Do you remember what got you into craft beer?

Ahhh I remember it like it was yesterday. I had been drinking Newcastle for a few months then one morning I had to have minor foot surgery and a buddy stopped by afterwards to hang out. We headed down the street to the distributor and picked up a Weyerbacher Big Beers variety pack (Double Simcoe, Merry Monks, Old Heathen, and Blithering Idiot). Ended up drinking the afternoon away and watching hours of Battlestar Galactica. Good times...

 

i think watching beer wars got me to try diffrent beers

 

FFF did for it me....

 

Freshman year of college, my friend invited me to a poker game and said I had to get some kind of "good" beer, and having no idea about what he meant, I gave him ten bucks and told him to pick something out for me. Dude got me a sixer of hopdevil and I have loved craft beer ever since. I have had almost 500 beers now, including most of the top 10, and some (few but some) whales, and hopdevil is still my favourite.

 

I got into it because of a buddy of mine. I was hesitant to give up my Bud Light, but I am glad that I did.

 

I went to college in Grand Rapids.

 

Years ago when I was an ignorant and irresponsible drinker I would search down the draft list for the highest abv. This led me to Weyerbacher and Stone at first. Taste was different and it eventually grew on me and I was hooked.

 

I always dabbled (prior to the craft revolution) however my gateway beer was JW Dundees Honey Brown

 

When I lived in Tampa just hearing about and seeing Cigar City got me interested in it. Once I turned 21 a year and a half ago I started going to World of Beer and the CCB tasting room and from there it blossomed.

 

In college started with Guinness. Sierra Nevada pale and the original blue moon. Hearing the legend of Pliny got me into trading which is now an addiction

 

I went on a local kick from the grocery store seletion and next thing you know I am trading for whalz. Started with brown and blonde ales.

 

Michelob Golden Light-->Heineken-->Summit EPA-->Town Hall Masala Mama-->Mind/Taste Buds Blown!!

 

#9> wachusett blueberry> other wachusett> the beer world was my oyster

 

Dundee Honey Brown for me as well.

 

FBS:marijuana::BCBS:heroin, in terms of what I tried first and when I knew this was going to be a problem

 

Originally it was Sheaf Stout from a bottle store in San Francisco back in '99. But then DFH 90 Minute & World Wide Stout, Arrogant Bastard and Dead Guy Ale all changed me forever.

 

Flying Fish in 1997-8

 

SNPA, then a bunch of the Stone lineup.

 

Guinness and then on to Sam Adams Just because it tasted different

 

shiner, particularly their summer seasonal helles lager that they no longer make, still drink shiner on occasion because its available even in texas towns with a population of 12 and above