Funny things you've overheard about beer

[Ridire]

I'm no connoisseur either, but my brother is a hoity-toity professional winemaker in Napa Valley, so I get top-notch stuff for free. Yay. Anyway, I'm pretty sure merlot is on the fruity end, not real dry, which is why it's so popular. Cab sauvignon, cab franc, zinfandel (not white zin) are dry. My brother makes really good beer too.

Seems dry to me. But I've already confessed my ignorance. I'm comparing it to the sugary sweet stuff my wife drinks...Riesling.

 

[robertfraser]

It has the word platinum in it, so you know it has to be good stuff.

well actually, I prefer the Bud Light Adamantium, which is much better than the platinum. My local beer shop says if I like that, he'll get me some Coors Silver Bullet "Kryptonite"



I'll just grab my hat and coat and duck out now....

 

[flyingfinbar]

I was talking beer with an old coworker of mine, and the conversation came to Stella. He goes "oh man, back when I was younger we used to call Stella a wife beating beer...that stuff is so strong that if you drank more than a few, you'd go home and beat your wife!"

 

[day_trippr]

^ More disturbing than funny, but at least it isn't about "lagers"...

Cheers!

 

[russrob81]

I was talking beer with an old coworker of mine, and the conversation came to Stella. He goes "oh man, back when I was younger we used to call Stella a wife beating beer...that stuff is so strong that if you drank more than a few, you'd go home and beat your wife!"

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_artois

Under the advertising banner and United Kingdom

 

[flyingfinbar]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_artois

Under the advertising banner and United Kingdom

Wow, he wasn't kidding! Thanks for posting that, interesting/disturbing stuff!

 

[Keith66]

Seems dry to me. But I've already confessed my ignorance. I'm comparing it to the sugary sweet stuff my wife drinks...Riesling.

Yeah, it's definitely drier than a riesling, which is a dessert wine, but so are all reds. My brother will be the first to tell you "Drink what you like, whether it costs $100 a bottle or comes in a box... that's why you drink it, to enjoy it." ...which is why I drink beer... so back to beer!

 

[dinnerstick]

somewhere in the vast internet must be a wine forum with a 'funny things you've overheard about wine' thread.... i bet a few of the entries here are on it!

assuming wine people have a sense of humor

which they don't


so forget it.


i don't know if this was already on here, i'm sure it's quite common. on a bus, high school kid, massachusetts accent, passing a sign for narragansett lager (in a tall can). "what's lager beer? it's a laahghah beeah, means it comes in a tall can". same kid later, when asked where rice is grown, told his friend that you can't grow rice since it's just chopped up spaghetti.

 

[Keith66]

HBT has a wine forum.

 

[bobmcstuff]

Wow, he wasn't kidding! Thanks for posting that, interesting/disturbing stuff!

The reason we call it that is because for a long time most British beer was <4%, but Stella always stayed at 5.2%. That's also why it was expensive.

Presumably it says all that in the wikipedia article though...

 

[BoBoBenton]

I was talking beer with an old coworker of mine, and the conversation came to Stella. He goes "oh man, back when I was younger we used to call Stella a wife beating beer...that stuff is so strong that if you drank more than a few, you'd go home and beat your wife!"

When I was younger we used to joke, "you can't beat Stella, 'coz Stella beets your wife", and I still know loads of folk with a bad opinion of it from stereotypes like that

But the new classier(?) adds are doing a lot for its reputation with them.
But hey if they're drinking beer solely on its image we can add that to another reason I don't drink with them any more!

 

[drives_a_bike]

A friend of a friend told me last night that all Surly brews are 12%. I told him he was pretty incorrect on that and he told me it was in a red can, thus having to be furious. Furious is not even 7% which I explained. And he said it mustve been a special release, unless I am missing something, only special releases I know that could be even close to 12% is Darkness and that for sure doesn't come in a four pack or in cans. Needless to say though, he was not giving up on this argument. So I shut em up by having to go online and show him. I wouldn't be that upset if he wasn't saying ALL of them are 12%. Why in the world would they do that? Basically they would just use tge same grainbill and yeast and just add different hops if that was the case.

I think Sÿx was the strongest and it came in at 13 or 14%.

 

[Swarley88]

I think Sÿx was the strongest and it came in at 13 or 14%.

Exactely. It was quite weird hearing the description of Furious being 12%+ all of the Surly brews being 12%.

 

[lumpher]

I was in a restaurant in auburn Alabama and the menu listed domestic and imported beers. Sam Adams was listed under the imports!

sam adams is listed as an import under some WEIRD law. even though it's brewed in boston, it's still listed that way. i live in texas. we have both shiner and ziegenbock, brewed here. still have to pay import prices based on some stupidsh@@ law

 

[hunter_le five]

sam adams is listed as an import under some WEIRD law. even though it's brewed in boston, it's still listed that way. i live in texas. we have both shiner and ziegenbock, brewed here. still have to pay import prices based on some stupidsh@@ law

It's not a matter of law, just a matter of how much it cost the bar. Craft brews cost more than BMC swill, so it goes on the imports list with all the other "expensive" beers. This is fairly standard practice pretty much everywhere I've been. Yes, I know they're not technically "imported", but in many bars "import" has basically become synonymous with "premium", and "domestic" with "cheap". I am frankly amazed at how many people (on this forum included) seem to have a hard time grasping that, or become agitated by it. No need to be so literal. Maybe I've just been to so many bars where craft/regional beers are listed as "imports" that I'm just used to it, but the reactions to this practice on this forum amaze me.

 

[Keith66]

I just removed my rant about correctness. It wasn't a funny thing I've heard about beer, and I hate it when others railroad a thread. Cheers boys!

