Through my 72 years I've encountered a number of wine snobs, you know, those persons who think that they know virtually everything and anything when it comes to wine.
They are the ones that insist on sniffing the cork when the wine is served in a fancy restaurant. Some years back a group of us ganged up on a friend who flaunted his wine knowledge. We were all at a restaurant and we arranged to have a cheap Gallo wine placed in the bottle of a very expensive wine. Sure enough our wine connoisseur sniffed the cork and tasted the wine and pronounced it a suburb example of the wine he thought he was tasting, a wine that was at least twenty-fold the price of the substitute.
That aside, it seems that as craft beers increase in popularity that there are those that claim to be experts at differentiation in taste between different beers who are most likely not the experts they pretend to be. It would be fun to subject some to the same experience given to my wine snob friend.
But, on the other hand I could be completely wrong. This all from one that has difficulty in finding a beer that I enjoy more than Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. But isn't it really all about what we like?