Funny things you've overheard about beer

[jerrodm]

I was living in Augusta. Luckily, I was in the military and could always drive on to Ft. Gordon and get beer from the package store if I was in a jam. But I can't tell you how many times I got to the checkout counter at the store with a couple of six-packs, only to have the lady look at me like I was crazy and say, "You know it's a Sunday, right?" Then I'd facepalm, and go put the beer back in the cooler.

Hell, as hot as it gets in Augusta in the summer, they ought to give out free beer on Sundays. Maybe in return for lawn mowing. I know that's the only way I could get through my own way-too-large lawn at the time!

 

[Gameface]

I went out to dinner once and wanted a beer during happy hour. I went in and saw they hand domestics with no other disclaimers on what is in that "domestics" category, so I kept looking at their selection. Ahh yes I'll have a DBA (firestone, from Paso Robles, CA) about 100 miles from where I stand.

Well the bartender said that is a import and I explain, out of all the beers you serve here, that is the one that is produced closest to where I stand right now, so what do you consider all the others you have?

Basically I left , they didn't get my money.

So did you walk out because they were going to charge more for it or because they called it an import and you simply won't tolerate abuses to the English language like that?

For a long time "import" actually referred to imported beer but in reality was how they communicated that they were going to charge more for it.

If they had said it's a "premium" beer would you have stayed and enjoyed the beer you ordered?

If I had been sitting at that bar I would be posting about a funny thing I overheard at a bar...This guy walks in and orders a micro-brew. The bartender tells him it's an import because they charge the import price on their micros. They guy argues with the bartender about where the beer is made and then storms out without having a beer.

 

[mikeh80]

Reminds me of the classic... "Is this legal?"

Got that one from my sister when I told her I was going to get into homebrewing. Led to an impromptu explanation of the difference between fermentation and distillation.

 

[JordanThomas]

So did you walk out because they were going to charge more for it or because they called it an import and you simply won't tolerate abuses to the English language like that?

For a long time "import" actually referred to imported beer but in reality was how they communicated that they were going to charge more for it.

If they had said it's a "premium" beer would you have stayed and enjoyed the beer you ordered?

If I had been sitting at that bar I would be posting about a funny thing I overheard at a bar...This guy walks in and orders a micro-brew. The bartender tells him it's an import because they charge the import price on their micros. They guy argues with the bartender about where the beer is made and then storms out without having a beer.

Is it hard to type a menu that says "Import/Craft?"

Doesn't seem hard to avoid this situation.

 

[turvis]

Is it hard to type a menu that says "Import/Craft?"

Doesn't seem hard to avoid this situation.

Or you could just commit it to memory that that is how places that sell beer differentiate the prices of cheap beer and expensive beer. I don't understand why someone would walk out of an establishment because of something so trivial. Is it humorous yes but not an unforgivable sin that requires that kind of reaction. But if it that big of a deal to you to each their own I guess.

 

[Matt3989]

So did you walk out because they were going to charge more for it or because they called it an import and you simply won't tolerate abuses to the English language like that?

For a long time "import" actually referred to imported beer but in reality was how they communicated that they were going to charge more for it.

If they had said it's a "premium" beer would you have stayed and enjoyed the beer you ordered?

If I had been sitting at that bar I would be posting about a funny thing I overheard at a bar...This guy walks in and orders a micro-brew. The bartender tells him it's an import because they charge the import price on their micros. They guy argues with the bartender about where the beer is made and then storms out without having a beer.

But craft brews can still be "domestic" so if they have a special for 2 for one domestics.... Well, you see the problem. They should say 2 for one bud lights, or come up with another name for the big 3, like BMC or something like that.

I would immediately order a beer at a bar that had the categories:
"Mass produced light lager" - BMC
"Mass produced beer" - guinness, bass, blue moon, ***** modelo, etc.
"microbrews"
"local craft"

But that's all semantics, if the price is right (and the temp...wishful thinking), the bartender/owner can be as ignorant as he/she desires and I'll still drink a beer there.

 

[JordanThomas]

Then just use grouping to price beer. How is that hard?

