For my own benefit I've never really liked mayonnaise, the Detroit Lions, or the taste of beer. However, I've always have had an admiration of the people that drink cans of Miller High Life, Milwaukee's Best, Pabst, Old Style, or any other low quality beer a la Homer Simpson and his beloved Duff beer. They seem to be purists and don't worry about what people think of their beer of choice. They just enjoy it in it's most basic form.
Until the last couple of years, microbrew fans have always struck me as snobbish and smug like the people that know what kind of wine tastes better with a certain type of food. I have no idea! For me life is too short to keep track of all these different kinds of beers and wines. I just want to get an occasional healthy glow and avoid a hangover.
A couple of events in the last year or so have changed my opinion on microbrews. One was at an barbecue on a beautiful fall day when the hosts served homemade beer. Delicious and strong! Then last night I drank a pair of $6.50 micro beers with some friends and actually enjoyed the taste. Well, I realized, gol' dammit, microbrews are much better than regular beer and I just have to concede that those pompous microbrewers have better taste than Joe Six-Pack. Hopefully someday the two different worlds will come together so I can enjoy a tasty microbrew with beer-drinking people that wouldn't even consider it.
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