i hate beer advocate

[ghostface1]

i'm all for micro and craft brews, i love em, but if you're the kinda person that drinks most beer out of 'tulips' and rank awesome beers as an 'a minus' at best, while worrying about the way the beer 'looks', you have some problems. ba is the pitchfork media of beer.

[ChiliDawg]

I get where you're coming from, but I think you have to look at BA for what it is, and I mean no disrespect to the brothers Alstrom, a beer "snob" site, in my opinion. They do know their stuff when it comes to craft brew, 99% of which shall never pass these redneck lips, but for those that are of a more uppercrust beer drinkin' demographic, it's a good forum.

Cheers to ya' with my High-Life.

[Chimneyfish]

It's all bullshit. When I was selling beer we used to sell out our Stone Vertical Epics every year. A lot of people (not the complete beer snobs- they'd never be seen drinking something so mainstream as Stone) wouldn't want to read the novel that Stone prints on the backs of their bottles and just go home and drink the beer. Then they'd come back for more talking about how great it was. What they didn't realize was that the beers were bottle-fermented, but to the extent that they must be aged until 2012. The yeast had barely begun to do its job and it wasn't meant to taste even stomachable at that point.

My theory is that the worse a beer tastes, the more beer snobs appreciate the opportunity to show off how much more they're capable of appreciating than the common man. After selling craft beers for three years I'm still convinced that the best tasting beverage you can ever drink is an ice-cold Budweiser can from the freezer during summer.

[Mayhem]

I've got three bottles of Vertical Epic 2005 aging away.

[fiyah]

I've got three bottles of Vertical Epic 2005 aging away.

...and twelve cases of Zima Light aging away as well..


BA is fine- they can do their thing and I'll do mine.. BA wants to tell how good a craft beer can taste, but I want to know which beer is slammable and continually slammable.. Putting away one quality craft beer is a damn waste of my time..

Furthermore, BA should have a mudbutt rating as well..

[zak]

not for nothing but after reading beer advocate I have to say the writers are at least 69% douchebags. Good writers can write a decent article without showing any biased, but the majority of articles I read coming out of BA seems like it's more about shitting on the cheap beers they aren't reviewing instead of actually reviewing the beer they are reviewing. It you're reading this and you write for Beer Advocate, please write like a journalist instead of a stuck up snob.

[Resident Asshole]

I like their site, I think their FAQ are pretty instructional. I do like ratebeer better though. I know what people mean about beer snobs, but there are snobs in just about everything. I had a girl telling me that Absolut was the best vodka, hey that's her opinion...I think it tastes like castor oil.

[peetie44]

IMHO, the only way to critique a beer is to buy a case and drink the first 11 with no thought other than slamming those puppies down.

Then, stop and savor the 12th beer; taking copious notes, rich in flowery prose (if not exactly with the best of penmanship), as to that beer's unique properties, such as appearance, taste and character.

Next, drink numbers 13 through 23 as you did the first eleven, stopping again to slowly analyze (or would that be "mudbutt-yze" at this point?) beer number 24, once again recording your observances and opinions in detail.

If the 2 separate sets of notes you took on beers 12 and 24 are in accordance, then you have found a truly great beer. If not, you need only to buy a case of a different beer and repeat the entire process.

[Miklo]

After selling craft beers for three years I'm still convinced that the best tasting beverage you can ever drink is an ice-cold Budweiser can from the freezer during summer.

I agree, tecate is second.

[Mayhem]

Furthermore, BA should have a mudbutt rating as well..

Agreed.

[peetie44]

After selling craft beers for three years I'm still convinced that the best tasting beverage you can ever drink is an ice-cold Budweiser can from the freezer during summer.

I agree, tecate is second.

Agreed.

But those beers will never taste better than when they're drank outside in your yard, or on your patio/deck, after being fished-out (brrrrrrrr!) from a 40-gallon rubber trashcan containing a 50lb block of ice and water.