Seriously???

[Homercidal]

Sometimes it's hard to fill your writing quota.

 

[Beernik]

This is what I read:

"I think Cheese Wiz and Oscar Meyer Bologna are the epitome of fine cuisine. I don't care what is in it. I don't want to taste it. I just want to eat and be full."

There are people like this in the world. I work with one. She constantly asks at restaurants when we all go out to lunch, "Is this spicy." My response is always, "For me, no. For you, yes."

What do you call an anti-epicure? If there isn't a word for it, we need to invent one.

Btw, anyone who uses "chunderous" in a sentence cannot claim to not be unpretentious.

 

[Singletrack]

I couldn't help thinking that if she had been writing about wine, it would have been funny -- or maybe I should say, funny for a different reason. I don't understand wine; she doesn't understand beer.

 

[hunter_le five]

"I think Cheese Wiz and Oscar Meyer Bologna are the epitome of fine cuisine. I don't care what is in it. I don't want to taste it. I just want to eat and be full."

There are people like this in the world. I work with one. She constantly asks at restaurants when we all go out to lunch, "Is this spicy." My response is always, "For me, no. For you, yes."

What do you call an anti-epicure? If there isn't a word for it, we need to invent one.

You just described my SWMBO.

It never ceases to irritate the sh!t out of me.

 

[Hello]

That was an amusing read.

While I don't agree by any stretch (duh), she does bring up some valid criticisms of craft beer:
1) It's f***ing expensive
2) Hipsters/craft beer snobs are annoying as sh*t
3) A lot of it is terrible (though I wouldn't agree with "most"), but still gets fawned over by sole virtue of being "craft"

She sounds like she's part of the "drinks solely to get drunk" crowd, which would explain why she doesn't get craft beer.

I do agree that craft beer is overly expensive and those who really get into their beer to the point where that is all they want to discuss while drinking do annoy me. I will go to shares and such and discuss things like that, but I am among "my people". I try to dial **** down when I'm just out and about.

I definitely think she is of the drinks to get drunk crowd. She even writes, "They’re also expensive, which means the price of finding one that doesn’t taste like licking a compost heap is too damn high (unless someone is giving them to you for free, which should be the only legal form of beer evangelism). This point can be lost on craft beer nerds, who are either higher income earners or so obsessed with their beer hobby that they can’t imagine why anyone would pay less exacting attention to the fizzy brown stuff they drink to give themselves a buzz."

FYI, craft beer can be a session beer. Craft beer does not have a floor and ceiling ABV limit. I do not think MOST craft beer is bad and I've never been to any brewery or bar that wasn't 100% fine giving me samples. In fact, I had 4 samples at a brewery only to find out which one I wanted in my growler. I wasn't even drinking there that day.

This over-emotional craft beer hater can go F herself with a bud light in hand but before that, she should do some research. Many breweries that I've been to or bars that highlight craft beer still serve BMC or a brewery serves a beer that is very close to something from the BMC group. She just sounds angry and ignorant.

 

[Zepth]

This over-emotional craft beer hater can go F herself with a bud light in hand

Wait, if she's doing that. And the bottle is in her hand... 2+2... Oh my.

Back when craft beer was first hitting the market I admit I didn't understand the appeal to it. Not saying any of them were bad - then again when they were first coming onto the scene I don't recall any "Tropical fruit and Seafood Porter" type ridiculousness. I can agree that some breweries are simply trying to get the strangest invention onto the market because they can.

What I can't agree with is the rest of the article. It's been said in this thread a couple times that any alcohol serving establishment we've been will still serve an option for the BMC drinkers out there. There are even some places I've been where BMC is the only thing they've got on tap, then Heineken or Corona in bottles. If she's ending up in places where craft is all that's available, she is trying to find the wrong venue to attend.

 

[Tin4]

This is what I read:

"I think Cheese Wiz and Oscar Meyer Bologna are the epitome of fine cuisine. I don't care what is in it. I don't want to taste it. I just want to eat and be full."

There are people like this in the world. I work with one. She constantly asks at restaurants when we all go out to lunch, "Is this spicy." My response is always, "For me, no. For you, yes."

What do you call an anti-epicure? If there isn't a word for it, we need to invent one.

Btw, anyone who uses "chunderous" in a sentence cannot claim to not be unpretentious.

Cheez Whiz and Bologna have their place. In my belly.

 

[Psylocide]

Now I want some damn spray cheese. Thanks HBT.

 

[LandoLincoln]

She would have a point if the craft beer market was close to eclipsing the macro lager beer market and that micro beer market was preventing her from enjoying the beers that she likes. As it stands right now, that day is a loooooooong way off, and it may never come at all. She's being a macro beer snob while deriding the micro beer snobs for being snobs. She is a hypocrite.

Beer snobbery of any kind is something to be avoided. It's often times difficult to do, but we should try our best and remain vigilant against it.

Just remember: a beer geek cares about what THEY drink. A beer snob cares about what YOU drink.

 

[bobeer]

I saw this too but didn't click on it because I don't support those stupid random ads...
Ever hear of happy hours? Maybe it's just my part of the country but tons of places have $3 or half priced pints from 4-7pm or somewhere around there. Some even on the weekends too. Unless you're drinking at pubs during the day, or on Friday/Saturday night will I pay full price and if I was affected that greatly where I felt the need to rant about beer prices during those times maybe I should choose sobriety.

Articles where people bash something that is subjective are very annoying. Get over it. People like "craft" beer. Not everyone has to like the same stuff... That's why we have choices--because different people dig different things. Funny thing is, idk about AU, but in America the beer world was like this before we had the cheap yellow fizzy stuff. Every neighborhood had its breweries and people drank their local beer and it mostly wasn't BMC style lagers.

Maybe she should learn to homebrew...

 

[ubnserved]

I read the "article", rant, and a couple of pages of comments. Being the curious person that I am, how many of you have actually been / met a beer snob? The guys on the bud super bowl commercial don't count and neither does this "writer".
Am I the only one that thinks that if the places she frequents are now serving a variety of beers it is because the bars (pubs) she goes to are there to make money and that if she no longer can appreciate the atmosphere or menu she should find another place to go, having said that it would most likely be appreciated by the owners of said pubs because of her horrible attitude toward their clientele and menu.
I had my first craft brew 20+ years ago and have never looked back wondering why I chose to go the route of enjoying the beer I drink over drinking beer that is not enjoyable or actually tastes bad. In the 20 years I have purchased the occasional stinker and I have purchased the cases of bmc. Neither makes "most craft beers" nasty or gross or whatever she said. Buying the bmc reminds me why I like craft beer and buying the occasional stinker helps me learn what not to make or buy again. It really comes down to this with those of us who brew, serve and appreciate craft beer..... would you really serve TV dinners at your dinner party? Not saying that there are no occasions when you would not serve bmc but ...... well you get the point. Each occasion/ place has a proper menu she just doesn't fit with the menu anymore.