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Funny things you've overheard about beer

Discussion in 'General Homebrew Discussion' started by microbusbrewery, Aug 10, 2012.

 

  1. GrogNerd

    mean old man

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
    10000 posts
     
  2. catdaddy66

    Well-Known Member

  3. Spartan300man

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
    random tidbits to throw in here:
    Try putting 3-4 of the various macro beers in front of your buddies that are sternly dedicated to "I only drink Bud/Lite/Coors". See if they can actually tell the difference.

    I talked to bartender about the Miller Fortune. Apparently it is targeted to whiskey drinkers who need a break from whiskey once in a while. Miller provides the bars with whiskey-size glasses, and the beer is slightly darker to resemble the color of whiskey, and the ABV is somewhere around 6.5%. He gave me a few bottles to take home, after trying one, I use the rest for boiling my brats!
     
  4. Kiichi

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
    Wow, 1000 pages of this thread. I hear if you pick out the funny and put it all side by side you reach 15 in total!
     
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  5. joe_four_strings

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
    Lol

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  6. mcspanner

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
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  7. GuldTuborg

    Supporting Member  

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
    [​IMG]
     
  8. GrogNerd

    mean old man

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
    Daggit
     
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  9. dkwolf

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
    I view it like any other company who allows their employees to take time out of their day, while on the clock, to volunteer at various charitable functions - a lot of times, there will be a requirement that you wear some form of company-branded apparel while you do so.

    Personally, the BMC bashing on here gets old on a regular basis - but when it turns against a truly charitable act they do pretty much every time there is a large-scale disaster...

    I'm a firefighter. To see people make fun of a company for doing something to help out people in need and the emergency responders helping them just flat out pisses me off.
     
  10. TheCADJockey

    ALL YOUR BASE

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
    They weren't making fun of the company for doing something to help others.
    They were poking fun of a company who's beer they don't enjoy.

    Saying all beer snobs suck, is pretty rude.
    I'm a beer snob, I don't suck. I still enjoy crappy beer from time to time :D

    Everyone appreciates volunteers. Relaaaaax.
     
  11. fuzzy2133

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
    Didn't that last round start with some one mentioning that a normal bud can made it in with all the emergency water cans? :off:

    Something funny would be the test panels where only 50% of the people recognize their own beer/product that have been on the job for 5+ years. :drunk:
     
  12. TheCADJockey

    ALL YOUR BASE

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
    I don't know. I don't actually read anything, I just type all the words and then click on a random icon in the "smilies" window.
     
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  13. SlickTX

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
    If you boil the contents of a Bud Water can and then watch it condense . . . do you see water droplets, or tears?
     
  14. unionrdr

    Homebrewer, author & air gun shooter  

    Posted Jun 3, 2015
    Depends on your point of view, doesn't it?:mug:
     
  15. Wolfdust

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    Don't forget the 50 pages of economics.
     
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  16. dkwolf

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    We're trying to.
     
  17. Michigan_Wolfman

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    Funny things you've overheard about beer........

    "You don't drink beer, you just rent it...."- Depiction of a functional alcoholic drinking on the job prior to being run over by his own heavy equipment in an episode of "1,000 Ways To Die" :drunk:
     
  18. Billy-Klubb

    HBT Berry Puncher  

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    relaxing is for sissies! I'm a welder and to see people trying to make light of things for any reason pisses me off!

    take inspiration from my Lakota Sioux friends: a little laugh goes a long way.
     
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  19. elkshadow

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    *steps back into thread and reads last couple pages after ignoring for months, still less than 1% funny stuff.......

    *steps back out, closes door dramatically

    *contemplates perma-flounce from thread........
     
  20. joe_four_strings

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    Back to the thread topic...
    My friend after drinking a bottle I gifted him of my home brewed Scottish ale: "Man, that beer is good! Is it an IPA?"
    Me:"Thanks... No, it's a Scottish Ale. The flavor is more malty than an IPA."
    Friend:"Yeah, It kinda tastes like Chimay."
    Me: :drunk:

    At least he liked it... :ban:
     
  21. geer537

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    Back at this thread...

    I was at a local grocery chain and the guy stocking was giving 'advice' on what beer to purchase.

    Stocker- You should buy this beer (points to Old Rasputin). It's a new beer brewed with oats. Oats accomplish the same thing as hops but are less bitter.

    I was dumbfounded. I should have corrected them but I was too far away from the conversation. Running across the isle to but in to this atrocity didn't seem like the right thing to do.
     
  22. Pyg

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    I would have hurled the contents of my grocery cart at the stocker until empty!!
    All the while screaming "wrong", "wrong", "wrong"!!!!!
     
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  23. geer537

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    That is an awesome visual!
     
  24. ColoHox

    Compulsive Hand Washer

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    Local beer server: "The ales are generally more expensive than the IPAs."

    Local beer snob advertising his ignorance: "No, their brewhouse was used in a distillery before they bought it. That is why their beers have such a strong whiskey flavor."

    :smack:
     
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  25. McUbermensch

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    "Do you brew your own hops?" I'm pretty sure this person meant to ask if I grow my own hops or use my own homegrown hops in my brews.

    "What kind of grapes are in this barleywine?"



    Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew
     
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  26. Vamptrump

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    I had a bag of hop pellets sitting at my desk and the owner of the company came by and freaked out. She thought hops contained alcohol and that I brought alcohol into the building.
     
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  27. Venari

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    "Come on, I'll take you to a bar where you can have real beer, instead of that homemade stuff"
    -a friend when she heard I'd be visiting town for a week
     
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  28. drainbamage

    Keep HBT weird.

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    At least it was just pellets. If you had a bag of whole hops laying out in the open, I could see that going a whole lot worse.
     
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  29. unionrdr

    Homebrewer, author & air gun shooter  

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    I never saw hop in pellet form like hops...;)
     
  30. Vamptrump

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    That would have immediately ended in a throat punch.
     
  31. unionrdr

    Homebrewer, author & air gun shooter  

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    Nah, a billyberrie punch! :drunk:
     
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  32. Psylocide

    Ippons for Days

    Posted Jun 4, 2015
    Yes, please do... I'm too broke to afford real beer. Will you buy my drinks and I'll send you money when I get back home?
     
  33. cannman

    Beer Theorist

    Posted Jun 5, 2015

    Because of this meme, our crisper has been called the the Beer-Crisper for some time now ;)
     
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  34. thatjonguy

    Now with 57.93% more awesome!

    Posted Jun 5, 2015
    WAIT!

    You guys are telling me beer = salad is wrong?!

    Why else would you keep it in a veggie crisper?

    :D
     
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  35. wobrien

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 5, 2015
    I had a beer at tired hands last night that tasted like liquid cucumber. They took that beer=salad thing too literally
     
  36. SnakeRidge

    Super Rad  

    Posted Jun 5, 2015
    Wait, so beer=salad and beer=liquid bread, therefore beer=lunch at Olive Garden?

    Somebody check my work, been awhile since Abstract Math
     
  37. GuldTuborg

    Supporting Member  

    Posted Jun 5, 2015
    [​IMG]
     
  38. drainbamage

    Keep HBT weird.

    Posted Jun 5, 2015
    Session beer = Never-ending salad and breadsticks? :ban:
     
  39. n240sxguy

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 5, 2015

    Hahahaha
     
  40. n240sxguy

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 5, 2015

    Sounds right to me
     
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