{"id":54,"date":"2006-05-30T12:15:15","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T12:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/30\/promoting-beer-knowledge-vs-snobbery\/"},"modified":"2012-10-30T15:42:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T21:42:18","slug":"promoting-beer-knowledge-vs-snobbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/promoting-beer-knowledge-vs-snobbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting beer knowledge vs. snobbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now the New York Times<\/a> has written about the city’s first beer sommelier, a already discussed here<\/a> a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n

This will lead to a whole ‘nother round of posts in various blogs, and probably touch upon some more interesting ideas (including still more discussion if sommelier is a wine specific word). I promise not to beat you over the head with too many pointers, but here is an interesting thought from Roger Baylor<\/a>: <\/p>\n

This is the part that I’m having a problem embracing:<\/p>\n

“We don’t aim towards pub people,” he said. “We’re about the beer geeks, people who want to try a new experience.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Whether or not there is a word that accurately describes the function of ordering and recommending beer — a beer sommelier — how can it be so blithely divorced from the consciousness of pub people?”\u009d<\/p>\n

In my experience, that’s where the “geeks”\u009d came from in the first place.<\/p>\n

Beer knowledge is important, and to disseminate it through the experience and wisdom of a “beer sommelier”\u009d is something worthy of praise, but to imbue it with pretentiousness is both unnecessary and potentially self-defeating.<\/p>\n

It’s hard enough going out there every day and having to un-do the incessant dumbing down of beer perpetuated by a half-century of megabrewing theory and practice without mimicking the excesses of wine snobbery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Feel free to discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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