What’s your craft beer personality?

I recently ran across this article by George Lenker breaking down 5 craft beer personality types: the beer geek, the beer populist, the beer gourmand, the know-it-all and the beer snob. Here’s a quick snippet of how Lenker describes each type:

The Beer Geek: They delight in talking about their favorite beers and rarely feel they need to come off (as) the smartest monkey in the brew zoo (even though they often are).

Beer Populists: While we are not obsessive, we really enjoy all types and styles of beer. Like beer geeks, we like to share our passion, but we do so by making craft beer seem accessible, which it is.

Beer Gourmands: These folks are casual craft beer drinkers (and) might even be seen enjoying a Michelob or a Budweiser once (in) a while.

The Know-It-All: These types are beer geeks with a flaw: They share their knowledge, but with an attitude that doesn’t encourage discussion.

Beer Snobs: Not only do they make beer aficionados like myself roll our eyes, they also turn off potential new craft beer lovers by their incessant need to dominate conversations.

I personally think labels like these are pretty lame, but Lenker does a pretty good job rounding them up. Where do you think you fall?

Read the full article here.

- Matt Pritchard

Grizzly Growler’s favorite albums of 2010 to enjoy with a craft beer

If there’s one thing that’s equal to the love of beer at Grizzly Growler, it’s music. So in the season of lists, here is Grizzly Growler’s top five albums from 2010 to take in while kicking back and enjoying a fine craft beer:

5. The Black Keys – Brothers
4. Best Coast – Crazy for You
3. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
2. Beach House – Teen Dream
1. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest

Honorable mentions: Band of Horses – Infinite Arms; Vampire Weekend – Contra.

Album that didn’t come out in 2010 but was on repeat: Real Estate – Real Estate

- Matt Pritchard