Beer envy

The beer, sure, but I must admit I really covet a lot of the glassware.

 

Hi. My name is John and I have a beer boner.

 

Not humbled, but envious. These beers look so good, many of which I didn't know existed. Makes you want to get them.

 

I seek out this beer and try and find it. Challenges are amazing. But the better question is does rare dirt really taste better than common dirt? Dirt is still dirt even if it is rare!. Some of the hyped up beers are nowhere close to as good as the more easily accessible ones.

 

I thought that also until I realized everyone has a "local" selection that only a few people even have access to. I'm drinking a Foolproof IPA and have Grey Sail and a Bucket growler in the fridge. I bet you have a few that I can't get.

 

What you need is a guy or gal to trade that starts with the line, HI, I'm from Michigan ( or Vermont, or etc.). That would wipe some of that green off your pallor.

 

I used to feel that way, but then I realized a lot of what people post pictures of are beers not distributed to my state. So naturally you start to think the grass is greener on their side, but then you realize it's just different and they may feel the same way about what you drink.

The only time I am sometimes humbled is when I read threads about what people are bringing to, for example, the post Hill Farmstead Anniversary bottle share... and a part of me thinks I could never go and take part in that because I probably have nothing in the cellar that can mirror what others are bringing. My cellar generally consists of more common beers that happen to age well... Stone IRS, Bigfoot, KBS, shelf Belgians, etc....Westy being the most rare, but I get the sense many people who are involved in the trading community have had Westy. I don't get into trading, so something like Westy is more rare to someone like me.

 

There are 88,000 beers on this site. Every guy here is a novice...period! no worries. The elitist cant even argue that unless they have 88,000 reviews lol!

 

The best beers are usually the ones that are easy to obtain on shelves. The mind is powerful..

 

You will never be able to acquire every rare, limited, brewery release beer (or every "regular" beer for that matter).
As long as this "beer envy" simply motivates you to try as much new stuff as possible, that's great. Just don't let it stress you out about tracking down every limited release beer out there. For every brewery-only release that lives up to hype or expectations, there are 10 that will just make you say "meh, I can't believe I spent so much time and energy tracking this down."

Whatever you do, don't let your beer hobby stress you out. This is supposed to be how you have fun and blow off some steam, not another unimportant thing in life to worry and fret over.

 

Keep in mind a large amount of the " whale" beers are not even rated 100. Its all subjective, my whales were Hanaphu, Black Tuesday and Dark Lord. I have since got all three so now I seek Church Hills Finest Hour. Early on Pliny was whale for me, then Heady and Abrasive. It's fun seeking out " YOUR WHALES"

 

I'm not even remotely envious of other peoples' beer and I don't even have a cellar.

 

I'm jealous every day on this site.. The walez brah (of course)... But lately I'm just jealous of the people drinking Jack's Abby stuff and Heady... I'm jealous of people drinking Pseudo Sue and Double Galactic Daisy Cutter and all these citra or galaxy hopped ipas too, and I haven't even had them, so they might not even be all that! The "what if" just makes me crazy and envious haha.

 

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