"Best Beer Cities"

That’s exactly right, it’s a personal opinion. Hell even the beers that win at GABF rotate. What makes any beer win gold one year and never heard from again. Even trained palates have personal preference sneak onto his ratings, so imo even thats arbitrary. It’s tough to come to consensus with most anything that can’t really be quantified against all doubt. Best beer in the world? Most beautiful women in the world? There’s many depends on the person.

 

Well played, sir!

 

You win

 

You're the one doing the beating. So, go ahead, beat away. My point is clear, regardless of your seemingly endless ways of posting a strawman.

 

I see average prices for pints..$3.50, $4.00 listed? I only see that, and less, during happy hours.

 

by the person saying it. It's up to you, the listener/reader, to decide if that holds any weight with you based on the person. It means that the speaker believes the thing to be among the best in the whole world, obviously various speakers have various levels of reliability in making the comparison

 

Well, I have very fond memories of Kay's Hillside Tavern on the slope about halfway up overlooking the airport Circa 1973. It was in the blue ribbon dive bar best of category. You could easily see folks faces close up, flying by. watching the ground. Cool people were standing in line and friendly.

 

Beer City, USA (Grand Rapids, MI) checks in at #15.

 

This list just tells you the best cities to get drunk in without going broke and shortest distances between drinking establishments.

 

To be fair brutha, being in your same area, drinking many of the same beers... you don't often give a beer better than a 3.5 to 3.6 that has a 4+ rating. Be intellectually honest.

 

Cool, that I'll agree with. FTR Limearita IS trash.

 

You find meaning by knowing the source. If some drunk at a dive bar calls bud light lime-a-rita 'world class' you can probably safely consider that phrase irrelevant. If your favorite brewer calls a beer 'world class' you might assign more meaning to it. I get that the modern iteration of american english is heavy on superlatives and it makes it hard to get a good idea of how much praise is actually being doled out. However, following your logic, all subjective quality grading is meaningless because each time a person grades something it is on their own personal scale and not some objective universal scale. That doesn't seem to me like the way language works in the real world

 

my advice? phrases like 'world class' can be largely ignored when uttered by strangers. But it can be a hot tip from someone you know/are aware of and respect. Don't throw out the knowlege when you're ignoring the people

 

Just ridiculous imo. World class and the worlds worst are in the eye of the beholder, nothing more. It’s so much a personal preference, arguing the semantics is like talking politics. Even when a friend recommends a beer he thinks is the shit, sometimes I disagree. Individual palates are just that. Just look at the diversity when: Whats the best IPA thread pops up. There’s like a 100 different opinions, so there’s no real right or wrong, it’s just what floats your boat. So if experienced Hop heads can’t agree on what’s best,,,, then well. There is only a best that appeals to your palate, nothing more. Lots of variables here too, region plays a role, freshness plays a roll.

 

As the old saying goes; you know how I hate people and they're everywhere these days.

 

This thread is world class.