Funny things you've overheard about beer

[geer537]

Back at this thread...

I was at a local grocery chain and the guy stocking was giving 'advice' on what beer to purchase.

Stocker- You should buy this beer (points to Old Rasputin). It's a new beer brewed with oats. Oats accomplish the same thing as hops but are less bitter.

I was dumbfounded. I should have corrected them but I was too far away from the conversation. Running across the isle to but in to this atrocity didn't seem like the right thing to do.

 

[Pyg]

Back at this thread...

I was at a local grocery chain and the guy stocking was giving 'advice' on what beer to purchase.

Stocker- You should buy this beer (points to Old Rasputin). It's a new beer brewed with oats. Oats accomplish the same thing as hops but are less bitter.

I was dumbfounded. I should have corrected them but I was too far away from the conversation. Running across the isle to but in to this atrocity didn't seem like the right thing to do.

I would have hurled the contents of my grocery cart at the stocker until empty!!
All the while screaming "wrong", "wrong", "wrong"!!!!!

 

[geer537]

That is an awesome visual!

 

[ColoHox]

Local beer server: "The ales are generally more expensive than the IPAs."

Local beer snob advertising his ignorance: "No, their brewhouse was used in a distillery before they bought it. That is why their beers have such a strong whiskey flavor."

:smack:

 

[McUbermensch]

"Do you brew your own hops?" I'm pretty sure this person meant to ask if I grow my own hops or use my own homegrown hops in my brews.

"What kind of grapes are in this barleywine?"



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[Vamptrump]

I had a bag of hop pellets sitting at my desk and the owner of the company came by and freaked out. She thought hops contained alcohol and that I brought alcohol into the building.

 

[Venari]

"Come on, I'll take you to a bar where you can have real beer, instead of that homemade stuff"
-a friend when she heard I'd be visiting town for a week

 

[drainbamage]

I had a bag of hop pellets sitting at my desk and the owner of the company came by and freaked out. She thought hops contained alcohol and that I brought alcohol into the building.

At least it was just pellets. If you had a bag of whole hops laying out in the open, I could see that going a whole lot worse.

 

[unionrdr]

I never saw hop in pellet form like hops...

 

[Vamptrump]

"Come on, I'll take you to a bar where you can have real beer, instead of that homemade stuff"
-a friend when she heard I'd be visiting town for a week

That would have immediately ended in a throat punch.

 

[unionrdr]

Nah, a billyberrie punch!

 

[Psylocide]

"Come on, I'll take you to a bar where you can have real beer, instead of that homemade stuff"
-a friend when she heard I'd be visiting town for a week

Yes, please do... I'm too broke to afford real beer. Will you buy my drinks and I'll send you money when I get back home?

 

[cannman]

Damn, the mood around here sucks. Why so serious? Someone post something funny.




OK, I'll get us started. I'm guilty of having done this. The wife gave me a crazy look when she found them.

So I guess the funny thing I heard was, "Why is there a 6 pack in the vegetable drawer?" Why not? Indeed, why not?

Because of this meme, our crisper has been called the the Beer-Crisper for some time now

 

[thatjonguy]

Because of this meme, our crisper has been called the the Beer-Crisper for some time now

WAIT!

You guys are telling me beer = salad is wrong?!

Why else would you keep it in a veggie crisper?

 

[wobrien]

I had a beer at tired hands last night that tasted like liquid cucumber. They took that beer=salad thing too literally

 

[SnakeRidge]

Wait, so beer=salad and beer=liquid bread, therefore beer=lunch at Olive Garden?

Somebody check my work, been awhile since Abstract Math

 

[GuldTuborg]

Wait, so beer=salad and beer=liquid bread, therefore beer=lunch at Olive Garden?

Somebody check my work, been awhile since Abstract Math

 

[drainbamage]

Wait, so beer=salad and beer=liquid bread, therefore beer=lunch at Olive Garden?

Somebody check my work, been awhile since Abstract Math

Session beer = Never-ending salad and breadsticks?

 

[n240sxguy]

Hahahaha

 

[n240sxguy]

Session beer = Never-ending salad and breadsticks?

Sounds right to me

 

[SnakeRidge]

Session beer = Never-ending salad and breadsticks?

That's my thesis.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

I had a bag of hop pellets sitting at my desk and the owner of the company came by and freaked out. She thought hops contained alcohol and that I brought alcohol into the building.

I might have posted this before but if I have its been a while...

I worked with a coworker who talked about her dogs occasionally, so when I made spent grain dog treats I set some aside for her. When I brought them in I told her that I made the treats from some grain I used to make beer I brewed over the weekend.
She kind of nervously chuckled and asked "so how much alcohol is in these treats?"

Hops = alcohol
Grain = alcohol
Hops + Grain = alcoholic (apparently)

 

[SupervisingChildren]

I might have posted this before but if I have its been a while...

I worked with a coworker who talked about her dogs occasionally, so when I made spent grain dog treats I set some aside for her. When I brought them in I told her that I made the treats from some grain I used to make beer I brewed over the weekend.
She kind of nervously chuckled and asked "so how much alcohol is in these treats?"

Hops = alcohol
Grain = alcohol
Hops + Grain = alcoholic (apparently)

So I guess she's into wine then.
Yeast + fermentable fruit does not = alcohol

 

[watermelon83]

what is ridiculous and unfunny is someone anthropomorphizing a t-shirt

Who started the big word contest here?

 

[Kirkwooder]

I had a Dr. appointment yesterday and in making small talk my Dr. told me that he was from Utica, NY, and that he would be visiting there this weekend. I happened to mention that one of my favorite beers comes from there. When he asked which beer, I told him Saranac Pale Ale, and he mentioned that he had been to the brewery several times and loved the beer that they pumped directly from the fermenter into the taps in the tap room. "Man, I don't know what they do to it but it's way better than the stuff that you can get in the store." :smack::smack: and he's a Dr.!

 

[unionrdr]

Like I always said, being smart at one thing doesn't make intelligence in another. Science from another area of study doesn't always fit with brewing. Kinda funny, though, when they get to the "punch line".

 

[DoD_Ales]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03332/g7-kruen-obama-bee_3332809b.jpg

"Angela Merkel welcomed Barack Obama to the G7 summit with a traditional Bavarian breakfast on Sunday – complete with a half-litre of beer."

"But before he could get down to business, Mrs Merkel treated him to a full Bavarian breakfast of white sausages, pretzels and foaming lager."

Why is this funny? Imagine, calling a weissbier a lager!

 

[drunkEnough4U]

this is my new favorite thread

 

[masonsjax]

I'm missing something here. I drank a lot of lager when I was in Bavaria. Most of the smaller places didn't even have any ales.

 

[drunkEnough4U]

he's apperantly drinking a "weissbier" instead of a lager and beer snob here isn't happy I guess?