Geek or Snob?

How to know when you are a beer snob

1. You spend more on a bottle of beer than on Champaign
2. You ask for a glass
3. No a non-frosted glass
4. You don’t classify Bud as beer
5. You would rather go without than drink bad beer

How to know when you are a beer geek

1. You buy any beer you have not had
2. You ask for a glass
3. No a non-frosted glass
4. You wait 30 minutes for your beer to warm up
5. You rate every beer you try. Yes even Bud
6. You have your own beer related website
7. You drive 500 miles just to go to a beer store
8. You know how good a beer is before you even try it

Which are you?

Me, I am definitely an obsessed geek. Just ask my beer snob wife. Sometimes I think the snobs have it right. They get more enjoyment from beer. I get so caught up in the whole process. Is the beer the right temperature? Is it in the right glass? It gets a good rating surely it should be better than this? I wish I could just sit back and enjoy rather than obsess about the smallest little thing that might effect me having the perfect beer.

But there is one advantage to being a beer geek. Knowing what beers to try. When you get presented with a list of several hundred beers most people do not know where to start and order something familiar. Snobs order the best beer they have ever had. Me I get to try the most rare and most interesting things on the list. The fact they cost more than my dinner is just the price I pay to be a beer geek.

~ by alelagerlambic on February 21, 2008.