What is a snob, exactly?

I don't even think those are made with same ingredients. Isn't Bud heavily brewed with rice, whereas the others have corn?

 

Most people I know have their preference but will drink the others if that is all that's available.

To this day I still prefer Bud Light to the other BMC lite beers simply because it has the least flavor of them all. As far as I'm concerned, less shitty flavor is a good thing when it comes to these beers.

 

I've been drinking craft beer for over twenty years, traveled many times to Britain, Belgium, Germany, and the Czech Republic, and I think Creme Brulee smells AND tastes disgusting.

I think your best friend knows more about beer than you.

 

Hey, I resemble that remark! But we don't have any Waffle House's up here in yankee land so I hope my snobbishness can be excused. I love Waffle House when I'm getting close to the Mason Dixon line!

 

As many wise BA's have said here before, "Just drink what you prefer." However, a small story. I had a close friend I associated with often, and we both liked to drink beer. Sometimes, on a slow evening when he'd stand a round for the two or three others we were drinking with, (by the way, all of the others were BMC Lite drinkers), he'd ask me, "Why do you always drink the high-priced stuff??" (Big deal - $1.50 to $2 more.) I'd hand him my as-yet untouched draft. The following ritual never changed: he'd take a sip, wrinkle up his face like I'd just poisoned him, and push it back at me, and return to his Bud Lite. He died several years ago (not due to his drinking habits, presumably), and I still miss him.

 

Read a few of the comments on these forums about people who drink macro and how they are inherently inferior, and maybe you'll begin to understand.

 

The geek you're describing sounds like me cousin. His usual beer is Bud Light, but he gets really enthusiastic about every newly advertised beer. Black Crown? Liked it. Beck Sapphire? Liked it. BL Platinum? Claimed to really like it, but never bought it again. Blue Moon? Tried em' all, and liked em' all. Batch 19? Recites the "origin story" like he works for Coors (and likes it). Now, to be fair, he'll try just about anything I offer, but is averse to highly hopped beer. In a way, he's the anti-snob. He likes stuff that isn't too challenging pretty much across the board. (beer, food, music, movies...)

 

I just went to my fridge and reached past bottles of Reinaert Flemish wild ale, Parabola, Track 7 Big Four strong ale and Weiheinstephaner Korbinian to grab a cold can of Hamm's. So what? I actually enjoy and even sometimes crave canned AALs. Fucking sue me. Later on I'll probably spend an hour inhaling the funky esters off the Reinaert. Big deal. I sniff beer. Woohoo.

I've met plenty of both BMC and craft snobs. The BMC snobs are easy to deal with - just pop and raise a can of cheepniss and shut up if you want to keep hanging out. Hey, more good beer for you! But the true craft snobs are the absolute worst. I was at my local tap house the other day enjoying and discussing some truly superior beers with another patron, and as soon as I mentioned that I kept cans of Hamm's/Oly/Pabst chilling in my fridge at all times, he immediately shut down our conversation like I had just denied the Holocaust and declared OJ innocent in the same breath. Actually rolled his eyes. Fucking toolbox. We can't all suck down Curieaux for breakfast, lunch and dinner, pal.

 

I assert/propose that many AAL loyalists simply don't Like the taste of Beer..
They drink the stuff because they think that Beer is what they are supposed to drink socially as dudes or something.
And this stuff has the least offensive taste for them as it related to actual beer flavor.

 

Well, he certainly shouldn't have summarily dismissed you for that reason, but many of us don't like BMC beers and haven't had them in our fridges for years. I stopped drinking them in the late 80's and never looked back. I drank plenty of those crap beers in the 60's, 70's, and 80's, but will never understand what pleasure you get from them. If I want a light, crisp beer, I'll go for a craft pilsner or kolsch, etc.

 

I've got friends who went bananas for Shock Top Honey Crisp Apple Wheat. That being said, we're slowly getting them into good craft stuff... but they've got to start somewhere.

 

He sure does!

"If it's not Bud Light, it's disgusting."

He also thinks any stout/porter/IPA/APA/sour smells awful as well.

He definitely knows more. You win.

 

Well I just met a Mexican beer snob who claimed if he showed up to a party with Corona, he'd get his ass kicked; if he exists, everything in this world exists.

So he got a case of Pacifico.

 

Not sure if someone already posted this, but take a look at this video on youtube....very interesting results.

 

That might be part of it, but honestly it has always seemed like 2 different worlds to me. I don't think most macro drinkers have much if any contact with craft drinkers; it's not like we accost them in the streets (although I can't speak for everyone, I suppose). They'd have to actively seek out places where craft drinkers congregate, such as BA, in order to hear much derision towards their tastes.

 

The pleasure I get is in spending $0.48 a can on a simple, clean American lager that doesn't offend my palate. I drink a lot of beer, I share a lot of beer, I have other things in my life that take money, and I don't have a ton of disposable income. If I reached for a Victory Prima at 3x the cost every single time I craved or handed out a beer, I'd have to cut back on other things I deem equally or, believe it or not, more important than beer.

 

I know a lot of folks who swear only by Miller High Life.

 

Both were draft. The taste tests were dine in little taster glasses. People couldn't tell the difference either by appearance of taste. ;-)

 

I can see obvious potential for him because he's right on target with Creme Brulee. You should have used any craft beer but that to make your point about him.

 

Fair enough, but I don't find those beers enjoyable in any way and won't drink them for that reason, regardless of cost. I don't understand what you like about beers I find bland, flavorless, and boring. Obviously continue to drink what you want - I just don't get it.