Craft Beer: A hostile environment for many

I did it. Now I can't stop laughing.

 

very good pint. i mean point.

 

You also, make some great points.

 

I don't think people here are hating on Shiner. I think you will find a lot of people here like Shiner. I love them. I think their beer gets a fair shake here. If you go thru the reviews you are going to see that they are pretty consistent. I think that Shiner Bock and Shiner Black are very good beers to pair with almost every food. They have some personality but don't interfere with what you are eating. Also to give a beer a fair shake, you probably should rate it when not eating BBQ corn nuts.

 

That is about how i feel also. Why drink a beer you can get any time you want when you can drink a beer you may never get to drink again.

 

If you're a Texan who orders Shiner Bock at beer bars in Vermont, why are you at beer bars in Vermont?

Texas is much closer and has lots of Shiner Bock already.

 

They do. They are so much better as they are organic, free range, farm to table, hand roasted, Himalayan sea salted maize nuts. They are also only sold from a truck every 3rd Thursday of a month that has an R in it.

 

Shiner Bock & Heady Topper on the same beer menu at a bar in VT? A little surprised, I am.
Can't wait for the post where someone turned down a PtE or PtY at a bar in SF and ordered a Keystone Light instead.

 

No surprise, just a troll.

 

I personally believe that unless you're drinking Cantillon or Hill Farmstead you should be murdered.

 

Are you a salesman?

 

So... craft beer is hard, craft beer is frustrating, craft breweries are disappointing, craft beer stores are indifferent, and craft beer is being over-priced... no wonder the craft beer is a hostile environment lol

 

You guys? I'm glad everyone on this site is lumped together as the same d-bags you seem to dislike. I bet you think all white people are crackers, too?

Seems to me you are associating with the wrong types. I tell that to my 8 and 10 year old all the time. Don't hang out with them if you don't like them. Not hard.

 

May i suggest the ranch flavored ones?

 

Your avatar is one of my desert island albums

 

Craft beer would be a "hostile environment" for me. I don't swim very well, would probably get pretty tired treading in it, and can't hold my breath more than a minute or so. I'd be a goner. Luckily, I just drink the stuff.

 

"To each their own" cuts both ways, however. The OP assumes people who are really into the complexity of beers are somehow putting on airs, but how can that be said? Even though he doesn't taste all the flavors others apparently do doesn't make him right and them wrong.

And in my opinion, ordering an ok beer with national availability when Heady is right there in front you is insane. But hey, to each their own.

 

Hey, eat corn nuts and drink whatever beer you want with it. I have never had a corn nut, and I don't like Shiner Bock. But I can guarantee if and when I do eat corn nuts it won't be with Shiner Bock. This does not make me a snob, it makes me somebody who hasn't tried one thing, and doesn't like the taste of something else. If I called you a piss swilling jerk because you drink Shiner Bock, now that would make me a snob.

Personally I think folks talking about beers they like and beers they don't like are kinda similar to other folks talking about other things, which usually involves conversation about which they like, and which they don't.

And frankly anyone nowadays who decides not to like the same beer I like is a person I know won't be in front of me on a line, and I have no problem with them deciding not to be a craft beer fan, for whatever reason.

 

Craft beer is hard if you think Shiner Bock is craft beer... Sorry man I too believe you live under a bridge. I prefer my bocks to be bocks.

 

Since you are educated I am certain you are aware that there is a great deal of variation between the tasting abilities of people? And that folks train their palates and it is possible to improve ones own tasting ability? And that being snobbish has nothing to do with what things people like but in how folks characterize each other pejoratively based on these things? Just asking.