Funny things you've overheard about beer

[nDub]

I had a tap room server tell me they carbonated one of their beers with nitrogen.

I looked at my buddys with a big grin on my face to see if they caught it and they didn't...

The server was stood there like: "What?"

I then had to explain you can only carbonate with CO2... They made sure to make me feel like a nerd the rest of the night.

*I also know beer gas usually is 70%/30% nitrogen*to CO2 so you can carbonate with that.

 

[Lefou]

Word is going to get around that you make your beer with bugs and nobody will want to try it, LOL! Hmmm...maybe I should try that...more for me!

Definitely puts another spin on bug juice.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

Mmmmmmmmm...buuug juuuice...

 

[cshamilton]

I had a tap room server tell me they carbonated one of their beers with nitrous.

I looked at my buddys with a big grin on my face to see if they caught it and they didn't...

The server was stood there like: "What?"

I then had to explain you can only carbonate with CO2... They made sure to make me feel like a nerd the rest of the night.

*I also know beer gas usually is 70%/30% nitrous to CO2 so you can carbonate with that.

Beer gas contains Nitrogen (N2) not nitrous (N2O)

 

[dkwolf]

Beer gas contains Nitrogen (N2) not nitrous (N2O)

Would be an interesting experiment....pushing laughing gas into a keg instead of beer gas.....

 

[Genghis]

Quick google search suggests nitrous oxide is water and ethanol soluble...

 

[Jwin]

Quick google search suggests nitrous oxide is water and ethanol soluble...

Hmmmmm..
*Grabs chin like Steve Jobs*

 

[nDub]

Beer gas contains Nitrogen (N2) not nitrous (N2O)

Doh. Fixed. Thanks

 

[nmfree]

Hmmmmm..
*Grabs chin like Steve Jobs*

Are we witnessing the birth of the first Whippet Cream Ale?

 

[Jwin]

Are we witnessing the birth of the first Whippet Cream Ale?

Spin the head and your head will spin!

 

[JrB82]

Overheard in the convenience store line:

Lady to guy behind her: I don't understand how you can drink IPA. It's too...sour.

Guy: Have you tried Manny's pale ale. It's like Guinness but with more flavor

 

[bilder]

You can get drunk from eating too much beer batter fish.

My mother-in-law believes it is true.

 

[Jako]

I know I've seen similar threads on here but I couldn't find any so I figured I'd start a new one.

I just went to Epic Brewing here in Salt Lake City to grab a sandwich in their tapless tap room (Utah thing). There were a couple of homebrewers that were asking questions of the guy behind the counter...stuff like how to increase the alcohol level in homebrew and such. Then one says to the other, "Dude, don't brew a Corona...brew something more exotic...like a Dos Equis or a ***** Modello."

I know everyone sounds like a ****** when they start off a sentence with "not to be a ******..." Screw it...so not to be a ******, but I just about laughed out loud when he referred to Dos Equis and ***** Modello as exotic. I didn't actually laugh out loud, so hopefully I'm only half a ****** at most.

Ok, so anyone else overheard funny comments like this?

i also live in Utah. i don't know why but Mormons are really into learning about how to brew beer. this lady my wife works with asked how it was going. i said my second batch is almost done but its still a bit flat. she looked shocked and said beer is carbonated!?!

 

[Mainer]

My father-in-law is an enthusiastic but inexperienced trier of craft beer. He went to dinner at the house of a colleague who happens to be a homebrewer. He came back raving about this beer the guy gave him to sample. He said it was like nothing he'd ever had, and said it was called "Hyzen Weffer." It took my wife and I like a half hour to realize, "wait... hefeweizen?" And he was like, "yeah! That's it! Amazing!!"

 

[Singletrack]

@Mainer, Your FIL story is good, but I also like your avatar. Several years ago, my dad came to visit me. He was an avid bird watcher with multiple bird feeders, and he was constantly battling the squirrels who came to "steal" food from the feeders. While visiting, he was admiring my collection of birds at my feeder and suet. Then he saw a squirrel at the corn I put out for them. He gasped and said, "You're FEEDING them?!?" ...and just when I had earned a measure of respect.


Squirrels are people too.

 

[andrewmaixner]

i also live in Utah. i don't know why but Mormons are really into learning about how to brew beer. this lady my wife works with asked how it was going. i said my second batch is almost done but its still a bit flat. she looked shocked and said beer is carbonated!?!

I'm interested in knowing more about why they are curious. I know that they don't use alcohol/caffeine/etc, but I also know that they are into general food storage, preparation, and lower-technology food production knowledge. I suppose that low-alcohol beverages could be considered an end-of-the-world way to make water safe to drink, just as it was for most of human history?

 

[Mainer]

@Mainer, Your FIL story is good, but I also like your avatar. Several years ago, my dad came to visit me. He was an avid bird watcher with multiple bird feeders, and he was constantly battling the squirrels who came to "steal" food from the feeders. While visiting, he was admiring my collection of birds at my feeder and suet. Then he saw a squirrel at the corn I put out for them. He gasped and said, "You're FEEDING them?!?" ...and just when I had earned a measure of respect.


