Sniffing a beer is part of tasting it, unless there is nothing to smell. In which case there probably isn’t much to taste.

Cans are becoming a more popular packaging option to craft brewers because they treat beer better than bottles. Need and explanation? Drink a Corona, then drink something from Ska or Half Acre. No skunk!

Lastly, I’ll always try to get my friends to drink better beer because they’re my friends. If that’s makes me a snob then so be it, but I am a craft brewer by trade and passion.
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1. Don’t be a dick; to each his own.

2. If someone gives you shit about your beer choice, then the hell with them, just enjoy your beer.

check out this documentary called Beer Wars – you will not be disappointed. There’s nothing snobbery about drinking expensive beer. It’s expensive because it’s brewed with care and quality ingredients, not cheap adjuncts. Do some investigating of your own before you let big budget advertising dictate the reality of beer.

I enjoy an IPA, a good ‘ol Bud or whatever stikes my mood that day or night.

Like “Mike” said above, I don’t care what you drink. If it floats your boat, then so be it.

There are so-called “expensive” or specialty beers I despise and the same with some cheap ones. I’ve discovered what works for me. The key is to find what tastes great to you, not the price, country of origin or label.

Oh, Yes..NEVER put a thermomether in your beer glass in public, lol.

This article is a perfect example of hypocrisy. What a snob is, you know, an actual one, is someone who seeks to label and bring down people based on their choice of clothing and personal preference. Whether it be taste or being honest when they dislike something or wearing a cardigan. What the author did in this article is the textbook example of snobbery, and did so so that if anyone were to call him a beer snob in the future he can point to this article and continue to get the approval of his buds who couldnt care less about the taste of it.

So what if passer by’s think its odd that you’re smelling your beer? Not caring what others think and sniffing your beer anyway is the opposite of being a snob, beer or otherwise, as snobs are seeking to elevate themselves socially.

Irony at its best.

Also, protesting mainstream beers that lack in quality is nothing to look down on. There’s a reason they’re all bad and it’s not by virtue of them being popular. A company like corona has profit in mind, they are not beer enthusiasts. That is why they market the way they do, and that is why they cut any cost possible thus compromising tastes.

Smaller breweries make better beer because theyre not seeking to become big shot companies, and are owned by people who understand that a good beer is more than just a way to get drunk.

Hating all mainstream beer and enjoying the good stuff is not called being a snob, it’s called having taste buds and not being so impressionable that you let yourself get manipulated by companies just because they have the money for tv commercials.