Here (might) come trouble. You may have heard about a book called the Wine Trials that come out a year or so ago. Robin Goldstein really took wine snobbery to task and in the effort ticked some vino people off.
It looks like he now has beer snobs in his sights…”From the author of The Wine Trials comes the first beer guide ever to be based on blind tastings. With brutally honest ratings and reviews of the 250 most popular beers in the world both in bottle and on draft. The Beer Trials will challenge some of our most basic assumptions about beer.”
Mr. Goldstein may not be known to the beer world but he reviews food and spirits, so he is no novice. My sincere hope is that his book aims to cut some of the hype down and not just bring beer down a peg.