Overall, beer connoisseurs are even more annoying than wine connoisseurs [Archive]

mickill

03-18-2009, 12:59 PM

People who really know their grapes don't typically frown upon you and your insipid preferences for publicly admitting you enjoy the wine equivalent of a Budweiser (not that I actually drink Bud or anything, fukdatshyt). Beer snobs are like comic geeks, though.

HEINEKEN HUH? PSSSHHHHH! I PREFER THIS HERE PARPANIBSKY HONEY CABBAGE ALE. IT HAS MUSKRAT DICKS IN IT. GIVES IT THAT EXTRA HELL YEAH!

mickill

03-18-2009, 01:01 PM

No offense, ET. I didn't actually notice you had a thread about strawberry beer going.

TurdBerglar

03-18-2009, 01:14 PM

muskrat dicks!

funk63

03-18-2009, 01:14 PM

I'm a purple drink connoisseur!

jabumbo

03-18-2009, 01:21 PM

in a strange way, i think i agree with you here...

unless of course you are a boxed win drinker, whom i think everyone, connoisseur or not, looks down upon, and rightfully so.

mickill

03-18-2009, 01:37 PM

Wine really is not meant to be served from a box. So yes, I frown upon it like I frown upon spaghetti from a can or eyewear from a gas station.

Adam

03-18-2009, 01:46 PM

There was a rubbish video on guardian.co.uk a few months back about this - I'll try find it

Nuzzolese

03-18-2009, 02:10 PM

What are you, some kind of pretentious eyewear snob? We're not all slum dog millionaires, you know! I got my sunglasses at Big Lots, is that above or beneath gas station glasses?

I think in either case people are usually just getting drunk, but they think that being picky about it makes them classy.

b i o n i c

03-18-2009, 02:21 PM

i think wine connoisseurs have to be more annoying. just look at the faces they make during tastings,.. makes you want to shove the glass up their ass.

i cant stand people like this who spend so much time posing and not a fraction of the time actually learning. god, people are stupid

Adam

03-18-2009, 02:40 PM

I must admit, I am a whisky snob.

mickill

03-18-2009, 02:41 PM

No, beer connoisseurs aren't even like typical happily drunken people. They're dorks who laugh at you for calling Guinness beer, or roll their eyes at you when you've mispronounced the name of the little never-heard-of-it brew they're so proud of that you can only get on certain days of the year from some gypsy in the desert.

Sunglasses should only be purchased from credible street vendors.

Nuzzolese

03-18-2009, 02:47 PM

Sunglasses should only be purchased from credible street vendors.

just like children

taquitos

03-18-2009, 03:24 PM

weed snob (y)

Bob

03-18-2009, 08:02 PM

muskrat dicks

mate_spawn_die

03-18-2009, 09:37 PM

HEINEKEN!? FUCK THAT SHIT!
PABST! BLUE! RIBBON!

Documad

03-18-2009, 10:21 PM

I hear that you can get some semi-decent wine in a box these days. It's not your mother's box.

I drank a lot of beer within the past week or so. My friends kept taking me to brew pubs without me realizing it. I pick it based on color. Or sometimes I go with the funny name. Also, I like it better if I can't see through it. I suppose it's not really beer that I'm drinking, is it?

I'd like to mention that I was flying first class yesterday and the guy next to me gets on the plane at the last minute and asks the flight attendant if he can drink a beer fast, before the plane takes off. He had something honeyweissy and at 10 a.m. it made me want to upchuck. The guy had a couple of more during the flight (they're free in first class). Then when the plane was getting ready to land he slammed down another one. The smell in that enclosed space made me ill. Plus he was an older guy who made old man noises when he wasn't drinking beer.

b i o n i c

03-18-2009, 10:23 PM

It's not your mother's box.

ha!

Dorothy Wood

03-18-2009, 11:22 PM

I'd like to mention that I was flying first class yesterday and the guy next to me gets on the plane at the last minute and asks the flight attendant if he can drink a beer fast, before the plane takes off. He had something honeyweissy and at 10 a.m. it made me want to upchuck. The guy had a couple of more during the flight (they're free in first class). Then when the plane was getting ready to land he slammed down another one. The smell in that enclosed space made me ill. Plus he was an older guy who made old man noises when he wasn't drinking beer.

he's either an alcoholic, a wall street exec, or both.

(is that proper grammar? I can't tell. I've been drinking Hacker-Pschorr Weisse. Yes, I am a wall street exec.)

