Random Beer Thoughts

[NAD1983]

I'm not sure being in a situation where I'd pay that much for a beer is a perk, I have poor impulse control.

Luckily I do. That is my only purchase over $50 for a to-go bottle from them.

I've walked out of Bottleworks without buying anything 75% or more of the times I've been there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[NAD1983]

Sooooo after a great Christmas morn, I am fairly certain I have the flu or some sort of virus. Yay me, welcome to vacation!

Anyways, lying here in bed got me thinking... What is the most ridiculous ISO:FT I could post on BA and still get a response? After writing my Teebeetoo review and having that stand the test of time I figured I would go for broke.

Apparently I underestimated that gang of chodebros. I posted:
Title - ISO: List FT:List
Body - PM for ratios

Spoiler: 30 SECONDS LATER!!!!

What do you have?

Merry Chrimbo!

 

[tikk]

Sooooo after a great Christmas morn, I am fairly certain I have the flu or some sort of virus. Yay me, welcome to vacation!

Anyways, lying here in bed got me thinking... What is the most ridiculous ISO:FT I could post on BA and still get a response? After writing my Teebeetoo review and having that stand the test of time I figured I would go do broke.

Apparently I underestimated that gang of chodebros. I posted:
Title - ISO: List FT:List
Body - PM for ratios

Spoiler: 30 SECONDS LATER!!!!

What do you have?

Merry Chrimbo!

 

[boogercrack]

The cycle trademark set is a punch in the dick to colorblind folks.



Silver sharpies save lives.

 

[NAD1983]

Sooooo after a great Christmas morn, I am fairly certain I have the flu or some sort of virus. Yay me, welcome to vacation!

Anyways, lying here in bed got me thinking... What is the most ridiculous ISO:FT I could post on BA and still get a response? After writing my Teebeetoo review and having that stand the test of time I figured I would go for broke.

Apparently I underestimated that gang of chodebros. I posted:
Title - ISO: List FT:List
Body - PM for ratios

Spoiler: 30 SECONDS LATER!!!!

What do you have?

Merry Chrimbo!

Update: 5 responses overnight, not including tikk and souredstouts.

 

[Der Fuchs]

Update: 5 responses overnight, not including tikk and souredstouts.

Was it the best ever made though?

 

[beerandraiderfan]

Legal Draft Beer Company seems like some niche schtick.

I mean dudes, I get it, the profession, the need for an outlet.

Trying to make money off a fun hobby is an easy way to ruin a fun hobby though.

 

[JulianB1]

Legal Draft Beer Company seems like some niche schtick.

I mean dudes, I get it, the profession, the need for an outlet.

Trying to make money off a fun hobby is an easy way to ruin a fun hobby though.

We have a brewery in South Carolina doing the same schtick, Legal Remedy.

No bottles/labels yet, but lots of law-themed beer names and merch like this:

 

[beerandraiderfan]

We have a brewery in South Carolina doing the same schtick, Legal Remedy.

No bottles/labels yet, but lots of law-themed beer names and merch like this:

Plan B Career Path Brewing
Fun Hobby, Dumb Business Move Brewing
Preliminary Injunction Brewing
Hey Kids Kiss Your Inheritance Bye Brewing
Hackey, Joke & Dunnit Brewing
****** Adjunct Lawger Brewing

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

Plan B Career Path Brewing
Fun Hobby, Dumb Business Move Brewing
Preliminary Injunction Brewing
Hey Kids Kiss Your Inheritance Bye Brewing
Hackey, Joke & Dunnit Brewing
****** Adjunct Lawger Brewing

They are pretty much what you think they would be.

 

[Kirkse]

There's a new brewery near me called Guesswork Brewing... "Our founder and head brewer is self taught and has guessed his way to making great beer. We specialize in ales with super smooth and less bitter finish. We are more grain forward than hop forward. We are not pretentious or full of ourselves."

Sounds like the next HF to me.

 

[drgarage1]

There's a new brewery near me called Guesswork Brewing... "Our founder and head brewer is self taught and has guessed his way to making great beer. We specialize in ales with super smooth and less bitter finish. We are more grain forward than hop forward. We are not pretentious or full of ourselves."

Sounds like the next HF to me.

There is nothing more literally pretentious than posing in a career you're obviously untrained for.

 

[user 312341]

head brewer has guessed his way to making great beer

 

[Ziggy]

Kbbs is a lot like Crossfit. If you don't tell everyone you are participating in it, it didn't happen.

 

[BadJustin]

There's a new brewery near me called Guesswork Brewing... "Our founder and head brewer is self taught and has guessed his way to making great beer. We specialize in ales with super smooth and less bitter finish. We are more grain forward than hop forward. We are not pretentious or full of ourselves."

Sounds like the next HF to me.

 

[daniel1]

I'm glad we have more Rare at Binny's and Target. Now we can hear equal amounts of people complain that it's not rare, only to be corrected by the super smart people who have to explain why it's called "Rare".

 

[boogercrack]

The ones here that are ex-engineers getting out of oil and gas starting up breweries is equally as tiring as other professionals dropping out but still making their brewery names reminiscent of their previous careers.

 

[boogercrack]

We had some people over for Christmas dinner. I sent out prior to the event the google docs spreadsheet of my "cellar", which I don't really do casually.

"Don't bring any beers, pick whatever you want. Anything."

