Random Beer Thoughts

[BusinessSloth]

My family goes with "designer" beer, makes me feel classy.

 

[Hookemhops13]

Pinky out keeping it classy, my kind of lady.

 

[jwazzy]

I wish people would stop saying 'fresh' every time they reference an IPA. No one is looking for aged Heady. There is no need to say FRESH Heady is your favorite. "You gotta try two hearted, FRESH!" Thanks, you've stopped me from cellaring it. DIACF.

 

[tennispl]

DIACF.

Die In A Cock Fight?

 

[jwazzy]

Die In A Cock Fight?

Nailed it.

 

[JulianB1]

I assumed it was Die in a Homie Fire.

 

[MooltiPass]

So an awful SC brewery decided to make a fruity pebbles kolsch. This has to be about the worst idea for a beer I can recall in recent memory.

The best part of that is the Twitter guy's avatar. Expertly managing to copy a pose that, without the beer mug, looks like he's having a good 'ol time with a dick.

 

[Shakedwnst]

So an awful SC brewery decided to make a fruity pebbles kolsch. This has to be about the worst idea for a beer I can recall in recent memory.

Doesn't leinenkugel already do this? Whether they call it that or not....

 

[CornAndBeer]

I dunno. An ordinary person might expect something in the BA top-20 to be available at their local beer shop, but you have to get to, like, #108 before you find something that's commonly found on shelves. Sadly, there's no "top 250 beers that aren't whales" list. When I was starting out, it took me weeks of reading forums and writing down beer labels before I got the hang of things; most people don't have that kind of time for something they have a mild interest in. I honestly can't blame them.

I should let this die but I don't blame them either. And I don't hate the lists because people come in looking for those beers. I hate the lists because they lead people astray because they claim to tell people what they should be drinking and people believe it.


That "kolsch" sounds awful. Can't be worse than a Nerds Pilsner I had though. ******* homebrewers gone "pro"...

 

[ASak10]

the thought that glassware is a toxic topic tells me that "glassware makes beer taste different" is a crock of ****

Yup.

http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2012/06/beer-glasses-best-glass-for-craft-beer-taste-test.html

But like with anything, if it makes you feel better about drinking it then it will enhance your enjoyment of it, so go for it. I enjoy drinking out of different glasses, but I don't believe that I'm somehow ruining a beer by drinking out of a pint glass.

 

[furley]

Yup.

http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2012/06/beer-glasses-best-glass-for-craft-beer-taste-test.html

But like with anything, if it makes you feel better about drinking it then it will enhance your enjoyment of it, so go for it. I enjoy drinking out of different glasses, but I don't believe that I'm somehow ruining a beer by drinking out of a pint glass.

i should clarify. i'm a bit of a glassware whore. not terribly so but can appreciate the aesthetic of a sexy glass.

drank my chocolate milk from an old heavy cream bottle this morning. kept the glass because it's interesting to me.

 

[nathanmiller]

I find beer tastes better in proper glassware.

I don't give a **** what the shape is as long as the logo matches.

[That's a lie, I ******* love tekus.]

 

[JulianB1]

Now this is the kind of brewery tweet I can get behind.

 

[kzeon]

I got married two months ago and decided to get a little something unique for my groomsmen, along other gifts. One of them is also a craft beer fan (and another only drinks Corona), so I went with handmade wall clock made out of 650ml bombers. Found a little local shop that do them for pretty cheap and you can bring them any bottles, as long as the label is printed on it, not glued.

Here's the result!

 

[lazerviking]

So an awful SC brewery decided to make a fruity pebbles kolsch. This has to be about the worst idea for a beer I can recall in recent memory.

Already forgot about the Hill Farmstead beer brewed with sour candies?

 

[viajero]

Already forgot about the Hill Farmstead beer brewed with sour candies?

But, bro, they use water from their own well. Their. Own. Well.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Yup.

http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2012/06/beer-glasses-best-glass-for-craft-beer-taste-test.html

But like with anything, if it makes you feel better about drinking it then it will enhance your enjoyment of it, so go for it. I enjoy drinking out of different glasses, but I don't believe that I'm somehow ruining a beer by drinking out of a pint glass.

For the record, I regularly drink out of shaker pints because I don't care if I put those in the dish washer or break them.

 

[sacrelicio]

For the record, I regularly drink out of shaker pints because I don't care if I put those in the dish washer or break them.

