A very kind reminder that craft beer is not mainstream (yet).

So, I attended a charity trivia night for my son’s school last night.  I was excited to see “Beer” as one of the 11 categories, and very happy to see plenty of craft beer at many of the tables.  Given the difficulty of the first several categories, I had hopes that I’d be a real asset to my team in the beer category.  And then the questions started, and I got a major reminder that craft beer makes up 5% of the market.  Here they are:

1) This beer ingredient causes fermentation to occur.

2) August Busch gave the first case of Budweiser produced after repeal to this individual.

3) This beer uses the slogan “The King of Beers.”

4) This import uses a red star as part of its logo.

5) On the TV show Laverne & Shirley, the title characters worked at a brewery – name it.

6) This beer once used the slogan “It’s good for you.”

7) This beer is the national beer of Jamaica.

8 ) This beer uses the slogan “The Champagne of Beers.”

9) This beer was named after a President’s brother.

10) This city hosts the original Oktoberfest celebration.

We missed the Laverne & Shirley question, with someone at our table blurting it out 10 seconds after we’d handed in our answer sheet.  I took solace in my mug of Two-Hearted Ale, nodded knowingly to the table to the left of us that had a broad selection of Schlafly, and the one to the right drinking Single Wide IPA, sure that they had cleaned up in this category as well.  We ended the night in second place, 1.5 points (out of 120) behind the winners, and ahead of both the Schlafy and Boulevard-drinking tables.  It was nice to see beer rise to the level of its own category, but I look forward to the day when the difficulty of the beer questions equals the hatefully hard world geography and showtunes questions we got!