28 days of beer with change left over
Gee, I wish I’d thought of this idea.
The February issue of Food & Wine magazine has an article telling you how to “Become a Wine Expert in 28 Days.â€
Stephen Beaumont saw this and did the math:
Just for fun, I added up the month’s wine costs and found that, not including the Sonoma wine-country weekend the author advises the reader to plan on Day 17, the total price of becoming a 28 Day Wine Expert is $1,792, or an average of $64 a day.
Then he imagines “if the story had instead been ‘Become a Beer Expert in 28 Days.’”
Day 2 in (Michael) Steinberger’s story highlights a $40 syrah, for which I might substitute a solid American IPA costing about $3. Day 3’s Tuscan red from Gaja ($38) could be replaced by a robust brown ale or two for $5 or so . . .
His point? “When it comes to purchasing power, the beer aficionado has it all over the oenophile.”
Hey, Stephen, you need to finish the month for us.
Posted: January 18th, 2007 under Beer & Wine.
January 18th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Send this wine expert over to Santa Rosa to speak with Vinnie and Natalie…while they’re sipping on $4 beers aged in wine barrels infested with the dreaded Brett most in the wine world detest. They’d never leave!
Choice stuff Stan/Stephen…glad I opted out of F&W for Gourmet instead.
January 19th, 2007 at 3:27 am
I’ve always suspected that the wine gene is a very costly mutation of the beer gene. I have the latter, but my son, poor bastard, has the former.