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Greenfox111 posted...

Anyone can drink a beer, but it takes intelligence to enjoy beer. -Stephen Beaumont, Author

I'm sure he also feels that it takes intelligence to enjoy huffing glue.

adjl posted...

It does take a certain degree of intelligence to be a beer enthusiast. There are many factors that go into examining a beer (or any food/drink, really) in enthusiast-level detail, and remembering all of them and considering how they relate to each other is a fairly complex endeavour that requires the imbiber to be able to draw connections between what they are perceiving and their pre-existing knowledge (which, broadly, is arguably the best way to define intelligence).

That's not really "intelligence," though. Knowledgeable, perhaps. Maybe even "sophistication" if you want to stretch the term. But intelligence? Not really.

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