Funny things you've overheard about beer

[n240sxguy]

According to the credible Wiki "Guinness Original/Extra Stout: 4.2 or 4.3% ABV in Ireland and the rest of Europe, 4.1% in Germany, 4.8% in Namibia and South Africa, 5% in the United States and Canada, and 6% in Australia and Japan."



Maybe I'm about to learn something new, but I took this to mean that Guinness was actually 5% assuming you live in the US and your state does not have any goofy laws limiting your beer.



I will say that I didn't know Utah went by ABW, so that's a neat fun fact.

In KY every beer over 5% has to be labelled as such. Some 4.6-4.7 are labelled. Never seen a number on a guiness. Nowhere near 5%.


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[n240sxguy]

if you cut the top off a can of Guinness and turn it upside down, it comes out like cranberry jelly. and you can cut it into slices too!

(I did not overhear this. I'm gonna tell someone this next time I'm in a liquor store with craft-ish beer.)

Absolutely true. Seen it myself.


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[thatjonguy]

"I'm not 'chugging beer'. I'm sampling a flight of gluten-free German lagers with a French wine pairing. It's called a Smorgasvein, and it's elegantly cultural."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYRuPXbav2w

The alcohol advertising thing was better.

 

[j1n]

My wife relates all kinds of flavors to color...
She is a bit odd, I'll admit, but love her all the more for it! She also used to refer to beers in terms of their relative balance of "flowers" (hops) and "crackers" (malt). She knows the correct terms now, and has a pretty good palate, but still likes to call my favorite IPAs "oohh, nice flowers" (no matter how citrusey or piney they are) just for old times sake...

But hops are flowers... she is technically correct...

 

[robertus]

I remember when I thought Killians Red was the **** and I had moved "beyond" Bud Ice... I try to keep that in mind when I hear my inner beer snob coming out.

Yep,. Once upon a time, Killians Irish Red was my go-to fancy beer. Bud Ice ("official beer of the NHL, so it must be good!") and Coors Light were the everyday drinkers. Everybody starts somewhere sometime.

The wife and I keep a case of Miller Lite around still. Sometimes, it's nice to have a cold one.

 

[biochemedic]

At the grocery store tonight and the checkout guy says, "oh, what kind of Fat Tire are you getting!?" (Rampant DIPA...) I proceed to tell him it is the Double IPA, and without pause he follows with, "have you tried their winter beer, it has all kinds of grapefruits in it!"
Me: "No, but I'll have to take a look next time..." (all the while thinking "does New Belgium really have a new winter beer? That sounds like an awesome hop profile!")

 

[jimdkc]

Well, actually... hops are flowers... she is technically correct...

Fixed that for you!

 

[catdaddy66]

the bottle would be more feng shui.

Well done, sir! Lmao!!


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[t_hubbard]

Once had a guy explain to me that budweiser tastes better out of an 8 ounce can than a 12 ounce can. He even had me take a sip from his 8 ounce can. He was cooking some mean bbq for a bunch of us, so I was nice and agreed.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

Once had a guy explain to me that budweiser tastes better out of an 8 ounce can than a 12 ounce can. He even had me take a sip from his 8 ounce can. He was cooking some mean bbq for a bunch of us, so I was nice and agreed.

Man, how can someone be into FLAVOR so much that they make a mean bbq, but drink american lager and believe there is a taste difference based on can size?!? Give that man a homebrew!

 

[gometz]

Brother just sent me this

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[catdaddy66]

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[Teromous]

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Haha, this is the one I have on my fridge:

 

[forstmeister]

Haha, this is the one I have on my fridge:

That just got saved on my phone. Thanks!

 

[watermelon83]

I was at the LS last night. Heard some fella say that if you cut the top off a Guinness and turned it up-side down it would fall out like cranberry sauce. What a moe-ron.

I didn't say anything though. He was all tatted up and looked like a bad ass.

 

[Kee]

I was at the LS last night. Heard some fella say that if you cut the top off a Guinness and turned it up-side down it would fall out like cranberry sauce. What a moe-ron.

I didn't say anything though. He was all tatted up and looked like a bad ass.

He is a bad ass. Trust me.

 

[n240sxguy]

Man, how can someone be into FLAVOR so much that they make a mean bbq, but drink american lager and believe there is a taste difference based on can size?!? Give that man a homebrew!

Yep. The manliest men have the daintiest pallet. I must be a ***** since I can taste stuff.


