Zen and the Art of Appreciating Beer Link

This article is about more than beer:

The true apex of appreciation is the ability to locate the sublime in any style (not, of course, any beer).  This means being able to pick up a glass of helles–or English mild or Belgian bière de table or even a characterful mass market lager (of which, admittedly, there are not a great number)–and find the flavors as pleasant and satisfying as when you heft a barrel-aged imperial stout.  It is possible, but not if the only flavors you can appreciate are intense.

This is embarrassingly true about beer and almost everything else. As beginner, it’s easy to be attracted to the brightest and most grotesque traits of anything. Practice and experience almost always leads back to the simple but well considered. I think this goes for everything from good humor to good music. Maybe even good code. It especially goes for good beer.