How to educate the uninformed

[JoePro]

Amazing how many people associate craft beer and hop centric brews...in this forum. If its not an IPA, its not 'good' beer. To me that's just as short sided as the masses. I love many styles of beer and would never 'educate' anyone to not like any beer - it's about showing them the many styles and that they have alternatives. That said, if you like 'beer' it's common to migrate away from light lagers as a preference, but I'd never tell someone they were wrong for doing so. Just my 3 cents...

I'm the same way! I threw a tasting party with 15 gallons for ~30 friends last weekend for my birthday and I served a Belgian double wit, a SNPA clone, and a Bavarian Honey Weizen. I got so many "I don't like Belgian beer-- do you have any IPAs?"

I encouraged them to try them all, and double wit was the first of the three batches to go. They ended up loving it! I sometimes feel like IPAs are this "gusto beer" that the hoppier it is, the more "beer cred" you have. This ends up turning away a bunch of folks from other great styles.

GREAT IPAs are made to be balanced, not just a punch to the nutsack with bitterness. It annoys me.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Ask him what he finds similar between the two because they are completely different styles. Then you might get a better answer as to what he meant. His experience with beer may be BMC and Guinness. So to him, yes, your pale ale was closer to bud than it was Guinness, so that was the descriptor that best fit.

A singularly sage insight sir!!

 

[Hatchbrew]

Coke or Pepsi

 

[EROK]

Do this:

Have a big party and put only one tub or cooler of BMC beers "Miller Lite" for example out for guests. Everything else is your on tap beers, right.

Then as everyone gets there have them sample yours VS BMC and say "Which one do you like?"

If they say the BMC, show them the door! :rockin: Obviously they have no taste in beer !!

That's How We Do.......

 

[DannPM]

Respond with something similar to Franklin here

 

[jgln]

Why do you care if he thinks it tastes like Bud if it does...to him? If he thinks it tastes like Bud to him then it does you can't change that. Also be glad he liked it.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Why do you care if he thinks it tastes like Bud if it does...to him? If he thinks it tastes like Bud to him then it does you can't change that. Also be glad he liked it.

THEN hit him over the head with a brick.

 

[jgln]

What are you doing up this late?

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

What are you doing up this late?

Being sexy

 

[jgln]

Being sexy

Proof...

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Proof...

Ben Franklin said it?

 

[Malintent]

Tell him it will taste alot more like bud after he is done processing what he already drank.

 

[beerloin]

Thanks everyone for your comments. I tried to sum this up for anyone else in the future who may come across someone telling you that your beer tastes like bud. I know that I will use this advice:

Thank him for the compliment (pdxal)
Then goto the kitchen and grab a handful of rice. In the other hand some nice malted barley and let him smell the difference. (40watt)
Tell him that it's a completely separate style (JoePro)
Let him chose between a few buds in the fridge (gcdowd / Mongre)l
And tell him "…here are some other craft beers you might like..." (Bierliebhaber)

Then witness which he chooses. If he picks the BMC, show them the door! (EROK)
Then look him dead in the eye and said "I feel a hate crime coming on". After that, nothing but a blur of karate chops and flying death kicks to the throat. (Brandonovich)
Followed by either
1) A corney keg to the back of the head would do the trick. (seabass07)
Or 2) hit him over the head with a brick. (Laughing_Gnome_Invisible)
And to finish it off, pee on him (count_dookie)

But, in the end, after all is said and done, I guess I'd be flattered if somebody said my beer tasted like Bud. (phenry)

 

[jgln]

Thanks everyone for your comments. I tried to sum this up for anyone else in the future who may come across someone telling you that your beer tastes like bud. I know that I will use this advice:

Thank him for the compliment (pdxal)
Then goto the kitchen and grab a handful of rice. In the other hand some nice malted barley and let him smell the difference. (40watt)
Tell him that it's a completely separate style (JoePro)
Let him chose between a few buds in the fridge (gcdowd / Mongre)l
And tell him "…here are some other craft beers you might like..." (Bierliebhaber)

Then witness which he chooses. If he picks the BMC, show them the door! (EROK)
Then look him dead in the eye and said "I feel a hate crime coming on". After that, nothing but a blur of karate chops and flying death kicks to the throat. (Brandonovich)
Followed by either
1) A corney keg to the back of the head would do the trick. (seabass07)
Or 2) hit him over the head with a brick. (Laughing_Gnome_Invisible)
And to finish it off, pee on him (count_dookie)

But, in the end, after all is said and done, I guess I'd be flattered if somebody said my beer tasted like Bud. (phenry)

Hey....I don't see my quote here.

 

[beerloin]

Hey....I don't see my quote here.

I know, im sorry - it didn't fit into the story that well.
maybe next time....

 

[HexKrak]

All things are a matter of perspective. Given his experiences the strongest influences to his perspective lead him to believe it's similar to bud. I'm guessing it's probably a light vs dark thing. Did he relate the nut brown to amberbock?

If they care to expand their pallete, pull up the BJCP descriptions for light american lager and pale ale and read them off to give him an idea of the differences. If they don't care, feed them good beer anyway and their experience will still skew their perspectives in the long run.

I've found that most people don't care, but I still challenge myself to make beers that fit their palettes (without making bud clones).

 

[beerloin]

All things are a matter of perspective. Given his experiences the strongest influences to his perspective lead him to believe it's similar to bud. I'm guessing it's probably a light vs dark thing. Did he relate the nut brown to amberbock?

Actually- there was no comment on the other two.
it was only the APA that got the comment.
not sure if it is because he didn't have anything else to compare it to...