Beer snobbery
There is currently a very interesting thread over at Olio (the very amusing message board); I started it to discuss an article on the world’s three most expensive beers, but it has since evolved into a few different things:
- A question, poised by myself, of why beer snobbery — appreciating and discussing different styles and insisting on drinking more than the commercially available US beers — is treated differently than wine snobbery (both used tongue in cheek, of course); the latter is seen as being high culture, while the former as far as I’ve seen is given practically no “mainstream” attention
- A discussion with ezBoard celebrity Naturyl on what “good” beer is; it seems he’s run into overly hoppy microbrews and got turned off to the lot
- A great discussion of fine, mostly European, beer styles and brands; this has mostly been left up to Jens Kristian and rauru the gross, as being European they’re generally better situated to know about these things than a 23 year old American kid
This is why I love Olio: in the midst of our general humor, there’s a great discussion of my new passion popping up. Oh, and then Robert Larkin insisted on calling Aecht Schlenterla Rauchbier, “Arglebargle Scheiss Wombat,” and made me wish I was brewing a rauchbier sometime soon so I could use the name.