The Beer Thread

James wrote:
My liver cares if it's a 95 rating. There's "so many good beers out there" that I couldn't possibly try them all. If I see a beer that has a 95 rating, and plenty of reviews, i'm going to opt to try that over some other beer that has an 85 rating. Why should I waste my time on "good" beer when better beer is available?

stevewizzle wrote:

who cares if a beer is a 95 rating?  there's so many good beers out there, why do we need to differentiate them by some bullshit point system? everyones palate and style taste is different.  it's like pitchfork, but for beer.

Because the 85 beer might taste a lot better to you.  Have a mind of you own.

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
My liver cares if it's a 95 rating. There's "so many good beers out there" that I couldn't possibly try them all. If I see a beer that has a 95 rating, and plenty of reviews, i'm going to opt to try that over some other beer that has an 85 rating. Why should I waste my time on "good" beer when better beer is available?

stevewizzle wrote:

who cares if a beer is a 95 rating?  there's so many good beers out there, why do we need to differentiate them by some bullshit point system? everyones palate and style taste is different.  it's like pitchfork, but for beer.

Because the 85 beer might taste a lot better to you.  Have a mind of you own.

EXACTLY!!!!!!

Certain people prefer to play the beer snobs around here with no respect whatsoever to what others may think or prefer. I don't need other snobs telling me what I can drink and what I can't. That makes them extremely pretentious and unpleasant. They can follow their numbers and other sheep herders all they want. Not my preferred pasture. I'd much rather discover unpopular things that appeal more to my taste rather than stick with what some snot nosed number freak thinks they should like.

sweetcell wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
It isn't like wine ratings which are done by one organization. 

oh look… a.front is wrong again.

there isn't one wine rating organization.  the most widely referenced ratings are those from Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast and Wine Advocate.  these are magazines/websites.  they will each rate a wine differently.

I am not wrong at all. I am saying a rating by Wine Advocate is one organization.  So it is that organization's view.  Even with three they don't all rate the same wines.  It is hard to have a mob mentality with so few organization rating wine.  Beer Advocate is a ton of people all just following each other.  Still I will buy wine that isn't rated.  Most of it turns out to be good.  Especially Malbecs.  We should have a wine thread.   Hopefully it would be people just drinking wine and saying whether they liked it or not and not I have to drink highly rated wine BS.  

imbecile wrote:

Jaguar wrote:

I can't stand soft greasy bacon wrapped around stuff either. Doesn't make me wrong and some squishy bacon eater right no matter how many health nuts might side with me. It's a PREFERENCE. Get it?

The Passenger has bacon wrapped deep fried peanut butter cups.  The bacon is a little squishy, which typically weirds me out a bit, but it's absolutely delicious in this situation.

If that bacon was nice and crispy, I probably would like that too, and I tend to not even like peanut butter.

Trader Joe's sells some dark chocolate covered peanut butter cups that get me past my peanut butter dislike. They would be nice with some good cripsy bacon with a pint of a nice sweet maplely stout.

I've had about half of the beers in the top 100 on this list.

http://beeradvocate.com/lists/top

I've also had my fair share of 85 beers. I can't think of a single 85 beer that was better than anything that's in the top 100 (that I've had) on that list.

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
My liver cares if it's a 95 rating. There's "so many good beers out there" that I couldn't possibly try them all. If I see a beer that has a 95 rating, and plenty of reviews, i'm going to opt to try that over some other beer that has an 85 rating. Why should I waste my time on "good" beer when better beer is available?

stevewizzle wrote:

who cares if a beer is a 95 rating?  there's so many good beers out there, why do we need to differentiate them by some bullshit point system? everyones palate and style taste is different.  it's like pitchfork, but for beer.

Because the 85 beer might taste a lot better to you.  Have a mind of you own.

But what is your mode of discovery? Randomly trying whatever shitty beers they have in the limited distribution bars in Ocean City or wherever it is you live?

If I want to learn about something, anything, I'm going to read as much by people who are passionate about the subject as I can. And take their advice and go on my own from there. Not go out and just start randomly, blindly trying stuff.

Jaguar wrote:

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
My liver cares if it's a 95 rating. There's "so many good beers out there" that I couldn't possibly try them all. If I see a beer that has a 95 rating, and plenty of reviews, i'm going to opt to try that over some other beer that has an 85 rating. Why should I waste my time on "good" beer when better beer is available?

stevewizzle wrote:

who cares if a beer is a 95 rating?  there's so many good beers out there, why do we need to differentiate them by some bullshit point system? everyones palate and style taste is different.  it's like pitchfork, but for beer.

