Beer Snobs vs. Wine Snobs

Through my 72 years I've encountered a number of wine snobs, you know,
those 
persons who think that they know virtually everything and anything when it

comes to wine.

They are the ones that insist on sniffing the cork when the wine is served
in 
a fancy restaurant. Some years back a group of us ganged up on a friend
who 
flaunted his wine knowledge. We were all at a restaurant and we arranged
to 
have a cheap Gallo wine placed in the bottle of a very expensive wine.
Sure 
enough our wine connoisseur sniffed the cork and tasted the wine and 
pronounced it a suburb example of the wine he thought he was tasting, a
wine 
that was at least twenty-fold the price of the substitute.

That aside, it seems that as craft beers increase in popularity that there

are those that claim to be experts at differentiation in taste between 
different beers who are most likely not the experts they pretend to be. It

would be fun to subject some to the same experience given to my wine snob 
friend.

But, on the other hand I could be completely wrong. This all from one that

has difficulty in finding a beer that I enjoy more than Sierra Nevada Pale

Ale. But isn't it really all about what we like?


-- 
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]