beer snobs SUCK!!! (rant)

[david_42]

As a S.N.O.B. (Supporter of Native Oregon Beer), I find your attitude unacceptable. As a drinker of diverse brews, I find one-upmanship in beer drinkers amusing, boring, annoying and infantile.

 

[snailsongs]

As a S.N.O.B. (Supporter of Native Oregon Beer), I find your attitude unacceptable. As a drinker of diverse brews, I find one-upmanship in beer drinkers amusing, boring, annoying and infantile.

People should explore their regional offerings, if just for the simple fact that it's available to them and if they move, it won't be....it is also smart and noble to support your local economy.....There was beer in Juneau AK that I loved that I cannot get here in WI, but there is beer that never leaves these borders that I'll miss when I move away (New Glarus, Central Waters, etc)......so take advantage! go ahead, be a snob.....or as I think of myself, an explorer!

 

[flyangler18]

As a drinker of diverse brews, I find one-upmanship in beer drinkers amusing, boring, annoying and infantile.

Truer words were never spoken. Good showing!

 

[jrodincincy]

At age 26 I grew up on BMC (I'm gonna use this acronym a lot now that I know what it means.. lol) type beers. As I've gotten older my tastes and respect for good beer has flourished, I have the local Hofbrahaus to thank for that.

I like my budlight/budweiser when I'm out at the bar on the weekend with friends as it is cheap and I can drink plenty of it w/out getting too wrecked. At home, I enjoy the finer beers. Right now I fully enjoy my Erdinger Heffe but I limit myself to 1 or 2 a day. At $30 a case crushing a twelver on a friday night just isn't in my budget.

My tastes are always growing for different brews but I will most likely never turn down a budlight/budweiser if its my only option.

I just try to ignore the beer snobs, because they're just like every other snob who thinks their S*** don't stink.



Prost!!

 

[hokster]

As a S.N.O.B. (Supporter of Native Oregon Beer), I find your attitude unacceptable. As a drinker of diverse brews, I find one-upmanship in beer drinkers amusing, boring, annoying and infantile.

+1.

What you were describing seems more of a hipster/indie kid attitude ("Oh, that band was great, but now that they're popular they suck"), but I totally know what you mean. I'd say the big difference is being a snob versus being a connosieur: a snob's tastes are all about being conspicuous, while the connosieur's tastes are established by what they like. One of these lends itself to letting other people be and not caring what they choose to drink, while the other, well, doesn't.

 

[EvilTOJ]

Sam Adams never catches a break, does he?

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

Snob is relative too. To some BMC people...just drinking a Sam is snobbery enough. But some people have to outsnob those snobs so they have to say Sam sucks.

I actually stayed away from Starbucks for the longest time because I thought it was snobby. I didn't want half-caff/double-espresso/fat-free Lattes (with a snap )...I just wanted a cup o joe. But I've developed a bit of my own coffee snobbery...satisfied by grinding my own and using a French Press...but keepin' it real by using plain ole red bag 8 o'clock coffee beans (I've tried a bazillion different brands/styles and ALWAYS come back to the red bag).

 

[flyangler18]

I actually stayed away from Starbucks for the longest time because I thought it was snobby. I didn't want half-caff/double-espresso/fat-free Lattes (with a snap )...I just wanted a cup o joe. But I've developed a bit of my own coffee snobbery...satisfied by grinding my own and using a French Press...but keepin' it real by using plain ole red bag 8 o'clock coffee beans (I've tried a bazillion different brands/styles and ALWAYS come back to the red bag).

Roast your own or buy fresh from a local roaster, then we'll talk. :rockin:

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

Roast your own or buy fresh from a local roaster, then we'll talk.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

After seeing the people I work with happily drink big urns full of hours-old, percolated Folgers for the last 16 years I'm convinced that people just 'develop' a taste for whatever coffee they drink. I think that's why anything but 8 o'clock tastes 'off' to me.

 

[Joos]

Not a huge fan of most SA's but they are not even close to BMC.FACT:Sam Adams makes the same amount of beer in a year that budweiser does in an hour.It's true too...look it up

 

[chumprock]

Roast your own or buy fresh from a local roaster, then we'll talk. :rockin:

I've roasted a couple times (Hot Air Popper), and I found it's just easier buying from Seth because he roasts a lot better than I do.

 

[BrewBrain]

I've never heard of anybody claiming SN, DFH, Stone, etc. don't brew quality beer. People with that opinion should be looked down upon and made fun of relentlessly.

