Comments on: Five Types of Beer Drinker

By: Bailey

Bailey — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:44:43 +0000

John — which type?

By: Maxwell

Maxwell — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:35:44 +0000

Back in your cell, 6. Don’t make me release any of those white, comedy-sized beach balls.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:51:18 +0000

I am not a number. I am a free man!

By: Darren Norbury

Darren Norbury — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:34:43 +0000

I’m a 2 with a wife who wishes I was a 4!

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:05:20 +0000

I certainly hope so – good beer isn’t going to survive on just us tickers!

By: Luke Daniels

Luke Daniels — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:21:51 +0000

Bailey, I see what you’re saying, but I think there is another significant group in there which have many more members than some of the ones that you listed.
The people who know good beer from bad and who avoid the rubbish but can’t be bothered spending time and effort seeking out the best stuff. They don’t follow certain brands because of advertising. They know that drinking out costs a fortune but don’t let that fact from stopping them do it, but at the same time avoid the more pricier bars. It’s not all about getting drunk, but having a good time while out, so they tend to choose the nicer, safer pubs and bars rather than just choosing the places with better booze available, but these will tend to have a slightly better range than some of the others. Normal, young-ish social drinkers.
I think that there’s a lot of them out there.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:14:22 +0000

A definite & enthusiastic 1. These 2s don’t know they’re born, and I suspect some of them are closet 3s. Won’t anyone think of the 4s? And the 5s, too – they’re my people, sort of, certainly more so than the 2a and 3s.

By: Barry M

Barry M — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:29:48 +0000

Mostly 1 if cost equates to good value (I’ll buy slightly dearer beers regularly if I feel they are good value) with occasional forays into 2, where I really want to try something, regardless of the cost (but I draw the line at 17 EUR for a 330 ml bottle of oak-aged barley wine, despite those bastards at Braufactum making it look sooo good), with frequent forays into 5 (well, at the prices for a crate of regular beer here, it’s inevitable)

By: wee beefy

wee beefy — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:23:08 +0000

My location defines my number (assuming I am happy to accept numerical identification). If I am drinking a beer watching a simplistic grunt fest like football a few of some 4 for £5 bottles is fine.

If I am having a beer tasting, thats the only time I will sink a really expensive beer. In fact thats what I’d have bought it for.

If I am in the pub its less practical to have a more expensive usually stronger beer, and less ociable. So in scenario order I am a 4, 2 and 1.

By: Ron Pattinson

Ron Pattinson — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:35:29 +0000

Definitely number 5.