Funny things you've overheard about beer

[rockbasementbeer]

My assumption is they're referring to the fact that they can taste something when they drink the beer.

I've actually had BMC drinkers tell me that my HB red ale is too much for them so i second this:cross:

 

[Vellum]

I should mention, my kettle is wider than it is tall.

 

[dkwolf]

My hypothesis, it is shattered

Not entirely, it is possible to drink too much water. It's called Water Intoxication, and basically you dilute the sodium in your body too much. But that's really hard to do.

And personally, the days that I'd put down 3+ gallons on the job site, odds were pretty good that by 10 AM, my shirt looked like I had just jumped into the pool with it on. (The worst day, we started at 7:30, and by 8:30 I could wring my shirt out like it had just come out of the washing machine)

 

[MotorcycleMatt]

Not entirely, it is possible to drink too much water. It's called Water Intoxication, and basically you dilute the sodium in your body too much. But that's really hard to do.

And personally, the days that I'd put down 3+ gallons on the job site, odds were pretty good that by 10 AM, my shirt looked like I had just jumped into the pool with it on. (The worst day, we started at 7:30, and by 8:30 I could wring my shirt out like it had just come out of the washing machine)

Yep been there done that, 2 gallons isn't uncommon when its 105 degrees and I'm on a roof working

 

[xtian116]

Yep been there done that, 2 gallons isn't uncommon when its 105 degrees and I'm on a roof working

Damn! I'm lucky if I drink a gallon of water a month. I get my liquid intake from beer, monsters, and coffee. The base for all of them is water, right?

 

[xjmox14x]

I think it's just how humans use sight so much when it comes to taste. People see the color and expect a certain taste. So no matter what it really tastes like, it's always, "Too Strong" "Too Bitter" and the one I get a lot, "Too Thick" I have a nut brown that I had on tap that was a fairly low gravity, low alcohol beer, with a faily mild hoppiness. Of the other two on Tap, an Amber and an IPA, aside from the color, the brown was easily the closest to BMC of the three. At least as far as being meant to be a mild, every day drinker. Yet all my BMC friends said the same think, "Too Strong" and one even said "Too Thick" yet they were all happily drinking the IPA that's up around 6.5% ABV.

I'm sure, in a blind taste test, literally, with their eyes covered. All the BMC guys would choose the nut brown.

Sight and color (scent as well) all play a part in a perceived taste. It's really interesting actually:
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/coltaste.html
http://www.colormatters.com/does-color-affect-taste

 

[Lazarous]

Damn! I'm lucky if I drink a gallon of water a month. I get my liquid intake from beer, monsters, and coffee. The base for all of them is water, right?

Your heart is going to explode

 

[xtian116]

Your heart is going to explode

Haha! The world is not that lucky. I'm afraid I have quite a few more years of pissing people off before that happens.

 

[ChshreCat]

I used to put away a half case of caffeinated pop (at least it had no sugar) at work. Plus another 6 or 8 cans before and after. I had to slowly wean myself off the stuff over a period of a few weeks. It wasn't so much the rapid heart rate that was bothering me. It was when it would pause... now and then... that freaked me out. Now the only pop I drink is caffeine free (and sugar free and sodium free) and the only caffeine I get is from one mug of regular coffee each morning.

 

[dkwolf]

I used to put away a half case of caffeinated pop (at least it had no sugar) at work. Plus another 6 or 8 cans before and after. I had to slowly wean myself off the stuff over a period of a few weeks. It wasn't so much the rapid heart rate that was bothering me. It was when it would pause... now and then... that freaked me out. Now the only pop I drink is caffeine free (and sugar free and sodium free) and the only caffeine I get is from one mug of regular coffee each morning.

Yep. If I have a monster on my way to work, and more than one or two cups of coffee at my desk, by lunch the ol' pump will start to miss a beat here and there. NOT a pleasant feeling.

I still keep a case or two of Monster at home, but it's reserved ONLY for mornings where I had a late night/early morning fire call and REALLY need the extra pick-me-up to get going to my regular job in the morning.

