Random Beer Thoughts

[nathanmiller]

I wonder what makes it "cool" or "ok" for craft beer bar/brewery owners/staff to drink beer during or before work. I don't see distillers or cocktail bars posting stuff like that essentially every day. I don't see winemakers or wine bars posting it either. Nobody really ever bats an eye at it though. Just another one of those quirky things about the beer industry that I think people outside of it would be confused by.

Lately there's been this "shotgun friday" thing going around on Texas craft beer twitter/instagram. A bunch of breweries are going crazy about it, posting pictures each week of them shotgunning their cans or the empty shotgunned cans on the ground with a knife nearby, etc.

I just find it weird that large breweries have to end their commercials with things like "always drink responsibly" but tiny breweries can encourage shotgunning their absurdly high-abv cans.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Lately there's been this "shotgun friday" thing going around on Texas craft beer twitter/instagram. A bunch of breweries are going crazy about it, posting pictures each week of them shotgunning their cans or the empty shotgunned cans on the ground with a knife nearby, etc.

I just find it weird that large breweries have to end their commercials with things like "always drink responsibly" but tiny breweries can encourage shotgunning their absurdly high-abv cans.

Probably plays well with the A&M crowd.

 

[furley]

ISO: Latvian olde saison

looks like sewer water, tastes like rotted boysenberries and Pledge. 375ml retails for 19euro and can only be obtained via ties to the Sabonis family.

taking any and all unreasonable offers

 

[jedwards]

When they stopped shipping it. Right around the last time I had an Upland as well, neither of which I miss.

Yup. I think the last Cascade I bought was 3ea of Bourbonic and second-batch Vlad.

 

[lb304854]

I wonder what makes it "cool" or "ok" for craft beer bar/brewery owners/staff to drink beer during or before work. I don't see distillers or cocktail bars posting stuff like that essentially every day. I don't see winemakers or wine bars posting it either. Nobody really ever bats an eye at it though. Just another one of those quirky things about the beer industry that I think people outside of it would be confused by.

I'm not following. How many white collar jobs not only allow for, but encourage "liquid lunch" for advancement? Why would drinking a beer before, at, or after work be taboo in the beer industry?

 

[boogercrack]

I just saw some FullPint article about Cascade expanding their distro, and it made me wonder: when's the last time any of you actually bought Cascade beer?

I honestly would buy more bottles of their stuff if they weren't $40 a pop.

They're in Texas now. I guess someone is buying them.

 

[Snarf1]

If your 'beer bar' has 36 taps and every beer you serve is in a glass with unintended nucleation, might be time to buy a new dishwasher and spend the $1-200 it would cost to put a glass rinser in.

If a brewery has the technology to print something on a can and what they choose to print isn't the date canned, they can **** right off.

 

[ggfunk]

I just saw some FullPint article about Cascade expanding their distro, and it made me wonder: when's the last time any of you actually bought Cascade beer?

I honestly would buy more bottles of their stuff if they weren't $40 a pop.

We don't buy it at 20 a pop either.

 

[JulianB1]

We don't buy it at 20 a pop either.

Yeah but that's because you guys can get superior De Garde products for half the price with minimal effort.

 

[ccbstl]

http://www.wearebrewstuds.com/stori...partners-german-brewer-brand-new-oktoberfest/

I loved the Brauhaus Riegele collab last year and this sounds great too. Let's hope SN never stops doing this.

 

[jivex5k1]

Just picked up a couple Funky Buddha Wide Awake bottles, ******* 18 dollars a bomber... I feel like this is going to end in regret.

 

[drgarage1]

My friend was a wine maker in California for a while and it sounded like as long as they were moving barrels they were sampling them.

Not sure why beer guys need to tell everyone about it

Yeah, knowing winemakers, I can confirm that it's rare that they aren't sampling from barrels or drinking beer. But they don't feel the need to tell everybody about it.

 

[JulianB1]

Just picked up a couple Funky Buddha Wide Awake bottles, ******* 18 dollars a bomber... I feel like this is going to end in regret.

If you find yourself in possession or one or more you don't want...

 

[jeevo]

It's like the saying, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

If a neckbeard drinks a rare beer but does not tell anyone about it, did he really drink it?

 

[PHBoiler]

Just got a chuckle reading a good old Facebook beer trading group arguing over the appropriate level of extras in a trade. I love it when both sides of the argument are wrong. Makes the reading more fun. Even better when it's a notoriously shitlord-y region of the country for beer trading.

 

[tosh1]

Just got a chuckle reading a good old Facebook beer trading group arguing over the appropriate level of extras in a trade. I love it when both sides of the argument are wrong. Makes the reading more fun. Even better when it's a notoriously shitlord-y region of the country for beer trading.