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[gometz]

A high school kid asked his teacher what kind of beer he drinks, the teacher says IPA's and goes on to explain that they are pale hoppy beers. The kid says "what? It's pale? Why don't you drink a manly beer like Shiner Bock!"

That kid was me, about 12 years ago.

 

[gometz]

A high school kid asked his teacher what kind of beer he drinks, the teacher says IPA's and goes on to explain that they are pale hoppy beers. The kid says "what? It's pale? Why don't you drink a manly beer like Shiner Bock!"

That kid was me, about 12 years ago.

 

[feinbera]

At the grocery store tonight and the checkout guy says, "oh, what kind of Fat Tire are you getting!?" (Rampant DIPA...) I proceed to tell him it is the Double IPA, and without pause he follows with, "have you tried their winter beer, it has all kinds of grapefruits in it!"
Me: "No, but I'll have to take a look next time..." (all the while thinking "does New Belgium really have a new winter beer? That sounds like an awesome hop profile!")

Stone and Widmer both did limited-release grapefruit IPAs in the last couple years, they were both pretty tasty, so, maybe it's a thing?

 

[fredthecat]

Haha, this is the one I have on my fridge:

like, and i guess on a related note when people say "you drink too much". though this may sound as if i'm in denial, i'm actually quite conscious of my health. while i definitely enjoy having a tasty beer daily, they are often below 5% alcohol, preferably homebrewed with just grain and i eat a balanced meal before drinking. so yes, the answer should be what is written in the second panel.

 

[ericbw]

Man, how can someone be into FLAVOR so much that they make a mean bbq, but drink american lager and believe there is a taste difference based on can size?!? Give that man a homebrew!

This one is simple. The smaller can stays cold until it's empty. Less flavor. The 12 oz warms up and by the end, it tastes different/"worse." Over time, he has come to believe that one tastes better.

 

[Malric]

Dup post. Stupid app.

 

[Malric]

This one is simple. The smaller can stays cold until it's empty. Less flavor. The 12 oz warms up and by the end, it tastes different/"worse." Over time, he has come to believe that one tastes better.

This is probably one of the funniest and most accurate things posted in the entire thread.

 

[TheCADJockey]

This thread got quite unfunny. Make with the LOLZ plz. Some of us rely on this thread to drag us through the trenches of our cubicle jobs.

 

[joe_four_strings]

I've been a beer geek for a while, and started homebrewing about 3 months ago, so, naturally, I catch myself talking "to much" about beer. The other day my workmate (a bmc drinker that considers Guinness to be "so heavy and bitter) told me that I "ruined beer for him because he was having a MGD and couldn't find any flavor in it".
I laughed. He also could not understand why Red Stripe is not brewed in Jamaica.

 

[drainbamage]

This one is simple. The smaller can stays cold until it's empty. Less flavor. The 12 oz warms up and by the end, it tastes different/"worse." Over time, he has come to believe that one tastes better.

Thermodynamics derail...anyone? No?

Yeah, me neither. :cross:

 

[joe_four_strings]

My boss is a Yuengling lover. When I started brewing, I showed him pics of the IIPA that me and my friends brewed and he wanted to try it. He liked it and was surprised of the "grapefruity" tastes. So I recommended him Cigar City Jai Alai. He said it has to much flavor and ruined the taste of the Yuengling he had afterwards...

 

[Homercidal]

My boss is a Yuengling lover. When I started brewing, I showed him pics of the IIPA that me and my friends brewed and he wanted to try it. He liked it and was surprised of the "grapefruity" tastes. So I recommended him Cigar City Jai Alai. He said it has to much flavor and ruined the taste of the Yuengling he had afterwards...

Awesome. He should maybe stop and think about what happened?

I was chatting with some good ol boys down at the plumbing supply store and they were regaling me with stories of their beer drinking days (well, their previous beer drinking days. I am fairly certain that at least one of them was having a beer drinking day right then and there!)

He claimed the kegged beer gave worse hangovers because of the formaldehyde they put in the kegs as a preservative. He was dead serious.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

I've been a beer geek for a while, and started homebrewing about 3 months ago, so, naturally, I catch myself talking "to much" about beer. The other day my workmate (a bmc drinker that considers Guinness to be "so heavy and bitter) told me that I "ruined beer for him because he was having a MGD and couldn't find any flavor in it".

Ditto here. I've effectively ruined my wife and father in law's taste for sub par beer.

Still working on my side of the family