Random Beer Thoughts

[trickytunadicky]

I know I'm late to this party, but I just spent a bit of time looking through many many boxes of beer for the ones I knew I had signed up for for the Math BIF. Finally found them all but along the way found a lot of straight trash. Put a lot in the fridge, but ran out of room there too. This is absurd. I'm not buying any more beer anytime soon (until Saturday if there's no line at Other Half, and then until the next Grimm release, and then until my next trip somewhere... ugh.)

http://www.talkbeer.com/community/threads/introducing-cellartracker-org-beta.30836/

 

[masterovkhaos]

Maybe I'm out of touch with the beer world now, but this is how every bottle share I've ever attended has been. See something you like? Open it up, make sure everyone gets some, enjoy the company.

I've never been somewhere that opening other people's stuff is expected and it would have been nice if whoever opened it made sure I got some.

 

[PepeSylvia1]

In the spirit of fair reporting I must say 99% of the people I've met on this site have been awesome, amazing people & I've met a lot of you. Even the ones described before are all good guys who I would drink with anytime. We all have personality quirks & commenting on them is a sick pleasure of mine. Feel free to add your stories about meeting me & what an ******* I am.

I remember the first time we met, at the ponderosa steak house downtown. We sat down ordered salads and had a nice chat about birds, and clocks. We.even ordered the same dressings, it was so cute. I thought things were going great, so I reached over to caress your hand. You got up and kicked me in the balls. Total *******.

 

[capnmike]

have you guys actually listened to the words in rock and roll? i mean, let's be serious.. we're not talking high level use of the language or anything

https://brianchesley.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/largest-vocabulary-in-rock/

 

[boogercrack]

Maybe I'm out of touch with the beer world now, but this is how every bottle share I've ever attended has been. See something you like? Open it up, make sure everyone gets some, enjoy the company.

Mmmmmmmmnope.

Don't open other people's ****. No exceptions. Only if explicitly instructed to do so or it is laid out ahead of time as universally acceptable. If you want to open something, ask the person who brought it to be polite.

Maybe I'm a little old school but I will never touch ANYTHING that isn't mine unless I've been told it is OK to do so.

This doesn't affect your of anyone's experience of the event, it's just respectful of other people's property.

 

[boogercrack]

FTowne I want to bottle share some whiskey, a cigar and moonlight with you :*

 

[stupac2]

Mmmmmmmmnope.

Don't open other people's ****. No exceptions. Only if explicitly instructed to do so or it is laid out ahead of time as universally acceptable. If you want to open something, ask the person who brought it to be polite.

Maybe I'm a little old school but I will never touch ANYTHING that isn't mine unless I've been told it is OK to do so.

This doesn't affect your of anyone's experience of the event, it's just respectful of other people's property.

I agree. I can't really articulate a reason why, but even when there's like 3 of my friends at my place and everything's on the table I still ask if they want to open it.

I suppose this is the flip side of continuing to hold a grudge against a coworker who took my lunch out of the microwave (while there was a second one completely empty) like 4 years ago. DON'T TOUCH MY **** GODDAMNIT.

 

[sb67]

Mmmmmmmmnope.

Don't open other people's ****. No exceptions. Only if explicitly instructed to do so or it is laid out ahead of time as universally acceptable. If you want to open something, ask the person who brought it to be polite.

Maybe I'm a little old school but I will never touch ANYTHING that isn't mine unless I've been told it is OK to do so.

This doesn't affect your of anyone's experience of the event, it's just respectful of other people's property.

Scary how uncommon common courtesy has become.

 

[steimie]

I agree. I can't really articulate a reason why, but even when there's like 3 of my friends at my place and everything's on the table I still ask if they want to open it.

I suppose this is the flip side of continuing to hold a grudge against a coworker who took my lunch out of the microwave (while there was a second one completely empty) like 4 years ago. DON'T TOUCH MY **** GODDAMNIT.

Lighten up, Francis.

 

[FTowne1]

FTowne I want to bottle share some whiskey, a cigar and moonlight with you :*

I wouldn't call that a bottle share, I'd just call that Friday night.

 

[furley]

all this bottle sharing stuff just reminds me of how passive aggressive beer people (people in general) are.

i've yet to see a fight erupt at one of these events that didn't involve chicks and mud

 

[RayP]

Maybe I'm out of touch with the beer world now, but this is how every bottle share I've ever attended has been. See something you like? Open it up, make sure everyone gets some, enjoy the company.

That's more or less how all the shares I host are. When people get there they toss the beer in the fridge... And anyone who wants to is welcome to grab whatever to open it up. But we are talking 4-5 people here and not some huge group.

 

[RyanG1]

all this bottle sharing stuff just reminds me of how passive aggressive beer people (people in general) are.

i've yet to see a fight erupt at one of these events that didn't involve chicks and mud

There is a giant disconnect between **** people say online and what happens in real life.

 

[litheum94]

Mmmmmmmmnope.

Don't open other people's ****. No exceptions. Only if explicitly instructed to do so or it is laid out ahead of time as universally acceptable. If you want to open something, ask the person who brought it to be polite.