 

[ewbish]

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Beer snobs SUCK, yes you do.

- Brian

p.s. sorry about the long rant just had to get it out

Hmmmm, this calls for further discussion. Suggest we get Schlitz faced, Hamm it up a bit, and quit beating around the Busch.

 

[flyangler18]

I've roasted a couple times (Hot Air Popper), and I found it's just easier buying from Seth because he roasts a lot better than I do.

Try using a heat gun and a metal dog bowl; I find I get much better control over the roast that way.

 

[Maddmann]

I've always wondered since I've tried it: "What was SA thinking when they made their cranberry lambic?" No, seriously, what were they thinking?

+1 Can't even get rid of it when we have people over. Still sitting in the fridge.

I enjoy trying most types of beers(except for any Bud products, everytime I drink one I break out in Hives), some of them are more tolerable than others but everyones tastes are different.

 

[HoppyDaze]

On a somewhat related note...I drank some Michelob Shock Top (a wheat beer) and it was delicious. I recommend it to anyone who likes wheat beers.

I love me some PBR, busch light, bud light...etc.

but I love me some craft beer much better. But I really dont see sitting around the BBQ at a tailgater chugging homebrews...there is a time and place for the Buds of the world..

 

[BrianTheBrewer]

I've never heard of anybody claiming SN, DFH, Stone, etc. don't brew quality beer. People with that opinion should be looked down upon and made fun of relentlessly.

Hahahaha...agreed.

Also, I have drank Starbucks before. Its coffee, it does not suck.
I do not though drink Starbucks because they are more expensive and have a little mini cafe where I can sit and read and feel all warm inside. There are people out there that drink Starbucks just for that reason. There are also people out there that go into fine quality stores just to buy the beer that no one has heard of so they can tell others they have drank it. Hell, I drink this stuff all the time. I buy big crazy beers I have never heard of. I do not buy them because I want to be different or because I want a certain someone to think I am cool or I know about different beer. I buy it because I want to try something new, maybe find a new taste and maybe discover a good beer. I am also not one of those guys that comes on here to put people down about what they drink. I am also the guy who buys Sierra, Sam and Harpoon here and there because I love some of those beers.

 

[BrianTheBrewer]

On a somewhat related note...I drank some Michelob Shock Top (a wheat beer) and it was delicious. I recommend it to anyone who likes wheat beers.

I love me some PBR, busch light, bud light...etc.

but I love me some craft beer much better. But I really dont see sitting around the BBQ at a tailgater chugging homebrews...there is a time and place for the Buds of the world..

I have tried the Shock Top, not half bad. Now you tell that to some other goofs out there and you will get a ear full of why that beer sucks, why you should not drink it and why you dont have a clue about taste. Funny thing is the ones telling you all this are the ones who have never tried it.

 

[ajwillys]

I think the large breweries such as those spoken about here should be applauded for their abilities to grow to the size of being nationally known and still produce excellent craft beers. It's these breweries where alot of us first discovered good beer. When I first started drinking good beer, I thought Dogfish Head and Sam Calagione were the best things to ever happen to beer. Don't get me wrong, I still hold Sam in high esteem, but I've sense realized that there alot of really good breweries and brewers out there doing an excellent job of avoiding the typical corporate pressures (reduce cost, increase market share, etc...) and instead focusing on innovative, delicious beer. These are the breweries that are bringing good beer to the masses. I would dare to say that it is breweries like these that are single handedly responsible for the craft brew movement. How many of us would have ever had a Pliny the Elder (still haven't tried btw) without first having a Sierra Nevada?

 

[jrodincincy]

On a somewhat related note...I drank some Michelob Shock Top (a wheat beer) and it was delicious. I recommend it to anyone who likes wheat beers.

I love me some PBR, busch light, bud light...etc.

but I love me some craft beer much better. But I really dont see sitting around the BBQ at a tailgater chugging homebrews...there is a time and place for the Buds of the world..

I'd have to agree with all that you preach brother

 

[ChshreCat]

I've never had a Sam Adams beer and it's because I've always lumped them in with BMC because that's the image I perceive. They have the big national ads along with BMC and seem to be a big company like BMC (their beer is in every store, even on the other side of the country). My grocery stores even put them in the same cooler as the BMC instead of the one with the micros.

I don't have anything against Sam Adams, but I've just never purchased any of their product. If I'm going to buy beer and I have the choice between SA and something like Deschutes... I'll always pass up the SA.

