The stupidest comment on your beer

[caphector]

I finally have two for this thread. I had a keg of an Anchor Liberty clone with me, and rather than leaving it in my car in 100° heat I took it into the office and gave a few people samples. One told me that it tasted like Heinekin but without the greasy film.

A couple days later, the same friend had a chance to try my Berliner Weisse, which was described as "fruity" (it is, but it's nicely tart as well).

Today, he told me that the Berliner Weisse was "more bitter" than the Anchor Liberty clone. Berliner Weisse: ~6 IBU. Liberty: Decidedly higher.

EDIT: I hasten to add that the Liberty clone has been widely praised at my homebrew club as a very tasty beer as it tastes nothing like Anchor Liberty. No-one else has complained about the flavor or texture.

 

[unionrdr]

At one point,I had a few of my 1st batch left (Cooper's OS lager kit from micro brew kit),& my next,my Summer Pale ale (the one I sent Gary at home brewer tv). My 2nd oldest son tastes the OS lager (came out like SA summer ale,minus flavor hops),& says "Damn! That's sweet! Sickeningly sweet,yuk!" "whataya talkin about,it's over 5.3% with just brewing sugar!"? It was dry enough to taste similar to what he'd been drinking.
Soo,I said "aaallrighty then!","Try this one",my Summer pale ale. It tastes a lot like a Salvator,minus high ABV. He says,that ones a little better. I like it better than that 1st one. But,damn! you make some sweet beer!". This from a guy that drinks that blueberry lager stuff,& Leinenkugel. Guess he just doesn't know what real malt flavor is like...

 

[Tiber_Brew]

1. [I gave a friend of a friend some homebrewed brown ale]
Guy: wow! That was good, but that was no ale!
Me: the hell it wasn't. I fermented it at 68 degrees with ale yeast.

2. [when I was bartending at a microbrewery]
Guy: [staring at the menu board for several minutes] You guys got any ales?
Me: they're all ales.
Guy: are they all the same beer?
(I should add that each beer name ended with "Ale" e.g. Redjacket Amber Ale, Hilde's Brown Ale, etc.)

 

[jeepinjeepin]

I got the bathtub question last night.

 

[LVBen]

I got the bathtub question last night.

Tell them, "the bathtub is much bigger than I need for 5 gallons of beer, so I use the toilet instead."

 

[Homebrewtastic]

A couple days later, the same friend had a chance to try my Berliner Weisse, which was described as "fruity" (it is, but it's nicely tart as well).

Today, he told me that the Berliner Weisse was "more bitter" than the Anchor Liberty clone. Berliner Weisse: ~6 IBU. Liberty: Decidedly higher.

In all honesty though that's not that stupid of a statement. A lot of people just don't have the right words to describe what they're tasting. I'm a chef by trade with a pretty well trained palate and can easily pick out more flavors from a beer than most other people can. The guy tasting your Berliner Weisse knew what he was tasting, just didn't know the right word for it. He confused "acidity" with "bitterness".

I used to work in a wine bar. And all of the people coming in who didn't know jack - sh!t about wine were easy to pick out... "What can I get you?" "I don't know. I just don't want a bitter wine."

 

[Beezy]

In all honesty though that's not that stupid of a statement. A lot of people just don't have the right words to describe what they're tasting. I'm a chef by trade with a pretty well trained palate and can easily pick out more flavors from a beer than most other people can. The guy tasting your Berliner Weisse knew what he was tasting, just didn't know the right word for it. He confused "acidity" with "bitterness".

I used to work in a wine bar. And all of the people coming in who didn't know jack - sh!t about wine were easy to pick out... "What can I get you?" "I don't know. I just don't want a bitter wine."

Yeah there is a time to get snobby and a time to educate. We probably have a bad name because of the folks handing out you are dumb looks at the bar all night. I didn't know **** either not long ago as a matter of fact I find that the more I know, the more I don't know.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

I used to work in a wine bar. And all of the people coming in who didn't know jack - sh!t about wine were easy to pick out... "What can I get you?" "I don't know. I just don't want a bitter wine."

HURK!!