 

[b-boy]

A discussion my wife and I had yesterday...
Wife: you haven't been drinking very much beer lately.
Me: I just had knee surgery and my activity level is way down since last October (when knee injury occurred)
Wife: that doesn't explain why you haven't been drinking...
Me: I'm trying to not resemble my 15 gallon brew kettle!

Might not be that funny but it was at the time.

Hmm...A wife complaining that you haven't been drinking enough beer lately? I'm not buying it.

 

[mattd2]

Yep. If I have a monster on my way to work, and more than one or two cups of coffee at my desk, by lunch the ol' pump will start to miss a beat here and there. NOT a pleasant feeling.

I still keep a case or two of Monster at home, but it's reserved ONLY for mornings where I had a late night/early morning fire call and REALLY need the extra pick-me-up to get going to my regular job in the morning.

Damn what does it fell like when your eart misses? I use to drink to much energy drink but ave just stopped. This thread just got serious!

 

[forstmeister]

Damn what does it fell like when your eart misses? I use to drink to much energy drink but ave just stopped. This thread just got serious!

Even worse, somebody stole your "H" key!

 

[dkwolf]

Damn what does it fell like when your eart misses? I use to drink to much energy drink but ave just stopped. This thread just got serious!

You don't notice the "miss" so much as the next beat - it's like your heart pumps twice as hard on the next beat to make up for it. And you can honest to God FEEL that beat. It's like getting hit in the chest with a baseball. Not HARD, mind you, but enough of a 'thump' you notice it. (the reason that I notice it might be attributed to the fact that I sit at a desk all day and am relatively calm, not moving around, etc.) There's a couple seconds of a weird sensation afterwards that I can't really describe.

 

[ChshreCat]

You don't notice the "miss" so much as the next beat - it's like your heart pumps twice as hard on the next beat to make up for it. And you can honest to God FEEL that beat. It's like getting hit in the chest with a baseball. Not HARD, mind you, but enough of a 'thump' you notice it. (the reason that I notice it might be attributed to the fact that I sit at a desk all day and am relatively calm, not moving around, etc.) There's a couple seconds of a weird sensation afterwards that I can't really describe.

I always described that as feeling like someone slipped a live fish into your chest cavity and it's flopping around in there. What's really disconcerting is that if you check your pulse while it's happening... you don't feel one. Fortunately, it only lasts for a few seconds usually. I still get it, but not nearly as often as when I was pounding away enough caffeine to keep a small army awake.

btw... had it checked out by a doctor a while back when it was doing it a lot. They did an EKG, stress test, cardiac ultrasound, even had me wear one of those portable EKG machines for a few days and they decided it was a "benign arrhythmia" and shouldn't cause a problem. Stress and anxiety tend to make it happen more.

 

[dkwolf]

I always described that as feeling like someone slipped a live fish into your chest cavity and it's flopping around in there. What's really disconcerting is that if you check your pulse while it's happening... you don't feel one. Fortunately, it only lasts for a few seconds usually. I still get it, but not nearly as often as when I was pounding away enough caffeine to keep a small army awake.

btw... had it checked out by a doctor a while back when it was doing it a lot. They did an EKG, stress test, cardiac ultrasound, even had me wear one of those portable EKG machines for a few days and they decided it was a "benign arrhythmia" and shouldn't cause a problem. Stress and anxiety tend to make it happen more.

Yeah, I can see where you'd get that description. Thankfully, the only times I *ever* get it is when I've been pounding caffiene - and seemingly only after an energy drink has been involved. I can sit at my desk, drink an entire pot of coffee and a couple Mt Dews, and not trigger it.

 

[unionrdr]

I've had that happen from terrible stress at Ford. Not a good feeling around automation equipment...

 

[mattd2]

Even worse, somebody stole your "H" key!

Don't worry I found it by the end!

 

[day_trippr]

You don't notice the "miss" so much as the next beat - it's like your heart pumps twice as hard on the next beat to make up for it. And you can honest to God FEEL that beat. It's like getting hit in the chest with a baseball. Not HARD, mind you, but enough of a 'thump' you notice it. [...]

Sounds similar to PVCs (premature ventricular contractions). I had an ~18 month period in my late 20s where I was getting those every other "normal" beat, constantly. It took awhile to get used to that big "thump" that followed the "skip", especially when trying to get to sleep.

