Are you offended when others pour your beer out?

[Ksosh]

I didn't mean to be argumentative at all! I'm actually thankful that you told me it was a berliner weiss (so I *can* stay away!), I'm midway through reading a website about them now.

I just meant in terms of pouring homebrew down the drain, pouring a commercial beer (like DFH) down the drain wasn't quite as bad, and it was curious that they call it a 'malt beverage' on the bottle.

 

[Whut]

DFH Festina Peche - SWMBO and I sampled it while eating lunch this last summer at Stone Brewery. We didn't care for it but we finished it. Nuff said!

 

[Ksosh]

DFH Festina Peche - SWMBO and I sampled it while eating lunch this last summer at Stone Brewery. We didn't care for it but we finished it. Nuff said!

Wow. Stomaches of stone. I literally couldn't swallow the third sip.

 

[olllllo]

I'm actually thankful that you told me it was a berliner weiss (so I *can* stay away!)

Well that's exactly why I posted the info. I didn't think you were being argumentative.

 

[Ksosh]

Well that's exactly why I posted the info. I didn't think you were being argumentative.

FINE! WHATEVER!

 

[olllllo]

Eddie Vedder doesn't dump beer.




But I would!

 

[ThreeDogsNE]

I won't finish a beer I find distasteful, and I can't really ask a guest to do so. One of the three dogs that made my moniker is a wirehair, and he is not as discriminating. I can always count on him to clean up, even if the beer was not to my or someone else's liking. If he ever gets hung over, I can't tell it. He's a curmudgeon at all hours!

After hanging out here learning about brewing, and drinking decent beer, I found myself at a wedding where the best they had was Bud Select. I can't figure out what was special about it. I didn't have the dog along, and ended up taking it back and getting a whiskey sour.

Now, the dog had to just watch me drink the Rogue Dead Guy tonight.

 

[Clayton]

FINE! WHATEVER!

HA HA LOL

well i think there are two compleatly diffrent things here.
wait three i think....

1. someone is offor a sample of home brew and does not like it and does not drink it.
2. someones request a smaple of home brew and does not like it and does not drink it.
3 someone get a full glass of home brew and does not like it and does not drink it.
4.some get home brew, likes the brew and then later gets more but waste 1/2 or greater a glass by leaving it , pouring it out to get diff beer, ect.
5. some people get home brew, like the home brew, later when you leave brew shed and go in house to check prego wife, quick MacGyver like One take your huge carboy funnel and some large hose and make beer bong, you come back out side 45min later and 2 kegs of nut brown are dusted and every one is drunk as piss.

1. is ok with me
2.is ok with me
3.chaps my hide , even more so if they dont try to give it away and just waste it.
4.this really pisses me off, when I find hafe drank cups of homebrew all over the place i feel the rage.
5.this one... I was ok with. it was 5 close friends and my sis and bro inlaw , we wached UFC 100? , i had 15 gal of home brew on tap and we drank it all. but i could not beleve my eyes when i when back out to the brew haus and see my sister beer bonging my brew. it was about 4am at this point thoe. thankfully there was still some cream ale left to drink till the sun came up. the next morning they were so hung over. I went in to the living room then next day around noon and my sister with a damp rag on her head looks up at me as says "Great party!,, but who the ¤☼☻☺♠♣ beer bongs home brew?"
I said you apparenty, drunk ass.

 

[Falcor]

i don't know what kind of people you hang out with, the only beer my friends would pour out is ones that sat out overnight if the drinker passed out or was so drunk they forgot about it

 

[Sigafoos]

I quite like Festina Peche, but Rogue's Chipotle is one of the (if not the) only beers to which I say 'No sir, I don't like it.' I've had other pepper beers though, both homebrewed and commercial, and like them a bit better. If you can find Horseheads Brewing (a tiiiiny town next to Corning NY; the brewery just appeared in WNY this summer) they have a beer made with Anaheim and jalapeno peppers that the brewer -- quite correctly -- told me was 'like liquid nachos.' Interesting, and tasty, but only for a few ounces.