Sorry, just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

 

[caphector]

In all honesty though that's not that stupid of a statement. A lot of people just don't have the right words to describe what they're tasting. I'm a chef by trade with a pretty well trained palate and can easily pick out more flavors from a beer than most other people can. The guy tasting your Berliner Weisse knew what he was tasting, just didn't know the right word for it. He confused "acidity" with "bitterness".

For the record, I agree with you completely and I imagine that is what happened - that, and a delay between trying the two beers and a second delay before telling me one was more bitter. I was highlighting it just for "obvious" difference between the two beers.

 

[Boleslaus]

My step-grandfather(?) tried my IPA this past weekend. His first comment was, "I don't like this...it's too sour". Then after about a 1/4 glass he decided he liked it and drank 3 bottles (at 7.2% abv).

 

[Reno_eNVy]

My step-grandfather(?) tried my IPA this past weekend. His first comment was, "I don't like this...it's too sour". Then after about a 1/4 glass he decided he liked it and drank 3 bottles (at 7.2% abv).

It's understandable. I'm assuming he isn't a typical hoppy-beer drinker so his taste buds aren't acclimitized to hoppy bitterness. However they do become desensitized over time with more consumption. He probably just got over the initial blast of bitter some aren't accustomed to and was able to taste the rest of your obviously delicious brew!

 

[mattd2]

My step-grandfather(?) ... drank 3 bottles (at 7.2% abv).

Did you drink 3 as well and forget who this man drinking your homebrew was
Joking aside , it's good he soldier through and got to where he was able to appriciate you beer.

 

[Pommy]

Did you drink 3 as well and forget who this man drinking your homebrew was
Joking aside , it's good he soldier through and got to where he was able to appriciate you beer.

Yeah I was going to say. That has to be a homebrew highlight in anyone's book. Giving someone what I presume was a hop bomb that they thought they couldn't handle then have them drink three bottles and enjoy it. Then would be the perfect time to hand him a bud light or whatever they usually drink to compare, he would be a hophead convert for life :rockin:

 

[MrManifesto]

today two of my neighbors were outside when i was throwing out 16# of grain for my xmas stout. they asked what i was up to and mentioned that they had never had one of my beers. one of them owns a bar and knows a bit about beer, the other is hardcore BMC. i grabbed a bottle of my hennepin clone and poured them all a glass. the BMC guy took two sips, told me how good it was and poured it out on the ground. bar owner looks at him and says what was going through my mind..."WTF did you do that for?!?!" BMC guy says "well it was good but i couldn't drink all of that." evidently it was waaay too strong for him at 7%. last time he gets my brew, i didn't even say anything, just went back upstairs...

 

[edb23]

i was at a friends house and had brought a keg of my lemon corriander weiss. one girl who claims she knows a lot about beer drinks it and says "it's really good. it's like guiness."

 

[Kokopuff829]

i was at a friends house and had brought a keg of my lemon corriander weiss. one girl who claims she knows a lot about beer drinks it and says "it's really good. it's like guiness."

This pissed me off.

 

[mikeysab]

today two of my neighbors were outside when i was throwing out 16# of grain for my xmas stout. they asked what i was up to and mentioned that they had never had one of my beers. one of them owns a bar and knows a bit about beer, the other is hardcore BMC. i grabbed a bottle of my hennepin clone and poured them all a glass. the BMC guy took two sips, told me how good it was and poured it out on the ground. bar owner looks at him and says what was going through my mind..."WTF did you do that for?!?!" BMC guy says "well it was good but i couldn't drink all of that." evidently it was waaay too strong for him at 7%. last time he gets my brew, i didn't even say anything, just went back upstairs...

You should have taken the glass and shoved it up the guys keester. I usually just give first timers half glass. If they like it they can have as much as they want. But if simeone dumped my beer on the ground, i'd be pissed. Thats just disrespectful.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

today two of my neighbors were outside when i was throwing out 16# of grain for my xmas stout. they asked what i was up to and mentioned that they had never had one of my beers. one of them owns a bar and knows a bit about beer, the other is hardcore BMC. i grabbed a bottle of my hennepin clone and poured them all a glass. the BMC guy took two sips, told me how good it was and poured it out on the ground. bar owner looks at him and says what was going through my mind..."WTF did you do that for?!?!" BMC guy says "well it was good but i couldn't drink all of that." evidently it was waaay too strong for him at 7%. last time he gets my brew, i didn't even say anything, just went back upstairs...

