Are Beer Nerds Ruining Craft Beer?

I think the article forgot to completely mutilate the dead horse it was beating.

 

I have dealt with beer snobs on numerous occasions, and I don't like to deal with them. They sure as heck won't ruin my beer though! Also, they do not make up much of the beer community. I personally didn't like them name dropping Beeradvocate because of all of you guys I've read reviews and messages from, very few of you are snobby in the least.

Did anyone else burst out laughing at the picture of that dude with the bow tie?

 

Agree 100% and the less people drinking craft beer the more you get to enjoy for yourself!

 

Wedgies are administered to noobies.

 

good grief.

 

I would imagine that most people that are members on this site are beer nerds. Atleast according to my personal definition of a "beer nerd". To the original poster of this thread: What your definition of being a beer nerd?

 

The writer is trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

 

simple answer, yes, 100 breweries to 2500, must be the beer nerds ruining it.

 

Well I'll be damned. It turns out that I was the one ruining craft beer.

 

maybe somebody already posted this but for god sake we are just talking about beer. Why the need for all of this madness. This kind of stuff is ruining the enjoyment

 

I think there are a few issues in craft beer. I think the author missed them all. I agree with the poster who took issue with the 30 cases of Heady guy. These people are jerks. Those that sell on ebay are bigger jerks. However, in the case of the 30 cases of Heady guy, he is still stimulating the economy of craft beer. The brewery gets the cash even if the hoarder bought it. When the hype gets too big, people move on. There are a couple of events I attended every year until the brewery, and event, grew to the point it wasn't fun anymore (online ticket sales ruined this event in my book).

As prices soar to $35.00 for a bomber of some big bad BA stout, I just say the hell with that, I can brew it for eight times less than that. But none of that ruins craft beer. To me the very notion that having a massive cult following of nuts buying your product hurts your industry - is totally absurd. Besides I agree that the jerks are pretty rare. No one is perfect, I personally have attempted to start calling piss beer, lawn mower beer, so as to not offend BMC drinkers. I've called it that for years, but I don't want people to think I am a jerk because I call their brew of choice urine - even though it is.

Anytime something gets popular you get geeks. If it wasn't for the geeks craft beer would not be were it is today. Breweries like the Bruery would not ever have got off the ground. They clearly cater to non-mainstream. No BMC drinker is just going to say hey what the hell I will buy that $35.00 bottle of BT. So IMO beer geeks make the craft beer world go around. A better way to look at it is how many 'geeks' 'nerds' whatever, introduced a person to craft beer who now drinks it.

 

People who start threads about the possibility of Beer Nerds ruining craft beer are ruining craft beer.

 

Has anyone ever compared you to Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty? That is definitely not something I would have picked up on... math nerd. Lest I be misunderstood, you're the man.

 

Talk about a guy who had crank out X number of words 2 hours before deadline. That might be one of the most poorly written pieces I've ever seen. "In all likeliness"...is that even a phrase? And how many different ways can you say the same thing? Sounded like some of my papers in college that I wrote a few hours before they were due because I was too busy getting hammered.

The author misses the real point. The problem isn't people who are really into beer. The problem is people who are way too into being cool, pretentious, and otherwise intolerable. They're commonly called hipsters. In the writer's defense, saying "hipsters are douchebags. Find a some beers you like and enjoy them and let others do the same" doesn't fill page space.

 

I am a "proofreading nerd"..

 

I think its the difference between a beer enthusiast(ticker, homebrewer, etc) and a straight hipster who probably only learned anything about beer so he/she could sound "sophisticated."

 

Given that the "8" and the "3" at the end of the cited years make it plausible to say that either the first "8" in 1988 was meant to be a 9, or "fifteen" was meant to be "twenty-five," it's a bit pedantic to call this out as a math error. Poor editing would be a much better and riper target, given even a cursory reading of it.

 

tl;dr.

are beer nerds ruining craft beer? no. helping; obviously.

is it okay to ignore someone who is rude to you about beer (or anything else)? 1) yes. 2) if you have to ask, you have bigger things to worry about than whether or not craft beer fans are ruining craft beer.

 

My first thought upon opening this thread is that I wish people took a moment to summarize what the hell they were proposing we talk about instead of just inserting a random link.

 

Labeling people in the first place is an issue...in beer and outside of beer. Its like being beer ethnocentric. Don't read into the article--it's meant to stir conflict.