Funny things you've overheard about beer

[Chadwick]

I suppose with the 6 million barrel definition, these are all micro-breweries again?

EDIT:

We need a new term. I propose the term "Pico-brewery". That will be the new definition of any brewery producing less than 1 million - 6 barrels a year of product. Anything less than that is simply a home brewer.

For reference:
More than 6 million barrels a year but less than a 100 million= Craft brewery
Between 6 million barrels a year and 1 million barrels = Micro brewery
Between 1 million barrels a year and 6 barrels = Pico Brewery
Less than 6 barrels a year = Home brewer

Is this about right? Granted, I'm blowing wind with a beer in hand.....

 

[Hamaki]

I suppose with the 6 million barrel definition, these are all micro-breweries again?

EDIT:

We need a new term. I propose the term "Pico-brewery". That will be the new definition of any brewery producing less than 1 million - 6 barrels a year of product. Anything less than that is simply a home brewer.

For reference:
More than 6 million barrels a year but less than a 100 million= Craft brewery
Between 6 million barrels a year and 1 million barrels = Micro brewery
Between 1 million barrels a year and 6 barrels = Pico Brewery
Less than 6 barrels a year = Home brewer

Is this about right? Granted, I'm blowing wind with a beer in hand.....

So...Yuengling is a craft brewery and SN is a micro? And how about nanobrewery for the 1,000 bbl - 1,000,000 bbl per year slot and picobrewery for those who produce 6 bbl - 1,000 bbl per year?

 

[GrogNerd]

less than 6 barrels a year = femto brewery

 

[biochemedic]

On the topic of Steel Reezy:

http://dontdrinkbeer.com/2012/03/23...ot-211-problems-and-this-beer-is-all-but-one/

Awesome read. Nailed the appearance as being the only good thing!

Hey, before you knock Steel Reserve, remember that it takes some pretty talented brewing to be so consistent...I bet you couldn't homebrew a high gravity lager as well as they could...when you've got nothing to hide behind except your high ABV, those off flavors start getting pretty apparent!

And don't forget that SR has it's place, just like any beer... If it's wicked hot out and I've just mown the lawn, I love me a good PBR, but if I'm just trying to get f*&Ked up on the cheap, nothing beats a good couple Steel Reserves!

 

[schokie]

Less than 6 barrels a year = Home brewer

You only brew 6 barrels a year? Better pick up the pace!

The problem is these are all just marketing terms that can mean whatever you want them to mean.

Regardless, I don't think anyone would mistake Yeungling for a craft brewer.

 

[ericbw]

Hey, before you knock Steel Reserve, remember that it takes some pretty talented brewing to be so consistent...I bet you couldn't homebrew a high gravity lager as well as they could...when you've got nothing to hide behind except your high ABV, those off flavors start getting pretty apparent!



And don't forget that SR has it's place, just like any beer... If it's wicked hot out and I've just mown the lawn, I love me a good PBR, but if I'm just trying to get f*&Ked up on the cheap, nothing beats a good couple Steel Reserves!

Of the cheap brews that are sold as singles at gas stations, SR is the best. I don't know about the fruit one. It's full of flavor, esp compared to a king can of miller light, etc.

 

[1977Brewer]

Of the cheap brews that are sold as singles at gas stations, SR is the best. I don't know about the fruit one. It's full of flavor, esp compared to a king can of miller light, etc.

This. This is a funny thing I've heard about beer.

 

[lolznrofls]

Hey, before you knock Steel Reserve, remember that it takes some pretty talented brewing to be so consistent...I bet you couldn't homebrew a high gravity lager as well as they could...when you've got nothing to hide behind except your high ABV, those off flavors start getting pretty apparent!

And don't forget that SR has it's place, just like any beer... If it's wicked hot out and I've just mown the lawn, I love me a good PBR, but if I'm just trying to get f*&Ked up on the cheap, nothing beats a good couple Steel Reserves!

Steel reserve clone...vomit.. boil for 60 and pitch wild yeast from a nasty infection

 

[Black Island Brewer]

You only brew 6 barrels a year? Better pick up the pace!

The problem is these are all just marketing terms that can mean whatever you want them to mean.

Regardless, I don't think anyone would mistake Yeungling for a craft brewer.

I only ever brew 6.4516129 barrels per year. Especially if the tax man comes by.

 

[SnakeRidge]

Hey, before you knock Steel Reserve, remember that it takes some pretty talented brewing to be so consistent...I bet you couldn't homebrew a high gravity lager as well as they could...when you've got nothing to hide behind except your high ABV, those off flavors start getting pretty apparent!

And don't forget that SR has it's place, just like any beer... If it's wicked hot out and I've just mown the lawn, I love me a good PBR, but if I'm just trying to get f*&Ked up on the cheap, nothing beats a good couple Steel Reserves!

Yet another Steel Reserve apologist.

 

[Hamaki]

Yet another Steel Reserve apologist.

 

[lolznrofls]

Lmao...SR = stagnant elephant piss

 

[cannman]

Father in-law found my mashing paddle, asked if I used it to keep SWMBO in line lolz!

 

[hunter_le five]

Father in-law found my mashing paddle, asked if I used it to keep SWMBO in line lolz!

"The little holes are to cut down on air resistance, when I swing it."

 

[Kirkwooder]

Father in-law found my mashing paddle, asked if I used it to keep SWMBO in line lolz!

Did you explain that it was a marital aid?

 

[drainbamage]

I was at the LHBS today. They sell bulk LME out of a plastic barrel. The guy in line in front of me was checking out and watching the cashier dispense some for another customer.

"Huh, that almost looks like the liquid malt you can buy."

