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Again, Magary is a liar. He doesn't have any interactions like he's describing.
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Again, Magary is a liar. He doesn't have any interactions like he's describing.
Quiet, you—we're mocking Hoy here.
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I got a 4 pack and now I'm on #4. I probably shouldn't have had all 4. Its more of a dessert beer. At 8% abv it's a little stronger than your average beer.

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Interesting. I miss Harpoon.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Mar 2019, 4:30pm
Magary to Hoy: Drop dead. :shifty:
Who’s worse? Beer Dorks or Bourbon (or Rye or American Whiskey or whatever) Dorks? I mean, I’m sure everybody agrees that Scotch Dorks are the worst, but I’m having trouble figuring out who’s the runner up for last place.
I have met beer snobs. I have met bourbon bastards who think that bourbon is the great American novel of liquors. I have even engaged in both these forms of snobbery myself.

My verdict: beer snobs are worse, if only because there are so MANY of them. Give any asshole a pricey IPA and suddenly they turn into Jim Koch, waxing on insufferably about hoppiness for hours on end. Meanwhile, I’m just trying to get drunk here. I like fancy beers and I’m glad that self-appointed brewmasters saw fit to churn out 50 billion different microbrews for American consumption. But enough is enough. Calm down with the beer snobbery. Don’t make me agree with a stupid Dilly Dilly ad.

It’s beer. Filing bank statements may be an unnecessary side effect of aging, but treating beer like jazz doesn’t have to be. Growing up, beer was cheap shit you drank so that you could vomit. That was the MAGIC of it. I refuse to let some beer snob analyze the fun out of such an inherently goofy and idiotic beverage. It’s fun to obsess over things, but don’t do it at the expense of me playing slap cup with a case of Miller Lite.

Bourbon, particularly cheap bourbon, is also used by enterprising drunks primarily as a way of getting drunk quickly. The bouquet of said bourbon is beside the point. HOWEVER, nice bourbon tends to be pricier than nice beer, and it tends to be consumed by older people, people more inclined to snobbery. I expect whiskey people to be snooty about their liquor. Whereas beer snobs can suddenly materialize at picnics and behind the bar at brewpubs and anywhere else that would be diverting and harmless if Vince didn’t decide that HERE was the best place to lecture everyone about German beer purity laws. Over the past two decades, beer snobbery has become a national epidemic. I’m ready for Juul nnobbery to take its place. My kids will be at college one day and some asshat will regale them with his review of a fiddlehead fern-flavored vaping oil. That guy will suck.
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Man I haven’t heard a proper snob get worked up about the reinheitsgebot or the IBU wars since the first Obama term.

Was that sufficiently snobby?
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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Man I haven’t heard a proper snob get worked up about the reinheitsgebot or the IBU wars since the first Obama term.

Was that sufficiently snobby?
Depends on whether you mourn that or are relieved.
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I got a 4 pack and now I'm on #4. I probably shouldn't have had all 4. Its more of a dessert beer. At 8% abv it's a little stronger than your average beer.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 7:38am
matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 1:07am
Man I haven’t heard a proper snob get worked up about the reinheitsgebot or the IBU wars since the first Obama term.

Was that sufficiently snobby?
Depends on whether you mourn that or are relieved.
Nah, just shows that he's out of touch. Modern day beer nerd issues include: people lining up for haze can releases, the proliferation of pastry stouts, and aftermarket Loon prices.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 11:15am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 7:38am
matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 1:07am
Man I haven’t heard a proper snob get worked up about the reinheitsgebot or the IBU wars since the first Obama term.

Was that sufficiently snobby?
Depends on whether you mourn that or are relieved.
Nah, just shows that he's out of touch. Modern day beer nerd issues include: people lining up for haze can releases, the proliferation of pastry stouts, and aftermarket Loon prices.
I don't know what any of that means. But I'm pretty good with it, too.
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matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 11:15am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 7:38am
matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 1:07am
Man I haven’t heard a proper snob get worked up about the reinheitsgebot or the IBU wars since the first Obama term.

Was that sufficiently snobby?
Depends on whether you mourn that or are relieved.
Nah, just shows that he's out of touch. Modern day beer nerd issues include: people lining up for haze can releases, the proliferation of pastry stouts, and aftermarket Loon prices.
Can we add sour beer to that list? I typically just buy my beer based on how cool the label looks - which led me to purchase a sour beer last fall. I took one swig and poured the rest down the sink.
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WestwayKid wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 12:12pm
matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 11:15am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 7:38am
matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 1:07am
Man I haven’t heard a proper snob get worked up about the reinheitsgebot or the IBU wars since the first Obama term.

