Funny things you've overheard about beer

Not overheard but involved and not particularly proud of this, but in my college years the beer to go was Miller Draft from a can, which we referred to as the "Miller Rough Draft".

 

In our local paper, quoting the brewer.. "Farmhouse is essentially a farmer's beer. It's modeled after the classic Belgian Saison style ale"

Though the writer may have bungled what they said. I also learned later that witbier is modeled after beer with wheat...

 

What's funny about that again?

 

Yeah, I don't see much wrong with that but a little over generalizing. For the other It's white beer but it has wheat in it...

 

It's usually best to have your SAISON smell like animal inerds and taste like manure because that is farm.

 

??

 

I will have what that gentleman is drinking.

 

As will I....

 

I know it sounds amusing,but saisons are said to smell like barnyard a$$. And I wanna drink this why??

 

Because that are yummy

 

Well,they say you are what you eat?...

 

So I DIDN'T screw up my Saison! Those AREN'T off flavors! My beer is SUPPOSED to taste like sh!t. Whew! For a minute there I thought I'd done something wrong.

 

I made a dark saison that was once referred to as tasing like an elk's butt.

So that recipe is now called Elk's Butt.

 

I was at Rogue recently for one of their garage sales. Awesome deals available to be had btw. There was a guy whom I can only assume must have been a volunteer pouring samples for the different beers that were for sale.
A gentleman walks up to the volunteer and the conversation went as follows:

Gentleman "Can I try the dry hopped red? What is a dry hopped red anyways?"
Volunter "Uhh, it means its drier.."
Gentleman "Oh! So like a dry wine?"
Volunteer "Yeah! Exactly!"
Gentleman takes a sip "Oh yeah I can really taste it! That is dry!"

Hard not to laugh, and did not bother to correct anyone for fear of making them feal silly but nonetheless an entertaing opportunity to drop the eaves.

 

I told a waitress one time that I liked 3 out of the 4 beers in the sampler. I said, "I'm a homebrewer but I'm not a really beer snob. That 3rd one just didn't do it for me. Too sweet for the style." She said, "Yeah they malted it too long or something."

This was at a Belgian beer bar with high prices that you would expect the servers to know their stuff.

 

That wasn't a volunteer. That's the brewer that invented Maple Bacon beer!

 

At a homebrew shop I only frequent out of necessity:
Me- And I'll take two packets of US-05 please
Them- the wet or the dry?
Me- the dry, thanks

 

That just sounds like somebody that has had a long day.

 

I was visiting family in South Dakota a couple weekends ago, and we all went out for lunch at this restaurant/bar that had some kind of "retro beer" theme. The walls were covered in 1960s and '70s paraphernalia of Hamms, Schlitz, Grain Belt, PBR, Old Milwaukee, etc., and had a number of those throwback beers on tap. It was like a little trip back to 1970.

When the waitress took our order, I asked if they had any micros on tap.
(The nostalgia of those cheap beers I drank in high school didn't exactly appeal to me.)
She replied, rather indignantly, that "that whole microbrew thing is going out of style and 'classic beers' are now in." I thought I was going to fall out of my seat laughing.

Um, yeah, your retrobrew fad was all the rage for a little while back in about 2009.

BTW, they did have Boulevard unfiltered wheat on tap. That worked in a pinch. And the food wasn't half bad, so it wasn't a complete wash.

 

You should have asked for the wet and seen what happened

 

That's what I was thinking.

 

Grain Belt... *shudder*. My first beer. A friends dad had a bar in the basement, and one day after school we took our badass fourth-grade selves down there and split a can. I didn't touch beer again until I was in college!

 

You should have just rolled with it and had a PBR or something. It was their theme, after all.

I'm sure that you could get a micro some other time.

 

Guess I was just an alky, first one at 9 and dad had to lock them up till I was in my teens. He gave me my first but in his defense he was expecting me to do the same as you.

 

Hahahaha, backfired I think my kids are the same, give them a sip of an IIPA expecting them spit it out and all they want is more :smack:

 

Grandpa occasionally asks how my brewing is going. We have a little conversation but he does not want a taste of my brews.

He tells me stories of when he was a kid (grandpa is 89) his father used to ferment beer in the attic of the house. Hot sticky Indiana weather an attic can get well in to the 120's or in the winter below freezing with poor insulation. WHAT KIND OF YEAST DID HE USE!! It perplexes me. His dad was dutch..but the community is french immigrants.
I need to ask more questions..I want that recipe.

I guess this should be in confusing things you have heard about beer.

When grandpa used to drink it was Hamm's

 

I'm thinking that great grandpa wasn't as concerned with the quality of the beverage as he was with the alcohol-induced stupors it enabled.

 

Great Grandpa was just ahead of his time, a visionary if you will. He was making steam beers and eisbocks before they were cool. You go Great Gpa!

 

Well, your grandpa would've been born during Prohibition, and would've been 9 years old by the time it was repealed, so perhaps his father was brewing out of sheer necessity rather than an obscure taste for fusel-y banana beer.

 

Revisiting the beer classification portion of this thread. This is the beer menu from The Twisted Kilt a Irish type bar that is more Hooters then Irish but they have a decent selection on tap. How many errors can you spot on the menu?

 

Wow... whoever wrote that should be fired. Actually, they should be ruthlessly flogged first, then fired.

Even my yeast are offended, and they can't read.

 

I forgive them because of the wiat staffs outfits. <Droool>

 

I wish I didnt agree with Drunkle.

 

Wouldn't it be interesting to dissect the brain of the person who typed menu and the person who approved it. I would guess nothing would be found.

 

Hey. Any place that has hot waitresses in tiny skirts and has DRIPA on tap is a winner in my book.

 

"I'll have the smuttynose IPA please"


"Oo! You're brave! I can't handle those dark beers!"

Whoa now...

 

Not even looking at the actual beers - whats up with the catagories?

 

It's so wrong (on an epic level) that it borders on being right.

 

Ummm waiter may I please have a Angery Orchard stout please ? ........... Lol

 

So is Twisted Kilt Lager an ale, porter, or IPA?