Woooooow. If that guy didn't receive a punch in the face, at the very least I would never make pleasantries with him ever again. BAD NEIGHBOR! BAD BAD!

Props to the bar owner for saying what every one of us polite brewers have to bite our tongues for.

 

[zgardener]

A lot of my friends (some even homebrewers themselves) and 90% of my family always tells me, "It's good, but it's too strong..." when I ask how, strong alcohol, esters, bitter, malty/sweet, 9 times out of ten I get the response "I don't know, it's just strong." Thanks for the feedback I guess? Then they went back to drinking Miller, leaving the keg 1/2 full by the end of the weekend, most of which I downed myself.
I've gotten this with everything from a stout to hefeweizen.

Strange thing is, last time I took a beer to my mother, who is the worst about this, I brought an IPA, she took a sip, and said, "there you go, that one is nice and mild make one more like that one!"

It was 7.4% ABV and 80 IBUs

I had a second cousin say about a pale ale I brewed, which at the time I felt was my best beer yet "Not bad, tastes a lot like Schlitz... I stay away from that **** whenever I can avoid it."

Pretty sure I was tasting blood, I was biting my tongue so hard!

 

[Kokopuff829]

Well Miller tastes like water compared to a good beer. Maybe they just cant appreciate all the flavor impregnating their tastebuds.

 

[jaginger]

i was at a friends house and had brought a keg of my lemon corriander weiss. one girl who claims she knows a lot about beer drinks it and says "it's really good. it's like guiness."

LOL, that one is funny. I've hear quite a few people describe anything that is not BMC as "like guinness." But a lemon corriander weiss might take the cake.

 

[edb23]

Yeah it was insane. I also get "This is too strong" or "This is too thick" a whole hell of a lot. I made a sierra nevada clone which actually turned out quite dry and with no real body and one of my friends drank it and said "this is like syrup"

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Well anything compared to BMC final gravity (1.000 - 1.002, i.e., water) would seem like syrup to the typical fizzy yellow water drinker.

What I'd really like to do is brew a bone-dry session saison and see how many people say it's either too strong, too heavy or too sweet.

 

[jsweet]

Strange thing is, last time I took a beer to my mother, who is the worst about this, I brought an IPA, she took a sip, and said, "there you go, that one is nice and mild make one more like that one!"

It was 7.4% ABV and 80 IBUs

Interesting. Now, my wife is most certainly not ignorant about beer, but this nonetheless reminded me of something with her. She's more of a fan of Belgians and other yeast strain-oriented beers , while I'm definitely the hophead in the house. Not that she doesn't like a good IPA, just as I enjoy a good Belgian, but we each have our preferences.

The weird thing is that out of the beers I have brewed so far, the version of Yooper's DFH 60 clone I did is far and away her favorite -- she can't get enough of the stuff, to the point where we had to promise each other not to drink any more so that we'd have some to share with friends at a party at our house this Sunday.

Now that might just be because it clearly my most successful effort so far. But your story makes me wonder... I wonder if maybe there is something about the really fresh dry-hopped taste achievable in homebrew that makes it appealing even to those who are not usually fans of huge hop flavor? Just a thought...

 

[jsweet]

Also, I gotta say just how lucky I am that neither my wife nor virtually any of my friends are BMC drinkers, and the vast majority of them are super into craft beers and therefore I'm unlikely to get any stupid comments like these. And on top of that, the rare BMC drinkers I know are at least pretty aware of craft/microbrewed beers, and know lots of people who are into them, which generally is going to stop them from making stupid comments too. e.g. my wife's cousin's husband is strictly a Bud Light man, but he knows it and is pretty humble about it. If you offer him a craft beer, he'll turn it down, but not like, "No way, Bud Light is teh roxorz!," instead more like, "nah, I really wouldn't appreciate it. Thanks anyway though."

So the odds of me handing somebody, say, an IPA, and getting an "It tastes like Guiness" are virtually nil. The vast majority of people I know would enjoy it (assuming it was a good beer of course, heh) and the few that wouldn't would either just turn it down, or be like, "Woah, way too bitter for me" or something.