Was that sufficiently snobby?
Depends on whether you mourn that or are relieved.
Nah, just shows that he's out of touch. Modern day beer nerd issues include: people lining up for haze can releases, the proliferation of pastry stouts, and aftermarket Loon prices.
Can we add sour beer to that list? I typically just buy my beer based on how cool the label looks - which led me to purchase a sour beer last fall. I took one swig and poured the rest down the sink.
Love love love me some proper barrel aged sours. Probably my favorite style of beer. Kettle sours are subpar versions that I could do generally do without. It is a very different flavor profile that throws people off. It's really hit or miss and I've found particularly older people are far less likely to enjoy them.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 12:33pm
WestwayKid wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 12:12pm
matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 11:15am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 7:38am
matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 1:07am
Man I haven’t heard a proper snob get worked up about the reinheitsgebot or the IBU wars since the first Obama term.

Was that sufficiently snobby?
Depends on whether you mourn that or are relieved.
Nah, just shows that he's out of touch. Modern day beer nerd issues include: people lining up for haze can releases, the proliferation of pastry stouts, and aftermarket Loon prices.
Can we add sour beer to that list? I typically just buy my beer based on how cool the label looks - which led me to purchase a sour beer last fall. I took one swig and poured the rest down the sink.
Love love love me some proper barrel aged sours. Probably my favorite style of beer. Kettle sours are subpar versions that I could do generally do without. It is a very different flavor profile that throws people off. It's really hit or miss and I've found particularly older people are far less likely to enjoy them.
I've just never been able to get behind sour beer. It's really the only kind I don't like drinking and I'm not too old! ;)
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WestwayKid wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 12:42pm
matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 12:33pm
WestwayKid wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 12:12pm
matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 11:15am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 7:38am


Depends on whether you mourn that or are relieved.
Nah, just shows that he's out of touch. Modern day beer nerd issues include: people lining up for haze can releases, the proliferation of pastry stouts, and aftermarket Loon prices.
Can we add sour beer to that list? I typically just buy my beer based on how cool the label looks - which led me to purchase a sour beer last fall. I took one swig and poured the rest down the sink.
Love love love me some proper barrel aged sours. Probably my favorite style of beer. Kettle sours are subpar versions that I could do generally do without. It is a very different flavor profile that throws people off. It's really hit or miss and I've found particularly older people are far less likely to enjoy them.
I've just never been able to get behind sour beer. It's really the only kind I don't like drinking and I'm not too old! ;)
Oops, didn't mean that as a dig. I actually have no idea how old you are.

I know plenty of older dude beer nerds that go gaga for lambic. That being said, getting my parents or my in laws into sours has been impossible. Bourbon barrel stouts? No problem.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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I like a nice high end beer but lately they do not like me. All those hazy IPAs give me the winds and the sours and high ABV malty beers give me heartburn. Call me low brow (brau?) but I am quite happy with a cold Miller Lite or Narragansett tall boy.
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matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 2:16pm
WestwayKid wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 12:42pm
matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 12:33pm
WestwayKid wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 12:12pm
matedog wrote:
06 Mar 2019, 11:15am


Nah, just shows that he's out of touch. Modern day beer nerd issues include: people lining up for haze can releases, the proliferation of pastry stouts, and aftermarket Loon prices.
Can we add sour beer to that list? I typically just buy my beer based on how cool the label looks - which led me to purchase a sour beer last fall. I took one swig and poured the rest down the sink.
Love love love me some proper barrel aged sours. Probably my favorite style of beer. Kettle sours are subpar versions that I could do generally do without. It is a very different flavor profile that throws people off. It's really hit or miss and I've found particularly older people are far less likely to enjoy them.
I've just never been able to get behind sour beer. It's really the only kind I don't like drinking and I'm not too old! ;)
Oops, didn't mean that as a dig. I actually have no idea how old you are.

I know plenty of older dude beer nerds that go gaga for lambic. That being said, getting my parents or my in laws into sours has been impossible. Bourbon barrel stouts? No problem.
Ha, ha - no worries! I didn't take it as one :)

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