Craft Beer Snobs

and a Big Beer snob shaming thread.

 

Thank you millenials for inventing craft beer and ensuring 8 out of every 10 taps are a NEIPA. Thank you for coffee too. And for everything that's good in the world

Thank you - a lowly Xennial

 

You forgot to thank them for irony.

 

Xennials are just Millennials in denial

 

Agreed, not sure why this point needed to be added. Plenty of beer snobs clean shaven, lacking tattoos and working at a financial institution near you.

More to the point - Is this guy even sure he likes beer? Or does he just like a handful of old-school classic beers. Sounds like he's not into trying new things which is fine, but seems to be more your stubbornness against people recommending things to you outside your comfort zone that you may like.

 

I'm a 67 year old Baby Boomer that has had a long productive career in the beer and wine business. In the 90s I worked very diligently to bring great beers to North Carolina and it was fun! I learned about great beer and wine as a young fellow (20) lucky enough to spend a long Summer all across Europe. I have fought the good fight for better beer, food, wine, conversation- you name it- for the great majority of my life. Age is basically meaningless, but attitude is everything. My favorite beers are still the ales that I drank in places all across Great Britain, particularly in England. Oh, I grind the beans everyday and I'm told I'm a pretty good chef.

 

Collectively not individually

Collectively baby boomers are cruise ship addicts who drive up real estate costs, hate young people, and eat at Olive Garden twice a week

I'm sure most of them think that I sit at home on welfare and live off of the government because I'm a "Millennial" they hear the horror stories on Fox News about every day.

I'm well aware that there are cool people in every age group, but I'd say the majority of Boomers think that Craft Beer is something that's anti-American because the companies are pro LGBT.

 

I'm amused by the young college kids hanging around my place who think the old guy grinding his own coffee beans is probably just too befuddled to realize we have a Starbucks in town.

 

I can't agree with this more wholeheartedly. In my experience the "hipsters" or similar type lads that I've encountered have simply been lacking information, or misinformed, and aren't really beer snobs per se, although I'm sure they're out there - and generally open to what your opinion.

It's the more clean cut guy who's usually the beer snob, regardless of his rank in society (although usually headed upwards), and in general, a snob about everything else, including cars, hamburgers, and even Danish death metal!!! You could just call it being "headstrong", although snobbish certainly fits. I just laugh inside and let them go on, and will in fact sometimes egg them on knowing that they're just an empty drum at heart and entertaining to me. - "There's no glory better than the victory won without having had stepped upon the battlefield" or something like that, forget who said it. OH WAIT, DOES THAT MAKE ME A BEER SNOB?!

 

I hate to tell you that you are very wrong on more than one count. Around here, a college town, a liberal southern city, the place is alive and spirited with all kinds of very interesting people of all ages. You paint with too broad a brush, my friend. In your neck of the woods I really like Lewisburg, Fayetteville, and Charleston is a very unique capital city..I despise cruise ships and Las Vegas.

 

Well, there are beer snobs, and then there are generic snobs who proport to be artists while painting with much too broad a brush...

 

I used to drink Coors Light exclusively. I've learned a lot about beer since then.
I can't remember the last Coors Light I had. I didn't turn into a beer snob on purpose. I only got some education. Now if I was really dedicated to the craft, I'd earn a Concierge, I mean a Covfefe, no, sorry a Cicerone, that's it a Cicerone! I Like Beer!!

 

I think they try to outsnob each other. Hence “Post your latest haul.”

 

Thank you to all the old fogies for keeping instant coffee alive. I can't stand coffee shops.

 

Kind of off topic, but was just in Wisconsin (Poynette to be exact. Population just over 2000) for a wedding over the weekend. It was on the family's horse farm and they were serving Coors Light, Miller Lite, and of course Spotted Cow. Just reaffirms, again, the fact that you can literally find Spotted Cow ANYWHERE in Wisconsin!

 

I'm not sure that's snobbery so much as people being stuck in their ways. Have yet to have someone try to "convert" me to drinking AAL, or describing in-depth the flavors, aromas, and other specifics.

A lot of people seem to have their "brand" and never step outside it. I don't understand that sort of loyalty or lack of adventure. Imagine drinking the same thing for twenty, thirty, forty, plus years, every week. I couldn't.

 

This thread gives me a headache. Just drink beer why does any of this even matter..

 

I think the godfathers of beer would be sad to see that beer choices would divide people.

For me its like this. If you don't like beer (any beer), I am skeptical of you and your ability to have fun. If you choose to drink Coors Light, I make no judgement. If you choose Coors Light, listen to Linkin Park, voted Trump and say "brah"....well, you get the point.

 

In my case, it's because SNPA's a much better beer.

 

Always find it humorous when someone's bothered by a beer discussion on a beer discussion board.