Re: Beer Snobs vs. Wine Snobs

I've liked them from Schwabenbrau to Milwaukee's Best.
TaliesinSoft wrote:
> 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]