Cashier (trying really hard not to be a jerk): "Yeah, it's the exact same stuff."

 

[orangehero]

In a methanol ingestion, ethanol binds to the optic nerve better, blocking methanol and preventing some of the damage.

This is wrong, although it seems someone tried to explain it to you before. The same enzymes metabolize ethanol and methanol. Ethanol does bind better to those enzymes and prevents methanol from being broken down into formic acid. Although methanol is a CNS depressant in itself, it is the metabolite formic acid that causes things like optic nerve damage, the mechanisms of which I won't go into...but it's not methanol binding to the optic nerve, whatever that may mean.

Basically if you stay drunk on (pure) ethanol you will eventually piss all the methanol out without accumulating the toxic formic acid.

I won't go into the ethylene glycol comments, although you get partial credit.

When the media talks about "anti-freeze" in food and drinks for fear mongering purposes, they are usually referring to propylene glycol, which is essentially safe to consume and is found in many products.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

Lager Ale = Kölsch

We have a winner!

 

[Pyg]

My Father and FIL both tried my homemade Pale Ale (5.5% 44IBU).

They both agreed not bad.

They both indicated it was bitter (they both are commercial lager drinkers)

Then FIL said: "kind of reminds me of Guinness, because of the bitterness. But you cant repair a driveway with it, not like you can with Guinness. You can tar a roof with that stuff".

 

[drainbamage]

My Father and FIL both tried my homemade Pale Ale (5.5% 44IBU).

They both agreed not bad.

They both indicated it was bitter (they both are commercial lager drinkers)

Then FIL said: "kind of reminds me of Guinness, because of the bitterness. But you cant repair a driveway with it, not like you can with Guinness. You can tar a roof with that stuff".

Seems like "Funny things you've heard about Guinness" could be its own thread. BMC drinkers just can't wrap their heads around a pitch-black beer with a light body and the same amount of calories as a Budweiser.

 

[Pyg]

Seems like "Funny things you've heard about Guinness" could be its own thread. BMC drinkers just can't wrap their heads around a pitch-black beer with a light body and the same amount of calories as a Budweiser.

I gave a brief dissertation on the Guinness, commercial ABV and the difference between lagers & Ales!

I think I equated it to soup. They both have broth, but stews have more stuff in it & Lagers are like a broth made from water and bullion cubes.

therefore Lagers are crisp & clean void of any "stuff", Ale can have lots of "stuff" and that stuff are usually hops!

I know I am not accurately correct, but I was explaining this to 2 lager drinkers in their late 60's. Neither is going to start drinking IPAs or my homebrew.
So giving them the basic idea, which they have probably forgotten seemed fine.

 

[thatjonguy]

At a local-ish beer and burger place, an older (50/60ish) gentleman sat at the bar with his buddy and began trying samples from the 40 taps.

He settled on a Delirium Red after tasting it.

Server brings him a glass like picutred below. He says "I wouldn't have ordered it, if I knew I had to drink it out of this."

I almost fell over trying not to bust out laughing.

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[1fast636]

At a some what local nano/micro brewery with over 60 beers on tap and 20 being there's my friend ask the bar tender what does nitro mean, bartenders says it makes the beer taste smoother because they BREW IT with nitrogen.

 

[unionrdr]

:smack:

 

[SnakeRidge]

I brew my beer with nitrogen. Makes sniffing the airlock a lot more fun.

 

[unionrdr]

I like nitrous more. Takes airlock sniffing to a new level! :rockin:

 

[ChiefIlliniwek]

I had my 30th birthday party a couple of weeks ago, and my best friend drove 7 hours to surprise me. He's a borderline alcoholic, drinks only Bud Light. I've seen him put down a 20 pack in one sitting. The party is at local micro that opened in the fall. The server is giving him a list of beers, said the pilsner was the closest thing to BMC, so that's what my buddy orders. It was like 5% ABV, he drinks one, doesn't like it, and orders a BL next. So we end up drinking, playing beer pong, and talking all night until about 4 AM. I drank a bunch of craft beer, he drank BL all night. I wake up fine, and he's hungover and complaining that he's never drinking craft beer again. So I had to give him crap about the ONE craft beer he had, and how his hangover had nothing to do with the 15 BLs he had.

So later that day I was bottling beer, because I had planned to brew the next day, and needed the fermenter. We were talking and I told him that he should take up homebrewing. He said he didn't want a hobby that could kill him. So then I had to explain to him that homebrewing can't kill you, unless you have a gas leak or some other freak accident.

The sad thing is he's a licensed engineer, and one of the smartest people I know.

 

[unionrdr]

Well, it's like the poster above mom's wall phone-" Be sure brain is engaged before putting mouth in gear"! You're buddy didn't study, but only believed that line about moonshine.

 

[BarleyDarling]

So this isn't something I've overheard about beer, but I'm at a restaurant right now that has an American pale ale on nitro tap right now. I asked for a sample and I'm not sure if it was the nitro, or the person pouring, but the sample was 90% head. Have any of you heard of this? I always thought nitro was mostly for stouts and porters at the very lightest. Am I wrong to think that's totally weird?

 

[feinbera]

It's uncommon, but I wouldn't say it's weird. Something along the lines of an English Bitter can be quite tasty on nitro, and it seems like Deschutes is really pushing to have their Red Chair pale (which, really, ain't that far off from a bitter anyway) served from stout taps, at least in my neck of the woods. On the other hand, I had the chance to try a local brewery's roasty, toasty stout side-by-side nitro vs. CO2, and the nitro smoothed out all the rough edges that make it an interesting beer.

Re the head... sounds like you got a crappy pour.