Craft Beer rant by silly girl

[wide eyed and legless]

I really don't mind what they call a good brewed beer whether it be craft or real ale I really don't believe that there is a lot to choose from in Australia, I would really have loved to have gone to this one, CAMRA'S winter beer festival at the round house in Derby UK.
And I dont give a rats arse what some journalists have to say.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Camra-Derby-Winter-Beer-Festival/290918014283225

 

[contrarian]

It's not really a rant about craft beer, it's a rant about ******s who want to make themselves feel superior to others in any way possible and they are annoying! No reason to blame beer for it though!

If there's a beer on offer I haven't tried before I'll give it a crack as I like to experience different things and get ideas for what I might want to brew but if I've just played soccer and the only cold beer is cans of new then I'll happily knock off a few of those. Time and place for everything, except annoying ******s, they can get ******.

 

[Airgead]

Yeah... seriously folks. OK its a crap article, or at least an article most of us don't agree with. However, had it been written by a guy, I don't think we would be seeing quite the level of personal vitriol, along the lines of "shut up bitch, what do chicks know about beer anyway" being displayed here.

Disagreeing with the article is one thing. Resorting to personal attacks on the author's appearance and gender (she obviously needs drunk guys to get laid), is not helpful. Its also not nice and really re-enforces the view of beer geeks as a bunch of misogynistic twats. Whether the author is the proud owner of a penis or not is completely unrelated to the article and the quality thereof.

Let's focus on the article... not the author.

 

[mofox1]

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/85039-where-have-they-gone/

Exactly.

Yeah... seriously folks. OK its a crap article, or at least an article most of us don't agree with. However, had it been written by a guy, I don't think we would be seeing quite the level of personal vitriol, along the lines of "shut up bitch, what do chicks know about beer anyway" being displayed here.

Disagreeing with the article is one thing. Resorting to personal attacks on the author's appearance and gender (she obviously needs drunk guys to get laid), is not helpful. Its also not nice and really re-enforces the view of beer geeks as a bunch of misogynistic twats. Whether the author is the proud owner of a penis or not is completely unrelated to the article and the quality thereof.

Let's focus on the article... not the author.

^Much more eloquently put than what I would have spouted. Cheers.

 

[Dave70]

Give me cheap beer, or give me sobriety.
Spoken like a true slapper (or Lana Del Ray fan ) who's likely had her (his) hair (beard and eye ware) held out of harms way by a sympathetic girlfriend (bro) as she (he) lurched over a public toilet and exhaled another half digested kebab into the bowl on a disturbingly regular basis.
Journalist?
Somebody pass this hack the wine list.

{edit - cos it could have just as been dude with a beard}

 

[hwall95]

What I don't understand about these articles and people with views like this is why do they care so much?

I have plenty of mates that prefer tooheys and XXXX and buy that because I like it which is fine because that's what they enjoy and I don't ever question it. But what annoys me is that some of them will then have a go at you for buying more expensive beer or call you pretentious which to me makes little sense since I don't give a **** what they drink because the end of the day we're all drinking beer because we enjoy it, not because we want to make a statement out of it. It probably doesn't help when some breweries try to make extremely weird beers just to jump on the bandwagon.. Give me a good Mild or Hefe over some crazy beer that's being intensified for no (creative) reason other then publicity. Not saying that it makes it bad beer, but some beers are just seem over the top sometimes.

 

[Weizguy]

What I don't understand about these articles and people with views like this is why do they care so much?

Why do people care about the colour of a stupid dress. Interesting, maybe once. Second and subsequent times - boring as batshit and tedious to the point of inspiring violence.

People are bored and easily distracted. Facebook culture. Distract the dummies while the clever ones take all their money and freedom. It's an old pattern with modern nuances.

I just let it go, rather than get upset. No buy-in, no stake to defend.

 

[TimT]

Not saying that it makes it bad beer, but some beers are just seem over the top sometimes.

I think a lot of it goes back to the warped legal inheritance we have around beers and brewing in this country. Gigantic excise impositions on brewers which are meant to make beer less desirable end up favouring gigantic brewers who have the resources to manufacture beer by the bucketload and sell it on the cheap. Which they do, encouraging binge drinking.

So the lowest alcohol drink in the country becomes one of the highest taxed drinks in the country. So small local brewers that might be more sensitive to the issues of binge drinking aren't able to get into the market (many of the brewers in Australia used to be publicans; a lot of those were either bought out by other breweries or closed down by Temperance politicians). So a Guardian columnist - writing for a paper in which the journalists are regularly ridiculed as being latte left, chardonnay swilling elitists and the like - somehow writes an article both snobby and arguing for megaswill. Because, you know, she hasn't known anything different.

 

[Dave70]

Beer makers need to take a clue from the spirit industry or AC/DC. They churn out the same product for hundreds of years with the only variable being age and it still enjoys vast popularity.
Ever wonder why?

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Because they are good..?

 

[Dave70]

So were Squires beers. Now..