BEST/WORST thing anyone has ever said about your own HB?

[scarlessmeanie]

Just for fun...

What's the BEST or the WORST thing anyone has ever said about your own homebrew?

There's gotta be some good answers out there.

 

[Beerens]

Did you add olives to it?

 

[scarlessmeanie]

Haha, really? I'm not sure if that falls into the best or worst category. The real question is, did you or did you not actually add olives to it?

 

[Layne]

I've tried homemade beer before, and I don't like it.............
Hey, wait a minute,this is good stuff.

 

[arturo7]

"May I have another?"

 

[gstrawn]

Them- "Screw these ales dude! I love lagers!"
Me- "O you prefer lagers? What types?"
Them- "Land Shark!"

 

[Clann]

The best was "If I had some extra money I would invest in your beer"

The worstwas "I have had three or four diferent beers of yours and they all taste like licorice" This was from a bud lite drinker. He obviously had no idea what real beer tastes like.

 

[shamanjp]

From a Budweezer drinker, hey this is different!
From a cicerone, This is delicious!
From my wife, yuck!
From me, I think I will make this one again!

 

[BrewThruYou]

"Tastes like burning."

 

[remilard]

Did you add olives to it?

I was one of the judges for SHV at NHC. We had an olive beer. It sounded horrible, we thought it was awesome. Great balance, first place.

 

[remilard]

The ocassional "you made this?" that seems genuine. Glowing scoresheets. Recipe requests from people you don't know that had tasted something at a comp.

The best was winning a gold at NHC and having the judges come up and say that it was awesome.

 

[scarlessmeanie]

"Tastes like burning."

I'd take that as a compliment...?

 

[JefeTheVol]

"Tastes like burning."

Ralph Wigum?

 

[Clann]

"Tastes like burning."

Probabily his taste buds burning because there were actually hops in the beer

 

[BrewThruYou]

Ralph Wigum?

That's unpossible. Haha...it is a Ralph Wiggum quote...I think from the Lord of the Flies episode.

 

[Hammy71]

I'd buy this/Oh I don't like home-brew (without even smelling it)

 

[JoeyChopps]

I don't like dark beer is a common for me. My brother says all my beers taste salty my mom raves for my java stout. But most of my real friends ask for togo packs

 

[edb23]

Best was "How much does it cost? i'll pay for the ingredients if you let me have half of what you make"

Worst was "This tastes like what comes out after I have too many millers"

also a friend of mine said once "I just can't believe you made something at home where when i taste it i go "this is beer"

 

[soopagloo]

"This is better than Shiner." .....It was a stout.

 

[comer88888]

you should sell this/ did you add fruit to this?(did not add fruit.)

 

[BrewTulsa]

My favorite was "this tastes just like blue moon" I have heard that 100 times and I have never made anything like it... someone even said that about my double IPA at 124 IBUs

The funniest one I have ever heard was "I want to invest in this, if I gave you half the money for ingredients can I get half the beer?"

my response "you can come over and help me out and I will show you the ropes, then you can start doin it yourself."

his response "I dont actually want to the work I just want the results

 

[Dude]

Best: "It's like an angel peed on my tongue"

Worst: "This tastes like Blue Moon" (Why is this a common theme? People that *think* they know beer...usually... *don't*. )

 

[bmick]

Best, from a brewmaster at an NYC brewpub after a competition I placed 3rd BIS in: "There was a serious fight about who got to take the extra bottle of your beer home."

Worst, from a friend who took a sip from a batch very early on in my brewing life: "I think this went bad. Do you have any Bud Light or something?"

 

[ErieShores]

Best: my dad said not only was my blond ale the best beer I've made, but it's the best beer he has ever had.
Worst: This beer tastes like a homebrew. My neighbor after tasting my Irish red ale.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

Best: not actually spoken but the look on my mother in law's face when she tried my hatch chili blonde...well, it was pretty obvious she enjoyed it.

Worst: too hoppy

 

[jtakacs]

a homebrew buddy of mine about my CDA "this is the kind of beer i want to make"

my girlfriend about a sour belgian blonde ale "what the fu** was that?"

 

[AmandaK]

BEST: My Tripel Threat. I make it consistently because I can't keep enough of it around. I've gotten high fives from fellow home brew club members, my parent's "wine friends" couldn't stop drinking it this weekend and I also get FB messages from friends of friends who have gotten to try it. My little sister says she drools just thinking about it.

WORST: Early in my brewing, I brewed a BIPA... it finished at 1.020 and I bottled and hoped for the best. The roommates said it tasted like a "sweet oil slick".

 

[Tiber_Brew]

Best: (coming from a professional brewer) "you could seriously run a brewery, and you should"

Worst: "I wouldn't buy this" (it was a 3 year old pale that was about 2.5 years past its prime)

 

[asidrane]

Best: "Smells like Lagunitas."
Worst: On a beer that got infected, "From one to ten, this is a one. I'll still drink it though."

 

[dgez]

excluding the standard 'dude, you should quit your job and open a brewery' response

Best: it was mostly unspoken, but floated 2 kegs (amber ale, pilsner) for a friends wedding...although the competition was a keg of bud light, and wine....so there wasn't much competition, but it was cool to look at peoples expressions from across the room as they took the first sip, nodded in approval and mouthed the words 'this sh|t is effing good'

Worst: back when I was bottling (and still somewhat noobish) I gave a coworker a couple of bottles to try, I think it was a pale ale. He said it tasted like Rolling Rock...I just shrugged the rolling rock comment off since a pale ale is not a watered down adjunct lager. but that wasn't the worst of it, . About a year later, I over heard him talking to another coworker about beer and he stated that rolling rock tasted like piss.