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Herevana - Boatrocker - Miss Pinky
Herevana – Boatrocker – Miss Pinky
It’s the BeerJerkNZ beer of the week. Here we have: Boatrocker Miss Pinky Raspberry Berliner Weisse. I’d be expecting something light and easy going with a splash of Raspberry. Apparanty the beer is Pink. This shouldn’t be a spoiler alert. Boatrocker Brewing Company make the Boatrocker Miss Pinky Raspberry Berliner Weisse in Braeside, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the style that is…
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Beer - #1007 - Craftwork - Grisette
More Grizz than Griss Beer - #1007 - Craftwork - Grisette
Craftwork Grisette. A quite specific and unusual style of beer, one that has the purist drooling in anticipation, and brings the the brewer a kudos among their peers. Apparently.
Sweet with a dry
Craftwork Grisette is brewed as a Grisette, which most closely resembles the style that is a Saison It is brewed by Craftwork who are…
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Nice to come home to my #beerjerk case and personalised bottle opener! #cheers (at Panorama Heights, Wellington)
Be a beer geek, not a beer snob
2016 APRIL 28
by Norman Miller
Beer geeks are generally a good bunch – they enjoy good beer and hanging out with other like-minded folks.
But, when beer geeks go bad, they go really bad. They become judgmental, rude and often times, jerks. They become snobs. Beer snobs. Being a beer snob is bad.
It’s not too late. You can stop yourself from becoming a beer snob. Here are six ways to avoid crossing that invisible line.
Don’t judge a beer’s quality by ABV, judge it on flavor.
“The beer is only 6 percent ABV, it can’t be good.” “Session beers are to bland.” “Last year’s version was 11 percent and this year it’s 9 percent. It won’t even be worth buying.” This last one is almost word for word I saw someone post on a Facebook beer group I’m on.
A beer doesn’t have to be high alcohol to be good. Sure, if you’re drinking beer just to get drunk, then ABV matters. But you could do that with a bottle of bourbon much easier. Didn’t you start drinking craft beer for the taste? It was better than what you were drinking. That’s why I started drinking craft beer. I fell in love with the taste.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some amazing high alcohol beers, and there are bad ones. There are also amazing low alcohol beers, and there are bad ones. Worry about the flavor first, ABV second.
Respect the ones who came before.
I get it, I really do. Everyone wants to get the latest greatest beer from today’spopular breweries. But, don’t ignore the breweries that came before the hot ones of today. Too often, you hear people put down these historically significant breweries because they don’t do anything they consider exciting or groundbreaking.
Don’t forget, without breweries like Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Harpoon Brewery and Boulder Beer, craft beer would be far behind where it is today. Put yourself in the shoes of beer drinkers 25 or 30 years ago, when your best option was maybe Heineken. Now imagine, what it was like to taste some of the beers made from these older breweries for the first time.
You don’t have to drink them, but don’t put them down. They were innovative for their time, and if you actually give a lot of these older breweries a chance, they’re still making good beer.
Big doesn’t equal bad.
Beer fans kind of remind me of indie music fans. They love their favorite bands, but once they become popular or sign with a major record label, they stop listening.
It seems that if a brewery grows or becomes really popular, people begin to ignore them. A business is supposed to grow. If you don’t grow, it becomes stagnant. Should a brewery cap off how much they brew.
If the beer doesn’t change for the worst, why does it matter if a brewery is two or three times as it was five years ago? Why abandon them if it is the same beer. If you like it, drink it.
Treat everyone equally.
This one shouldn’t have to be said, but unfortunately, it does – don’t treat someone different just because of their gender.
I see it far too often on Twitter or on Facebook beer groups – a woman posts something about a beer and the response from a man includes “honey,” or “sweetie,” or if a woman posts a photo of herself drinking a beer, “Nice boobs,” or other words I’m not allowed to use.
And, if the woman dares to disagree with something a beer snob says, the reaction is often way worse than if another man disagrees. Just treat others like you want to be treated.
Don’t judge.
We’ve all been there. We’re at a bar with a great tap list and a member of your group goes for, gasp, a Miller Lite, while ignoring all of the “better” beers on the list.
You shake your head as you order the 9 percent ABV, double dry hopped imperial IPA from Vermont. Then you make a comment, a joke that’s not really a joke. “All this beer and you get that?” “Come on, live a little.” “Why are you drinking crap?”
Craft beer drinkers forget that not everyone – actually a majority of people in this country – not everyone likes craft beer. Some people like the taste of a light American lager. It’s what they enjoy. It’s what they want. And it’s what they order when they go out.
If they like it, does it affect your enjoyment? If not, don’t judge. Don’t look down on them. Let them enjoy their beer like you’re enjoying yours.
Don’t be a jerk.
The biggest difference between a beer geek and a beer snob is a beer snob often times becomes a beer jerk.
They become entitled. They expect to get the best beer. They expect to get tickets to the best events. And they expect things to be exactly how they want them to be.
When things don’t go how they want or expect it, they don’t act rationally. They become jerks.
Don’t be a jerk. Remember what beer is about. Beer should be about enjoying yourself. Beer should be about having fun with your friends over a couple of beers. Beer is not about getting the rarest beer. It’s not about waiting in lines. It’s not about looking down at others. It’s not about getting your way. It should be about fun.
So, if you find yourself being a jerk. Stop. Think. Open a beer. Drink the beer. Stop being a jerk.
BeerJerk - just like a book club but with beers
BeerJerk - just like a book club but with beers http://wp.me/p1FL5z-2Vw
I signed up and paid for a membership to an outfit calling themselves BeerJerk a NZ only enterprise at the moment, but it might have legs.
MOAR beer
The premise is that they deliver 12 beers to you, in one delivery, and once a week you have one beer from the selection and compare notes with other club members. They deliver every 4 weeks so a new member should only ever be 3 weeks ways from…
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Left Hand Brewing Co. | Good Juju | 4.5% ABV | Spice Beer
If you like ginger than this is your fackin beer. LOTS of ginger. Not my cup-o-tea. Maybe it's yours.
Price: 9.99/6-pack
Rating: 5/10
