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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
Beer snobs.
I drink Gansett and Gansett light; good on a hot day.
I like a stout if I'm having one or two, but if I was at a cook-out and had a choice between Guiness and Gansett on a hot day, I'm going gansett....
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I'm with you on that one. I'm not a huge beer drinker, more wine and rum but I definitely have some beers too. One thing I've noticed with the beer drinkers at least in the US is that there are so many people who want to consider themselves "beer afficionados" but know zero about even the most basic aspects of beer. For the most part they equate quality of beer to price. AKA gansett's cheap so it suck and guinness is relatively expensive so it's awesome. In the wine world there are some fantastic $10 bottles and some god awful $200 bottles and I think it's the same deal in the beer world just that people want to be thought of as knowledgeable about brew so they couldn't be seen drinking cheap beer. There are so many so called "craft or micro brews" that are just garbage beers and people love to pay $15 for a 4 pack it amazes me. I'm not going to say which ones I feel that way about because I don't want to further an arguement. Obviously more often than not more expensive beers are better tasting and drinking with more interest and complexity than cheap beers my point is that don't count out every cheap beer. The great thing about bad beer compared to badwine, scotch, rum etc is that bad beer tends to be very bland and watery but very drinkable which is inoffensive and boring where the others tend to be gut wrenching and horrible. Now this is just my observation so I'm not trying to start a big debate here. Just wanted to throw that out there feel free to throw it right back.