Felt good. The people there enjoyed it and really feels good to let go of the whole concept of "this is a special bottle durhurr", and instead just "let's drink this while standing the kitchen around talking about literally everything other than beer". People picked beers they've been wanting to try, only heard of, whatever. Drank some good lambics, meads, sours, then this one scotch head wanted to do the cuvee delphine / cuvee delphine on steroids side by side and things started to go downhill after we finished the CDOS as shots lol. I was secretly hoping someone would pick the "whaley" bottles, but no one pulled one out other than to show a few bottles to their wives and explain to them what they were. To little to no interest whatsoever from their partner.

Apparently I goofed and the message wasn't really passed on to the wives that I would only be supplying beer, and I didn't have enough wine available. Noted for next time.

 

[beerindex]

There's a new brewery near me called Guesswork Brewing... "Our founder and head brewer is self taught and has guessed his way to making great beer. We specialize in ales with super smooth and less bitter finish. We are more grain forward than hop forward. We are not pretentious or full of ourselves."

Sounds like the next HF to me.

Few things in the world of beer irk me more than people with zero commercial brewing experience opening up a brewery of their own, becoming brewmasters because their ******* buddies liked the hefeweizen they made in their garage that one time. Have there been a few exceptions for people who jumped straight from home brewer to brewmaster successfully? Sure. But for every one commercial brewing savant, there are a hundred people way out of their depths, selling ****** beer to usually unsuspecting consumers (since few are as blatant about their resume as the Guesswork guys).

 

[Ziggy]

Few things in the world of beer irk me more than people with zero commercial brewing experience opening up a brewery of their own, becoming brewmasters because their ******* buddies liked the hefeweizen they made in their garage that one time. Have there been a few exceptions for people who jumped straight from home brewer to brewmaster successfully? Sure. But for every one commercial brewing savant, there are a hundred people way out of their depths, selling ****** beer to usually unsuspecting consumers (since few are as blatant about their resume as the Guesswork guys).

You gotta start from somewhere. Not everyone is a Shaun Hill, or can learn to be.

I do agree that new breweries/brewers should lay off trying to be edgy (forever preferably, nobody wants to see another brewdog i'm sure).

 

[Snarf1]

Few things in the world of beer irk me more than people with zero commercial brewing experience opening up a brewery of their own, becoming brewmasters because their ******* buddies liked the hefeweizen they made in their garage that one time. Have there been a few exceptions for people who jumped straight from home brewer to brewmaster successfully? Sure. But for every one commercial brewing savant, there are a hundred people way out of their depths, selling ****** beer to usually unsuspecting consumers (since few are as blatant about their resume as the Guesswork guys).

Heh heh heh, you said brewmaster.

Anyone who isn't a university trained German brewer running a large brewery or Garrett Oliver and calls themself a brewmaster is a d-bag.

 

[Stubs]

Heh heh heh, you said brewmaster.

Anyone who isn't a university trained German brewer running a large brewery or Garrett Oliver and calls themself a brewmaster is a d-bag.

You're a brewmaster.

 

[Ziggy]

You're a brewmaster.

your*

 

[Sam Fu]

You're a cicerone.

FTFY

 

[Stubs]

your*

 

[Stubs]

FTFY

 

[beerindex]

You gotta start from somewhere. Not everyone is a Shaun Hill, or can learn to be.

I do agree that new breweries/brewers should lay off trying to be edgy (forever preferably, nobody wants to see another brewdog i'm sure).

Of course. But if you think about the great chefs of the world, none of them opened their first restaurant on a whim because they made a pretty decent risotto at home. They spent years training professionally, working under those who had the skill and experience necessary to run a professional enterprise, and in doing so learned how to transition from an amateur to a professional, using more sophisticated equipment and techniques, and learning how to scale up production. All I'm asking for is the same in brewing. Work for at least a year or two as an assistant brewer somewhere before you decide to open your own brewery.

 

[boogercrack]

Of course. But if you think about the great chefs of the world, none of them opened their first restaurant on a whim because they made a pretty decent risotto at home. They spent years training professionally, working under those who had the skill and experience necessary to run a professional enterprise, and in doing so learned how to transition from an amateur to a professional, using more sophisticated equipment and techniques, and learning how to scale up production. All I'm asking for is the same in brewing. Work for at least a year or two as an assistant brewer somewhere before you decide to open your own brewery.

Bro not everyone wants to be the Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze of beermakin'

 

[JulianB1]

I'm fine with people opening breweries even with no commercial brewing experience (some friends of mine have done this themselves, with reasonable success) but if you have no established experience/reputation:

1. Keep the delusions of grandeur to yourself until you have -something- to back them up that isn't your own hype-talk (or that of your inner circle/family/buddies) about your own products.

2. Stay off of Kickstarter/Indigogo/GoFundMe/etc.

 

[Stubs]

I'm fine with people opening breweries even with no commercial brewing experience (some friends of mine have done this themselves, with reasonable success) but if you have no established experience/reputation:

1. Keep the delusions of grandeur to yourself until you have -something- to back them up that isn't your own hype-talk (or that of your inner circle/family/buddies) about your own products.

2. Stay off of Kickstarter/Indigogo/GoFundMe/etc.

Also, be ready for the criticism. People are now educated on beer and good beer. You can't "get by" just being a little guy anymore. You gotta brew good beer and have a strong financial strategy as well as somewhat of an idea to market yourself.