Beer snobs are a spiny bunch –all 19 types . And they ’ve been especially bristly to America ’s best-loved food nerd / world traveler Anthony Bourdain , who does n’t care whether the beer he drink is craft or not . Bourdainspoke to Thrillistabout everything from hisRoad House - viewing party to tip off to getting flamed by beer enthusiast . Apparently , Bourdain is down for " drinking whatever commodious cold beer is available in a particular place , " but notthe best beer . Gasp !
It might seem strange that someone who is so passionate about nutrient does n’t care about great beer too , but that ’s just how he rolls . " I imagine [ craft beer snobs ] somehow look me to have better preference in beer than whatever generic green bottle I fall out to be catch , " he say , babble out about the mass - produce beers he pair with food on hisParts Unknownshow . " And they see that I ’m passionate about food , why am I not passionate about beer ? I just ai n’t . I ’m just not . " That ’s led to what he call " the angriest review I get " from beer nerds clearly get by his choices .
As you might expect , this mean he does n’t go out of his direction to find sound beer when he ’s in a given metropolis . " You know , I have n’t made the effort to take the air down the street 10 blocks to the microbrewery where they ’re progress to some flaming Mumford and Sons IPA , " he said .
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Bourdain pronounce a bar is a place to " get a little bit buzzed , and pleasantly derange the weed , and have a good time , and interact with other people , or make bad decision , or feel unsound about your sprightliness . " When he recently went to a brewpub in San Francisco , he was annoyed with " people sitting there with five pocket-sized meth in front of them , filled with different beers , taking annotation . " It fall upon him as not a veridical streak . " This is fuckingInvasion of the Body Snatchers , " he said . " This is wrong . This is not what a bar is about . " Apparently , the man does not require to " sit there be intimate psychoanalyze beer . "
Lest you think he ’s just more of a wine-coloured person , he ’s not . " I do n’t need to know what ’s out of the crashing hill , or who put the grape in , or that they were transplanted . I do n’t need this . I drank it already , dude . I just – I do n’t like . " Thewine snobsdon’t seem to manage though . Perhaps beer nerds should take a page out of their book – just tope the material and do n’t worry about it .
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