Beer is the only alcoholic beverage I drink regularly these days, and I limit my consumption of it to keep my weight down and health good. I consider myself a serious beer drinker and enjoy sampling many brands, styles, and types of beer.
When discussing beer, as with any food or beverage, personal taste varies. The beer industry found out decades ago that image is a large part of consumer beer preferences. Anheuser Busch made good commercials as well as good inexpensive beer.
The fact that I am willing to sample various beers creates an image of a beer snob to some, a drunkard to others, and I just think of it as exploring that vast variety of the brewer's art.
I'm fortunate that there are three grocery stores in my area with beer and wine bars in then. These beer/wine bars offer draft craft beers. I'll go to one of the brew bars around once a week with a friend. Generally the barkeep will give me two or three samples of the 10 to 20 brews they have on tap and I'll buy a pint of whatever I prefer. Just because it is "craft" beer does not make it my preferred beer.
Over the last week or so I've been making beer comments in the Thread Drift thread. On page one of that thread I asked... What's your favorite beer? So 20,000 posts later I'm still talking about beer. When I pour a beer in a chilled glass, take pictures of it, post comments as to whatever about it, in a thread like that... they are serious comments which are humorous because of their context.
As a generalization I prefer darker maltier beers... stouts, porters, black lagers; but that does not mean I do not like many other beers.
