Funny things you've overheard about beer

[beernbourbon]

Are you saying they are bitter?

THAT.......is dam funny s**t right there...... yer just such a punny guy!

 

[GrogNerd]

In my experience in the restaurant industry... an employee's tips are directly correlated to their ability to sell. Selling good requires knowing about said goods.

I had waiters that were diligent about learning about new wines, beers and food (and they loved free samples), but they could explain what they were selling. I had other waiters that just looked at the menu and read what was there.

No surprise, the go-getters made 2-3x the tips of the slackers. Slackers would complain that people were bad tippers, but it was never a problem with the good waiters. No matter what, you get ****ty tippers, but those that took their work seriously earned more... rightfully so.

My city has several "taphouse" type restaurants, and a few of them are spectacular. Every member of the waitstaff can describe every beer in great detail. Not SRM or IBU, but color, aroma, bitterness, roastiness, etc... they know their ****, and they can sell it.

you got it.

I can understand the taproom nearby with 50 taps, maybe the waitstaff might not know every beer, they get some slack. only a few of the taps are rotating, there's a chalkboard that lists those. maybe they don't know all of those, especially new ones.

the non-rotating taps, those are the ones the staff should know most about.

and the times they have brewery tap takeovers, reps from the brewery, if not the brewers themselves are on hand. they get NO SLACK and MOCKED MERCILESSLY if they don't know their stuff.

 

[hunter_le five]

Of course, there may be an alternate explanation: perhaps she does know the difference, but her boss told her, "hey -- push the Boulevard Tank 7 tonight; it's not moving fast enough." Unfortunately, that doesn't really cast her or her bosses in a more flattering light....

How so? That's just good business sense. We would expect any of our managers to do the same.

Products that don't sell cost you money when they take up valuable tap real-estate. If you have a beer that's not selling well, any bar-owner/manager with half a brain would try to push that product until the keg kicks, so they can replace it with something more profitable.

 

[GrogNerd]

How so? That's just good business sense. We would expect any of our managers to do the same.

Products that don't sell cost you money when they take up valuable tap real-estate. If you have a beer that's not selling well, any bar-owner/manager with half a brain would try to push that product until the keg kicks, so they can replace it with something more profitable.

except, in this case, it didn't work. no sale = no profit

that's not good business

 

[hunter_le five]

except, in this case, it didn't work. no sale = no profit

that's not good business

Yeah, but how many people actually storm out because they didn't like the beer recommendation?
I can't say I've ever known anyone to do that (apart from the fellow that instigated the current thread-derail).
Generally when a waitress or bartender recommends a beer I'm not interested in, I respond with, "no thanks, I'll have _____", or "what else do you have?".

edit: my main point was that pushing a slow-moving beer is common industry practice, and I didn't understand the implication that it was somehow shady. I work for a company that owns bars/restaurants.

Anywho, enough of my derail-of-a-derail, back to your regularly-scheduled thread derail.

 

[GrogNerd]

I'll see your derail and raise you a derailing jazz hands kitty

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[soccerdad]

Turnover and learning and training in the restaurant business makes no sense to me. These people are in the top 1%, right? Almost as highly paid as stockbrokers and venture capitalists as far as I can tell. For the wait staff in a tap room or restaurant to be learning beer or learning the menu is totally unacceptable We need laws against this ! And I'll be damned if I am going to engage any of these prima donas in conversations that might help them understand porters or hefes or pale ales at a deeper level ... they probably already have masters degrees in beer anyway.

 

[speeddemon190]

well this weekend I drank a Hamm's lite

 

[beaksnbeer]

We were at are local Hooters(which has 5-7 native beers asked our waitress what was on the craft side of the taps she said "I think Bud" a waitress passing by ran through a list of 6 when she was out of earshot our waitress said "She's new so you'll have to excuse her, I'll give you a few more minutes" I spoke to the Hostess and said the sun was reflecting in my wife's face and pointed to a empty table in the other waitress's area. She moved us and sat a couple of guys at our 1st table. She knew their beers AND the description and style, she was unsure about what the styles meant just what they were. We explained a bit about the different styles when she asked, she seemed genuinely interested in knowing what they had and served. We sat at the bar after dinner talking to the bartender who said that she checks up before and during her shift if any beers/drink specials have changed she was fast becoming a favorite with the bar staff.

 

[Hopinista]

That was a pretty amazing story.

You actually got your wife to go to hooter's

 

[WayFrae]

I heard this one a couple days ago... "The reason homebrew makes you sh*t your pants is because most people don't brew in sanitary conditions. They just ferment in a dirty bucket."
:smack:

 

[drainbamage]

Do people really have that much intestinal distress from homebrew? I've never had trouble with it.

 

[Hopinista]

Do people really have that much intestinal distress from homebrew? I've never had trouble with it.

I think the ones who drink a lot of trub do

 

[drainbamage]

So really this sounds like a missed opportunity to market the "Homebrew Cleanse Diet".

 

[beaksnbeer]

That was a pretty amazing story.

You actually got your wife to go to hooter's

HER favorite there also the Winghouse but she says the girls there are "kinda slutty"

 

[Fizzycist]

At the bar, overhearing a youngish guy with a BMC in front of him: "Yeah, I'm paleo. Pretty strict, too. You gotta have self control or it doesn't do anything for you."

