Re: Beer Snobs vs. Wine Snobs

amazin', I'm snobbed  because I've mentioned Milwaukee's Best, I
reckon, or beer in general. Ha!
bluescreek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> 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]