{"id":152,"date":"2007-01-28T18:26:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/how-many-beers-before-i-die\/"},"modified":"2012-10-31T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T21:23:16","slug":"how-many-beers-before-i-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/how-many-beers-before-i-die\/","title":{"rendered":"How many beers before I die?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Abernathy has completed his “50 beers to drink before you die” series at The Brew Site<\/a>. Why would I mention this given that I’ve already declared the new Ten Best list from Playboy <\/a> irrelevant to my beer drinking life?<\/p>\n

I guess I’ve figured out that looking at one person’s opinion is more interesting than a list done by consensus. The Playboy list was a committee effort. Bill Brand has more insight<\/a> on the selection process since he was a voter.<\/p>\n

Abernathy took his inspiration from a BBC feature “50 things to eat before you die” – unaware that (the venerable) British beer writer Roger Protz<\/a> wrote a book titled 300 Beers to Try Before You Die<\/a>\"\" a couple years ago. At the time my thought was that tracking down the 300 beers might be a fun project, although once you got to 299 it would be best to stop.<\/p>\n

(“Wait, Mr. Angel, I’ve still got a date with the Duvel.”)<\/p>\n

Back to Abernathy’s list. What I like most<\/em> is the spirit in which beers were chosen.<\/p>\n

For No. 49 he picks homebrew, writing “Yep, just ‘homebrew.’ Any homebrew. I’m not going to quibble about style, or presentation, or region, or any of that. (Well, I hope it will at least be good.) But I don’t think anybody can call their beer drinking experience complete without drinking some homebrewed beer.” And No. 50 is “You local brewery’s beer.”<\/p>\n

There are also “on the scene” picks – meaning go there (say Belgium) and drink beer unique to the region (say lambic). <\/p>\n

What I like least<\/em> – other than the presence of the godawful Cave Creek Chili Beer – is that there are only 50. I take one look at his American West Coast picks and think, no North Coast, no Lost Abbey, no Bear Republic, no Elysian … (stopping to wipe the tears) no Lost Abbey, no AleSmith, no Russian River (finally overcome and unable to go on).<\/p>\n

What I thus decided is that my favorite list might be the one with the most beers. Thus this one is five times better than Playboy’s, but Protz has assembled a list that is 30 times superior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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