I think what the discussion of dumping comes down to is respect. No, I don't expect you to smile and choke down everything I give you because I made it and I'm (prepare for asterisks) King **** of **** Mountain. You're allowed to have opinions, and some of those are allowed to be of me not being perfect (but only some). But if you take an inordinate amount of beer, especially one as full of ingredients and time as an IIPA, you should know you're going to at least finish it. I can't think of a beer I would hate enough to dump (though I admit I chugged the Chipotle before bed) unless it was brewed with bodily secretions (****storm stout?), and in that case I either wouldn't take it or you deserve to have it dumped if you don't tell people it has poop in it until after they pour.

I do believe this is the most profanity filled post I've ever made at HBT XD

 

[IrregularPulse]

I often like to pour myself a beer before I lay down in front of the TV at the end of a long day. Especially if I'm a few pints in, I often fall asleep with a half-drank beer next to me. Not to label myself as someone who promotes drinking in the AM, but when I wake up in the morning, I usually just slam the remainder before jumping in the shower. Again, I just can't bring myself to dump it...

That is friggin gross IMHO

Not really, if they have had enough or are no longer enjoying it I don't care if they pour it out. My beer is made to be enjoyed, not choked down.

I dump beer all the time.

I sure as hell don't expect someone to finish a beer they don't want to out of some silly respect for the beer itself.

In my lifetime, I have probably dumped greater than 60gal of beer down the drain, much of it pretty darn drinkable. I just didn't want it, and had no easy outlet for it without giving up my kegs for a while. I don't feel a darn bit bad about it either. I can make more, and I am not so strapped for cash that the experience of brewing it alone wasn't enough to make the cost of brewing it worth it.

+1 to these type of comments. sometimes at the end of the evening I'll have a 3rd or half glass and I just don't feel like drinking it, so I'll pour it down the sink.

And for guests, I'd rather them feel comfortable knowing they don't have to finish it if they don't like it. It gives them the comfort to try other ones. But I also tend to be the pourer. Not that I HAVE To be, it just ends up that way cause maybe they're too shy to walk up to the beat and pull the handle. (That's what she said). But once they get the taste if they like it I try my hardest to let them know it is open game. But we also don't have big parties. It's usually 4-6 people at a time at the most.

 

[DRoyLenz]

That is friggin gross IMHO

Better than coffee my friend

 

[dontman]

Better than coffee my friend

Besides, it stop the hands from shaking too, right?

 

[stephelton]

Better than coffee my friend

Some might take offense to that, especially on National Coffee Day! How dare you?!

 

[Buffman]

It would definitely offend me. What's worse, though, is someone pouring out the homebrew you were drinking. While cleaning up, my wife has dumped the last few swallows of my beer a few times. She had the audacity to be surprised when I was pissed. I mean, I was savoring those last drinks! We have a new rule in our house: DON'T TOUCH MY BEER.

 

[DRoyLenz]

Some might take offense to that, especially on National Coffee Day! How dare you?!

I did not realize it was National Coffee Day! I rescind my comments, and in honor of the Coffee Gods, I shall go pour myself another cup of coffee (well, in honor, but also because I did a little too much RDWHAHBing last night).

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

One aspect of the beer dumping that might not yet have been addressed here:-

My Father in Law will always taste my brews if I offer them. However, he always states beforehand that he will NOT enjoy it. He will NOT like it, and he will NOT like the next one either.

Why does he not like teh darker beer? Well, because it is unamerican of course! Beer must taste like Bud, otherwise the commies have won! It's sad, but true.

 

[Ksosh]

One aspect of the beer dumping that might not yet have been addressed here:-

My Father in Law will always taste my brews if I offer them. However, he always states beforehand that he will NOT enjoy it. He will NOT like it, and he will NOT like the next one either.

Why does he not like teh darker beer? Well, because it is unamerican of course! Beer must taste like Bud, otherwise the commies have won! It's sad, but true.

What about bridging the homebrew-commercial american brew gap by giving him a sam adam's imperial stout (or whatever else they sell in 4 packs for $12). Can't get more american than sam adams, and it's a dark beer... then slip in a baltic porter when he's not looking.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

What about bridging the homebrew-commercial american brew gap by giving him a sam adam's imperial stout (or whatever else they sell in 4 packs for $12). Can't get more american than sam adams, and it's a dark beer... then slip in a baltic porter when he's not looking.

