Glot said:
Who is to say what is good and what is not. It is all relative to what the drinker prefers.
I have had some quite expensive and apparently excellent red wines but my favourite is one cheap cask red. To me it is better than the others
Yeah..kind of on thin ice with that one. In matters of beer I'd tend to lean toward the opinions of the experienced brewer and seasoned imbiber of multiple styles over say, a bloke at the pub who's drank only New for the past twenty years. I'd argue there are
certainly rules that apply to objectivity. For example, a mate of mine couldn't wait for me to sample some of the KISS beer he purchased at the time, describing it as 'excellent'. The fact he's also a rabid KISS fan and primarily a bourbon drinker, and that I a keen student or all things beer and brewing who can - at a basic level at least - derive the ingredients of a beer by taste, makes my assertion that KISS beer is indeed
pus more reliable than my friends assertion of 'excellent'. I believe this would also be the general consensus among my peers.
You would likely find the same with a beer voted 'best of show'. May not be everyone's favorite, but you can bet that - unless they recruited the judges from under a bridge and cardboard boxes - it would surely be a decent brew.
To that end, if you prefer goon to expensive red, I'd say your field of expertise isn't judging wine comps.
For the record, here's what Gage Roads looked like when it was awesome. Don't know why they went and changed the recipe.
Far more floral and less crystal from memory. Almost more like a AIPA.
{edit - italic on
pus..}
