Funny things you've overheard about beer

[Billy-Klubb]

A Black and Tan should be Guinness and a pale ale or a brown ale ( for some reason now a days lager is even used for the "tan" bit) , I have no idea what the heck a Guinness and cider is supposed to be called. Maybe your mate just has odd tastes.

this was a black & blahblahblah I made with home brew. top was a Bourbon Imperial Stout & the bottom was a Braggot. it was awesome.

 

[WesleyS]

this was a black & blahblahblah I made with home brew. top was a Bourbon Imperial Stout & the bottom was a Braggot. it was awesome.

So it was a Blaggot...

 

[GrogNerd]

So it was a Blaggot...

that sounds almost racist and/or homophobic

but it's really not at all

 

[Billy-Klubb]

So it was a Blaggot...

that sounds almost racist and/or homophobic

but it's really not at all

great. now I'm gonna start calling people Blaggot even though I'm not racist and/or homophobic. and no one except you guys are gonna know what I'm talking about. I'm still gonna laugh like a madman though.

 

[biochemedic]

Light can be the opposite of dark or heavy. Guinness is a light beer. So is a Tripel. BMC is both light and light. It's equivocation at its finest!

Mind. Blown. !!!

 

[ChshreCat]

Just no drinking a flanders and braggot.

 

[WesleyS]

that sounds almost racist and/or homophobic

but it's really not at all

Who said it isn't?

great. now I'm gonna start calling people Blaggot even though I'm not racist and/or homophobic. and no one except you guys are gonna know what I'm talking about. I'm still gonna laugh like a madman though.

I laughed just thinking about it.

 

[WesleyS]

Just no drinking a flanders and braggot.

What's wrong with drinking a branders?

 

[gometz]

You want to hear about a terrible mix? When I was in Bavaria they mixed wheat beer with coca cola! They call it radler which also applies to the lemonade/beer mix as well. Gross! I thought Germans knew better than this!

Normally a Radler is a Helles or an Export with lemon soda (not sprite though). That just sounds terrible.

 

[Leadgolem]

I used to do that when I was a teenager, mainly because it was easy to sneak and not get caught.

Huh, ours where usually vodka in sprite.

great. now I'm gonna start calling people Blaggot even though I'm not racist and/or homophobic. and no one except you guys are gonna know what I'm talking about. I'm still gonna laugh like a madman though.

That reminds me, I need to fill that empty mayo jar with vanilla pudding and eat it in public.

 

[ChshreCat]

Huh, ours where usually vodka in sprite.

That reminds me, I need to fill that empty mayo jar with vanilla pudding and eat it in public.

Easy to tell when the level in a vodka bottle went down. A box of wine... not so much.

 

[Keith66]

A waste of good beer AND good cider.

...good cider anyway.

 

[Trail]

So I'm sitting in a bar 6 months back and two girls next too me are drinking beer (kind of odd where i come from actually). Anyway, One says "That was pretty good, Let me try stella and..... blue moon". I'm thinking wow! Girl ordering two beers at once?? I watch, the bartender fills the glass half full, and moves on to the next tap and finishes it!!!! Wait, What the hell just happened???

Is this a new trend? Can you really mix two completely different beers together and achieve perfection? Bud light and sierra nevada pale ale? Would it work?!?!

I haven't been to a bar since..

Half & halves are a semi-common thing. Most people stick to the classics, like a Black & Tan (Guinness and Bass). Then there are people like your adventurous locals, who mix whatever the hell.

And then there are the spastics who order a Pabst Smear, which is (depending on who you ask) either Pabst and vodka, or Pabst and Guinness.

Not everyone should be allowed to have beer.

 

[drainbamage]

Locally, there are a lot of places that serve a Black Barrel, which is half-Guinness and half-KY Bourbon Barrel Ale. Delicious!

But anyway...here is a conversation I had with a random guy in the Erdinger beer line last night at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati:

Random Guy: So, do you guys like the wheat beer here? I forget what it's called.
Me: The hefeweizen? Yeah, my wife loves it.
RG: Hefeweizen. Sorry I had a mental block. Did you know there are two grains in hefeweizen? One is the wheat, and I forget what the "weizen" is.
Me: "Weizen" is the wheat, and "hefe" means yeast. The other grain is--
RG: Yeah, yeast! I had another mental block! So, if they just brew the yeast, it won't have much alcohol, so they add the wheat and that gives it more alcohol.
Me: Uh...[debating about whether to pull a "well actually..."]
RG: How did you guys get into drinking hefeweizens?

