Beer snob sues MillerCoors for making Blue Moon

To me, this is like calling your strip center "Podunk Mall." Like beer, that industry has internal guidelines about what is a mall, what is a center, etc., but I don't think the labels have any legal force.

Does any beer put "craft beer" on the label? Or "microbrew"? None that I've seen. It's not like Blue Moon was trying to imitate a common industry practice. "Artfully crafted" doesn't cut it, I don't think. "Craft beer" is a very specific term of art.

 

Actually, per my reading of it, that industry has no broadly applicable guidelines as to what is (or is not) a craft beer. There's a trade association within that industry that presents itself as "a passionate voice for craft brewers," but that's it. This ain't France or Italy, where wine and food appellations are enforced by the state. Korbel champagne says it's produced in the méthode champenoise, but nobody would think of going to court to say that's misleading.

This lawsuit is analogous to somebody buying Kraft Parmesan cheese for years and then getting the sad because he finds out it's not really parmigiano-reggiano.

 

Fuck beer snobs. I'll drink my Bud Light/Michelob Ultra swill, drink a lot of it and like it and the satisfying shit I take the next morning.

 

Tend to agree with spike on the difference between beer geek/snob. A snob will thumb his nose at anyone not drinking a microbrew. I prefer a microbrew, and love tasting new ones to figure out what malts, hops, etc., are used. But I'll drink a Bud Heavy or a Miller Lite too. Depends on the mood.

Though the Bud Light drinkers in our burg tend to be the shitty redneck asshole variety, so I will judge someone for drinking that. At least have a Natty Boh. Ha.

 

Cocktail snobs are an interesting breed, too. They obsess over ingredients. (Looking at you, YF.)

If you want to smoke them out, let them know you use bottled Simple Syrup instead of boiling your own. Works every time. My brother is like a Pavlov's dog with this particular parlor trick.

 

You do have to love the Bud Light drinker who thinks the guy drinking a micro-brew is a "p***y", when the micro-brew likely has double the ABV.

 

I was with some redneck college friends last year at a bar in my college town, and got a martini. They all started in: "You want an umbrella in that, too!?" And the waitress looks at them and says: "Do you guys understand that that is pretty much straight booze?"

 

You want a tampon with that drink Dick?

The martini glass makes it look a bit dainty, and the term "martini" has been watered down to mean anything served in a martini glass -- I'll have a white chocolate martini -- but an actual martini is a real drink, that deserves no mockery. Unless you got a "vodka martini", then gin/real martini drinkers are allowed to mock you.

 

Of course I didn't get vodka.

 

Phew!

It's hard to tell with you, what with your store bought simple syrup and lime juice.

 

The vodka martini is not mock-worthy. At least, not like the Appletini and its ilk.

And, please, keep the James Bond jokes to yourselves. No one cares, and they were never funny to begin with.

 

I understand the lime juice stigma, because Rose's is cloyingly sweet. But I don't understand the Simple Syrup stigma.