Great thread going here. I got a couple to share.
I should have seen this coming since I left a 1/2 sixer of Rahr Ugly Pug Porter over at my BIL's house one time and he asked me a few days later if I "really drink that stuff, it tastes like old stale coffee." Meh, anyway I made an Orange Hefeweizen at a quaffable ABV and I brought him a few to try to see if he liked them. Couple weeks later we're at a baseball game and I ask him about them, and he says, "It was pretty good, tasted like Coors Light except stronger. You know, like a regular Coors prolly tastes." All I can do is stare blankly. Then my phone dings and I look and SWMBO, who was sitting right there, had texted me this: LoL, he compared your beer to coors. He doesn't get beer from me anymore.
Second, I was visiting my best friend since 5th grade and after I had given him and his wife a tasiting tour of four of my beers he invited me to do the same for his dad. So we're over at his pops house and he mentions the beer to them and his dad starts to talk to me about it and the following conversation ensues: (paranthetical commentary)
Him: So do you make Lagers or Pilsners? (Harmless enough question so I try to redirect)
Me: Well, Pilsners are lagers, and I don't lager yet, it requires a pretty cool enviornment or a fridge dedicated to it. I actually brew [he cuts me off].
Him: No No No, Lagers have bottom fermenting yeast and pilsners have top fermenting yeast. And all beer is seperated into those two categories. (That miffed me a little but I love the guy so I roll with it)
Me: Well, you are right about the lager yeasts, but again Pilsners are lagers, I actually brew[cut off again](and I'm thinking who's the effin brewer here?!)
Him: Well I saw a Good Eats episode about this and Alton Brown (whom I have great respect for and his homebrew episode is what got me started in this obsession/addiction) says that all beers fall in two categories[I cut him off]
Me: Which are Lagers as you said and ALES which is what I've been trying to say that I brew!
Him: oh oh oh, yeah that's right, ALES and Lagers, so which do you brew?
Me: *sigh
On the up side they were really enthusiastic about my beers and I got a lot of really good feed back from them after we got the knowledge battle out of the way.