Squirrels are people too.

Ha. Thanks. We used to come out to the car in the morning to find half-bagels stuck to our windshield, cream cheese side down. We wondered which of our neighbors had it in for us. Then one day this little guy showed up on our window sill, munching away. Mystery solved! Somebody in the neighborhood must work at a bakery and bring home day-olds.

 

[Jako]

I'm interested in knowing more about why they are curious. I know that they don't use alcohol/caffeine/etc, but I also know that they are into general food storage, preparation, and lower-technology food production knowledge. I suppose that low-alcohol beverages could be considered an end-of-the-world way to make water safe to drink, just as it was for most of human history?

this is a very good thought. i would bet this is a reason why. also i think the idea of brewing beer is "illegal" in Utah or its really bad i don't know its the last thing i had expected.

 

[Hang Glider]

at a beer tasting event - untrained volunteer, volunteering inaccurate information:

"It's slightly sweet because of the hops - hops add sweetness"


I had to correct him, couldn't let it slide.

 

[Mainer]

I brought some homebrew to my brother-in-law's place. He's a home brewer, and most of his friends are beer people. One of his friends who was there was drinking my rauchbier and asked, "So, what did you use for a base?" Assuming prior knowledge, I said, "I used about half beechwood smoked, half light Munich, and a few ounces of crystal just to give it a little depth." She gave me a really strange look and said. "Oh. Cool. So... is it fruit or grain or sugar or honey or something?"

 

[biochemedic]

Found in the menu of a local taproom with nearly 50 beers on tap, and many more in bottles (so they presumably know beer...):

So can someone tell me how a pound and a half of hops per barrel leads to a "smooth malty flavor?!"

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[day_trippr]

Off hand, as I do some recipes that use almost a pound for 5 gallons, that beer sounds majorly under-hopped.
Which leaves "malty", I guess...

Cheers!

 

[brewbama]

That only some folks brew 'True Beer (TM)'

 

[Jwin]

That only some folks brew 'True Beer (TM)'

That some Brewers still use hops.

 

[bleme]

So I split a bomber of Alpine Duet IPA with my mom and poured my wife an Anchor Lager. My wife tastes hers first and “Mmmmmm”.

Then the takes a sip of mine and “Ugh! That is awful! How can you drink that crap?!!?” So I think it must be a pretty good IPA.

I sit down with my glass and I’m enjoying it while my wife is reheating leftovers when I hear “Ugh! I got your mom’s glass instead of mine! I’ll never get that out of my mouth now!”

 

[divrack]

I was in a bar and overheard these peasant idiots talking about dry hopping giving the beer it's smooth hoppy character, and in total rage at their ignorance, I shouted at them that they clearly knew nothing about biotransformative yeast/hop interaction, and still less about the extent of humulone expression of oxidised beta access manifesting as perceived bitterness without the presence of isomerized alpha acids. I mean ffs the ignorance of some people is disgusting.
I threw their drinks on the floor and wanted my limbs about in an aggressive manner until they left, I presume, to think about the fools they had made of themselves.

Oh sweet Jesus there's someone over there that is in imminent danger of confusing stout with Porter. Hand me the stick Mabel!

 

[Conehead]

" I hate American beer because all it is watered down piss ". Being a Canadian, I have been hearing this for years and just heard it again last week!! I say nothing, but really just want to bitch slap them...

 

[biochemedic]

I was in a bar and overheard these peasant idiots talking about dry hopping giving the beer it's smooth hoppy character, and in total rage at their ignorance, I shouted at them that they clearly knew nothing about biotransformative yeast/hop interaction, and still less about the extent of humulone expression of oxidised beta access manifesting as perceived bitterness without the presence of isomerized alpha acids. I mean ffs the ignorance of some people is disgusting.
I threw their drinks on the floor and wanted my limbs about in an aggressive manner until they left, I presume, to think about the fools they had made of themselves.

Oh sweet Jesus there's someone over there that is in imminent danger of confusing stout with Porter. Hand me the stick Mabel!

[In loud, heroic sounding, talk over voice...] SUUU-PPPER BEER GEEK, TO THE RES-CUE!!!

 

[Jayjay1976]

"I don't like dark beer"
"I don't like strong flavored beer"
"What's wrong with bud lite? Why fix what ain't broke?"
"Schlitz is craft beer!"

My conclusion is that consuming B-M-C macro swill causes brain damage. Drinking craft beer may be an effective treatment, but homebrewing is the only known cure.

 

[GPP33]

My conclusion is that consuming B-M-C macro swill causes brain damage. Drinking craft beer may be an effective treatment, but homebrewing is the only known cure.

I'm pretty sure that to anyone looking in from the outside at us spending our life savings all of our free time and obsessing over every detail just to make a drink we can buy at a store on just about every street corner we're the ones with brain damage.