Vine Pair  If you’re a big fan of bitter drinks, such as IPAs, Negronis, Boulevardiers and the like, scientists at the University of Innsbruck in Austria have uncovered that you’re also more likely to exhibit malevolent personality traits. The same is true if you crave black coffee or tonic water. Basically, you’re a psycho.

For 28 years I was happy in my beer lane.  The second I got a job out of college I got out of the Natty Light/Milwaukee Beast/Keystone lane and admit I was a snob whenever someone who had a job would still slum it with that trash.

Did Blue Moon produce an unsafe amount of farts? Yes.  But it was delicious and if you paired it up with some orange liquor you could take the party to eleven real quick.  Hell as recently as last August I was still bitter than trendy restaurants were stocking their rotating beers with more and more IPA’s and moving away from surefire wheat hits including Full Pint’s White Lightning.

Then the guy who put beer on the map for me during my adolescence, Stone Cold Steve Austin went and announced he’s getting into the IPA game with Broken Skull IPA.

I found myself at a crossroads.  Would I abandon my current drinking pallet and open my brain up to the notion that maybe IPA’s were OK? You’re goddamn right I would.  I was all in on some IPA and even if we lived in a shit state that didn’t allow me to ship beer to my door come hell or high water I was not only going to get me some Broken Skull IPA, but also a commemorating glass…

Fast forward a few months and I not only had said IPA and glass, but also some Twitter love from the man himself Stone Cold Steve Austin.

(The Yankee swap part was a complete lie but I was trying to be topical to get some love from Stone Cold.)

Once I was just another IPA snob I had no problem going all in on IPA’s.  Fat Head’s Head Hunter all day baby.  Now I was the guy going to chain restaurants and having my hopes crushed when all they had was some generic Sam Adams crap IPA, daddy needs his hops.

Other beer’s became literal piss water, just filling my stomach without even so much as a light buzz.  My IPA pride could not have been more off the charts and today I flip open the internet only to learn I’m a psychopath….

That’s all folks.  I’ll save you the time when I inevitably go off the rails you won’t have to say anything like “oh wow I never saw it coming.” I love myself some IPA and if it mean’s that I’m going nuts one day then so be it.

Drink up.