That includes Southamption Publick House in your backyard, Donavan.

It certainly includes outstanding breweries north of San Francisco, but also many to the south. In regions where wine has been gaining new respect so has beer.

For instance, the Paso Robles for a bunch of wineries, but also Firestone Walker Brewing.

Chris’s comment is worth considering. I’ll use the terms beer geek and beer connoisseur around other beer people, but when I’m talking to the public, I try to avoid both terms and instead describe beer lovers as beer enthusiasts or craft beer appreciators. No designation is perfect, but we in the US seem to be particularly sensitive to the names we use to describe subcultures, especially the ones we belong to. Beer culture is definately a subculture with an identifiable mentality–we know who we are.

This statement makes no sense. What he should have said is:

“We cater to true biere connoisseurs, the type of biere drinker that really wants to explore the marriage of food and biere.”

If he is making statements like the above, I personally do not want him representing the biere community as the first “beer sommelier”.

I would love the term “beer geek” to be phased out, we are all really connoisseurs.

Chris
Biere De Table