Most backwards compliment you've ever had on your beer?

[mongoose33]

I just brewed a hazy IPA that was an attempt to clone Sierra Nevada's Hazy Little Thing. I came sort of close. Good beer, how close to the original...have to get some to compare.

Anyway, I brought a glass to my wife to taste and see what she thought. Her response?

"I could drink that if I had to."

Endorsement of the year!

 

[jschein]

And she said after you left the room “on a deserted island”

 

[ProblemChild]

(From the Coors light crowd)

That's not as bad as the other stuff I have tried....

-or-

This one doesn't burn

 

[jonny24]

On a malty Irish Red: "that's got a much better hop taste, huh?" Well actually, it's a more malt-forward beer, not much hops.... "Yeah these craft beers always have that taste... this one's good though"

 

[beerlover77]

This is really good... tastes like Bud

 

[oakchips]

I’ve had “tastes ace” followed by a sneaky pour away. Was by a guy who drank exclusively ***** lager

 

[muledogus]

This is more of a compliment without knowing it but a friend asked what kind of fruit I added to one of my NEIPAs, it was all just hop flavor though.

 

[BrewMan13]

This is more of a compliment without knowing it but a friend asked what kind of fruit I added to one of my NEIPAs, it was all just hop flavor though.

Someone in the business that I shared my NEIPA with couldnt believe I didnt add peaches. It's amazing what can be done with just traditional ingredients.

 

[GPP33]

My wife who absolutely hates beer, the smell, the taste, everything about it.

“This is probably the least bad one”.

 

[seatazzz]

Said in an I-don't-believe-you tone...."YOU brewed this??? It tastes too good to be homebrew..."; from someone who thinks we all still brew in our bathtubs, and I (as a woman no less) wouldn't have the first clue how to brew good beer. NOT a friend.

 

[mulletmaster]

After pouring a FG sample into a class to chill and taste my wife looked at is and said "that looks like piss". Apparently my facial expression below made her realize i was not ammused and i got a response "i thought you were going for a golden ale".

She did enjoy the finished product.

 

[bkboiler]

I’ve got two:

My wife upon trying an amber IPA I had brewed and bottled, “This tastes like BEER!”
as opposed to all the other swill I had made

And a friend who tried a DIPA I just tapped on a keg, “I’d pay money for this!”
...maybe only $.02 a pint, but money is money!

 

[bigdawg86]

My wine and scotch snob inlaw, isn't a huge beer guy and what he does like is Sam Adams and similar macrobrews... I figured since he loves wine and scotch he may appreciate my beer. I made a Bourbon County Stout-esque beer and his first reaction was "wow this is hoppy". Huh? Are you sure didn't get punched in the face by 14% ABV oak and bourbon bomb? He didn't want it so it got tossed.

 

[nrjones89]

"It's better than my first beer"

 

[WFox93]

A cream ale I did based on a mexican lager recipe. "This tastes like bud light" Well I guess that's not too far off the mark. "but it has more flavor and is that grapefruit" Nailed it.

 

[bkboiler]

A cream ale I did based on a mexican lager recipe. "This tastes like bud light" Well I guess that's not too far off the mark. "but it has more flavor and is that grapefruit" Nailed it.

haha, that’s happened to me a few times where i nailed a style only to realize that i don’t actually like that style!

 

[jready]

I made a bourbon vanilla imperial porter and my father in law at the time said “tastes like paint thinner but in a good way”.

 

[S-Met]

From a friend during a camping getaway with kegs on tap:
This doesn't taste anything like your farts smell! Are you sure you really made this?

 

[Br3w4u]

From a friend during a camping getaway with kegs on tap:
This doesn't taste anything like your farts smell! Are you sure you really made this?

WTF! Weird on so many levels!

 

[bracconiere]

buying molases at the feed store, them asking if i was making rum, me saying 'no i add it to my stouts'... and them saying if you were making rum i'd want to try it...lol

 

[Br3w4u]

I recently made a German Pilsner that turned out pretty plain, like a BMC type. I gave it to a co-worker and the next day he said “hey that beer was good, it tasted like chocolate” to which I replied . My wife said I should have told him he was wrong. Typically I don’t like to tell people they are wrong about things that they are tasting because you can’t prove that they aren’t tasting it but in this case...yeah...

 

[user 246304]

Grandfather in law, now 99. "Pretty good, if you like that sort of thing." Actually applies to anything - e.g., venison and wild turkey from 25 years ago.

Will say he once proclaimed my gruyere (Abondance) the best cheese he ever had, which means he might has well have proclaimed me a god.