How do I into craft beer?

>>19176763 (OP)

Research the basic flavor profile of various styles. Pick a couple that sound nice. Do research on beeradvocate.com for good examples of style. Buy, enjoy, repeat.

>>19176763 (OP)

go to local breweries and order the flight. treat it like a tasting menu, actually try to pick out flavors in each as you go through the flight. try multiple breweries and always pick their curated flights if available - brewers choice flights > staff flights for beer if both offered, other way around for craft spirits

dive in head first

>>19176763 (OP)

don't, it's all total shit pisswater marketed to limpwristed faggots like 

>>19176763 (OP)

i just avoid the ones that look dumb or say dumb shit and eventually after a few weekends you know what's good in the area. you could figure out if there's anything local to you that tastes like a national brand you enjoy.

any beer is crafty if you drink it out of a lady's shoe

i prefer not to be erect when i enjoy a beer

>>19176763 (OP)

The same way you do with regular beer.

>>19176763 (OP)

I think this is strictly regional. I live in a rural area and the only “craft” beers around here have retarded names, wacky hipster art on the cans, and taste TERRIBLE. I think my town is where all of the craft beers that couldn’t survive in more heavily-populated areas come to die.

I'm sure your server at Grizzlebees would be happy to talk you through some of the choices available

"Craft beer" is kind of a meaningless term at this point. Aside from imports and macro-lagers, just about everything is craft beer these days. So start with a basic style you think you might like and look up some of the standard ones people seem to really like and are available to you. Using something like Beer Advocate isn't great for suggestions because most of the highest rated things are special, limited release things. 20 years ago a lot of people first "discovered" craft beer through Sierra Nevada pale ale, and I honestly think that's still a good place to start. If you've been dinking Bud/Yuengling/Corona/Heineken/Guinness your whole life, you'll likely try a Sierra Nevada and think, "holy shit, I never knew that beer can actually have flavor and nuance". It's nothing that special in the big picture, but it's a really straight forward, inoffensive, mid-range ABV ale most people will find easily accessible.

fuck beer, build a still

>>19176763 (OP)

beer ain't even good for you bro. Just find a better hobby

>>19176763 (OP)

Liking men is not right if you’re a man.

>i just avoid the ones that look dumb or say dumb shit

This. I refuse to buy any beer that looks like a late 90s soda or energy drink and has a stupid name like Ass Goblin Lager.

Ass Goblin Lager is a mf classic though

>Go to the store

>Buy some craft beer

>Drink it

>Repeat steps 1-3

No fun allowed posters are the worst people on this site.

>>19176763 (OP)

Drink them