Class 1 (i.e. BMC)
Class 2 (i.e. most craft/import)
Class 3 (specialties/rarities)

Calling domestic beer "import" is just LAZY! And although some might consider it not a big deal, just sematics, or whatever, I loathe laziness. Frankly I think it insults the masses' ability to understand simple terminology.

 

[Gameface]

Keep in mind, most bar owners and especially most bar tenders don't give half a crap about the distinction between "craft" beer and imported beer. They know that beer A, B and C is what 90% of their customers drink and what they sell cheap and that beers X, Y and Z get ordered a couple times a day and cost more. Getting our panties in a bunch over it is as silly as some Star Wars nerd getting upset with a kid at Target because he asked where the Star Wars animated series action figures were but the kid showed him where the Star Wars movie action figures were. Just pure silliness and an overestimated view of our own importance.

 

[mgortel]

Wait a minute....stop the presses......it is impossible to overestimate the importance of ourselves as homebrewers!!1

 

[nasty_rabbit]

Yeah in Warner Robins ga we can buy beer and liquor on Sunday here.

I for one don't like the fact that Sunday sales was passed. I spent my whole adult life pre-planning on Saturday for drinking on Sunday. If I forgot then that was my fault and it only happened a few times. I feel that it made me a better person to learn to plan for the future. Up and coming drinkers will not have that learning experience.

 

[Homercidal]

But craft brews can still be "domestic" so if they have a special for 2 for one domestics.... Well, you see the problem. They should say 2 for one bud lights, or come up with another name for the big 3, like BMC or something like that.

I would immediately order a beer at a bar that had the categories:
"Mass produced light lager" - BMC
"Mass produced beer" - guinness, bass, blue moon, ***** modelo, etc.
"microbrews"
"local craft"

But that's all semantics, if the price is right (and the temp...wishful thinking), the bartender/owner can be as ignorant as he/she desires and I'll still drink a beer there.

In Michigan you can't do a 2 for 1 special. That would imply they are giving you a free beer, which they can't do. It would have to be a 1/s off special.

Just a little bit of trivia.

 

[Krovitz]

In Massachusetts, happy hour is illegal. No free drinks, half price drinks, or coupons/ gift cards for drinks.

 

[jerrodm]

If I had been sitting at that bar I would be posting about a funny thing I overheard at a bar...This guy walks in and orders a micro-brew. The bartender tells him it's an import because they charge the import price on their micros. They guy argues with the bartender about where the beer is made and then storms out without having a beer.

I have to agree here. Sure, the wording is funny and incorrect, and we might sniff at it since We Know Better, but why leave without having your beer? Didn't you miss it? Wasn't it calling to you plaintively from the bar as you walked out? I would have chuckled to myself as I drained my glass, then told the funny story when I got home...

 

[jerrodm]

I for one don't like the fact that Sunday sales was passed. I spent my whole adult life pre-planning on Saturday for drinking on Sunday. If I forgot then that was my fault and it only happened a few times. I feel that it made me a better person to learn to plan for the future. Up and coming drinkers will not have that learning experience.

You're right, of course--growing up in CA I never had to plan my purchases around the all-important Sunday-afternoon-beer-and-football. And when I lived in GA I paid for it, mostly with Sunday trips onto base to go to the package store, mumbling uncharitable unprintables about the Bible Belt all the way. Sorry if that offends folks, I'm no libertine, but I do get crotchety when I'm denied beer...

 

[nasty_rabbit]

You're right, of course--growing up in CA I never had to plan my purchases around the all-important Sunday-afternoon-beer-and-football. And when I lived in GA I paid for it, mostly with Sunday trips onto base to go to the package store, mumbling uncharitable unprintables about the Bible Belt all the way. Sorry if that offends folks, I'm no libertine, but I do get crotchety when I'm denied beer...

Now even with Sunday sales it can only be sold after 12:00 in our area. My guess is so I can't get it before the people at church do.

 

[bovineblitz]

In Massachusetts, happy hour is illegal. No free drinks, half price drinks, or coupons/ gift cards for drinks.

No sales on alcohol are allowed, ever. It's very annoying.

