Craft Beer rant by silly girl

[yum beer]

Lets see how this goes.

There is a LOT of really **** Craft Beer getting around.

A tasting paddle from an establishment in Manly provided me with 4 very good reasons such people get down on craft beer.....it isn't always just the writer.

 

[TheWiggman]

I wish the term craft beer would just go away.
I like some megaswill. XXXX Bitter (not gold), James Boags Draught, I can knock back a VB... but stop dividing the market and defending either side. I can understand the frustration of the 'craft' industry with the mega monopolising taps over the country, and that's a fair argument. But they didn't accidentally win through marketing alone, they make beer this country likes to drink. Unfortunately now because of their dominance it's ALL most people want to drink. They know no different.
And the whole 'pretentious snobs discussing beer' - seriously, insert any consumable there. Wine, cakes, coffee, hamburgers, bread, whatever. Bakers probably discuss bakery goods with other bakers, and bean roasters probably feel like discussing how bad coffees are at Gloria Jeans. Isn't that fair? To each their own, we don't all have coffees for the sake of spending time with one another, it's not really a sound argument. If someone else thinks the coffee I'm drinking is rubbish, yeah I'll talk about it. If I didn't that's pretty ignorant of me. Who's the real snob?
I feel like it's a disservice to the article's purpose by talking about it. It's what she would have been aiming for. Not going to remark further.

 

[jlm]

Pretty inoffensive article if you ask me. By no means journalism, just opinion put forward as click bait to get a reaction from tubby sweaty neck beards who can't have a drink with friends without making it all about themselves and what they would prefer to drink and what they would prefer others to drink by way of whining about the dullness of mainstream lagers (points finger at most on this forum).

 

[Florian]

I wish the term craft beer would just go away.

wholeheatedly agree.

this has always bugged me. what's craft beer anyway?

Koelsch, a beer that is brewed by big breweries in Cologne? or Alt, UK bitters etc.?

How are these beers anymore crafty than an aussielager or a US Budweiser? different styles, that's all.

If Belgian Wits were the beers drunk by the masses around the world we'd call it megaswill and complain about its blandness no doubt.

 

[Lecterfan]

Pretty inoffensive article if you ask me. By no means journalism, just opinion put forward as click bait to get a reaction from tubby sweaty neck beards who can't have a drink with friends without making it all about themselves and what they would prefer to drink and what they would prefer others to drink by way of whining about the dullness of mainstream lagers (points finger at most on this forum).

High five.

Also, fantastic watching all the gendered criticism also...as if I don't have to put up with enough **** on the internet elsewhere... stupid women girls are stupid.

 

[Black Devil Dog]

"David Chang, founder of the Momofuku restaurant group and cheap beer enthusiast."

He should seriously consider re-naming his restaurant Mofofuku.



As for the rest of the article.

There's a bit of truth in it, but really, people can just drink what they damned well please. Who cares what it is, what they call it and what they talk about whilst they're drinking it.

 

[peas_and_corn]

wholeheatedly agree.

this has always bugged me. what's craft beer anyway?

Marketing nonsense.

 

[verysupple]

I'm with the Wiggman and others. As I alluded to in a previous comment, I quite enjoy a megaswill every now and then*. But sometimes (actually most times) I want something different. I also don't get the term "craft beer", and I really don't use 'craft beer' interchangeably with good beer - because a lot of it is rubbish.

Having said that, I'd much rather drink the odd crap "craft beer" if it means I get a choice of varieties etc.

* C'mon, they brew the most consistent products on the market and brew it EXACTLY how they want it. I wish I could do that.

 

[Bribie G]

I'm off to t'club up t'street shortly and I'll happily drink Tooheys Old or shock horror VB if it's on happy hour. However they have recently installed Kosciusko Pale Ale so I'll drink that. It replaces White Rabbit Dark that was on for a year, then 150 lashes for a year before that, but I wouldn't describe any of them as Craft Beers, more like "Craft washed" beers... but nice to have a choice. Actually my back-stop drink if there's no Craft Washed brands is usually Hahn Super Dry. If I could make a version of that it would be an excellent lawnmower.

When they first put on the Kosciusko I ordered a schooner and the guy said "how do you find it?" and I said "Second tap from the end".

 

[Killer Brew]

She's angry!....this is because craft beer cost more and therefore guys aren't getting as pissed.Obviously she need pissed dudes to get laid.

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

 

[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..?