Filed under: Snobbery
A beer snob only likes their beer ice cold.
Expand your repertoire:
If you like drinking Newcastle, try drinking a Lost Coast/Downtown Brown instead. You can find them at most supermarkets (especially Safeway/Vons). They are usually the same price (if not cheaper), and more delicious. Plus you get your daily dose of Picasso from the label.
Filed under: Snobbery
A beer snob thinks there is only one type of Sierra Nevada, “the green one”.
Filed under: Snobbery
What is a beer snob? Where do they come from? And what makes them so snobby?
Beer snobbery first rears its ugly head sometime in college. Somewhere amongst the frat parties and the bathroom keggers, a select group of individuals get pulled aside and get a sweater tied around their neck. What emerges is your classic american beer snob. The true code of conduct of a beer snob is a mystery to most, but some common traits do emerge. How do you know someone around you is a beer snob? Check the following:
- Their favorite beer is Guinness Stout (the pasturized one, not the extra stout). From a bottle. Or Stella Artois. From a bottle. Or if they are really top shelf, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. From a bottle. Its important to be in a bottle, that way they can lord over you thier superior taste.
- They always have their Heffeweizen with a lemon.
- They bring “good beer” to parties that aren’t BYOB, just so they “have something good to drink”.
- They like Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic.
- They like Pyramid Apricot Heffeweizen.
- They LOVE Blue Moon.
- They hate all major domestic brews (especially light beers) with unusual ferocity, but will like Corona and Heineken.
- They go to BJ’s Pizza for the beer.
- They occassionally experiment with Bareknuckle Stout, or Boddingtons Pub Ale (from a can of course).
- They know the face oil “trick” to get rid of the head.