He's 90 years old....Nothing will change him....Sometimes it's just too late!

He is only allowed one drink a day, and when I'm there we have a highball each. It's the way he wants it.

 

[dontman]

He's 90 years old....Nothing will change him....Sometimes it's just too late!

He is only allowed one drink a day, and when I'm there we have a highball each. It's the way he wants it.

Tell him Bud is owned by dam ferriners and Sam Adams and the craft breweries are the only american beers left.

 

[IrregularPulse]

Tell him Bud is owned by dam ferriners and Sam Adams and the craft breweries are the only american beers left.

Don't give the man a heart attack. he's 90, let him enjoy his bud.

 

[redraider629]

A possible solution is to provide smaller glasses. I know EdWort is a big proponent of that technique. I've seen it in action, and it works. It also keeps someone from getting a full pint of a beer he doesn't like.

That is what I do, I have sample glasses that I use. If someone wants to try some beer I will pour it in there if they like it they can get a full glass, if they do not I will gladly finish the glass. I would have a problem however with the frat boy that was mentioned earlier that helps himself to a beer than pours it out. That would make me a little upset. But the sample glasses do help out alot.

 

[petep1980]

Again, something only my father has yet to do. Most people even if they find your beer offensive won't waste the valuable alcohol.

 

[Sum1Stu]

Like redraider just said, when letting someone "try my beer" I usually pour 50-60mls into a glass and let them try it. Usually they dont tell me they dislike it as not to offend me, but id rather have the truth out there, rather than wasting a beer.

It bothers me how everyone is into lagers and beers that taste like nothing because their triple filtered and have barely any hops in them. People are usually disgusted by the way the bottom of the bottle looks, and think that yeast is bad for you.

I can only make ales, since I dont have a cooling area. Alot of people are just not used to drinking ales, and figure an aftertaste is a bad thing. Ive had a couple people make a face when drinking my cooper extract brews, and those are by far the best ive had so far!

Everyone here is into light beers low hops such as canadian, blue, coors light, corona. No kidding, it was probobly their first ale they ever tried LOL

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

I always pour people a very short pour, like 2-3 oz. Then if they want more, I tell them to get it themselves. For some reason or another, people are more honest about what they want when they have to reach for it themselves.

 

[knightbeer39]

Yeah...I agree. The only Mother ****** thats pours my beer out is ME!!! Cause i made it.

Word. And I can't even bring myself to do it.

I generally try not to offer homebrew to those that I know are unlikely to enjoy it. And if you try one and don't like it, either give it to me, or choke it down you bastard. Hombrew does not = free beer.......

 

[McKBrew]

I don't get the opportunity to share me beer often. The people who do drink it always try a sample first before deciding on which one to drink.

 

[agroff383]

i hate when even bmc gets poured

Me too.

At least ask someone else if they want to finish it, providing there is no trash or cig butts in it. I just hate seeing 95% full bottles sitting around after a night of drinking, that really pisses me off too.

 

[olllllo]

I'm starting to think there are some people that just aren't very discriminating if they finish beer that they do not enjoy.

Where does the, "you have to drink it" mentality end?

Do you always eat all of the food on you plate- all the time?
Burn up all the gas in your rental car because you agreed to bring it back empty?

If I enjoy the conversation and company of your wife, are you offended if I don't pull you aside and ask if I can finish off the entire pint? Wink wink nudge nudge

 

[StunnedMonkey]

Where does the, "you have to drink it" mentality end?

Do you always eat all of the food on you plate- all the time?

Good analogy. We're not looking to punch someone in the neck...wait, different thread...we're not offended if someone doesn't finish their lasagna or every last chicken wing, are we? Why are we demanding that people choke down beer they don't want? I've personally tossed out 4 full kegs of beer in the last year that didn't necessarily have anything wrong with them other than they just didn't turn out like I'd hoped and I didn't feel like drinking 20 gallons of unappealing beer. Life's too short.

If someone doesn't care to finish a beer for whatever reason, then they shouldn't feel compelled to do so. It's just beer. We'll make more.