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08-05-2017, 13:21
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https://i1.wp.com/boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/bitter_hating_lion.jpg?resize=650%2C488There are no doubt*beer enthusiasts*out there who hate bitter on a point of principle but surely not so many that they’re worth worrying about.Now, there are*lots of people (like us) who like to drink things other than bitter, in between pints of bitter, which they also enjoy very much.
There are also those*(again, like us) who think a pub that serves three beers all within a hair’s-breadth of the same technical specifications is missing a trick. But that doesn’t just apply to bitter, and it doesn’t mean they think bitter, in itself, is fundamentally ‘boring’.
There are definitely people who dislike certain specific brands of bitter, having tasted them and made a more or less informed judgement.
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There are even people who rarely choose to drink bitter if there is something else on offer because they prefer lager (most of the UK population) or, for example, American-style IPAs. But they probably don’t care what you drink; nor do they want bitter to disappear from the face of the earth.
And there are people who’ve just never got the taste for bitter because it’s, er, too bitter. But they’re often also sceptical about beer in general — they’re not snooty hipster beer geeks looking down on this one style*in particular.
Perhaps you’ll be able to point to a few tagged specimens in the wild — a blog post here, a Tweet there — but, really, isn’t The Sneering Bitter Hater just a rhetorical device? A comfort blanket for the oddly self-loathing bitter lover?
Next time on Mostly Imaginary Beer Nemeses: People Who Think Only Murky Beer Tastes Good and/or is ‘Craft’.
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