"Beer Dork" vs. "Beer Snob"

A dork would have done a search to see if this hasn't been discussed a 1000 times before. A snob would think his post is better than the previous ones.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/are-you-a-beer-geek-nerd-or-snob.330232/

 

I fight the urge to have those debates with my wife and just deal a hand of gin.

 

Dork will educate his friend or someone...In this case about why they are drinking craft beer and not a macro beer and try to have their friend try some good brews. A Snob may just say "that beer sucks" when someone is drinking a bud, miller, etc.. Snob may also refuse to drink macro beers when they are offered. Dorks try to convert the person to the Dark Side IMO.

 

I am certainly a beer snob. I want good beer and I know what that that is. Am I a dork? Well, at the ripe age of thirteen my son invoked for me a Dorkdom over which I shall surely preside the rest of my days. Macro brewers will call you a snob if you say to them you made this beer cheaply with corn syrup instead of malt. They will call you a dork if you can quote styles. Hmmmm I want a tiara.

 

Dorks don't give a shit what Snobs think, and vis versa.

 

Your just very frugal that your money is spent on good beer. That is not a snob.

I reject labels period.
If I am buying the beer, who cares?. My cash....

 

The key test to being a beer snob or not is the answer to this question.

"Do you look down on others and think they are inferior to you because of what they drink and how they drink it?"

If "Yes," then Snob.
If "No," then not Snob.

 

what if we just shake our heads at our relatives when they make fun of the silly beer we are drinking?

 

Then we are tolerant of others and easily amused....

 

The beer snob will not drink any brewery's flagship brew unless it's Westie XII, nor will they bother with any brewery's year round releases unless they're oak aged sours. The beer dork knows that sours taste like vinegar and prefers the year round releases.

 

Probably a dork, but I could see how that could come off to others as snobbery. Either way, dork or snob, it doesn't sound fetching to be in either category. Try going for cool guy who enjoys a good beer or something to that effect. Cheers

 

I'm not sure why one would want to be called either of these things. At least "_____ geek" isn't on your list.

 

That sounds like the sort of debate a dork would have.

 

I am a Beer Knerd --emphasis on the K, for maximum Kneeding of Beer-- alternately a Certified Beer Maniac™.

 

Indeed, the snob would have a debate about just how distressing the plebs are.

 

I was getting worried. It's been days since this has been on here. I see this thread more than Shawshank Redemption on cable.

 

If you pronounce it bee-YAH, with your nose in the air, then you are a snob. If you refuse to call an ale a beer, then you are a dork.

 

Interesting scenario, there should be a big Brawl like that of The Outsiders. Beer Socials vs. Beer Greasers.