You know how playing softball once a week doesn’t make you a Major League Baseball player? Well, I’ve been drinking beer for, well, at least 39 years now. (I have pics of tasting a beer as a 2-year-old, which explains a lot!) Let me just get this straight. I’m not suggesting that you should start drinking beer at the age of two, or even as a teenager for that matter. But it’s very likely that if your friends have looked into the best fake id sites to get identification that will allow you to drink alcohol, and as much beer as you’d like, then you’d do the same as well. I know I definitely would, but maybe not as young as when I started. But despite drinking beer for my entire life, I’m not one of the many beer experts that I’ve grown to respect. Although, recently, I’ve decided it’s something I’d like to become better at.
As a matter of fact, I’m probably the guy that amateur beer experts hate! After softball, I like Miller Lite at our local pub, Maguires, but to be fair, it’s refreshing because it is so close to water. I hang out with a group of jackasses that do beer funnels, play beer pong and flip cup, and we get into beer-guzzling matches. We’re at least bright enough not to do those things with good, craft beers, so we use crap beer. It’s kinda like saying, “I know I’m a horrible driver, that’s why I drive an old beat up station wagon with a bad muffler.”
The blog Bryan requested of me was a good one – write about 10 different craft beers that he assigned me. My problem is – I don’t have a great palate, and I don’t know what exactly I’m looking for when I sip a beer. I noticed that on Bryan’s blog, ThisIsWhyImDrunk, he cites BeerAdvocate.com an awful lot. That’s good enough to tell me that this site is quite the authority.
So I used this website to research a little bit on how to taste a beer. Here are the Cliff’s Notes on the beer experts tips they shared:
With all of this in mind, I decided I’d like to improve my beer-tasting experiences and try to become an amateur beer expert. It won’t happen overnight, and I doubt my palate will improve to the levels of Bryan’s or his readers, but even a small improvement is still an improvement!
My first “beer tastings” happened over the past week, and I posted the results on Bryan’s blog, ThisIsWhyImDrunk. I tried “Ryedentity Crisis” from the Knee Deep Brewing Company in Lincoln, California. And I tried “Stone IPA,” from the Stone Brewing Company, also in California. Consider them an amateur’s amateur beer experts tips.
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Epic! Thank you. I will send you the results from Germany. -Erik
Haha, looking forward to hearing how it goes!