Random Beer Thoughts

[arren]

Okay nerds. Get out of your comfort zone and have some actual fun.

http://www.talkbeer.com/community/threads/the-house-bif.31303/page-4#post-924772

Calls us nerds, and then proceeds to link us to a BIF that takes heavy inspiration from a tabletop board game...

 

[tosh1]

Calls us nerds, and then proceeds to link us to a BIF that takes heavy inspiration from a tabletop board game...

As if I know what I am doing. ****, beer nerds, game nerds, who cares? You are all ******* nerds in my eyes.

 

[arren]

You are all ******* nerds in my eyes.

Why are you watching us ****?

 

[jivex5k1]

So there's a dude trying to auction of a ticket to cycle's BA day on their facebook page.

****** shitlords. Helping people in craft beer since 2012.

 

[sacrelicio]

Yeah; the whole idea of "craft beer ethos" is so idealistically naive and laughable, I would expect better from someone who actually has years of business experience.

Worse yet, it heavily implies that if you don't subscribe to the same "ethos", you're not a true part of craft beer, which is kind of a ******, passive-aggressive way to throw shade at those who actually want to make money off their life's endeavors.

I initially read "ethos" as "anoos."


Same thing? Subscribe to a craft beer anoos?

 

[wuntrikpony]

Heard about a growler shop that was pouring a Lavender and Sea Salt Athena. Didn't sound great at first, but I'm a fanboy for Creature so would be willing to try it.

Turns out the dude who owns the growler shop is just adding a couple shakes of lavender flavored bitters & sea salt, and then pouring a growler of Athena on top of that. What a ******.

What exactly is the problem?

 

[Ataraxia1]

So there's a dude trying to auction of a ticket to cycle's BA day on their facebook page.

****** shitlords. Helping people in craft beer since 2012.

If Josh Blum is BlumBeer, then that's pretty rich coming from him

 

[mateoloco]

If Josh Blum is BlumBeer, then that's pretty rich coming from him

You missed the tag BlumBeer

 

[jupiter6xx]

Discovered today that there's apparently someone else besides B. United that imports Schneider beer & whoever it is distros to Oklahoma. I am going to drink so much Aventinus now.

 

[LukeAleTime]

Via Ratebeer:

33cl bottle bb11/2014, Belgian crossover themed box courtesy of idiosynkrasie. Shy, but still pleasant orchard fruit peel notes in aroma, particularly pear, banana and some quince give way to a full-on brown mushroom disaster in taste: astringency of humid autumn wood earth, decomposing leaves, nut peels, fungoid mushroom dishwater soap. Parallel mouthfeel, stale unpleasantness. This beer seems to be rebelling against the tastiness of IPA and Belgian ale styles at the same time. Doubt this held up too well during its Cross-channel expedition, but to be fair when you call your 5,5% Belgian Urban IPA "Intercontinental Inspired Pale Ale" combining BE and US styles from a Welsh vantage point, the conflation of terroirs and provincial punk is bound to enter at some point? (To be even more fair: while the beer does not seem infected, some yeast residue was stuck to the cap, pouring a dirty copper.) Will retry on tap when exploring Milkwood. P.S. Multiple non-saison Belgian associations with this brewery’s base being in a Maesglas.

wtf is "parallel mouthfeel"? Also, wtf is everything else.

 

[stupac2]

Via Ratebeer:



wtf is "parallel mouthfeel"? Also, wtf is everything else.

That's definitely some Poe's Law **** right there. Can't tell if actual wanna-be cicerone or mocking one.

 

[LukeAleTime]

That's definitely some Poe's Law **** right there. Can't tell if actual wanna-be cicerone or mocking one.

2997 reviews, all pretty similar.

I started compiling all the random ones I found on a tumblr ages ago, but I think it's gone now. There are some amazing ones out there. I remember one that had maybe 500 words with descriptors such as "despondent lemongrass". The conclusion was that "one dimensional". I wish I saved that.

Edit: Link to the one above: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/tiny-rebel-belgian-urban-ipa/241967/172482/

 

[regularjohn]

Via Ratebeer:



wtf is "parallel mouthfeel"? Also, wtf is everything else.

 

[arren]

Via Ratebeer:



wtf is "parallel mouthfeel"? Also, wtf is everything else.

I want to steal that review's lunch money and give it a swirlie

 

[Der Fuchs]

So there's a dude trying to auction of a ticket to cycle's BA day on their facebook page.

****** shitlords. Helping people in craft beer since 2012.

******* shkrelis.

 

[jmgrub]

If I were into face-rape, Dylan might find himself a taker. ******* shkrelis.

Bro, it's Dylon, not Dylan. It's pronounced like "nylon", but with a "d" instead of an "n". Do you even speak Florida?

 

[Podunkparte]

Bro, it's Dylon, not Dylan. It's pronounced like "nylon", but with a "d" instead of an "n". Do you even speak Florida?

 

[Der Fuchs]

Currently waiting for drunk cfh64.

 

[Os]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...aft-beer-is-released-beer-geeks-go-crazy.html

ugh... yeah, a lot of us suck... but do you guys really think most releases are shitshows?

