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hahaha I wouldn't imagine the fining agent would leave a flavor profile
I just came up with the perfect response, but it only applies if you're eating burgers or something that the person made (especially good if he is proud of his burgers):
These burgers are okay, but why don't you make some McDonald's? I could really go for one of those...
At a chocolate and beer tasting on valentine's day, the guy next to me, who says he wants to get into brewing, had a pretty funny comment. We were tasting something (honestly can't remember, maybe John John Dead Guy from rogue?) It went something like this:
Guy: This reminds of of that fishbladder beer
Me and others: huh?
Guy: Well, in germany, there are some beers that they use fishbladder in to clear them up. This tastes just like that! It has that fishbladder taste
Me and others: uh huh.
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I've never used it, but isinglass doesn't taste like anything, right?
I think the Germans have some sort of law against fish bladder beer
At a chocolate and beer tasting on valentine's day, the guy next to me, who says he wants to get into brewing, had a pretty funny comment. We were tasting something (honestly can't remember, maybe John John Dead Guy from rogue?) It went something like this:
Guy: This reminds of of that fishbladder beer
Me and others: huh?
Guy: Well, in germany, there are some beers that they use fishbladder in to clear them up. This tastes just like that! It has that fishbladder taste
Me and others: uh huh.
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I've never used it, but isinglass doesn't taste like anything, right?
At a chocolate and beer tasting on valentine's day, the guy next to me, who says he wants to get into brewing, had a pretty funny comment. We were tasting something (honestly can't remember, maybe John John Dead Guy from rogue?) It went something like this:
Guy: This reminds of of that fishbladder beer
Me and others: huh?
Guy: Well, in germany, there are some beers that they use fishbladder in to clear them up. This tastes just like that! It has that fishbladder taste
Me and others: uh huh.
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I've never used it, but isinglass doesn't taste like anything, right?
I just came up with the perfect response, but it only applies if you're eating burgers or something that the person made (especially good if he is proud of his burgers):
These burgers are okay, but why don't you make some McDonald's? I could really go for one of those...
Oh wow is that a good one! I'm stealing that!
i got the ol' "it's too beer-y" (apparently its a bad thing) from my wife the other day after giving her an ESB. I tried to get her to tell me what the "beer taste" means. she can't describe.
I had a similar experience with my MIL. She is a junk collector. Does a lot of garage sale-ing, and picks up odds and ends and stores the stuff in a two car garage. The garage is packed w/ junk. I was asked to move a dresser out of there and low & behold I see a glass 5 gal Alpine Water Bottle!!
I asked her what she was going to do with it, she says,
"Nothing, why do you want it?"
I'm like, "Yes!!"
She says "Tell me what you want it for first."
I say,"Beer making."
She goes on to tell tell me she doesn't know what was in it before and that I might get poisioned. I tell he that I will clean it first. That was OK with her. Now this bottle is on a decanting craddle hinged and all. It has a screw on cap to boot. Its pretty nice score for $0.00
2 hours later.....
She comes in to the house and tells me, "I don't think you really need it."
I'm like, "What???"
She goes, "Once you open it you'll have to drink all of that beer or it will go flat!!!! You know I don't think you need to drink that much!!"
I'm busting up on the floor laughing. I explain that it will be a fermentation vessel and that I promised not to drink out of it." Come to think of it that would a 645oz beer!
This total redefines the meaning, "I'm only gonna have one!!"
Neighbor: (in gay girly voice) oooohhhh, look at me, I make my own beer, and that's all I drink.
Guy at work: Is it like budweiser?
me: Initially, but then I heat it up and mix grains with it, and boil it with hops and mix it with yeast and get beer
guy at work: You make beer out of Budweiser?????
Neighbor: Hey, ya want a beer?
Me: Nah, I'm drinking my homebrew
Neighbor: ya sure, it's a Miller Lite?
Me: oh, in that case, I'm positive
Neighbor: (in gay girly voice) oooohhhh, look at me, I make my own beer, and that's all I drink.
I had 3 Coors drinkers tell me the other day after drinking Irish Red "it must be pretty weak, I can't even taste the alcohol". This is beer...not Scotch people!
not about my brew but still funny...
i had a waiter trying to tell me that he thought Sam Adams "Adds hops just for the sake of adding more hops"
yeah because hops are so cheap, why not just throw some more in.
I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that guy. I think a lot of their beers are over hopped for the style.
*giving my friend Dan a sip of my (I)IIPA/Barleywine*
Dan: AHH, OH GOD! *puckers and gags for a while*
Me: *laughs like Dr. Frankenstein*
I guess I took it more as a compliment.
Hilarious! I'd take it as a compliment, too. Ya know, unless I'd actually made a really bad beer
10.9% and 133 IBUs lol
Last week I had some friends over, one is a beer drinker (huge guinness fan) so I thought he'd appreciate some of my brews. I poured him a sample of my Arrogant Bastard (not exact) clone.
He sips, then exclaims "Wow, that tastes exactly like Arrogant Bastard!".
"Well, it's similar, thanks", I say.
Then he says something along the lines of: "Man this one time we were on a beach trip and we wanted to get trashed, so we got a whole bunch of 40s of Arrogant Bastard and were poundin em! Man, we were so messed up, I must have drank like 3 or 4 40s of this stuff!".
"Uhhm...I think there's some Coronas in the fridge upstairs."
No, unfortunately he was serious. I was shocked. Either they were pounding 22s and the thought they were 40s, he really thinks my AB clone tastes like Colt 45 (god I hope not), or he was trying to impress me, assuming that quantity always trumps quality and made it up? I don't know. All possible scenarios have him falling a couple of rungs on my ladder of respect though.
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