Female Beer Drinkers

I said that when I got my hands on a Pliney this year. I hated stouts when I first started drinking, but I think the pallet grew and so the the open-mindedness. It's something I think that all beer lovers go through, male or females. Plenty of folks say they hated beer when they first tried it. Gender doesn't matter. It's just more acceptable for a man to be a beer drinker in society's mind, so men progress faster (generally speaking). For me, I can't even tell you the crazy looks I got drinking BEER at a BACHELORETTE party! Obvi I only wanted champagne and martini's because I was with a BACHELORETTE party! *gags* Nope. What's on tap? Please and thank you.

 

Ah, this subject. I personally find nothing wrong with pre-conceived notions, as long as people are willing to accept that they are just notions. An example outside of beer.

A tall 6'9" athlete is in a room full of people who have no clue who he is. The room is asked, what sport do you think he plays. I bet most would say basketball. But he doesn't. He plays hockey for the Bruins. I doubt Chara felt the least bit offended by the assumption because he was tall, he plays basketball. Not all tall people play basketball, and not just males drink beer.

 

damn, it says markdrinksbeer? It was supposed to say marydrinksbeer.

 

I think my friends know beer is ENTIRELY appropo. However my mom can't get over the idea of BEER with Turkey Day. I told her I'd have both on hand, just in case. I've gifted beers to people I know are curious but haven't branched out. I've brought beer to dinner... I try to play to the crowd I know will be there.

 

My wife loves beer almost as much as I do. She travels to CA for work so she mules beer back from southern CA. She doesn't get into discussing it on a detailed level or homebrewing, both of which I do.

 

Clearly you don't work in marketing...

At any rate, categorizing people is human nature. It's how our brains work. It's not about treating various subsets differently. It's about understanding the multi-faceted community as a whole. I don't understand what's wrong with having an academic interest in the make up of your community. Why can't we be curious?

 

I'm into this assumption. I stopped drinking beer in college because I mostly came across house party keg swill and started again when I realized there was (much, much) better beer out there.

 

My wife isn't much of a drinker at all, but she does taste just about all the beers I bring home. She doesn't like most, but usually seems to like hefeweizens.

My mom, however, is almost as much an advocate of beer as me. (Actually, she liked Stone Vertical 12.12.12.12 more than I did.) She also came over to my house and enthusiasticly drank IPA's with me on IPA day. So yeah, there's that.

 

Whaaa? You didn't get a cosmo to match your shoes?

 

My wife doesn't drink beer often, but when she does........it's usually Foothills Hoppyum or Sierra Nevada. She likes Dos Equis too.

 

It would be interesting to see if craft brew interest among women grows, as in more visibly and more vocally, if it's true that we're just not as outspoken about it. I signed up here to learn more about beer after my boyfriend & I did a "brewery tour" of central VA / Blue Ridge area couple of weekends ago, and we returned to Richmond to find news that several new breweries had just opened or else are preparing to open conveniently located to home. The closest one to me, Hardywood Park, has done well hosting culturally-appealing events like their Twilight 4-Miler -- which I participated in this April and saw lots of women besides me! The lines for beer afterward showed both sexes well represented... More recently Hardywood's started featuring yoga workouts right there in the brew room*, and they hosted our roller derby team earlier this month, just fun stuff that could appeal either way.

*the beau and I hustled to the nearby tasting room right after Hardywood's yoga class, which had been predominantly populated by women, yet I found indeed the ratio once in the tasting area reversed to mostly men.

 

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Bwahahahaha!

 

We all home brewed for my brother's wedding - It was great to have beers there instead of just the standard. We had four different styles from four different home brewers.

YOU INFUSE VODKA! Yes!! I have wanted to do that for so long. Awwh man... I have been dying to get my hands on some Heady! I might die of excitement if you did.

 

I'm sure you noticed I wasn't talking about categorizing for the purpose of marketing.

And I don't agree that human brains automatically sort people into groups. We notice visual differences, yes. But to assign various characteristics to people based on some presumed socio-economic construct or other intellectualized status that is not at all visual does not automatically happen, nor does it need to. There are plenty of people that take other humans at face value without making other presumptions.

I'm sure you've been party to a conversation that went something like
"Did you notice that person was a (fill in the blank.)"
"Huh? No. Really? How could you tell?"

 

This thread is hilarious. Many of you are acting proud that you were able to "convert" a female to a craft drinker. I don't see what the big deal is.