Did anyone see the buffalo wild wings commercial poking ffun at home brewing? I was curious how the homebrewing crowd would take it, do you find it funny? Kinda dickish?
The vid was BA-reviewed last summer. http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/wild-wings-homebrewer-commercial.36449/ Comments ranged generally from meh to meh.
http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/wild-wings-homebrewer-commercial.36449/#post-455778 Quite the discussion a few months back about this one. Don't like BWW, but the commercial gave me a chuckle.
Never been to BWW, but the way I see it, if you can't laugh at yourself and your hobbies, you're taking them way too seriously. I homebrew and I understand that what I do is seen by many to be off the wall... heck, spending $10 for a 6pack of craft beer can be seen that way too, especially when I could be getting a 30-rack for $15. Not to mention some homebrew I've tasted makes the "brat-beer" seem appetizing. On the other hand, yeah, it's a bit insulting, thinking that people who brew their own beer are that weird. (wait a minute, many of the homebrewers I know are that weird, in fact...)
Some people were really pissed off. I don't get it. I laughed. People get wound up too tight worrying what other people think. I especially enjoyed that, when that commercial first came out, on several homebrew forums you would see a thread bitching about the commercial right next to a thread where somebody was talking about brewing bacon beer or throwing some other kind of weird shit in their homebrew. I mean, come on, we *do* put weird shit in our beer. Like a month or two later that wynkoop rocky mountain oyster stout came out. That pretty much says it all.
And then there was this dumboisty a few months back: http://beeradvocate.com/community/t...fish-10-barrel-spanish-craft-beer-nbwa.52422/ or: http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/bratwurst-beer.55469/
The commercial is pretty funny; but if some homebrewers find it "outrageously offensive", that's even funnier.
I thought it was pretty funny, though many were offended. I'm not a Psychologist, but it smells like maybe a self esteem issue. People who are offended need to lighten up and not take their hobbies (the fun parts of life) so seriously, IMO. Homebrewing doesn't define me. Homebrewer is not what I am, it's just something I do. And I was able to laugh at myself when I saw that commercial.
Never been in 1, its a sports bar, so its not for me. fairly sure I make better beer. I brew in Kitchen and I never open ferment beer, lol. I though it was funny but I like the one that makes the game longer better.
Despite poking fun at the commercial in the magazine, I must admit I have somewhat mixed feelings about it overall. Yeah! our community is big enough to be made fun of now! Boo! Such a lazy joke. Hence my own piss take on it.
It's just dumb. Most people who spend a lot of time at BWW after having been influenced by TV commercials probably don't brew their own beer anyway. As I recall, their craft beer selection was limited, to say the least.
I think the commercial is very funny and not meant to be offensive. That being said I think that homebrewing and craft beer in general gets a bad view from the world's tried and true BMC drinkers and good beer deprived. I've given family members some of my most cherished pale ales, ambers, brown ales etc. that I think would stack up respectively among good craft iterations that I've enjoyed and they give me a similar backwards compliment every time. " That is really good but I don't think I could have more than 1 or 2 beers that strong" or "I don't like how much flavor it has" (generally 5 - 6.5 ABV). These same beers I give to my friends who have seen the light and enjoy good beer and they love the beers and drink them in quantity. I'm not gonna force my beer views on anyone but its something as a homebrewer I've had to take with a grain of salt. Until I perfect an American Adjunct Lager recipe some people just aren't going to love/appreciate my beer/hobby. People need to want to learn more about good beer before they can appreciate it, and this is one of the many things homebrewing and good beer has taught me. Rant is now complete.