03-18-2009, 11:48 PM

No offense, ET. I didn't actually notice you had a thread about strawberry beer going.

But, but, but... I love muskrat dicks in my beer.:confused:

I have to agree I don't enjoy the hooting and hollering concerning only drinking dark ales or stouts or whatever Indonesian monkey scrotum framboise it is someone's into. I mean it's cool if someone does only drink those things but I don't need anyone preaching to me about how shitty a person I am not to do the same thing. I'd like to think my opinions are merely suggestions or at least tips to have the best experience trying something new. I mean, at the end of the night they all get you piss drunk, right?

And for the record I don't think anyone on the board has gone overboard with it. See what I did there.. overBoard. Hah! No, I'm not drinking at the moment, thankyouverymuch.

RobMoney$

03-18-2009, 11:53 PM

My GF's cousin is a wine snob.
Every holiday it's a fucking 20 minute soliliquy on each type of wine everyone brought to dinner. Then he wants to try to push the wine he recommends for each person like "No, you don't want that, you wouldn't like it. You want to try a glass of this wine".
I think he's overcompensating for a small weiner, trying to desperetly appear like an authority on something.
I call him the Wine Nazi and he ruins every evening with his wine bullshit.

The GF hates him worse than I do, which works out well.

Anyway, I think you're totally underestimating how annoying the "wine snob" can be.

jabumbo

03-19-2009, 08:34 AM

I hear that you can get some semi-decent wine in a box these days. It's not your mother's box.

i read an article in the PA Wine and Spirits magazine about boxed wine a few weeks ago. apparently some smaller wineries are finding that upping the quality of their box packaging is cheaper for them to produce than bottling, and so there are several quality boxed wines out there now

Waus

03-19-2009, 09:16 AM

I find it depressing whenever someone invalidates another person's enjoyment because of "experience."

It's true for anything. The cultured Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys fan making fun of a newbie enjoying License To Ill - there's no reason to ruin or look down upon something good just because you think you have something better.

Lyman Zerga

03-19-2009, 11:10 AM

too many alcoholic threads

b i o n i c

03-19-2009, 12:39 PM

i think there's a place for real connoiseurs, its the wannabe's that ruin everything. if you've ever had a reeeeeally great beer or wine, its brought to you by good connoissurs somewhere.

my grandpa used to to put cheapo wine in good wine bottles, serve it to the "connoisseurs" after they were already half bent and laught to himself about it.

HEIRESS

03-19-2009, 02:57 PM

The majority of the wine I drink is whatever we steal from my boyfriends parents cellar.

I'm sure they'd just hand it to us if we asked, but it far more fun "stealing" it.

I am not a fan of any home-brew white wines though, so those I purchase.

when it comes to beer I just try and drink whatever is most local. that's it.

hpdrifter

03-19-2009, 03:34 PM

Beer snobbery is a harbinger of growing old.

mickill

03-19-2009, 03:45 PM

I think it's more a characteristic of young guys that NEVER GET LAID LOL.

mickill

03-19-2009, 03:54 PM

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my grandpa used to to put cheapo wine in good wine bottles, serve it to the "connoisseurs" after they were already half bent and laught to himself about it.

This probably wouldn't work on serious wine aficionados, but I could see that working on some people I know. I don't think it works with things like whisky, tequila, or cognac, just in general. But it works with gin and vodka, especially mixed. Not speaking from experience, of course.

Nuzzolese

03-19-2009, 04:30 PM

I think it's more a characteristic of young guys that NEVER GET LAID LOL.

ha! those losers!

hpdrifter

03-19-2009, 05:14 PM

This probably wouldn't work on serious wine aficionados, but I could see that working on some people I know. I don't think it works with things like whisky, tequila, or cognac, just in general. But it works with gin and vodka, especially mixed. Not speaking from experience, of course.

No way, I can smell a cheap vodka a mile away.

mickill

03-19-2009, 06:04 PM

I can smell a cheap vodka a mile away.

I don't doubt that.

But when you have your little round of fuzzy navels or sea breezes, I doubt you really notice. HELL, you'd probably drink rubbing alcohol if somebody served it to you in a martini glass with a sugared rim and some blue curacao. REAL TALK!

hpdrifter

03-19-2009, 06:08 PM

I was expecting you to reply with something like that.

Vodka soda is the only thing I drink anymore. Sometimes with a splash of grapefruit juice (just a splash) if I'm feeling sassy.