The Subtle Art of Beer Snobbery

Modern Drunkard magazine ^ | October, 2009 | Frank Rich

[ezo4]

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[B Knotts]

Not at all...a completely different thing. Guinness is good, but Chimay Blue is intense and complex. I like both of them.

I generally like to drink the beer I brew, though. I haven’t tried brewing a Belgian Ale, though.

[Tainan]

I Like Beer bunp.

[Chances Are]

Yes! I buy this!

I believe this is the world's finest brew, better (slightly) than even Warsteiner Dunkel.

CA....

[Andonius_99]

ahhh...Steel Reserve. The Nectar of The Slobs... :)

[gunnyg]

make mine dogfish 60!

[Eagle Eye]

Jameson is my friend.

I have very few rules in life but one I ALWAYA obey is this:

I never drink unless I am alone or with someone.

[IYAS9YAS]

$12 the bottle

So, for two bottles of this crap, I could brew 5 gallons of my own home brew.

[IYAS9YAS]

I never drink unless I am alone or with someone.

Now that's a philosophy I can agree with.

[knews_hound]

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[petercooper]

[Cincinatus]

My current personal favorite:

[I Buried My Guns]

It does not taste at all like guinness, but can be mixed with it to make a “Black and Black”.

[I Buried My Guns]

I homebrew and my product is oftentimes nasty and undrinkable.

I mix it with Steel Reserve or something similar so I don't gag, kinda like a Balack and Tan. True story.

[WoofDog123]

“Not at all...a completely different thing. Guinness is good, but Chimay Blue is intense and complex. I like both of them.”

guinness is also a shadow of its former self. I can remember in the early 90s drinking it bottled and bottle-conditioned - the beer was so complex it tasted great warm. i still vividly remember driving to atlanta to buy a bunch of cases, only to get home and find 1) the back label had changed and 2) it tasteed a lot worse (didnt understand the bottle-conditioning change until years later).

the current product has been unrecognizable to me for over a decade. there are much better irish stouts out there, though sourcing can be tricky...

[GOP_Raider]

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[Penn_Cajun]

No Sam Adams I’ve ever tasted was any good, so why would a special glass make it any better??

[wastedyears]

Have you tried this?

[spinestein]

I've been a homebrewer and craft beer drinker since I was 18, but that doesn't make me a beer snob. It just makes me appreciate even more all the different styles of beer there are. Even “standard American lite lager” is a respectable beer style and those craft brewers who dismiss it are doing a disservice to their fellow beer lovers.

[mamelukesabre]

I homebrew also. Although I havn’t boiled up a batch of wort in over a year.

I found that if I have a particularly nasty tasting batch...let it age for 6 months or more and taste again. You’ll be surprised how much better it is.