Beer Luvvas,
I'm stealing this post from an article in The Oregonian's Oregon Craft Beer Month supplement that my father (Thanks Dad!) sent to me while Freebird and I were in Michigan - where July also happens to be the month of beer/brewing!
Lisa Morrison implored Oregon's wine connoisseurs to give craft beer a try and liberally quoted from Jeff Kilday, owner of the Wine & Beer Haus in Seaside, on which beers oenophiles should try based on which fruit of the vine they preferred...
Kilday says a good start for sweet wine lovers is usually a Belgian or Belgian-style fruit lambic such as a cherry-flavored kriek or a raspberry-flavored lambic. Another option, one from Oregon, is Pyramid's Apricot Ale.
Interestingly enough, your writer despises sweet wines, and I'm not a big fan of Belgians, krieks or lambics.
Dry white wine lovers would probably do well exploring a saison, wit, pilsner, or wheat beer.
Freebird is a fan of the dry white wines, and also enjoys lighter wheat/wit brews.
If your palette prefers dry, red wines, you can really experiment. And don't be afraid of the dark. Stouts and porters, despite their mysterious inky murkiness, often wind up being the beers of choice for many new beer adventurers.
Dry red wine (esp. Italians - Barolo, Barbaresco, Burnello) and Stouts/Porters - my faves!
Like Champagne? There really is a Champagne of beers, made in the traditional Methode Champagnoise. The result is a smooth, yet effervescent sparkler that is neither beer nor Champagne.... Golden Valley Brewing, which is nestled in Oregon's wine country, makes a limited edition IPA VS Brut, available in Champagne bottles at the source.
So, to all you wine snobs - try a few craft beers. You could be the Super Snob, enjoying fine fruits of the vine, and grain of the field!
Prost to Super Snobs!
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