Funny things you've overheard about beer

[rockbasementbeer]

Fishing while brewing...and eating potatoes

 

[kaconga]

Fishing while brewing...and eating potatoes

Fishing for potatoes while brewing?! Bobbing for taters in hot wort! Now we are getting really off track. Guy wants to grab a beer with me after work sometime now. I will enjoy it more than he even knows. What is the lightest commercial IPA I can buy? Sierra Nevada extra pale?

 

[rockbasementbeer]

Fishing for potatoes while brewing?! Bobbing for taters in hot wort! Now we are getting really off track. Guy wants to grab a beer with me after work sometime now. I will enjoy it more than he even knows. What is the lightest commercial IPA I can buy? Sierra Nevada extra pale?

Smuttynose is pretty light color-wise

 

[Swarley88]

What's that really dark beer Rogue makes? Heady Topper, that's it! That's my favorite Rogue beer.

Mine is Myrcenary!

 

[fuzzy2133]

Smuttynose is pretty light color-wise

Stone Espresso Imperial Stout is supper light in color.

 

[Swarley88]

Stone Espresso Imperial Stout is supper light in color.

I usually read a book through it. Usually the Bible....

 

[jhoneycutt]

Fishing for potatoes while brewing?! Bobbing for taters in hot wort! Now we are getting really off track. Guy wants to grab a beer with me after work sometime now. I will enjoy it more than he even knows. What is the lightest commercial IPA I can buy? Sierra Nevada extra pale?

Ten fidy?

 

[Swarley88]

Fishing for potatoes while brewing?! Bobbing for taters in hot wort! Now we are getting really off track. Guy wants to grab a beer with me after work sometime now. I will enjoy it more than he even knows. What is the lightest commercial IPA I can buy? Sierra Nevada extra pale?

Blaecorn Unidragon? Bud Light Platinum?

 

[Safa]

Gave a buddy a taste of my heady topper, he says "wow, that's really good! Super hoppy, reminds me a lot of Guinness!"

Poor guy isn't a beer drinker, he just wanted to say something nice since I'd worked so hard to get my hands on the heady. I just laughed and taught him a little bit about beer in general.

 

[moscoeb]

I heard today, "I like lagers, I don't like ales. They are too hoppy!" Evan after I tried to explain the difference, he still said it a few more times.

 

[OhReally]

Last night:

Me: "What's this Estrella Damm? Is that a lager?"
Waiter: "No, it's more like a Michelob."
Me: (holding my tongue) "Sure, why not."

So I get the beer, and he comes back after checking with the bar and says, "Yeah it's Portuguese Bud Light."

And you know what? That's exactly what it tasted like.

 

[mpride1911]

Not so much a funny statement. I've been feeding one of my coworkers a steady selection of bottled homebrew that I've been holding on to. The other day I saw a 24 pack of "Big Flats" from Walgreens that he bought for like $8. I mentioned it, he'd never tried it and asked how it was. I said basically that it's beer, and compared it to PBR lite.

I followed up with it this morning and asked how it was. I can't accurately recreate the passion in which he stated how bad it was. He said that after drinking everything that I've been giving him it made it especially bad.

 

[rockbasementbeer]

Not so much a funny statement. I've been feeding one of my coworkers a steady selection of bottled homebrew that I've been holding on to. The other day I saw a 24 pack of "Big Flats" from Walgreens that he bought for like $8. I mentioned it, he'd never tried it and asked how it was. I said basically that it's beer, and compared it to PBR lite.

I followed up with it this morning and asked how it was. I can't accurately recreate the passion in which he stated how bad it was. He said that after drinking everything that I've been giving him it made it especially bad.

I live in Elmira, NY (right next to the town of Big Flats NY) and see this stuff all the time for $3 a six-pack. No desire to try it, at all.
*Edit* just researched this and realized it has nothing to do with the neighboring town. I feel stupid now

 

[malweth]

Last night:

Me: "What's this Estrella Damm? Is that a lager?"
Waiter: "No, it's more like a Michelob."
Me: (holding my tongue) "Sure, why not."

So I get the beer, and he comes back after checking with the bar and says, "Yeah it's Portuguese Bud Light."

And you know what? That's exactly what it tasted like.

I've never had a chourico flavored beer! How was it?