Because the 85 beer might taste a lot better to you.  Have a mind of you own.

EXACTLY!!!!!!

Certain people prefer to play the beer snobs around here with no respect whatsoever to what others may think or prefer. I don't need other snobs telling me what I can drink and what I can't. That makes them extremely pretentious and unpleasant. They can follow their numbers and other sheep herders all they want. Not my preferred pasture. I'd much rather discover unpopular things that appeal more to my taste rather than stick with what some snot nosed number freak thinks they should like.

James wrote:
But what is your mode of discovery? Randomly trying whatever shitty beers they have in the limited distribution bars in Ocean City or wherever it is you live?

If I want to learn about something, anything, I'm going to read as much by people who are passionate about the subject as I can. And take their advice and go on my own from there. Not go out and just start randomly, blindly trying stuff.

Jaguar wrote:

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
My liver cares if it's a 95 rating. There's "so many good beers out there" that I couldn't possibly try them all. If I see a beer that has a 95 rating, and plenty of reviews, i'm going to opt to try that over some other beer that has an 85 rating. Why should I waste my time on "good" beer when better beer is available?

stevewizzle wrote:

who cares if a beer is a 95 rating?  there's so many good beers out there, why do we need to differentiate them by some bullshit point system? everyones palate and style taste is different.  it's like pitchfork, but for beer.

Because the 85 beer might taste a lot better to you.  Have a mind of you own.

EXACTLY!!!!!!

Certain people prefer to play the beer snobs around here with no respect whatsoever to what others may think or prefer. I don't need other snobs telling me what I can drink and what I can't. That makes them extremely pretentious and unpleasant. They can follow their numbers and other sheep herders all they want. Not my preferred pasture. I'd much rather discover unpopular things that appeal more to my taste rather than stick with what some snot nosed number freak thinks they should like.

Why not?  Are you afraid of making a decision based on your own opinion?  So if you go to tap house that has 50 beers you wont' drink one you haven't heard of before?  Where is your sense of discovery?  To me your view on this is no different than the people who only will drink bud light, miller light or coors light. 

atomicfront wrote:

Beer Advocate is a ton of people all just following each other.

I see this exact mentality all the time with music. Not just on this board but everywhere. There are a whole lot of bands that my usual crowd think is great and I do not like at all. That's why I don't trust music rating systems either. Besides, if I stuck only to the top rated stuff, I'd miss out on all kinds of other pleasant surprises. By ignoring ratings, it also allows me more variety when I opt to stray from my usual staples.

James, you can keep drinking as many Beer Advocate top rated beers you want. Doesn't phase me in the least. I'm not your liver, a family member, nor that close of a friend. Drink yourself silly for all I care. It makes no difference in my world. Just stay the fuck out of my beer glass!!!

If there were 50 shows at the 9:30 Club over a three month period, and 20 of them were by bands you love, and you could only reasonably go to three or four of them, how likely would you be to choose to go to a show by a band you've never heard of?

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
But what is your mode of discovery? Randomly trying whatever shitty beers they have in the limited distribution bars in Ocean City or wherever it is you live?

If I want to learn about something, anything, I'm going to read as much by people who are passionate about the subject as I can. And take their advice and go on my own from there. Not go out and just start randomly, blindly trying stuff.

Jaguar wrote:

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
My liver cares if it's a 95 rating. There's "so many good beers out there" that I couldn't possibly try them all. If I see a beer that has a 95 rating, and plenty of reviews, i'm going to opt to try that over some other beer that has an 85 rating. Why should I waste my time on "good" beer when better beer is available?

stevewizzle wrote:

who cares if a beer is a 95 rating?  there's so many good beers out there, why do we need to differentiate them by some bullshit point system? everyones palate and style taste is different.  it's like pitchfork, but for beer.

Because the 85 beer might taste a lot better to you.  Have a mind of you own.

EXACTLY!!!!!!

Certain people prefer to play the beer snobs around here with no respect whatsoever to what others may think or prefer. I don't need other snobs telling me what I can drink and what I can't. That makes them extremely pretentious and unpleasant. They can follow their numbers and other sheep herders all they want. Not my preferred pasture. I'd much rather discover unpopular things that appeal more to my taste rather than stick with what some snot nosed number freak thinks they should like.

Why not?  Are you afraid of making a decision based on your own opinion?  So if you go to tap house that has 50 beers you wont' drink one you haven't heard of before?  Where is your sense of discovery?  To me your view on this is no different than the people who only will drink bud light, miller light or coors light. 

James wrote:
But what is your mode of discovery? Randomly trying whatever shitty beers they have in the limited distribution bars in Ocean City or wherever it is you live?

