The Beer Report: Brew Year's Resolutions
The final page on the 2011 calendar is turning, and we are looking at bright and shiny New Year.
And while many of us make personal resolutions this time of year, I am also making some resolutions for beer!
Here are a few:
I want to continue to see craft beer be more appreciated and accepted around the country. We’ve come a long way the past few years, and more and more people are beginning to appreciate all the wide ranges of flavors that beer has to offer. But about 90 percent of the beer consumed in the United States is still industrial macro brews. So there is definitely room to grow.
I want to see craft beer get more respect. Beer is as just as lovely with a wonderfully prepared dinner as wine — often even better. But there are still very few fine dining establishments that treat beer with the same respect they treat wine. And that needs to change.
Part of that is proper glassware — another resolution I want to work on in 2012. Glassware does make a difference in how the beer looks, smells and tastes. Just like wine.
These are all pretty lofty goals, and I hope we can achieve some success in them in the New Year. But my last resolution is perhaps the most important — and one I think we all need to work on all the time: Let’s try not to be too snooty about beer. Yes, it deserves respect and more attention. But it’s beer and beer is — first and foremost — a fun and approachable drink.
So raise a glass to the new year and all the fun we will have with beer!
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Posted by Lisa Morrison on January 6, 2012
