Beer snob stories

Discussion in 'Beer Talk' started by 5thOhio, Jan 16, 2013.

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  1. utopiajane

    utopiajane Initiate (0) Jun 11, 2013 New York

    So I am at the family picnic with people named "Big Nicky" and "Fat Tony" and where women with really big hair and too much perfume make the macaroni salad with the "miracle whip , not the mayonaise. " I brought my own beer. All day long it was loud whispers - "She brought her own beer. She thinks she's too good for us" and "What does she have to show for this 'hobby' except a skinny wallet and a bunch or reviews on a website?"

    That's my story. I'm not even a snob.
     
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  2. stella77artois

    stella77artois Initiate (0) Nov 4, 2010 New York

    Ha. Yeah it's my username at a lot forums/sites, dating back to when I was like 21, so I usually keep that as my username when I join new forums. I've taken some grief from it before.
     
  3. totalbangover

    totalbangover Initiate (0) Jul 3, 2012 Michigan
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    What are the criteria for reviewing a beer on this website? Hard to rate aroma when drinking from the bottle. It's exactly because I want to be able to talk about beer with her that I have poured her beer in a glass before.

    Honestly I only occasionally do this now but its because most of the time she's not drinking for discussion but primarily to catch a little buzz with an ok beer she doesn't want to overanalyze... and don't get me wrong i do realize my move is douchey. But on the other hand at this point when I pull out something good (in other words for us to drink together and talk about) she has her favorite glass and I don't think would consider drinking something like BCBS from the bottle the way she would have a couple years ago. 5 years before that she wasn't that into craft beer at all, at that point would you have told me to leave her alone with her Rolling Rock? I think my method is working and like I said before as time goes on i think she'll take the extra 20 seconds to pour more beers into a glass for a fuller experience.
     
  4. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,145) Mar 12, 2009 New York
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    My favorite is the homebrewer asshole snob at Keegan Ales who was telling Tommy Keegan how to make better beer. Tommy was very gracious about it, but this douche just took that as the signal to keep going. Five minutes of this and Tommy never was anything but gracious.
     
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  5. Zormac

    Zormac Zealot (515) Nov 18, 2012 Ohio

    but you seem to have missed my point
     
  6. totalbangover

    totalbangover Initiate (0) Jul 3, 2012 Michigan
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    I know I'm lucky. And I'm drinkin right now :wink:
     
  7. Zormac

    Zormac Zealot (515) Nov 18, 2012 Ohio

    same here we have reached our zen
     
  8. frazbri

    frazbri Initiate (0) Oct 29, 2003 Ohio

    I called Stella "Belgian Budweiser" for years, then they bought Anhueser-Busch, and I don't know what to call it.
     
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  9. ISmith87

    ISmith87 Initiate (0) Jul 19, 2011 Arizona

    I was at a bar in Missouri one time that I thought wouldn't be this douchey about it, since there were two universities in the town, but I asked for a local beer and the owner laughs and says "yea, we have Budweiser". I actually ended up getting to know the guy months later and he turned out to be an alright guy, but the impression stuck and I didn't go back to his bar.

    It's funny how if your steaks cooked wrong people will take it back immediately, but if you ask for a beer that doesn't suck, they look at you like you're wearing a f***ing ascot and drinking with your pinky out.
     
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  10. ISmith87

    ISmith87 Initiate (0) Jul 19, 2011 Arizona

    And for the record, I've never had a steak taken back at a restaurant.
     
  11. Giovannilucano

    Giovannilucano Maven (1,424) Feb 24, 2011 Pennsylvania

    I believe your example shows us the degree of folks who believe that our passion for beer makes us a snob. In no way should it be like this. Did you go to this party in a limo? Did you have assistants at your beck and call? If not, well what the heck then? :grinning: No, carry on and enjoy what you love because I do the same too!
     
  12. Giovannilucano

    Giovannilucano Maven (1,424) Feb 24, 2011 Pennsylvania

    Also a very big point of craft beer I have come to know is that the hard working blue collar should appreciate craft beer because the workers themselves are blue collar, unless of course they are not. It seems like some do not appreciate craftsmen ship and this does apply to beer.
     
  13. JackofBlades

    JackofBlades Initiate (0) Apr 1, 2013 Texas


    The Live Oak Hefe and La Fin du Monde are some mighty fine beers for your 21st birthday.
     
  14. otispdriftwood

    otispdriftwood Initiate (0) Dec 9, 2011 Colorado

    I guess the snobbiest thing I do is that if there isn't a beer list posted somewhere and I ask for the beer selection, I then say: "aside from the usual suspects". If I get a puzzled look I spell it out - besides Bud, Heineken, Coors, Miller, Amstel. I also ask for a warm glass and if I get another puzzled look [they would naturally go together] I say that I don't like ice in my beer.
     
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  15. utopiajane

    utopiajane Initiate (0) Jun 11, 2013 New York

    Who puts ice in beer? The same people that put fruit in it? :confused:
     
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  16. otispdriftwood

    otispdriftwood Initiate (0) Dec 9, 2011 Colorado

    Yeah maybe - that's a start. I'll expect a full report on my desk in the morning.
     
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  17. Flashy

    Flashy Pooh-Bah (1,755) Oct 22, 2003 Vermont
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    Sounds like they need servers who can explain what you are about.
     
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  18. BurgeoningBrewhead

    BurgeoningBrewhead Initiate (0) Jul 18, 2012 Pennsylvania

    But the snobbiest thing I've done would probably be at Outback Steakhouse.
    Their menu says, below the draft list of the usual BMC stuff, "ask about our local beer offerings."
    So I asked, and the waitress just gave me a blank stare. I then took refuge in a Sam Adams Summer Ale, which was the best thing they had.
    I guess I should have expected as much from a place whose menu also says "Craft: Shock Top Belgian White," but I was a bit annoyed that they seemed so confused when I asked about local beer because their menu implies they have some.
     
  19. YieldToNothing

    YieldToNothing Initiate (0) Mar 13, 2013 New York

    or we're just making the best of a bad situation and not trying to make the people hosting us feel like assholes?
     
  20. Tut

    Tut Initiate (0) Sep 23, 2004 New York

    Why do so many here think making a reasonable request like that, especially after she blew the initial pour, is being "snobby"?
     
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