At this point the conversation diverged, so I didn't have a chance to correct him. He was at least on the right track, and I didn't have the nerve to go into lecture mode when we're all just waiting for another drink. Plus, he may have actually known his stuff and just had his knowledge clouded by a few too many.

 

[BigDaddyBeard]

We have a place around here that has a drink called the "Dirty Duck." It's a Natural Light with a shot of 151 and Amaretto served in a duck decoy shotgun style. Not as bad as you might think.

 

[RM-MN]

Locally, there are a lot of places that serve a Black Barrel, which is half-Guinness and half-KY Bourbon Barrel Ale. Delicious!

But anyway...here is a conversation I had with a random guy in the Erdinger beer line last night at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati:

Random Guy: So, do you guys like the wheat beer here? I forget what it's called.
Me: The hefeweizen? Yeah, my wife loves it.
RG: Hefeweizen. Sorry I had a mental block. Did you know there are two grains in hefeweizen? One is the wheat, and I forget what the "weizen" is.
Me: "Weizen" is the wheat, and "hefe" means yeast. The other grain is--
RG: Yeah, yeast! I had another mental block! So, if they just brew the yeast, it won't have much alcohol, so they add the wheat and that gives it more alcohol.
Me: Uh...[debating about whether to pull a "well actually..."]
RG: How did you guys get into drinking hefeweizens?

At this point the conversation diverged, so I didn't have a chance to correct him. He was at least on the right track, and I didn't have the nerve to go into lecture mode when we're all just waiting for another drink. Plus, he may have actually known his stuff and just had his knowledge clouded by a few too many.

He also might have been an expert brewer who was trolling you. Have you never been trolled?

 

[ericbw]

Guinness + Blue Moon= Black & Blue
Guinness + Bass= Black & Tan
Guinness + Harp= Half & Half

There are probably a dozen regional varietals of the Guinness+XXXXX formula that are popular.

I ordered a Black & Blue in Canada once and they used Labatt Blue for the blue. It was terrible and I sent it back.

Guinness + Magic Hat #9 = Black Magic

Guinness and cider is great, too. But I usually find that when I get to the bottom of a Black and whatever, I really just wanted full glass of Guinness.

 

[GrogNerd]

I like the idea and the names of the Guinness + XXXXX formulas more than the actual drinks

Guinness + Smithwicks = Blacksmith

 

[beergolf]

Guiness and Hoegaarden. =. Dirty Ho

 

[amfukuda]

When my buddies went to spring break they discovered you can't take glass on the beach and the " panama beer" was born random whiskey poured into a half empty coors

 

[unionrdr]

This reminds me of drink names I've drank,heard,or don't remember clearly. Bloody brain,suffering bastard,sex on the beach,snowshoe...but pabst smear is a lil too close for me...

 

[ChshreCat]

We invented a drink one night that we named "Hairy Nuts".

 

[Leadgolem]

Easy to tell when the level in a vodka bottle went down. A box of wine... not so much.

Not if you top it off, well as long as you don't do it to often.

 

[Trail]

I bet there are some hillbillies who legitimately ordered a half-bud/half-coors just to see what it was like. Has to have happened sometime.

 

[Leadgolem]

I bet there are some hillbillies who legitimately ordered a half-bud/half-coors just to see what it was like. Has to have happened sometime.

Is that like ordering 1/2 bottled water and 1/2 tap water? Oh wait, that's what you get when you put ice in bottled water...

 

[BeerGrylls]

When my buddies went to spring break they discovered you can't take glass on the beach and the " panama beer" was born random whiskey poured into a half empty coors

Oh dear God that's hideous

 

[amfukuda]

Oh dear God that's hideous

The worst part is they still do it at home. I don't mind a boiler maker every once in awhile but not a can full of coors and rut gut whiskey

 

[WesleyS]

We invented a drink one night that we named "Hairy Nuts".

I really don't want to know what went into that drink.

 

[ChshreCat]

I really don't want to know what went into that drink.

That's just the garnish you're thinking of.

 

[DoubleAught]

You want to hear about a terrible mix? When I was in Bavaria they mixed wheat beer with coca cola! They call it radler which also applies to the lemonade/beer mix as well. Gross! I thought Germans knew better than this!

Actually it's named Cola bier and isn't half bad with the right pilsner. A Radler is a lemonade (or their version of it) and Pilsner. It's not bad either. At least that's what those mixes were called up in Hessen where I lived. Another good mix is a krystalweizen and banana nectar.