Funny things you've overheard about beer

[Psylocide]

Most of these fancy flavor descriptors actually come through aroma not taste. Your tongue isn't what registers most of these so you don't have to be intimately familiar with their taste, just their aroma.

Horse blanket is an amalgum of smells unique to used tack equipment. Those familiar will immediately recognize it if present in beer. I like that characteristic funk personally and have spent time with horses, but have not deliberately tasted a blanket, horse or other.

That's the thing though... I think about 99.8% of these hipsters have never been around a horse. Or their blankets.

It's almost like wet dog for me.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I like that characteristic funk personally and have spent time with horses, but have not deliberately tasted a blanket, horse or other.

If you haven't tasted a horse, you haven't had an Arab buck up and headbutt you in the mouth before throwing you off.

 

[Psylocide]

If you haven't tasted a horse, you haven't had an Arab buck up and headbutt you in the mouth before throwing you off.

"Listen, I told you that was an accident. Sorry again my friend."

 

[LAHammer]

So when I read the description, I laffed my a$$ off because I thought he was joking. Now I find out he was serious. I really need to catch up on this hipster, snob, eac language.

Thanks for all the help, guys.

Pretty sure I don't want any horse blanket though...

Although there's nothing wrong with horse blanket in the PC sense. Don't want to offend anyone!!!

:smack::beard:

 

[TheCADJockey]

Pretty sure I don't want any horse blanket though...

I'll take a little horse blanket in a saison any day.

 

[masonsjax]

Well if liking horse blanket makes me an eac, then so be it! I don't think I'd ever be mistaken for a hipster though, nothing hip about me in the slightest.

 

[LAHammer]

So horse blanket is good? Man, I've got so much to learn.

ipe:

 

[soccerdad]

So horse blanket is good?

Pairs well with cat piss

 

[Punity]

If you want to roll your eyes check out Somme on netflix if its still there. Youll understand what wet rocks and lanolin taste like in great detail.

 

[Kirkwooder]

I think you fellas are missing the point, after all this is supposed to be a thread about funny things about beer, and I find it funny that so many people use these terms, all of them unpleasant sounding, to describe flavors in beer.

All you need to do is tell me you taste a hint of horse blanket in a beer and I'll surely steer clear of that beer, weather it was an intended flavor or not.

 

[drainbamage]

I think you fellas are missing the point, after all this is supposed to be a thread about funny things about beer, and I find it funny that so many people use these terms, all of them unpleasant sounding, to describe flavors in beer.

All you need to do is tell me you taste a hint of horse blanket in a beer and I'll surely steer clear of that beer, weather it was an intended flavor or not.

Sometimes beer does smell or taste unpleasant. Being able to articulate that is more helpful than just saying "it sucks", especially since some unpleasant flavors may be off-putting to some people more than others.

I'm no fan of skunky beer. I avoid clear or green-bottled beer unless I know it's fresh. However, I'm told there are people that go for that sort of thing. It's an odd descriptor for sure, but you have to admit it's accurate.

 

[dkwolf]

Sometimes beer does smell or taste unpleasant. Being able to articulate that is more helpful than just saying "it sucks", especially since some unpleasant flavors may be off-putting to some people more than others.

I'm no fan of skunky beer. I avoid clear or green-bottled beer unless I know it's fresh. However, I'm told there are people that go for that sort of thing. It's an odd descriptor for sure, but you have to admit it's accurate.

I know one of those guys. I've seen him keep a case of green-glass bottled Heineken on the seat of his truck for two weeks mid-summer, and drink every one of them. Warm.

 

[Psylocide]

Sometimes beer does smell or taste unpleasant. Being able to articulate that is more helpful than just saying "it sucks", especially since some unpleasant flavors may be off-putting to some people more than others.

I'm no fan of skunky beer. I avoid clear or green-bottled beer unless I know it's fresh. However, I'm told there are people that go for that sort of thing. It's an odd descriptor for sure, but you have to admit it's accurate.

Who in the flocc would do tha... errr. Oh.

 

[drainbamage]

Who in the flocc would do tha... errr. Oh.

How'd the experiment turn out, BTW? Is there a no-go point where it gets unbearable?

 

[Psylocide]

How'd the experiment turn out, BTW? Is there a no-go point where it gets unbearable?

Nope, 2 hrs in the sun = same skunk as 6 hrs = same skunk as ~10 mins.

It's a really quick reaction and seems that it doesn't get stronger with more exposure time once it's there.

Tastes almost exactly like a Corona.