Maybe I'm a little old school but I will never touch ANYTHING that isn't mine unless I've been told it is OK to do so.

This doesn't affect your of anyone's experience of the event, it's just respectful of other people's property.

Fair enough. Those have been the rules at every bottle share I've ever been to (open whatever you want). People take this **** too seriously.

 

[RedCoffee]

It's all fun, games, peace, love, and sharing. Until someone breaks an unwritten rule.

 

[sacrelicio]

Generally I think it's best to let peple open their own **** but if someone else opens up my bottle, I mean, I brought it to be opened so no big deal. Only exception would be if I'm not around for some reason and miss getting a pour.

 

[likesbeer]

It's all fun, games, peace, love, and sharing. Until someone breaks an unwritten rule.

I'd hate to see Goose Gossage at one of these bottle shares.

 

[FTowne1]

i've yet to see a fight erupt at one of these events that didn't involve chicks and mud

Go on...

 

[seedavid]

I'd hate to see Goose Gossage at one of these bottle shares.

Gueuze Gossage would be a good name for a beer. Or maybe in the spirit of rustling the jimmies of out of touch old people, it should be called Gooze Gossage.

Anybody can use either name, free of charge, just send me a bottle.

 

[JulianB1]

Gueuze Gossage would be a good name for a beer. Or maybe in the spirit of rustling the jimmies of out of touch old people, it should be called Gooze Gossage.

Anybody can use either name, free of charge, just send me a bottle.

That's a pretty awesome name to be honest.

 

[furley]

There is a giant disconnect between **** people say online and what happens in real life.

YOU WANT SOME, TOO!??!

 

[furley]

Generally I think it's best to let peple open their own **** but if someone else opens up my bottle, I mean, I brought it to be opened so no big deal. Only exception would be if I'm not around for some reason and miss getting a pour.

dat avatar

 

[furley]

Go on...

there's a DL day video around somewhere

 

[arren]

Don't much have a problem with people opening my bottles that I bring, but I can understand if others don't want their bottles touched. After all, it probably took a lot of trade baiting, muling, and manipulating to obtain their prized bottles.

I just know that awkward beer nerds can definitely embody the "give an inch, take a mile" mentality, based on real-life experiences and stories I've heard of shares being held at people's houses, where they got drunk and gave consent to open "a couple bottles"...and the guests ended up basically raiding their cellar.

 

[danbanana]

I'd hate to see Goose Gossage at one of these bottle shares.

HOLY **** I'M GOING TO START FLIPPING BOTTLES. LIKE, LITERALLY TOSSING IT WHEN I FINISH.

 

[likesbeer]

Don't much have a problem with people opening my bottles that I bring, but I can understand if others don't want their bottles touched. After all, it probably took a lot of trade baiting, muling, and manipulating to obtain their prized bottles.

I just know that awkward beer nerds can definitely embody the "give an inch, take a mile" mentality, based on real-life experiences and stories I've heard of shares being held at people's houses, where they got drunk and gave consent to open "a couple bottles"...and the guests ended up basically raiding their cellar.

That's why I store all my beers hot. People don't want my DQ at 95 degrees.

Really though, some people still would.

 

[mateoloco]

Brick Store Pub here in Atlanta is promoting national Orval day (tomorrow) by showing people drinking out of a giant Orval glass. Whoever is running their social media decided it would be a good idea to film someone driving a car and riding a bike while drinking Orval out of said glass.

 

[RyanG1]

Brick Store Pub here in Atlanta is promoting national Orval day (tomorrow) by showing people drinking out of a giant Orval glass. Whoever is running their social media decided it would be a good idea to film someone driving a car and riding a bike while drinking Orval out of said glass.

One of the responses.

the_mattiecIt's cool we're in Florida.

 

[jmgrub]

On the topic of poor bottle share etiquette, there is a guy who used to be in our "tasting group". He was/is an obsessive ticker - he sits at shares tasting every beer while simultaneously typing reviews into his phone and conversing with absolutely no one. Besides offering little to nothing as a person, he also went to minimal (if any) effort to bring beers that anyone would enjoy and actually bragged that he was bringing "****** shelf turds" to one of the guy's birthday shares. Not only that, but he would specifically request that other people bring their most prized, rare bottles so that he could tick them.

His only redeeming quality was that he had a strong liver and was therefore a good "mop", thus helping us feel less bad about wasting so much great beer.

 

[litheum94]

On the topic of poor bottle share etiquette, there is a guy who used to be in our "tasting group". He was/is an obsessive ticker - he sits at shares tasting every beer while simultaneously typing reviews into his phone and conversing with absolutely no one. Besides offering little to nothing as a person, he also went to minimal (if any) effort to bring beers that anyone would enjoy and actually bragged that he was bringing "****** shelf turds" to one of the guy's birthday shares. Not only that, but he would specifically request that other people bring their most prized, rare bottles so that he could tick them.

His only redeeming quality was that he had a strong liver and was therefore a good "mop", thus helping us feel less bad about wasting so much great beer.

So why is this guy a part of your tasting group? Why invite him? It seems like all of these "beer etiquette" faux paus could be avoided if you just stopped inviting idiots to your house.