“I understand you want the barrel-aged imperial stout, or the triple IPA, I get it. But if you’re going to be judging beers you have to judge a beer as what it is. You can’t say, ‘This pilsner doesn’t have enough hop character, therefore it’s three stars’.”

Hawkers founder Mazen Hajjar
quoted in The Big Issue: Gotta Catch ‘Em All
by Kerry McBride
Crafty Pint (2016)