Grain free bud? That must be why it tastes of nothing.

 

[troy2000]

How so? That's just good business sense. We would expect any of our managers to do the same.

Products that don't sell cost you money when they take up valuable tap real-estate. If you have a beer that's not selling well, any bar-owner/manager with half a brain would try to push that product until the keg kicks, so they can replace it with something more profitable.

Trying to push a product that isn't anything like the beer a customer originally asked for, just because it's moving slow, is a cheap hustle - not 'good business sense.'


Of course if a customer asks her what she would recommend, there's nothing wrong with her suggesting the slower-moving product - as long as it's a good beer.

 

[Trippel-A]

At the bar, overhearing a youngish guy with a BMC in front of him: "Yeah, I'm paleo. Pretty strict, too. You gotta have self control or it doesn't do anything for you."

Grain free bud? That must be why it tastes of nothing.

Why not risk another derail? I'll just say it.

The paleo diet is for morons. All of recorded history and all known technological advances by humans have occurred while our species has been living on cultivated grains.

I'm sure there is a "well actually" out there...

 

[soccerdad]

LOL ...

"The reason homebrew makes you sh*t your pants is because most people don't brew in sanitary conditions. They just ferment in a dirty bucket."

I thought it was the gallon of salsa verde I was drinking at lunch every day.

 

[BBQB]

We were at are local Hooters(which has 5-7 native beers asked our waitress what was on the craft side of the taps she said "I think Bud" a waitress passing by ran through a list of 6 when she was out of earshot our waitress said "She's new so you'll have to excuse her, I'll give you a few more minutes" I spoke to the Hostess and said the sun was reflecting in my wife's face and pointed to a empty table in the other waitress's area. She moved us and sat a couple of guys at our 1st table. She knew their beers AND the description and style, she was unsure about what the styles meant just what they were. We explained a bit about the different styles when she asked, she seemed genuinely interested in knowing what they had and served. We sat at the bar after dinner talking to the bartender who said that she checks up before and during her shift if any beers/drink specials have changed she was fast becoming a favorite with the bar staff.

Your wife works at hooters? Awesome!



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[icebob]

Do people really have that much intestinal distress from homebrew? I've never had trouble with it.

I fix aircraft for a living, usually on delivery day, everyone have to be in the cockpit, so day before delivery, Imake sure I have my fare share of homebrew, trust me, the cockpit is mine the day after

 

[vinnythering]

Do people really have that much intestinal distress from homebrew? I've never had trouble with it.

I did in the beginning, but not anymore. Only if I somehow kick up the sediment in the keg. My mom, however, won't drink my beer anymore because it hits her so bad. I had to start filtering because of her.

 

[bleme]

I did in the beginning, but not anymore. Only if I somehow kick up the sediment in the keg. My mom, however, won't drink my beer anymore because it hits her so bad. I had to start filtering because of her.

I know a guy who can only drink one brand because the other BMC gives him the runs. I don't think it is always a reaction to yeast.

Maintaining good gut fauna is essential. Homebrew and yogurt are both great sources.

 

[Hopinista]

I know a guy who can only drink one brand because the other BMC gives him the runs. I don't think it is always a reaction to yeast.

Maintaining good gut fauna is essential. Homebrew and yogurt are both great sources.

I get issues whenever I drink BMC. Maybe because every time I've drank BMC its 12+

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

My experience with non-craft drinkers is they just drink homebrew right out of the bottle...I haven't been able to train anyone to pour it in a glass without some guidance.
You can't not get a good amount of trub when you do that.

 

[ericbw]

My experience with non-craft drinkers is they just drink homebrew right out of the bottle...I haven't been able to train anyone to pour it in a glass without some guidance.
You can't not get a good amount of trub when you do that.

I think this is the problem. They drink it from the bottle, swirling the sediment, or they pour it all into the glass. Then it tastes bad. I mean, sure, maybe a beer isn't their style, but if they say an amber or pale or blonde tastes bad, that's probably it.

 

[Riot]

I have come to love the Irish ale yeast for this very reason. Once it's been in the fridge for a couple days you can get away with drinking straight out of the bottle, that stuff is like glue.

 

[JohnSand]

I've had a similar experience with S04 in my reds. I told people to pour it carefully, but one demonstrated that he poured it all out, or drank from the bottle without trouble. That stuff floccs hard.
Homebrew doesn't bother my stomach, though many things do. Some commercial brews do, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it.

 

[Keith66]

First time I'd seen that acronym. Figured it out though. I'm still pretty new.

Well actually, BMC is not an acronym, it's an abbreviation, since the letters don't produce a pronounceable word.

There, now you've been introduced to "Well actually..." and derailment, two more very common HBT phenomena. Welcome friend!

 

[gometz]

My experience with non-craft drinkers is they just drink homebrew right out of the bottle...I haven't been able to train anyone to pour it in a glass without some guidance.
You can't not get a good amount of trub when you do that.

I gave some beers to my fiancee's brothers the night before they took a road trip to New Mexico and they were drinking it all out of the bottle. I told them out would give them had but they wouldn't believe me.

The next day my fiancee got a text from her mother complaining about the angels coming from the brothers.