 

[day_trippr]

sam adams is listed as an import under some WEIRD law. even though it's brewed in boston, it's still listed that way. i live in texas. we have both shiner and ziegenbock, brewed here. still have to pay import prices based on some stupidsh@@ law

I travel to Texas quite often on bidness. I can easily imagine that anything that shows up there from Boston is definitely "imported"...and by that I mean "foreign"...

Cheers!

 

[Essau1969]

Since I'm both city & country,I understand that country & western are a bit different from personal experience. I've gotten some amuzing responses to remarks about Willie Nelson,etc down home in WV.

Country & Western reminds me of the Blues Brothers we have two kinds of music round here "Country and Western"

 

[temple240]

At the movie tavern last weekend I overheard the waitress telling a patron that Guinness its made with a lot of molasses. I think it scared him away from filling his 36oz mug with molasses beer.

A couple months back, the guy working in the beer section of whole foods was telling my girlfriend that Saisons are called farmhouse ales because they have to be spontaneously fermented in an open container in a barn. She looked at him like he was out of his mind.

 

[jhoneycutt]

At my grandmothers Christmas party I offered a couple cousins a heffe I had brewed. Ones response was I only drink bud light anything else is like cheating...

 

[pjj2ba]

At the movie tavern last weekend I overheard the waitress telling a patron that Guinness its made with a lot of molasses. I think it scared him away from filling his 36oz mug with molasses beer.

A couple months back, the guy working in the beer section of whole foods was telling my girlfriend that Saisons are called farmhouse ales because they have to be spontaneously fermented in an open container in a barn. She looked at him like he was out of his mind.

Obviously this is not the way they are brewed now, but there there is a grain of truth to what the guy said. At one point they were! Belgian farmers brewed them for their workers as a safe source of something to drink, and were 2-4% ABV, and drunken quite young.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I had definitely heard that molasses was used in guinness before I was learned. It seemed reasonable, due to the color and the mouthfeel, so I believed it.

 

[temple240]

Obviously this is not the way they are brewed now, but there there is a grain of truth to what the guy said. At one point they were! Belgian farmers brewed them for their workers as a safe source of something to drink, and were 2-4% ABV, and drunken quite young.

Historically he wasn't that far off but he was referring to the sixpack in her hand.

I had definitely heard that molasses was used in guinness before I was learned. It seemed reasonable, due to the color and the mouthfeel, so I believed it.

I can totally understand someone thinking that guinness has molasses in it I just had to chuckle because guinness is subjected to so many misconceptions. Half the staff at movie tavern aren't even old enough to drink what they're serving.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Yeah I agree. Guinness gets everything from "its so heavy!" to "its made with burnt wheat!" to "its made with molasses" to "They boil the beer for hours until it is a syrup, and then add water."

 

[Keith66]

Obviously this is not the way they are brewed now, but there there is a grain of truth to what the guy said. At one point they were! Belgian farmers brewed them for their workers as a safe source of something to drink, and were 2-4% ABV, and drunken quite young.

Well, sort of... The guy in the store was correct about Saisons being called farmhouse ale, but at that point he got them confused with Lambics which are naturally fermented using wild, airborne yeast. As far as brewing is concerned, both were brewed in a basement, Saisons because they were brewed in late winter for summer consumption. Today, both are brewed in breweries, and Lambics are still naturally fermented with wild yeast; Saisons aren't and never were. You are correct that Saisons were brewed as a safe beverage to replace questionable water for the workers, and thus were brewed to lower ABV. And the workers, those 15 and older, were allowed up to 5 liters per day. (Lightweights!)

 

[WesleyS]

Yeah I agree. Guinness gets everything from "its so heavy!" to "its made with burnt wheat!" to "its made with molasses" to "They boil the beer for hours until it is a syrup, and then add water."

I hate to be one of those well actually people.
So I won't be. But here's an interesting thing wikipedia says they do for Guinness brewed in other parts of the world. I've heard this before. So it must be true.

The beer is brewed under licence internationally in several countries, including Nigeria, the Bahamas, Canada, and Indonesia. The unfermented but hopped Guinness wort extract is shipped from Dublin and blended with beer brewed locally.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I hate to be one of those well actually people.
So I won't be. But here's an interesting thing wikipedia says they do for Guinness brewed in other parts of the world. I've heard this before. So it must be true.

The beer is brewed under licence internationally in several countries, including Nigeria, the Bahamas, Canada, and Indonesia. The unfermented but hopped Guinness wort extract is shipped from Dublin and blended with beer brewed locally.

Haha! The difference here though is I think people really believe you start with a "finished" (fermented) beer and then boil it until it caramelizes. Kind of a brochet brewski .

Edit: Yes yes I know brochets are not fermented first but rather after caramelization.

 

[Keith66]

IMHO, Guinness is thin as water and has less flavor than BMC, whether in a can, a bottle or on tap. It's the exact opposite of what the general public thinks/says about it. Am I alone here?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

If given a choice between a guinness (which I like an awful lot actually) and a PBR/Miller/Bud/whatever I will always choose a guinness. I dont think I can agree with you personally on that one.

 

[Swarley88]

IMHO, Guinness is thin as water and has less flavor than BMC, whether in a can, a bottle or on tap. It's the exact opposite of what the general public thinks/says about it. Am I alone here?

You're not alone, not a fan myself either. It looks like a full bodied stout but its not. I don't like the thin mouthfeel to it all. First time I saw someone pour it upside down into a pint glass from a can I almost **** my pants though. It was my ex gf and I go "WTF are you doing you're going to make a mess!" She wasn't happy I doubted her haha.