Extras should be better, or at least as good as, whatever the original trade is for. Or am I doing this trading thing wrong?

 

[Beerhugswithwhit]

I have what might be a stupid question...
Why aren't there any green apple sours/wilds? Is that not something that would be appealing to people? I personally would drink the **** out of something that resembled a green apple Jolly Rancher. Or am I just ignorant to the fact that such beers already exist?

I live in a sad world where lambics and sours don'teven exist! The one specialty liquor store--they sell is the sierra nevada gueuze style and i give that a soft 6.5.I have to special order from wicked weed.

 

[jivex5k1]

Just got a chuckle reading a good old Facebook beer trading group arguing over the appropriate level of extras in a trade. I love it when both sides of the argument are wrong. Makes the reading more fun. Even better when it's a notoriously shitlord-y region of the country for beer trading.

Screenshots please.

 

[PHBoiler]

Screenshots please.

I just checked back and it's way too far gone. To zoom out far enough to catch half of it you can't even read it. Here's the TL;DR version:
St. Louis Trading Forum
Guy posts shipping trade of 2 Regal Rye for a Fuzzy
I have no clue what he sent but he got a Fuzzy and two cans of different 4 Hands IPAs.
He leaves the group due to the lack of appropriate $4$ extras as he says.
29 posts of St. Louis folks backing up their homie with differing levels of passion.

Hence my conclusion that both sides are in fact the worst.

 

[JulianB1]

I just checked back and it's way too far gone. To zoom out far enough to catch half of it you can't even read it. Here's the TL;DR version:
St. Louis Trading Forum
Guy posts shipping trade of 2 Regal Rye for a Fuzzy
I have no clue what he sent but he got a Fuzzy and two cans of different 4 Hands IPAs.
He leaves the group due to the lack of appropriate $4$ extras as he says.
29 posts of St. Louis folks backing up their homie with differing levels of passion.

Hence my conclusion that both sides are in fact the worst.

That one made it into a bunch of other groups via people posting screenshots. Here's all that I've seen, I'm sure the rabble afterwards was amusing.

 

[regularjohn]

That one made it into a bunch of other groups via people posting screenshots. Here's all that I've seen, I'm sure the rabble afterwards was amusing.

i mean he's trading for side project...what else did he expect?

 

[lazerviking]

What is $4$ on extras even supposed to mean?

 

[JulianB1]

So his "extras" were BCBS '15 (which he somehow can guarantee is not infected) and a couple of locals, and he got a couple of locals back. Basically he's out a BCBS '15 and that's apparently enough of a slight to start bitching about?

 

[BadJustin]

If you're in the STL group it's even better as they are defending the sender saying he's lucky he got extras at all and normally they don't send them and they "don't trade $4$". Another guy said "people just expect extras, ******* pathetic". They're serious too, from what I can tell.


STL just STL'd itself. Woah.

 

[regularjohn]

Another guy said "people just expect extras, ******* pathetic".

trading is the worst. it's pretty incredible how much this hobby has changed over the past few years.

 

[BadJustin]

trading is the worst. it's pretty incredible how much this hobby has changed over the past few years.

That's what got me. I was like, when you were sipping B1 Ecto Cooler, people were sending extras because they weren't ******* ********, like you. Cuntpuddle.

 

[PHBoiler]

So his "extras" were BCBS '15 (which he somehow can guarantee is not infected) and a couple of locals, and he got a couple of locals back. Basically he's out a BCBS '15 and that's apparently enough of a slight to start bitching about?

If you're in the STL group it's even better as they are defending the sender saying he's lucky he got extras at all and normally they don't send them and they "don't trade $4$". Another guy said "people just expect extras, ******* pathetic". They're serious too, from what I can tell.


STL just STL'd itself. Woah.

Exactly to both of these. It's a lose: lose on this one. The STL group couldn't just let that guy be the worst, they had to "out worst" him.

 

[BadJustin]

Exactly to both of these. It's a lose: lose on this one. The STL group couldn't just let that guy be the worst, they had to "out worst" him.

The elusive "Double Trady".

 

[trickytunadicky]

Exactly to both of these. It's a lose: lose on this one. The STL group couldn't just let that guy be the worst, they had to "out worst" him.

It's the St. Louis group. They have already out worsted Chicago collectively. They are all winners in my book. <3 u Jaminjohnson

 

[JulianB1]

It's the St. Louis group. They have already out worsted Chicago collectively. They are all winners in my book. <3 u Jaminjohnson

Jaminjohnson must be the black sheep of the St. Louis beer scene. He's the guy that just hands you a bottle of Abricot du Fermier out of the back of his car while you're shotgunning Busch cans with him.