In article <65ijtoF2esrl7U1@mid.individual.net>,
dgs wrote:
> erilar wrote:
>
> > In article <1ncepi4chy1of$.21i53b8xi3wl.dlg@40tude.net>,
> > "Mike....." wrote:
> >
> >>Following up to Dave Frightens Me
> >>
> >>>>no less or more so that wine. Or for that matter food. Pretention is bad
> >>>>by
> >>>>definition, taking a great interest in food and drink is fine.
> >>>
> >>>Wine is far more complex than beer in terms of flavour, colour and smell.
> >>>Beer is much more simplistic on the palate, although by no means any
> >>>lesser.
> >>
> >>
> >>Hmmm, is it, or is just more bolox talked about it?
> >
> > there's some of that, too 8-) However, wine varies more from year to
> > year even from the same place, and there's an enormous number of places
> > to make even more differences, so it's more of an adventure than beer.
> > Of course, there are many people who prefer predictability.
>
> What I see is that some people don't seem to be familiar with some of
> the more idiosyncratic specialties from Belgium, particularly authentic
> lambics (and I don't mean those sugary-sweet commercialized ones,
> either). Lambics and lambic-based beers are easily comparable in
> complexity with wine. Flemish sour brown and red ales are comparable
> too. And simple, dumbed-down cheap lager is about as complicated as
> simple, dumbed-down, mass-produced cheap white wine from steel tanks.
I don't drink such garbage, even when it's free 8-)
>
> In other words, the generalities don't work so well. Part of the
> reason is that beer is far more-associated with mass-produced cheap
> fizz than wine is associated with mass-produced cheaply fermented
> g. juice.
shudder!
>
> Beer works in ways with food that wine can't hope to match, too, but
> that's another subject for another time. You enjoy your coq au vin
> or beef bourgignonne, but I'll go for the stoofvlees (carbonnade
> flammande) or kip met kriek instead. We all win. I just win more. ;-)
Well, that's a subjective choice, of course 8-)
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Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)
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