New Beer Rule #8: More beer, less analysis
NEW BEER RULE #8: Always take beer more seriously than yourself.
This needs little explanation.
But to be clear, this is a beer rule. Not a life or work rule. The alternative version goes like this: Ask yourself if it’s the beer you are taking too seriously or yourself.
The rule popped into my mind not long after I hurriedly posted my Thursday morning musing, so here are those links again and one to a discussion that followed.
- Over Analysis Syndrome (from brewer Matt Van Wyk)
- Armchair Brewer Syndrome (from brewvana)
- Drinking the same beer way too long (from The Beer Mapping Project)
- Rating Beer Raters? (Rate Beer discussion - Matt must still be amazed what he wandered into)
You connect the dots.
Posted: January 20th, 2008 under New Beer Rules.
January 21st, 2008 at 12:01 am
Is this, perhaps in part at least, and explanation for what I see as “grade inflation” at beer advocate and the rest? So many beers in the B or A category, so much verbage that does not really help IMO. I am new to the whole “real” beer scene and I have to admit, I don’t find these rating sites helpful. There seems to be hardly any average beer, let alone bad ones. Perhaps that’s what they mean by “advocate” site. I try various beers rated and find large differences. If anyone has any recommendations for a site is more balanced, with less armchair quarterbacks all trying to sound like experts, I would appreciate it…
January 21st, 2008 at 5:54 am
Good rule, and distinction on this being a beer rule rather than life or work rule.
Matt and I had been talking about this for awhile and here’s the Over-analysis Syndrome that I posted in concert with his:
http://brewvana.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/over-analysis-syndrome/
When I saw that Rate Beer thread, I wished I hadn’t dragged him into my philosophical BS. I appreciate that he did it. The Rate Beer thread became case in point, with over-zealous people responding without reading the whole thread, much less the posts referenced.
Cheers!