There’s a post today on the Seattlest with the provocative title “Do You Hate Beer?” It begins:
Do you just absolutely hate beer? Have you ever been amazed that people would actually prefer to drink beer with their nice dinner, rather than the typical bottle of expensive red wine? If you are set in your beer-hating ways, try these libations. They may change your mind.
The author then lists five beers: Manny’s Pale Ale, Rochefort Trappistes 10, Lindemans Framboise, Duchesse De Bourgogne and Rogue Chocolate Stout. For each there is an explanation of the beer, what food to pair with it and even where in Seattle you can find it. I may not agree with every suggestion, but it’s a great idea to simply challenge people who believe they don’t care for beer to explore the diversity in beer that they probably aren’t even aware exists.
It might be a worthwhile project for some of us to put together a list of beers in a variety of styles to suggest for the person who doesn’t like beer to try, with this same sort of basic information. I like the idea of being able to give someone a list or give them a link to a ready-made list of suggested beers they might try. Who’s with me?
For trivia’s sake, the Seattlest is part of the Gothamist, a network of fifteen city blogs that do a good job of covering each city using local bloggers. Here on the left coast, in addition to Seattle, there’s also one for San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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April 10th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Your post reminded me of one of the first posts I created on my blog–a list we developed for a developing palate. We tailored this list to the tastes of a specific friend of mine, and I’m not sure I still agree with everything we put on the list, but it’s still worth noting. Perhaps this will encourage me to revise the list and repost:
http://kevbrews.blogspot.com/2005/12/beer-list-for-developing-palate.html
April 11th, 2007 at 6:02 am
Maybe we should send the list to author John Scalzi, who hates the way beer (and coffee) taste. http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004995.html
April 11th, 2007 at 6:24 am
The idea ties in directly to what Eric Asimov is doing with wine in the New York Times.
His column today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/dining/11pour.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The way to follow it will be in his blog:
http://thepour.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/the-dining-table-wine-school/
April 11th, 2007 at 8:46 am
The Duchesse is absolutely the best beer for non-beer types. I actually attended the Portland International Beerfest with a beer-hater. I had hoped to find something she would not reject with a wrinkled nose and an “it tastes ‘beery.’” Belgians in general were an improvement, but the Duchesse won praise as not only tolerable, but tasty. I honestly can’t imagine anyone who would dislike it.
April 11th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Hey J. We’ve done very short recomendation lists like this on our FREE FM show. The question of what beer to drink if you don’t like beer seems to come almost every week on the show. I’d love to compile a nice list to answer the questions. Another idea I have for the list would be maybe to categorize it too based on palette preferences. Like, “I prefer sweet over bitter” and list some there, or I really like oaky/wood wine flavors” and list some barrel stuff.
Just some thoughts.