 

[Skeptidelphian]

No sales on alcohol are allowed, ever. It's very annoying.

Gotta keep that puritan work ethic!

 

[humann_brewing]

"Guinness is a meal."

Maybe for a 5 year old?

So did you walk out because they were going to charge more for it or because they called it an import and you simply won't tolerate abuses to the English language like that?

For a long time "import" actually referred to imported beer but in reality was how they communicated that they were going to charge more for it.

If they had said it's a "premium" beer would you have stayed and enjoyed the beer you ordered?

If I had been sitting at that bar I would be posting about a funny thing I overheard at a bar...This guy walks in and orders a micro-brew. The bartender tells him it's an import because they charge the import price on their micros. They guy argues with the bartender about where the beer is made and then storms out without having a beer.

sounds pretty accurate, I know I know more and more bars are just switching over to the term craft beer or something of the sorts that way it is more generic but it was basically the guys attitude that pissed me off, he had no interest or knowledge for that matter of anything about the beers let alone where they were made.

 

[Hamsterbite]

Overheard at the beer aisle in the grocery store. Man speaking to wife/gf:
Non-Alcoholic beer is really bad for you. They use bleach to remove the alcohol.

 

[Mojzis]

Overheard at the beer aisle in the grocery store. Man speaking to wife/gf:
Non-Alcoholic beer is really bad for you. They use bleach to remove the alcohol.

haha hes got a good point! However, I think hes getting decaffeinated coffee mixed with beer.

 

[Ryush806]

haha hes got a good point! However, I think hes getting decaffeinated coffee mixed with beer.

They tend to use supercritical carbon dioxide in the industrialized world.

 

[Hamsterbite]

They tend to use supercritical carbon dioxide in the industrialized world.

Pfft. That's so passe. Shouldn't they be on to wickedsupercrital carbon dioxide by now? I mean, this is the 21st century.

 

[Billybrewer09]

Posted on facebook by the owner and self proclaimed beer expert of a local restaurant.
"Bells two hearted is the greatest imperial APA every brewed"

 

[Brewcrew02]

In response to all the "Import" rants, I think the term should just be Domestic/Crappy and Premium. I used to preach/whine about the Boulevard in KC being "Import" but only because it's just an illogical category name for it. If you have to print new menus with new beers, give them an appropriate category. Do like Flying Saucer does and have colored copy paper as your beer list!

 

[SiriusStarr]

Pfft. That's so passe. Shouldn't they be on to wickedsupercrital carbon dioxide by now? I mean, this is the 21st century.

Hellacritical CO2. Developed in NorCal.

 

[dfc]

Overheard at the beer aisle in the grocery store. Man speaking to wife/gf:
Non-Alcoholic beer is really bad for you. They use bleach to remove the alcohol.

That's a new one.

 

[cluckk]

When my wife was working at a nursing home, many years ago, they had a social event where they served beer. My wife got in trouble because she drank a Lite Beer during work. She thought Lite Beer was non-alcoholic beer. Needless to say she got in much trouble. I talked to her boss one day and said, "You know she's not far off."

 

[nightrider069]

I was in a brewery in North Carolina, sorry don't remember the name. They only brew German style lagers. All there eqipment came from Germany. Any way on the wall was this sign.

People who drink light beer don't really like beer.

They just like to piss a lot.

LOL Thought that was so funny.

If it was near the OBX then it was the weeping Radish a few miles before the bridge going to the island

 

[GrogNerd]

OBX beer? brewery in Grandy?

i wonder how many times I've passed that on the way to/from Duck and never knew it was there

 

[Clonefan94]

I'm not proud of it, but I'll admit I dip into the BMC cooler now and then, especially at picnic type events where I could be drinking all day.

Anyways, at a co-worker party one night, I'm holding on to my can of Miller Lite and one of my co-workers husbands comes up to me and points out that I'm drinking a Lite. He then says, "Hmm, thought you were some kind of beer snob, you brew your own right? Well, I'll tell you, life is to short to drink crappy cheap beer like Lite." He then proceeded to grab a Carona out of the cooler, held it up like it was something special and walked away. I actually thought he did it as a joke, until that's all he drank all night.