Craft Beer's Post-Snob Era is Here

But that don't get them clicks...

 

I'm already there. I've got Founders Solid Gold in my fridge--probably set to become a staple--and my most anticipated release is Yuengling's new pilsner!

 

I like the article, and kind of parallels my attitude to beer now.

"New craft drinkers (typically but not always younger millennials, whose first beer might come from craft darling Tree House Brewing instead of Budweiser) are still chasing whales and spewing nonsense about shelf turds."

Funny because it's true

 

Ha, yeah, whatever.

I think the BA really screwed up in not naming it "New England style IPA", because it's already on so much packaging.

 

Funny how the "recovered beer snobs" quoted in the article sound just as patronizing and condescending as the beer nerds they're criticizing. The author, in particular.

 

Nothings worse than going to my local beer store and seeing guys looking at every ipa can date and looking up ratings on their phones... Or asking if there's anything special in the back.. And this is why 95 percent of beer selections now are ipas which no one will buy because they weren't canned yesterday end of rant

 

This article is snobbish and pretentious and takes the absurd step in logic that somehow, craft beer is immature, and that by ordering a miller lite we have officially grown up. Miller lite apparently now also selling pleated khakis.

 

I don't know if I agree with the point that we're in a "post-snob" era. There's still plenty of guys waiting in lines for beers and bitching about the temperature of the beer glass.

I've said before on here that I personally have achieved "beer nirvana" or "beer singularity." I still love my BOSS POUR OF HAZY JUICE BRO-BOMB's but I will also drink a Fat Tire at the bar closest to work. Or have a Bud Light at the ballpark in the summer.

Wishful thinking, but hopefully she's on to something with the death of the "beer-douche."

 

This article popped up on my phone yesterday and I read it. I could related on hauling stuff back to my hometown. Back when I was drinking wine, I would haul an ice chest of wine to my parents house, mainly because their lone liquor store had no selection. I did the same for a year after I started drinking beer until that liquor store started carrying decent beer, and the market opened up in Louisiana. Now I don't do that, I have the chest for my wife's wine and a random beer for the night we get there, but the next day I head to that store looking for Great Raft products to bring back home with me. I don't consider myself a snob, just old enough to know what I want to consume calories from.

 

Indeed.

What it comes down to is that some people are assholes not matter what they eat, drink, or do, because what they eat, drink, or do is always better than what other people eat, drink, or do. They're insufferable.

Of course you don't, but to someone who doesn't understand the width and breadth of craft beer it might seem like you do.

 

Yup, some people sure are.

 

Funny article, but a lot of the folks in it are taking things way too seriously, especially themselves.

Geez, in particular that guy talking hypothetically about how well he can judge beer "If I think my opinion is so great it’s only because..." Quoting a tool like this never helps an article.

 

Thanks, Walt Whitman

Seriously though, snobs aren't going anywhere. For every snob who "checks out" and "grows up" there are two ready to take his place.

A few years back, when I realized that craft beer drinkers were larger snobs than many wine drinkers I know, I stopped visiting breweries, beer fests, and beer bars in favor of brewing beer at home. I am much more satisfied and enjoy beer so much more.

 

This article is a more eloquent version of Thrillist's "14 Phases of Every Beer Nerd's Life" from a few years ago.

I can relate to the article. I've gone through the much the same cycle. Although I haven't willingly purchased Miller Lite yet. There's no comparison between Miller Lite and the Heineken Light I bought last year for the first time ever and enjoyed, so I can still look down on the author's clearly inferior tastes.

 

Awww . . . did you come here just to say that I was an asshole? I'm flattered.

 

If it was in The Onion, I would have probably laughed. It wasn't, so taking it as satire probably wasn't anyone's first thought.

 

Maybe you just don't like people, dude.

 

Get off my lawn!

Seriously though, the home brew culture seems a bit more "encouraging" and "inclusive" rather than the "exclusivity" of the craft culture at large (exclusion as..."I have this, and you don't" mentality).

There are a couple of BA's I really have enjoyed drinking with over the years (who were very encouraging as well), so craft = snob is not a hard, fast rule.

 

Most homebrewers like to help each other out and questions from a new homebrewer are almost never looked down upon. Not that it's all-encompassing, but homebrewers tend to remember that they were once new to the game much more than craft beer geeks do.

Agreed.

 

Don't know why but the term "shelf turds" will never not be funny to me.