Beer.. Yeah I like beer...
Fancy labels and unusual brands are fine and chasing them can become an obsession just like chasing rare landcruiser parts, rare landcruiser accessories or rare landcruiser literature (which I admit I've succummed to, even though I know how silly it is).
Well .... There IS a big difference in that beer is a consumable so its soon all GONE. So perhaps my comparison above is pretty poor.
But anyway ... What I really want to say is that the great thing about beer is that your body adapts to prefer whatever you drink the most of.
I now drink one of the cheaper beers on supermarket shelves here. - Tui.
At the moment I'm having a Heineken instead ... but only because I was given a dozen as a present. (No, I don't have friends. That was my son's gift.) My taste buds actually look forward to going back to Tui once again.
PS. Just thought I'd add this for "balance", because it is 100% true for me, and so as to make others feel better, who, like myself, can't afford to regularly drink more-expensive "niche-market beers" even if they wanted to. (If someone offers me a niche beer such as "Tuatara" ... I refuse ... provided of course that they have a more palatable alternative available. If they don't I'll drink anything.)
PPS. And just how many "rare-label beer breweries" have been secretly taken over by brewery giants who continue to market those beers themselves but produce them in the same high-volume plants they produce their lower-profit common beers? (OK. Not all. But still a significant number.)
PPPPS. OK. But it does impress the neighbours on rubbish collection day here when you have 100s of Tuatara empties lying out there in your recycling bin. (With me... People just wonder how at how unlucky they are that such a low-life got into their neighbourhood.)
Fancy labels and unusual brands are fine and chasing them can become an obsession just like chasing rare landcruiser parts, rare landcruiser accessories or rare landcruiser literature (which I admit I've succummed to, even though I know how silly it is).
Well .... There IS a big difference in that beer is a consumable so its soon all GONE. So perhaps my comparison above is pretty poor.But anyway ... What I really want to say is that the great thing about beer is that your body adapts to prefer whatever you drink the most of.
I now drink one of the cheaper beers on supermarket shelves here. - Tui.
At the moment I'm having a Heineken instead ... but only because I was given a dozen as a present. (No, I don't have friends. That was my son's gift.) My taste buds actually look forward to going back to Tui once again.
PS. Just thought I'd add this for "balance", because it is 100% true for me, and so as to make others feel better, who, like myself, can't afford to regularly drink more-expensive "niche-market beers" even if they wanted to. (If someone offers me a niche beer such as "Tuatara" ... I refuse ... provided of course that they have a more palatable alternative available. If they don't I'll drink anything.)
PPS. And just how many "rare-label beer breweries" have been secretly taken over by brewery giants who continue to market those beers themselves but produce them in the same high-volume plants they produce their lower-profit common beers? (OK. Not all. But still a significant number.)
PPPPS. OK. But it does impress the neighbours on rubbish collection day here when you have 100s of Tuatara empties lying out there in your recycling bin. (With me... People just wonder how at how unlucky they are that such a low-life got into their neighbourhood.)
