However, I realised recently that everybody does. Apparently beer and its taste, look, history and innovation is just not as interesting for some people. Well, most people. Who'd have thought it?
I understand that for many, a beer is a pint of run-of-the-mill lager over lunch, a crate of the same at house party or a few jars of ale in a pub on a Friday night. And that's fine. I mean, it really is. Even the run-of-the-mill lager drinkers, unlike a lot of the die-hard beer connoisseurs I can appreciate the cheeky pints of big brewery lager you guzzle down. These bar top standards have their time and place and most importantly aren't (in general) going to leave a gaping 568ml's worth of space in your wallet.
However, I can't deny the fact that over the past about 3 years, the ales, the craft beers and the speciality brews of our sceptred isle and beyond have tempted me and drawn me into their sweet beery embrace. I don't know if it's from being surrounded by some great bars and breweries throughout my time living in Kent, working in bars and hearing "I'll have a Fosters please" countless times every evening or just a wish to try something new as my snakebite-stained uni years fade behind me, but regardless it is something I have not once regretted. (I realise I'm almost making beer drinking sound like some kind of life-changing force... if only.)
But as I said, not everyone cares. Why should they? Even if they like the stuff I am asking them to try, what's so special that we need to start a twenty minute conversation on the subtle aromas of citrus, the type of rare hops used and the trousers that the brewer wore on the day he first casked it? The most obvious answer is, well, nothing.
Apart from it does really interest me! So rather than bore my friends, colleagues and anyone in the pub who will listen with it, I thought I'd stick my musings, reviews and other beer-related ramblings on the internet. Combining my love of all things beer and my ability to write somewhat interestingly (hey, if I can't say this after a BA nad MA in English, what other use are they?) I decided that I might as well, after years of reading some truly great blogs of friends and others from all over the interweb, I decided to make my own. So here it is, my Beer Blog!
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I get to put my thoughts on what I'm drinking into written word. I get to use the phrase 'I'm working' when drinking beer at home. And maybe, I will get to entertain and even educate others on the wonders of craft, independent and small-batch beer.
Maybe you'll even go out and try the beer I review. Or maybe you'll tell your friend. Or maybe, just maybe, you'll order a pint of something different on the next lager-lunch.
And that can only ever be a good thing, right?
But as I said, not everyone cares. Why should they? Even if they like the stuff I am asking them to try, what's so special that we need to start a twenty minute conversation on the subtle aromas of citrus, the type of rare hops used and the trousers that the brewer wore on the day he first casked it? The most obvious answer is, well, nothing.
Apart from it does really interest me! So rather than bore my friends, colleagues and anyone in the pub who will listen with it, I thought I'd stick my musings, reviews and other beer-related ramblings on the internet. Combining my love of all things beer and my ability to write somewhat interestingly (hey, if I can't say this after a BA nad MA in English, what other use are they?) I decided that I might as well, after years of reading some truly great blogs of friends and others from all over the interweb, I decided to make my own. So here it is, my Beer Blog!
I get to put my thoughts on what I'm drinking into written word. I get to use the phrase 'I'm working' when drinking beer at home. And maybe, I will get to entertain and even educate others on the wonders of craft, independent and small-batch beer.
Maybe you'll even go out and try the beer I review. Or maybe you'll tell your friend. Or maybe, just maybe, you'll order a pint of something different on the next lager-lunch.
And that can only ever be a good thing, right?
This post was written listening to: Blue Swede – Hooked on a Feeling
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