I'm not sure where I draw the Line

At what point does it stop being 'experimentation' and become the beer equivalent of a Subway Wrapped in a Domino's pizza?

Don't get me wrong, I'm the first in line for the next golden ticket beer. Whenever the Omnipollo's or Mikkellers of the world come up with the next beer equivalent of an everlasting gobstopper, I join the rest of the early 'Man-opause' sufferers in our usual get together. We discuss our general one-upery of the non-attending members, whilst easily forgetting that we will be sharing everything we've waited up for that night with these exact people, only we'll be exhausted.

This post stems less from my love of beer, but more from my love of cooking. A close friend of mine posted a video of something their partner had cooked for them recently on Facebook with the tagline "she's a keeper". All i took from that post is that she must have played for Sunderland.

Pizza, burgers and tacos.

In one dish.

Why?!

I ranted at my girlfriend for a solid 10 seconds before the hypocrisy hit me. I was, at the time, supping on a Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout with maple syrup and pecans, things that before the craft beer boom would have been laughed at in a beer. I'm not allowed to be angry at what you decide to combine to make your version of 'delicious'. I'll bet someone's working on their 'KFC Gose' as we speak.

This will be a short post because I'm not really sure where I actually stand on the subject. I will quite happily sit and watch 3 minutes of pure nonsensical, Texan, terrible, fantastic bullshit about how the new craze about to hit London is in fact 'Deep fried, chicken fried, pulled Veil' whilst screaming "oh fuck off" at the screen. Breath. What is troubling me tonight though is my double standards when it comes to beer. Why am I completely against someone putting burgers on a pizza and deep frying it, yet i am 100% for Omnipollo making a Texas Pecan Ice Cream Pale Ale?

Outside of beer, I consider myself an extremely open minded person. I am always looking for something different to try. Whether that be food, places or general experiences, my general rule is the weirder the better. Taking two things and cramming them together doesn't constitute a new food experience though. Burgers have their place and so do pizza and fried chicken; but so do sodomy, flossing and Ikea, that doesn't necessarily mean they should be combined.