Strong vs. Weak

I’m sure if you’re reading this blog, you’ve dabbled in the many beer rating websites out there. Personally, I’m getting quite annoyed with these sites… the “let’s rate the strongest beer the highest mentality” can get old. Any true beer lover knows that alcohol content has nothing to do with the quality of the beer. Granted, beers with higher alcohol content have typically been sitting around, aging longer, getting better and better by the day, just crying for you to drink them. Having high alcohol content or being dark in color doesn’t automatically qualify them as superior beers. I’ll agree, some of them are fantastic beers, but some of them are absolutely terrible. Anyway, my point is to give some of the lower alcohol content beers a try. Don’t just listen to these beer rating websites. Low alcohol content doesn’t mean the beer sucks. Beer should be appreciated and enjoyed for reasons other than its alcohol content. I think that some less strong beers tend to get ignored by so called sophisticated beer judgers. And yes judger is an official term because I’m One Thousand Years Old and I say so. Just because your friends are hooooo raaaa’n because they can’t see through it doesn’t mean it’s God’s gift to beer. EVERY beer has its place; dark, light, strong, weak, hoppy and not. A true beer lover will learn to appreciate ALL beers.



March 19th, 2009

Posted in Beer Talk.Tags: beer, beerfather, strong, weak
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