Beer vs Wine

[rbV5]

Depends on situation for me:

Beer goes with most anything, anywhere, anytime.
Wine is good with a meal or relaxing in the evening.

I prefer a good wine... something like a good Merlot/Pinot/Shiraz/Cab
or a decent Craft brew,

fortunately I live in Oregon wine country just outside Craft Beer USA

 

[KarmaPolice]

Yeah i guess beer is cheaper then wine. How long should a bottle of wine last you? Lets say I drink 1-2 beers a night...usually just one...How many glasses of wine would that be or how long would the bottle last me.

 

[SithSolo1]

I prefer beer over wine but I don't really like either. I drink beer socially but otherwise it just sits in the fridge and waits for guests. I can't stand wine, there is just something about. I don't like it in food and I don't care what you say, I can taste it.

 

[daveshel]

I like wine a bit more than beer but beer is easier and a little cheaper than the wines I like.

 

[sobriquet]

Originally posted by: Codewiz
Vintage to vintage, wines change. Wines changes over the years as you store them. Wine is way more complex than beer. When I pick up my favorite beer, I know the exact taste to expect.

Wine takes time and dedication to truly appreciate. Beer honestly doesn't.

Beers also change as you store them. There's a huge variety of cellarable beers that can change drastically in storage. Beer can also be very complex in flavor, particularly with barleywine-style ales, grand crus, and imperials (stouts, IPAs, reds, etc).

Wine takes time to appreciate because of the culture of wine drinking. Wine is "meant" to be had slowly, beer is "meant" to be pounded. Blah blah blah. You can pound back a few glasses of wine, just as you can really savor and relish a single glass of great beer.

 

[KB]

Originally posted by: Codewiz

The best thing about beer, was being able to homebrew it. That is a lot of fun. Making your own wine is more complicated and can't easily be done by laypersons.

I have heard the opposite. I make my own wine and think that making your own wine is even easier than beer. You have less risk of bacterial contamination because of the acids in the grapes. And no cooking is required.

 

[effowe]

Definitely beer. I started getting into all the great Belgium beers and other imports with much higher alcohol content and there is such a difference from cheap domestic brews. Delirium, Chamay, St. Benardus, Duvel, La Chouffe, the list goes on and on and they are all great beers with their own unique tastes.

 

[rbV5]

Yeah i guess beer is cheaper then wine.

hmmmm, see; Thunderbird and MD 20/20, hard to beat for alcohol bang for buck, LOL.

 

[rbV5]

Wine takes time to appreciate because of the culture of wine drinking. Wine is "meant" to be had slowly, beer is "meant" to be pounded.

see my post above. There is another culture of wine drinkers you apparently missed.

 

[sobriquet]

Originally posted by: rbV5

Wine takes time to appreciate because of the culture of wine drinking. Wine is "meant" to be had slowly, beer is "meant" to be pounded.

see my post above. There is another culture of wine drinkers you apparently missed.

Yeah, I know. How about I clarify my original meaning and say "the culture of snooty wine drinking?"

 

[davestar]

Originally posted by: Codewiz
Vintage to vintage, wines change. Wines changes over the years as you store them. Wine is way more complex than beer. When I pick up my favorite beer, I know the exact taste to expect.

Wine takes time and dedication to truly appreciate. Beer honestly doesn't.

The best thing about beer, was being able to homebrew it. That is a lot of fun. Making your own wine is more complicated and can't easily be done by laypersons.

Craft beer "vintages" are noticably different - that's why brewers date the batches. Sierra Nevada's Celebration Ale 2006 is quite discernable from the 2005 batch. High alcohol content beers are meant to be stored/aged - a process that definitely changes beers' characterisics.

Here's a 46 page guide to hundreds of beer style guidelines. not complex?

There's no home wine-making community because it's too complicated? I think many would disagree.

So yeah... every point you made about wine can be applied to beer, and vice-versa.

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: Codewiz
I drink beer and wine regularly.

I just got into wine a year ago. Wine has so much going for it. Vintage to vintage, wines change. Wines changes over the years as you store them. Wine is way more complex than beer. When I pick up my favorite beer, I know the exact taste to expect.

Wine takes time and dedication to truly appreciate.

up to that point I wholeheartedly agree.... until

Beer honestly doesn't.

you can't compare beer to wine in that sense, beer takes a different level of dedication too.

 

[sandorski]

Context is required.

Pizza----> Beer
Pasta----> Wine

I prefer Beer for more Social situations, unless someone has opened a bottle of Wine. Can't let Wine sit around too long or it gets wasted(no puns intended).

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I like red wine, and I will drink it with a meal or to relax. White wine, not so much. I play rugby as a hobby, so I do also drink my fair share of beer.

I've found it is enjoyable to open a really good bottle of wine and share it with a lady-friend. Much more romantic than beer, to be sure.

 

[Gibson486]

Any type of alcohol that is not beer is better than beer.

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Leros
I've never been able to drink a beer and feel good afterwards. Something about it makes me feel crappy.

Wine, on the other hand, goes down nice and smooth and tastes much better than beer.

It you are drinking stuff like Bud, it will do that. The same happens to me.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
Any type of alcohol that is not beer is better than beer.

BURN THE HERETIC!!! :beer::evil::beer::evil:

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: sobriquet

Originally posted by: rbV5

Wine takes time to appreciate because of the culture of wine drinking. Wine is "meant" to be had slowly, beer is "meant" to be pounded.

see my post above. There is another culture of wine drinkers you apparently missed.

Yeah, I know. How about I clarify my original meaning and say "the culture of snooty wine drinking?"

There is a similar parallel for beer drinkers as well. So;

Vintages and Craft Brews vs Cheap Domestic Beer and Ripple.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I'm gonna say beer.

My money goes farther with beer. I can get really really really good beer for less than $10 per bottle.
Sure cheap wine costs like $3 for a bottle, but good wine costs at least double, if not more, than what a good Belgian quad costs.

I love the taste of beer. I do enjoy wine quite a bit too, but with wine, I don't know what I'm looking for or anything really. (Though I do really love my mead!) I know my beers a hell of a lot more than I know about wine. I've probably had about 200 different beers over the last 5 years or so, so I know what I like in a beer and what makes a beer good for me. Wine I've maybe had like 5 different ones, and the names are all hard to remember and hard to pronounce and spell and they don't mean anything to me yet. With beer there's ale and lager, or you can break it down further into, stouts, porters, quads, tripels, doubles, strong ales, wheat beer, white beer, hefeweizen, barleywine, ipa, sweet stout, scottish ale, and so many others ....

I guess I'm used to beer, I know my beers, I've really grown fonder and fonder of beer over the years.

I'll take beer over all other forms of beverage.