Intro craft beers for friends?

Fat Tire, or Sam Smith Nut Brown maybe?

 

Tried few times and what I found out is making my macro beer friend to become craft beer geek is way harder than just making a new beer geek friend. However, few of my friends including my girl friend got into sour beers. My gf always looks at my loons so I have to hide it somewhere

 

Nailed it. I would also add Blue Moon / Shock Top or an easy drinking wheat beer to the list. Some people really dig those.

 

SNPA?

 

I would start them with a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or Sam Adams Boston Lager

 

SNPA is way to bitter for most as an introductory beer.

 

It would depend on what flavors/tastes that friend liked in general. Sweeter stuff, Flat Tire. Tart/sour things, Rodenbach or Duchesse. Coffee/tobacco/etc, stouts and old ales. There's no one size fits all answer.

 

pseudoSue

 

screw that. make them drink a sixer of ruination.

 

I always find this question funny when it comes up. You must have the answer - what got you into craft beer? For me it was SNPA, and that's always where I suggest people start if they want to try to 'get it'. Easy to find, easy to enjoy, good price, good profile with a lot of nuances hiding in it to explore without being overbearing.

 

Weihenstephan Original, Bitburger, Hoegaarden Wit, Lammsbrau Dunkel, Reissdorf Kolsch, Budweiser Budvar, Stella Artois, Victory Headwaters Pale Ale and Prima Pils, Lindemans Framboise and Kriek, Guinness Stout (just to see), Smuttynose Old Brown Dog, Stiegl Lager and Radler, and SNPA. And Young's Chocolate Stout.

 

A few years back or so I personally turned a few people to the craft side with the same beer in the same month. It was New Belgium's Mothership Wit (witbier with spices) I told them it was like s#&king a gingerbreadman's d*%k. Hahha they had to try it. We all had a good laugh and they agreed with me. Sometimes you just gotta sell it to em hard.

 

I've started quite a few non craft beer drinkers with Two Hearted and they ALWAYS get back in touch afterwards to ask me what beer it was and where they can find it

As the Dead said..."I come to shed light, not to master"!

 

What I do is open the fridge and start pouring samples.

 

Two Hearted was my first craft beer. Praise be to Two Hearted.

 

Oberon or Victory Prima Pils. Do not start with pale ales!

 

Id ask them their preferences. Chocolate? Bitter? Heavy? Herbal or grassy? And go from their.