 

[flyangler18]

I have tried the Shock Top, not half bad. Now you tell that to some other goofs out there and you will get a ear full of why that beer sucks, why you should not drink it and why you dont have a clue about taste. Funny thing is the ones telling you all this are the ones who have never tried it.

And here is where we disagree. I tried Shocktop once, and only once. I found it an adequate (but not good) representation of a witbier. Bland and boring, lacked in the spice that I crave in wits.

My wife enjoys it and Blue Moon from time to time, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I refuse to be apologize for having a discriminating palate.

 

[TheH2]

SA is great. I can pretty much go anywhere and get an ale on tap because they are everywhere now. They have also brought beer to the masses.

I don't like light lagers, bud/miller/heineken/Corona/Stella.

Speaking of "mass" produced. When I went to Seattle I think Red Hook was my third favorite brewery and I must have visited 7 breweries/brew pubs total. Pyramid being the worst and Elysian being the best. Naked City wasn't open yet.

And to top it all off, a brewer from A-B is now running the show at Stone.

 

[BrianTheBrewer]

Let me see... Bud...Miller...Coors.
All watered down lager that is promoted to college students, hard working Americans and sports fans.

Sam Adams promotes taste. You put all 3 BMC's next to each other and again they are still the same watered down lager, maybe a little different in taste but not by much. Now you put a Sam Adams Boston Lager next to the 3 BMC's and you find a 100% different tatse. No yellow fizz, no watered down taste, no bull$hit.

Maybe Sam Adams has grown, and does market on the big scale. So what, why not.
Look at Dogfish Head. 5 years ago outside of Delaware you could not find it on tap anywhere. Now many many bars have it on tap. Same with Sierra Nevada.

Maybe because I am from Boston and know that Jim Koch is a great guy and really promotes great taste and a real product is why I back them up so much. Dont get me wrong though, I rarely drink Sam Adams.

 

[BrianTheBrewer]

And here is where we disagree. I tried Shocktop once, and only once. I found it an adequate (but not good) representation of a witbier. Bland and boring, lacked in the spice that I crave in wits.

My wife enjoys it and Blue Moon from time to time, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I refuse to be apologize for having a discriminating palate.

I am not asking you to apologize. You said your opinion on a beer you dont like that much. Did you offend anyone? I doubt it. Did you put anyone down or try to sound rude or that you have a better taste in beer than anyone else. Nope you did not.

What I am trying to say here...there are beer geeks and beer snobs.
I will never tell anyone that they dont know anything about beer because I see them drinking a Shock Top.

 

[Tessio]

I do not though drink Starbucks because they are more expensive and have a little mini cafe where I can sit and read and feel all warm inside.

That parking lot is too small in Acton, so I don't go in that one very often.

 

[Hilbert]

I couldn't agree with you more. I was going to put up a similar post but you beat me to it.

I'll take it a step further. For all of you beer snobs who put down the big brewers or BMC as it tends to be called.

Didn't any of you go to a party and get completly trashed on the cheapest worst tasting stuff on the planet? If you didn't then you suck. These beers have a home in my heart that is very dear. I cannot tell you how many cans of Keystone Light I drank in college and to be honest it was some of the best times of my life. Imagine if I beer-snobbed it up and said " I won't touch that swill!!" I'd be sitting at home complaining how I am the only one with taste. (and not getting laid that night on top of it)

I'll be honest. I like miller lite. Oh my god I said it! Yes there are good reasons to drink a light beer from a brewery. There are occasions where I may want to have multiple beers and I don't know if I can stomach an entire case of some hop crazy IPA and my stomach will beg me to put something a little lighter in it.

Also, any of you would kill to have a Sam Adams style brewery. He started that thing in his kitchen think about it.

I would like to hear from anyone who has funny cheap ass beer stories for this post. That'll shut up the beer snobs.

 

[TexLaw]

Beer snobs SUCK, yes you do.

Yep. Beer and snobbery just don't go together.


TL

 

[BierMuncher]

I'm a self proclaimed Beer Snob and I'll still crack a PBR or hit the Bud Light at a kegger.

Ironically, PBR is gaining in popularity as the anti-beer because of their essential lack of any mass marketing.

People drink it more because it's trendy to snub their nose at the mega-marketed brewers not because it's good beer.

I do like a good cold PBR in the summer.

linky

 

[TexLaw]

BM, it's the same with Schiltz, especially since the "vintage" recipe has come back around.


TL