 

[bniesen]

This one isn't about my homebrew but is worth mentioning. I moonlight at a grocery store. last night two guys (friends) meet up at the self checkout area one with Natty Ice and the other with Miller Lite.
Miller Lite friend: You actually drink that sh!t?!
Natty friend: yeah.
Me to the Miller guy: I was going to say the same thing to you. Cheap beer is only good for beer pong.

 

[PJM]

From my BMC drinking friend upon tasting an amber that I had brewed: "tastes like afterbirth..."

 

[JetSmooth]

From my BMC drinking friend upon tasting an amber that I had brewed: "tastes like afterbirth..."

Well, there has been a lot of talk about placenta beers lately.

 

[jaginger]

From my BMC drinking friend upon tasting an amber that I had brewed: "tastes like afterbirth..."

Wow. Since I am in the hospital right now celebrating my 6-hour-old daughter's birth, that comparison is just way too real!

 

[bniesen]

Wow. Since I am in the hospital right now celebrating my 6-hour-old daughter's birth, that comparison is just way too real!

LMMFAO


Congrats!!!!!!!!!!
:rockin::rockin::rockin::rockin::rockin::rockin:

 

[RedGuitar]

In Charles Bamforth's book "Beer Is Proof God Loves Us" he has a chapter dedicated to what makes a good beer. He pointed out that the preferences for beer are all personal, but that there are a few universal truths that seem to come out. Some of his observations:
- a good head makes people think it's a better beer, no matter what; just the sight of a good head on a beer makes it seem better, so people will assume it is better

- the color of the beer also makes a huge difference; when experimenting with this, Bamforth and his cohorts dyed one beer to be darker, and served people the exact same two beers, with one dyed darker. The result? The darker colored beer was universally described as stronger, roastier, more acidic, heavier, etc.

- people tend to prefer low carbonated beer if they are planning on drinking several: the carbonation makes them feel full, and they don't like that. This is especially true of women: the women he interviewed who don't like beer said it wasn't the taste, it was the full feeling (I know this is true of both SWMBO and her mom.)

It seems to me like these factors are very prevalent in the responses we seem to be getting on our homebrews.

 

[masonsjax]

I had a friend over the weekend make a comment about the cops coming to arrest me for "bootlegging". I told them hat it's perfectly legal to homebrew beer (in my state it is). They looked shocked, "REALLY?!? NO WAYYY!!".
YES WAY!!

 

[Egghead]

I had a friend over the weekend make a comment about the cops coming to arrest me for "bootlegging".

Isn't "bootlegging" a term that means smuggling alcohol across the border?

 

[motobrewer]

- a good head makes people think it's a better beer, no matter what; just the sight of a good head on a beer makes it seem better, so people will assume it is better

head retention lacing!!!!!

 

[bonzombiekitty]

- a good head makes people think it's a better beer, no matter what; just the sight of a good head on a beer makes it seem better, so people will assume it is better

Same goes for women. In more ways than one. hey-o!!!!

(sorry, couldn't resist. mind in gutter).

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Same goes for women. In more ways than one. hey-o!!!!

(sorry, couldn't resist. mind in gutter).

It was bound to happen. Just feel grateful you were able to post what everyone was thinking

 

[Homebrewtastic]

head retention lacing!!!!!

This is how we do. That nottingham this is that Nottingham. This is how we do. LACING!!!!!

Sorry I couldn't resist.

 

[mikeysab]

This is how we do. That nottingham this is that Nottingham. This is how we do. LACING!!!!!

Sorry I couldn't resist.

Whoah, i had two sips of this and i'm f###ed up already

Were gonna make a mash tun, so were gonna make a mash tun, a mash tun, what werw gonna do is make a mash tun.

Im tasting hoegarden.......oh, is nasty hahahahahahahah, i hate wheat beers.

You could fill a book with the dumb stuff that turd says

 

[toxick]

According to Texas labeling laws, any malt beverage above 4% ABW must be labeled "ale" or "malt liquor." Any malt beverage between 0.5% and 4% ABW (inclusive) must be labeled "beer."

Oh, no ****...I was wondering why my can of Brooklyn Lager said "In TX, Malt Liquor" on the side...

 

[masonsjax]

Isn't "bootlegging" a term that means smuggling alcohol across the border?

Yes, as far as I know. This is the stupid comment thread, right?