 

[SnakeRidge]

I know one of those guys. I've seen him keep a case of green-glass bottled Heineken on the seat of his truck for two weeks mid-summer, and drink every one of them. Warm.

Ugh, come on! I just ate!

 

[SnakeRidge]

Not exactly on topic, but who gives a flocc?

I bought a can of the Angry Orchard Summer cider, just to try it out. I found it to be particularly terrible and way too sweet, so I decided to make a fruit fly trap out of a few ounces. It works very well for that purpose, but the funny thing is after a ~10 days sitting on the kitchen window sill, open, and with 5 or 6 fruit flies floating around, there is still no pellicle, clouding, turbidity, nothing. Looks like it did when I poured it in the jar. It's kind of like when you find a McDonald's fry under the seat of your car that is rock hard, but looks pretty much like a fresh fry.

 

[day_trippr]

I think you fellas are missing the point

In this thread?

I'm shocked. SHOCKED!

Cheers!

 

[slym2none]

I know one of those guys. I've seen him keep a case of green-glass bottled Heineken on the seat of his truck for two weeks mid-summer, and drink every one of them. Warm.

That man is a monster.

A MONSTER, I TELL YOU!

 

[fuzzy2133]

Not exactly on topic, but who gives a flocc?

I bought a can of the Angry Orchard Summer cider, just to try it out. I found it to be particularly terrible and way too sweet, so I decided to make a fruit fly trap out of a few ounces. It works very well for that purpose, but the funny thing is after a ~10 days sitting on the kitchen window sill, open, and with 5 or 6 fruit flies floating around, there is still no pellicle, clouding, turbidity, nothing. Looks like it did when I poured it in the jar. It's kind of like when you find a McDonald's fry under the seat of your car that is rock hard, but looks pretty much like a fresh fry.

Or the first generation of McDonald's shakes that did not melt they just got warm...

 

[WilliamSlayer]

If you want to roll your eyes check out Somme on netflix if its still there. Youll understand what wet rocks and lanolin like in great detail.

Thank you for saving an hour or so of my life! I had that cued up for this week....

 

[renrutle]

So . . . Anybody ever use a "secondary boil" to infuse flavor from herbs (or anything else) into your beer?

"So instead of dropping the lemon verbena into the initial mash time and losing all the flavor of the delicate herb, he tosses the dried sprigs in the secondary boil."

From http://www.tastingtable.com/drinks/...y-beers-beers-made-with-food-craft-beer-trend

 

[ScrewyBrewer]

Drinking too many beers may cause blindness.

 

[1977Brewer]

I've been known to develop severe beer goggles. Never blindness though.

 

[Barley_Bob]

I was doing something with a new employee at work the other day. We got to talking about beer and how just about everyone there drinks light beer. Nati-light is a particular favorite. Anyway, he tells me he doesn't drink that light ****. He drinks dark beer. BUSCH HEAVY.
...
I just told him that light beer has so few calories because it has less alcohol and left it at that. Nothing more I could say could possibly go over well.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

I was doing something with a new employee at work the other day. We got to talking about beer and how just about everyone there drinks light beer. Nati-light is a particular favorite. Anyway, he tells me he doesn't drink that light ****. He drinks dark beer. BUSCH HEAVY.
...
I just told him that light beer has so few calories because it has less alcohol and left it at that. Nothing more I could say could possibly go over well.

Very diplomatic of you. It being a new employee and all... you can work on his beer education over the next few months!

 

[andrewmaixner]

Very diplomatic of you. It being a new employee and all... you can work on his beer education over the next few months!

Ya, have to be polite. After quizzing him on what beer he had tried before (BMC), I took out a guy who "didn't like beer" for a couple sampler flights of all the major styles at a good craft beer bar. Now he likes beer, except "that flavorless stuff" (BMC)

 

[thatjonguy]

Ya, have to be polite. After quizzing him on what beer he had tried before (BMC), I took out a guy who "didn't like beer" for a couple sampler flights of all the major styles at a good craft beer bar. Now he likes beer, except "that flavorless stuff" (BMC)

I have covered several people to IPAS of all things.

 

[BrewinBromanite]

"Listen, I told you that was an accident. Sorry again my friend."

Thanks, I needed that laugh. Literally LOL'd.

 

[metanoia]

ABInBev's description of Hoegaarden:

[Hoegaarden] has a unique and extremely complex brewing process whereby the brand is first top fermented and then is refermented within the bottle - ending up in a unique cloudy-white appearance.​

Maybe it's just a unique and extremely complex process compared to most AB-InBev products...?