It's official, another friend converted.

I have recently got my wife into some beer and she has dove into IPA's like crazy.

 

You are the man!

 

Another soul saved, one beer at a time.

 

Keep an eye on him. I've brewed beer with friends and thought I'd converted them but they went back to the dark side.
If he looks at Busch light tell him "these aren't the droids you're looking for".

 

great....another person to compete with for special releases at the liquor store.

 

Soon, we shall have enough converted to complete the ritual...on Black Tuesday. Anyways, a buddy of mine said to me the other day, "I used to like Blue Moon. Now, I don't really care for it." I almost cried tears of joy. I don't wanna take all the credit for his maturation, but I think it might have something to do with me introducing him to good wheat beers. They grow up so fast.

 

ONE OF US!! ONE OF US!!!

 

One of the guys I converted to craft beer has started homebrewing and is turning other people into craft beer drinkers. I remember one of my college professors describing how they used to have to light the street lamps by hand and described it as 'punching holes into the dark' and him teaching us was like lighting those street lamps and creating enlightenment. That's kinda how I feel when I get people into craft beer and homebrewing. I'm a bad influence...

If any of you are curious, this was a black studies class but I hold a BS in Biology.

 

I've been raising funds for craft beer missionary work in East Africa. PM me if you're interested.

 

I did this with my roommates. all but one was converted... we was already too far down the beer pong hole..

 

People, stop converting! We're at capacity as is! Let the brewers catch up for a few years.

 

We seem to have a chicken & egg or cart & horse situation here.

 

Personally, my take is that I don't necessarily want to convert, just let more people know that there are other beers out there besides BMC. Since everybody's tastes are different, I really don't know what to suggest to someone who has always believed that Heineken was a premium beer. Therefore, if someone insists I recommend something, I try to ease people into craft with a pale ale and let them go from there. My 21 y.o. son, who drinks with his wallet, has been quite impressed with some of the beers I have given him [mostly IPAs & DIPAs] and has even gone so far as to buy some himself [but he prefers to have me pay, duh]. Is he a convert? No, not yet but at least he knows there's something better out there.

 

My friends are just too cheap. The closest I have come is a friend who loves IPAs, but is only interested in finding the highest IBU & ABV for the cheapest price, regardless of flavor. When I invite him over for beers he finishes every one in a minute or two, like we are in college drinking Hams.

 

Yeah, whenever someone I know wants to order a blue moon and Oberon is also on-tap I tell them to order Oberon.

 

They don't much seem to understand what sipping is in my experience.

 

I'd order a Blue Moon, I think it's better.