i just plain don't believe this

[motobrewer]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/148676/W...ontent=morelink&utm_term=All Gallup Headlines

something is amiss.

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

How so? We male midwesterners love us some beer. Trust me!

 

[motobrewer]

it says beer drinking is down, by a good margin

 

[JoeDaddio]

Wine is delicious.


joe

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah! Too many folks on here making apfelwine! Damnit Ed!

 

[HexKrak]

Wine is becoming more "cool", and is associated with the sheek high class lifestyle.

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

Maybe it is. Not in my house tho! You gotta take polls like that with a grain of salt. But hey, alotta my younger friends prefer booze and wine to beer. Maybe it's the flashy advertising and things like UV with all their kool-aide goodness!

 

[makomachine]

Irrelevant really as it's comparing apples and oranges. It doesn't indicate people are changing from beer to wine drinkers. It just more wine is now being consumed than beer. Winos for the win! Woopteefreakingdoo! (I drink both - just find it funny that someone is likely getting paid something to pull together this meaningless info)

 

[unionrdr]

They apparently haven't seen the videos with beer & food parings by Brooklyn brewery. They had wine too,& many a wine head has been converted. The thing is,wine "compliments/contrasts" food. Beer can "meld" with it harmoniously,being a food product itself.

 

[pauljmccain]

Keep in mind, this includes the womenfolk as well. Read all the way down to the breakdown.

 

[weirdboy]

I feel like telephone polling is actually becoming a more unreliable method of sampling since it excludes most people in my peer group who have dropped landlines in favor of cell phones.

 

[motobrewer]

i'm not gonna lie, in the past month, i've drank way more wine than beer.

 

[unionrdr]

My wife is past that stage,& she still prefers beer. Wine is ok once in a while,but give us the beer! She loves my ales more than BMC's,but isn't unabashed to drinking them when that's all we can afford. She'll drink a dark beer once in a while,but doesn't prefer them. She will sit down with me,a bottle of Quervo gold,& some rose's lime juice.

 

[JoeDaddio]

My girlfriend likes beer more than wine. I like both pretty much equally. Some days I'm in the mood for wine, some days I'm in the mood for beer. It's okay to like both


joe

 

[unionrdr]

I made wine for so many years,I just got tired of it. Amways liked beer,anyway.

 

[huge1s]

crap. I just got into brewing beer and now I have to switch to wine? Or does this mean I have to do both to make sure I am cool

 

[novafire]

Keep in mind that this includes all beer. Craft beer is growing well each year, so if there was indeed a drop it beer drinking, the largest hit was taken by the Macros.

 

[weirdboy]

crap. I just got into brewing beer and now I have to switch to wine? Or does this mean I have to do both to make sure I am cool

I think to be really cool you would need to distill your own spirits. Only don't do it in the US because our nancy-pants government tends to frown on it.

 

[Yooper]

I've always been a winemaker first, and a brewer second. Bob much prefers wine, at least with meals. He loves my beer, too, but he is much more excited about our wines. And since he retired, he has certain wines that he loves for certain meals.

For example, for breakfast he usually has a light red, almost rose', plum wine or a white like the sauvignon blanc. For lunch today, it was blackberry wine. Tonight we'll have oaked chokecherry with a NY strip steak.

I don't drink nearly as much as he does, and I drink far more beer than wine.

 

[Airborneguy]

I used to drink wine, beer, and tequila in close to equal quantities. Wine was a dinner staple for a long time before we had my daughter. Between the two of us, dinner almost always meant a bottle.

Now I've cut back big time and focus my drinking on my homebrew. Gotta have priorities!

 

[screamingcities]

I drink beer or wine depending on my mood mostly, and sometimes the food, or the company.

I pretty much never drink hard alcohol.

 

[Special Hops]

More beer for us!

 

[Pappers_]

+1 on the earlier observation that this would be largely influenced by gender. I can't think of a single female co-worker, relative or real-life friend (HBT friends excluded) who would say they prefer beer to wine.

 

[HokieBrewer]

Wine is becoming more "cool", and is associated with the sheek high class lifestyle.

Chic?

sheek?

or sheik?

 

[certaut]

personal rule of life:
White Bordeaux goes good with smoked fish, but so does ipa's
and Oatmeal stout goes good with eggs but so does Champagne

drink what tastes good to you and be happy

 

[LVBen]

I have a hard time believing those statistics, but that is because of my strong dislike for wine.
I tried really hard to appreciate wine. I did tastings and tried a lot of different types of wines over several years and could never get to the point where I could say "I really like this" about any wines.
SWMBO and I went on a double date about a year and a half ago to a winery/restaurant. I sampled all of the wines with them, but when it came dinner time, they all shared a couple bottles of wine, and I ordered a martini. The owner jokingly told me that wasn't allowed.
When I started homebrewing, it just completely killed wine for me. I've almost completely stopped drinking wine, and don't even care to do wine tastings anymore. SWMBO loves wine and only drinks beer occasionally, but I am slowly trying to convert her to the dark side. She likes 'Cream of 3 Crops' and asked me to make it again for her.

 

[Chia]

I find it hard to believe that there are people that are going to pony up for pricey wine, however wineries are springing up every where around missouri.....

 

[scrambledegg81]

Chic?

sheek?

or sheik?

 

[LVBen]

Ok, so now I know why the moderators delete posts for being off-topic...

 

[scrambledegg81]

Ok, so now I know why the moderators delete posts for being off-topic...

Yoop is a Zappa fan if I recall right. :cross: