Beer Review Rant

[yinzer]

I guess this is off topic to "Beer Radio", but it doesn't really fit anywhere else.

I like to surf ratebeer.com and see what others think of the beers I like. Sometimes just for fun I look at the lowest scores. Well I ran across this comment:

Smells and tastes like every other Belgian...just like a spicy banana. I can't tell the difference between any Belgian beers...they all taste and smell like spicy bananas! This beer was slightly better because it was 10.5% ABV and it masked it very well. I'm not sure why everybody goes crazy over these spicy banana Belgian beers. They are ALL the same! I keep trying Belgian beers to see if I can find one that tastes like anything other than bananas. To date, I have found no such animal. It reminds me of the bubblegum that used to come in the Monkees music group trading cards in the 1960's.

My God what a loser. Surprisingly he’s from NY, but he sounds like some yuppie crybaby from Seattle. Now I know that not everyone likes Belgians. And it’s taken me time to appreciate many of them. But all the same? I hope he never tries a Verhaeghe Duchesse De Bourgogne. I looked at more of this guy’s reviews and he uses the “spicy banana” thing all the time. I mean if you rated a beer 0.5 that had a score of 3.5, wouldn’t you start to ask yourself, “Maybe I just don’t like this style? Maybe I shouldn’t do a disservice to these kind of beer by rating them?”

To make things worse he’s probably a home brewer and likes to give advice. Seriously, have you ever wondered about some people who tend to say that about every approach to making beer works? And them you find out that their “eclectic beer tastes” consist of Sam Adams and Killian Red? Kinda like that guy Justin ran into at the homebrew GTG whose beer sucked.

And another thing. Why do all these fucktards from Ohio drive come into my state and drive in the fast lane at the speed limit and don’t move over. I expect that from the damn Hoopies but you’d think that sometime with a full set of teeth would know better.

[Lufah]

And another thing. Why do all these fucktards from Ohio drive come into my state and drive in the fast lane at the speed limit and don’t move over. I expect that from the damn Hoopies but you’d think that sometime with a full set of teeth would know better.

I'll vouch for that. People from Ohio can't drive. I passed a guy the other day in Columbus that had a huge sign in his back window that said "Excuse me for driving the speed limit". I would if he wasn't in the left lane. Thats for people like me that want to drive 85 not 65. I moved here from Indiana in 2000 and the driving still makes me crazy.

As for the rant, I hope you feel better.

Travis

[wezil]

You want a better laugh. Find a lambic, Flanders Red or Oud Bruin review and look at the bottom scores. In some way or another it will say this:
'This stuff is awful, it is sour, why is this rated so high, I must have got a bad bottle'


Brad

[brewcrew]

I think that is why Beeradvocate and Ratebeer both have some type of weighting system to their rankings. Although you see some idiot responses like this I think the overall scores are fairly decent. I do agree though that it does not make sense to rank a beer if you do not like the style.

One of the few good things about Chicago driving is the left lane is typically people going 85 in a 55. I am originally from WI and visit quite often. As soon as you hit the WI border it is nothing but people doing 60 in the left lane when the speed limit is 65.

[alemonger]

I heard Justin likes spicy bananas!