 

[jivex5k1]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...aft-beer-is-released-beer-geeks-go-crazy.html

ugh... yeah, a lot of us suck... but do you guys really think most releases are shitshows?

Depends on how much trade equity the bottles have. If it's high enough to land big stouts people get nervous.

 

[Os]

Depends on how much trade equity the bottles have. If it's high enough to land big stouts people get nervous.

sure... but is that the majority? so much so that a release without an "incident" is the exception?

 

[jivex5k1]

sure... but is that the majority? so much so that a release without an "incident" is the exception?

I wasn't being serious.

I can say that people are lined up already at cycle for the tickets that go on sale at 3PM.
In fact, they were there before the employees showed up for work. So yeah, shitshow or not people are willing to line up 6 hours before tickets go on sale.

 

[lazerviking]

but do you guys really think most releases are shitshows?

Is the pope Catholic? You have to be trolling, right? I guess they aren't **** shows if you like waiting in like for hours with sweaty neckbeards drinking very desirable beers out of travel coffee mugs or solo cups, while simultaneously frantically Untapping and telling you about the last 10 trades they made. I just don't go to beer releases anymore because they are so bad.

 

[Os]

Is the pope Catholic? You have to be trolling, right? I guess they aren't **** shows if you like waiting in like for hours with sweaty neckbeards drinking very desirable beers out of travel coffee mugs or solo cups, while simultaneously frantically Untapping and telling you about the last 10 trades they made. I just don't go to beer releases anymore because they are so bad.

more of incidents of "bad behavior"... the article makes it seem like they are all seriously negative events and not just because of crazy lines...

 

[RedCoffee]

I think it's a generalization but not a huge stretch if your goal is "a look into the crazy world of craft beer." Even if he's dropping a lot of extreme examples in the article, much of what actually happens with regard to acquiring "rare beer" is well beyond normal behavior.

Take a relatively benign retail beer release. Each big box store gets a couple of cases, max. The lengths people go to to not only get that beer, but get a LOT of it, is already way out in left field.

"Well first I took the day off of work. Then I gathered up 3 of my closest friends. Then we got to the store immediately at open and dashed right to the register. Everyone in the group bought the maximum allotment and we tried to goad the cashier into just selling us the remaining bottles. Then we went to a few more stores and repeated it. Then a I took a pic of my YOOGE haul and posted up some FTs. Hoping to get some big stouts."

Tell me grandpa (who fought in WWII) wouldn't give this face, hearing that his grandson spends a Tuesday morning doing all of this:

 

[regularjohn]

I think it's a generalization but not a huge stretch if your goal is "a look into the crazy world of craft beer." Even if he's dropping a lot of extreme examples in the article, much of what actually happens with regard to acquiring "rare beer" is well beyond normal behavior.

Take a relatively benign retail beer release. Each big box store gets a couple of cases, max. The lengths people go to to not only get that beer, but get a LOT of it, is already way out in left field.

"Well first I took the day off of work. Then I gathered up 3 of my closest friends. Then we got to the store immediately at open and dashed right to the register. Everyone in the group bought the maximum allotment and we tried to goad the cashier into just selling us the remaining bottles. Then we went to a few more stores and repeated it. Then a I took a pic of my YOOGE haul and posted up some FTs. Hoping to get some big stouts."

Tell me grandpa (who fought in WWII) wouldn't give this face, hearing that his grandson spends a Tuesday morning doing all of this:

 

[Gonzoillini1]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...aft-beer-is-released-beer-geeks-go-crazy.html

ugh... yeah, a lot of us suck... but do you guys really think most releases are shitshows?

Do I think most releases are shitshows? No, but the high proportion of releases that are shitshows has increased dramatically over the past few years.

Luckily for myself the limited releases I choose to go to these days (New Glarus, Black Friday for Bourbon County, Funk Factory stuff, etc...) are typically done in a manner that alleviates many of the concerns from the article. However, we still see folks try and game the system (be it using rubbing alcohol to get the permanent marker off their hand at New Glarus to buy extra or skirting bottle limits at stores by having friends / family / strangers buy them more).

I'm just glad that I got into this hobby before the insanity, and I'll be around when these folks who don't have a solid basis in the hobby (homebrewing, solid tasting group, enjoying more than the latest release / tick) move on to the next thing.

 

[ASak10]

Side Project version of Leaner just announced, on site consumption only. Let the tears start rolling down those neck beards.

 

[furley]

Via Ratebeer:



wtf is "parallel mouthfeel"? Also, wtf is everything else.

just ******* hate the way beer reviewers write about beer

****


"Shy, but still pleasant orchard fruit peel notes"
"astringency of humid autumn wood earth, decomposing leaves, nut peels, fungoid mushroom dishwater soap."
"the conflation of terroirs and provincial punk is bound to enter at some point?"

seriously, chief??

 

[lazerviking]

Victory and Southern Tier join forces under a company managed by a private equity firm: http://www.philly.com/philly/food/Victory_Brewing_joins_Southern_Tier_under_new_ownership.html

First shoe to drop in 2016.