Beer Pioneers, Bearded Beer Geeks, and Old Chub

If you want to be taken seriously in the American beer-geek underground, the first thing you’ve got to do is grow a big, nasty beard. This is a bit of a challenge for the many aspiring beer geeks who happen to be women or unscuzzy men, but rules are rules. I need to see your beard before I can hear your opinions.

The next thing you’ve got to do is decide which is the Best Beer in the World. Your choices are: Russian River Pliny the Younger, Alchemist Heady Topper, Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Whatever the Best Hill Farmstead Thing Is Supposed to Be, 3 Floyd’s Zombie Dust, Some Obscure Belgian Shit That Costs $80 a Bottle, Several Huge Ones I’m Surely Forgetting, or Other. Other is probably your true favorite, but it can be exhausting to justify. Just go with Zombie Dust—it’s the most fun to say… CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY AT THE CONCOURSE