If I want to learn about something, anything, I'm going to read as much by people who are passionate about the subject as I can. And take their advice and go on my own from there. Not go out and just start randomly, blindly trying stuff.

It's not random and, again, you missed out on some 'words' I wrote earlier. We have more than you ASSume but living in a slightly remote area does limit its distribution numbers. That's the trade off. I value easy traffic, the beach, small town life, and a number of other things to getting drunk on beer all the time. That's pretty damn low on my list. But, go ahead and drink up! I guess if that's all you have going for you, than maybe I now understand why you are so obsessed with it. Cheers!

Even if it were my favorite beer and Beer Advocate gave it a full 100%, if all I had to look forward to was the bottom of my beer glass, than I'd realize that I had to do some serious re-evalution of my life.

Killians Irish Stout a Stout beer by Coors Brewing Company (MillerCoors), a brewery in Golden, Colorado.

Jaguar wrote:

James wrote:
Thank you for sharing.

Jaguar wrote:
Today I tasted a Firestone IPA.

All I can say is that it was the most repulsive beer that I have ever tasted in my life!  :-X

That was just for you James since I knew that you would appreciate it so much. ;)

I stuck with the $3 pints of Killens Stout. Not all that great but the price sure was.

oh god . . . just shut up all of you.  jesus fucking christ.  drink your stupid beer, what ever it is.  

James wrote:
Killians Irish Stout a Stout beer by Coors Brewing Company (MillerCoors), a brewery in Golden, Colorado.

Jaguar wrote:

James wrote:
Thank you for sharing.

Jaguar wrote:
Today I tasted a Firestone IPA.

All I can say is that it was the most repulsive beer that I have ever tasted in my life!  :-X

That was just for you James since I knew that you would appreciate it so much. ;)

I stuck with the $3 pints of Killens Stout. Not all that great but the price sure was.

Yeah, and you didn't read what I said about it later.  ::)

Go fall in your beer glass.

James wrote:
Killians Irish Stout a Stout beer by Coors Brewing Company (MillerCoors), a brewery in Golden, Colorado.

Jaguar wrote:

James wrote:
Thank you for sharing.

Jaguar wrote:
Today I tasted a Firestone IPA.

All I can say is that it was the most repulsive beer that I have ever tasted in my life!  :-X

That was just for you James since I knew that you would appreciate it so much. ;)

I stuck with the $3 pints of Killens Stout. Not all that great but the price sure was.

Blue Moon is made by Coors too.  I would say that is a decent Beer.  For my wedding I was able to pick one craft beer and I picked Dogfish Head 60 minute.  Then for my 3 mainstreams I picked Blue Moon, New Castle, and Amstel Light.  Seemed like a good variety.

or better yet . . . give up beer and smoke pot.  maybe youll realize that yelling is dumb.  god, can you believe this is coming from me?

walkonby wrote:
oh god . . . just shut up all of you.  jesus fucking christ.  drink your stupid beer, what ever it is.  

That's what Atomic and I have been saying all along.

walkonby wrote:
oh god . . . just shut up all of you.  jesus fucking christ.  drink your stupid beer, what ever it is.  

you shut up. i just broke out the popcorn. dont spoil this for me.

Blue Moon decent? hahaha. You're funny. That's a joke, right?

Who forced you to serve three shitty beers (and a decent Dogfish lawnmower beer) at your wedding? It seems like it's your wedding, you should be able to have what you want.

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Killians Irish Stout a Stout beer by Coors Brewing Company (MillerCoors), a brewery in Golden, Colorado.

Jaguar wrote:

James wrote:
Thank you for sharing.

Jaguar wrote:
Today I tasted a Firestone IPA.

All I can say is that it was the most repulsive beer that I have ever tasted in my life!  :-X

That was just for you James since I knew that you would appreciate it so much. ;)

I stuck with the $3 pints of Killens Stout. Not all that great but the price sure was.

Blue Moon is made by Coors too.  I would say that is a decent Beer.  For my wedding I was able to pick one craft beer and I picked Dogfish Head 60 minute.  Then for my 3 mainstreams I picked Blue Moon, New Castle, and Amstel Light.  Seemed like a good variety.

stevewizzle wrote:

walkonby wrote:
oh god . . . just shut up all of you.  jesus fucking christ.  drink your stupid beer, what ever it is.  

you shut up. i just broke out the popcorn. dont spoil this for me.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Yeah, Walkie. Go take a walk. We've got a good bar fight going on here. ;)

Now James is dictating what one can have and not have at one's wedding.

The booze seems to have turned him into a little dictator wannabe.