 

[pjj2ba]

Another facepalm beer vs ale. This was at lunch today. I think they just went by if it had "ale" in the name, it was an ale, if not, it is a beer

 

[wailingguitar]

Another facepalm beer vs ale. This was at lunch today. I think they just went by if it had "ale" in the name, it was an ale, if not, it is a beer

I also love how the ciders are listed under beer

 

[drchris83]

I also love how the ciders are listed under beer

+1

Also, Hefeweizen uses top-cropping yeast, so I guess it should be in the ale category.

 

[bobmcstuff]

Had an extended debate with a friend last night who was telling me all Belgian beers are lagers. ALL OF THEM!!

At one point, when I was showing him the BJCP guidelines for dubbels, trippels etc. I just had to say "you realise you're arguing about beer styles with the kind of person who has the style guidelines on their phone". I don't claim to be an expert or anything, but I know my ale from my lagers

Then we looked up one he likes, Kwak. First line, "Kwak is an amber ale...".

 

[Swarley88]

Another facepalm beer vs ale. This was at lunch today. I think they just went by if it had "ale" in the name, it was an ale, if not, it is a beer

Classic saying that ticks me off. I have to keep reminding the girl I work with but she is a snobby biotch and won't correct herself and still spreads misinformation to our learning customers.

 

[Davidsons]

One that I get all the time is when people first find out I'm making beer, they tell me to be careful not to poisen myself or blow up my kitchen... I would really like to know how the dangers of Meth labs has become associated with homebrewing???

 

[Billy-Klubb]

One that I get all the time is when people first find out I'm making beer, they tell me to be careful not to poisen myself or blow up my kitchen... I would really like to know how the dangers of Meth labs has become associated with homebrewing???

I had a landlord many years ago that was about to call the cops on me once he saw my IC in the sink. I had to give him a quick run down on brewing & show him all my bottles. people see copper & they instantly think meth or still. I blame the mainstream media. they ruin things.

 

[n240sxguy]

I've had 2 or 3 people ask if I was making moonshine. I hate stupidity.

 

[Swarley88]

I reply with, yep I am making meth and if you tell the cops I'll have to kill ya!

 

[day_trippr]

[...]I blame the mainstream media. they ruin things.

Nah. It's that people in general are incredibly stupid...

Cheers!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Nah. It's that people in general are incredibly stupid...

Cheers!

yeah, they believe all the hype from the mainstream media. especially in groups. the larger the group, the dumber they are. it's a vicious cycle.

 

[amatbrewer]

I was once in a brewpub in St Charles, just outside of St Louis, where I was trying (note I did not say enjoying) their beer sampler. I asked about the hops they used in a few of their brews and after a bit of gibberish the waiter proudly proclaimed that their blueberry beer (it was even worse than I expected) got its blueberry flavor because the hops were grown alongside blueberries! I just about fell out of my chair. After asking him about it, and him assuring me that is how it is done, I asked if by any chance the brewer was on the premises and if I could talk to him. About 10 min later the waiter returned and sheepishly admitted he was mistaken and the blueberry flavor was from flavoring added to the beer after brewing.

 

[amatbrewer]

My second favorite, and most often heard funny thing said about beer is when talking beer with [insert your own adjective] people, and they say they can’t drink “Lagers” because they are too dark/bitter, so they only drink beers like Bud,Miller,Coors… :cross:

 

[jack_a_roe]

a co worker the other day was trying to convince me a stout is a lager because guinness is a stout and guinness only makes lagers. i kinda just starred at him with a dumbfounded look for a couple min before trying to nicely educate him. which turned into me apparently being an *******.

he did however say that guinness tastes watery after drinking a few homebrews i gave him to sample.

 

[catdaddy66]

a co worker the other day was trying to convince me a stout is a lager because guinness is a stout and guinness only makes lagers. i kinda just starred at him with a dumbfounded look for a couple min before trying to nicely educate him. which turned into me apparently being an *******.

he did however say that guinness tastes watery after drinking a few homebrews i gave him to sample.

It's not regarding beer, but my first wife tried to convince me that Mercedes and Benz were 2 different vehicles... Yeah, me too. SMH

 

[Yellowirenut]

Local "pub" tv commercial.
-I put pub purposely into quotes because its just a dive bar but they call themselves a pub.

"coldest beer in town"

shows bar maid with frosted over sun glasses as she pours beer into a glass that appears to have dry ice in it.

Everyday people I don't mind being ignorant about beer because to them its just another choice between a coke or Pepsi. But for a bar to continue the myth that colder is better is hard for me to take.