I put #glassware in the dishwasher. ZFG. Only small snifters and my stemless Heady glasses though. Nothing with a long stem or anything remotely rare.

 

[jivex5k1]

I wish people would stop saying 'fresh' every time they reference an IPA. No one is looking for aged Heady. There is no need to say FRESH Heady is your favorite. "You gotta try two hearted, FRESH!" Thanks, you've stopped me from cellaring it. DIACF.

Have you ever tried two hearted....ON WEED?

 

[fear0251]

I put #glassware in the dishwasher. ZFG. Only small snifters and my stemless Heady glasses though. Nothing with a long stem or anything remotely rare.

I like how my dishwasher turns my "Samuel Adams Perfect Pint" glasses into "Unbranded Perfect Pint" glasses over time.

 

[stakem1]

i've been drinking beer for a long time. lots of variety. different settings. different times of year. from the basic **** you drink when you're 16 to some strange one-offs amongst the beer nerdiest of beer nerds.

all this time i never, ever, ever thought "man, this beer tastes so much different from a stange than it did when i had it from a pint glass"

how much difference, really, let's be honest, does glass shape make to flavor?

admittedly i'm not a SUPERTASTER but come on....

I consider myself well versed in glassware usage. Ive been doing the proper glassware thing well in excess of 10 years.

After drinking almost 15 gallons of voodoo cowbell from flower vases of varying size, I can attest with 100% certainty that how much of your face you can fit into your glass is directly proportionate to how much you will enjoy each pour.

 

[tosh1]

I put #glassware in the dishwasher. ZFG. Only small snifters and my stemless Heady glasses though. Nothing with a long stem or anything remotely rare.

I don't own a dishwasher.

 

[jivex5k1]

I don't own a dishwasher.

Me either. I'll find her one day.

 

[furley]

I consider myself well versed in glassware usage. Ive been doing the proper glassware thing well in excess of 10 years.

After drinking almost 15 gallons of voodoo cowbell from flower vases of varying size, I can attest with 100% certainty that how much of your face you can fit into your glass is directly proportionate to how much you will enjoy each pour.

i'd like to point to this post as an example of a guy who gets it

i'll be drinking from this tonight:

expecting full tumescence

 

[bsc]

Just got #myfirstdishwasher and put all glassware in there, zfg.

Already lost a HF stem to setting it down too hard on granite, newb lessons I suppose.

 

[JulianB1]

Some juicy nuggets in here:

http://draftmag.com/most-wanted-bottles/

“If I do something special for you, a private event or a special release because you’re a supporter of ours, and you turn it into a way to make a couple hundred bucks, I’m going to find out who you are and not invite you back,” says Cory King...“It happened to me again this past Friday. I released a beer and before I even got home, some guy had it on Facebook for raffle. That’s the new thing: they sell tickets and raffle the beer off. Meanwhile, the bottle only cost him $30.”

Linsey Hamacher, owner of de Garde Brewing in Tillamook, Oregon, feels similarly about those who upsell de Garde’s exclusively wild fermented beers, which are released in small batches, sometimes as few as 500 bottles. “There are people that I refuse to sell bottles to because their goal is to make money off of our product. It seems when that’s the main initiative, they’ve lost touch with what the brewery’s goals are.”

and here's Tomme Arthur equating his beer with high-end wine and actual legitimate US ******* currency:

“People are buying fake beer. I know that there are some breweries that have had issues with people [refilling special bottles with] regular beers and faking it,” Arthur says. “We haven’t put measures in place, but we’ve planned for it. There are ways to embed stuff in the ink; high-end wineries have that type of technology. We’ve also looked at how the government deals with money counterfeiting.”

 

[jedwards]

Wait, that wasn't the point of the Izzy Genuine Hologram label?

 

[quirk6]

I don't own a dishwasher.

I assume ownership of a dishwasher in January and I'm very excited about it. Don't think I'll be putting my glassware in there, though.

 

[RyanG1]

#newdishwashermoney here too!

 

[jbeezification1]

I wish people would stop saying 'fresh' every time they reference an IPA. No one is looking for aged Heady. There is no need to say FRESH Heady is your favorite. "You gotta try two hearted, FRESH!" Thanks, you've stopped me from cellaring it. DIACF.

If you're not offering up 4 month or older Heady then I'm not even going to listen to your ******** ass trade offer.