Docs did all the usual tests, I ran right through the treadmill stress test, wore a Holter Monitor for a week including a 90° day that I split a cord of wood, but they couldn't find anything definitive - which is pretty common, at least in males. They put me on Tenormin (beta blocker) which dampened the "thump" but didn't really change things otherwise.

Eventually it just stopped skipping. That was over 30 years ago...

Cheers!

 

[Vellum]

Hmm...A wife complaining that you haven't been drinking enough beer lately? I'm not buying it.

She is awaiting the ipa that is in the wings. Currently she is tired of the Vienna lager and maibock in the fridge.

 

[BreezyBrew]

I don't understand the color being the problem. Americans pound down gallons of coke and Pepsi but hand them a stout or a porter and its like your asking them to drink battery acid. Weird.

Yeah, that and coffee! Girlfriend loves coffee but hates stout? smh

 

[Swarley88]

Yeah, that and coffee! Girlfriend loves coffee but hates stout? smh

Does she like coffee coffee or girly foo foo drink coffee?

 

[Krovitz]

She is awaiting the ipa that is in the wings. Currently she is tired of the Vienna lager and maibock in the fridge.

SWMBO getting antsy for homebrew? That's awesome. I can always tell how good a certain brew is by the amount of time it takes for my girlfriend to get tired of it.

 

[Ryush806]

SWMBO getting antsy for homebrew? That's awesome. I can always tell how good a certain brew is by the amount of time it takes for my girlfriend to get tired of it.

My SWMBO gets antsy for my homebrew, too. Tis a great thing. Instead of "Are you REALLY gonna brew again this weekend?" I get "I thought you were going to brew that *whatever style* for me soon" or "I just finished off your *whatever style* when's the next one ready?"

If only she had any interest whatsoever in actually brewing with me...

 

[Walking_Target]

It's because Americans (by and large) are trained by the BMC brewers to associate "American" and "Beer" with "Carbonated Urine" and thus leads to a great deal of main-stream consumers to not trust anything that doesn't fit with the preconception of what "beer should be"

We don't have that problem so much here in Canada. If it's carbonated, based on malt and contains alcohol, it's beer; we drink it. Though I do have to admit, BMC style beers are becoming more popular up here and it makes me sad.

Also, overheard up here "Alexander Keith's is real IPA, not that Mad Tom stuff, that must be off because it's so bitter."

Mad Tom being a craft-brewed true west coast style IPA.

 

[rockbasementbeer]

My SWMBO gets antsy for my homebrew, too. Tis a great thing. Instead of "Are you REALLY gonna brew again this weekend?" I get "I thought you were going to brew that *whatever style* for me soon" or "I just finished off your *whatever style* when's the next one ready?"

If only she had any interest whatsoever in actually brewing with me...

Mine started brewin with me the other day, it was pretty awesome.

 

[bleme]

Mine started brewin with me the other day, it was pretty awesome.

Mine will bottle (and wash bottles) with me, but has no interest in brewing. If you'd tried her cooking, you'd be OK with that too!

 

[rockbasementbeer]

Mine will bottle (and wash bottles) with me, but has no interest in brewing. If you'd tried her cooking, you'd be OK with that too!

A woman who can cook is always great, and a woman stirring mash is even better!

 

[ChshreCat]

My wife isn't interested and actually really dislikes the smell of hops, but my daughter has been my brew buddy since I took up the hobby. My wife likes that she and I have something we like to do together.

 

[Ryush806]

Also, overheard up here "Alexander Keith's is real IPA, not that Mad Tom stuff, that must be off because it's so bitter."

Mad Tom being a craft-brewed true west coast style IPA.

Haha that reminds me of something I said when I was first getting into craft brews. My roomates and I had tried SNPA so we thought we liked hops. We decided we wanted to try something hoppier so we picked up a 6 pack of Avery IPA. We definitely weren't ready for the bitterness. My bashfully admitted comment, "ugh...this tastes like soap! I wonder if they screwed up when the were washing bottles and didn't rinse them out good". Haha now I consider it fairly tame as far as IPAs go.