The stupidest comment on your beer

[thadius856]

I just get tired of being considered a beer snob because i want to enjoy a good beer. Is it wrong to ask for a tap list cuz the waitress 9 times out of 10 doenst even know what the bar is serving at a restaurant? Is it wrong to want at least one decent beer at a massive company party? All that was there was BMC and Heineken. Heineken tastes like a dead skunks rotten butthole. SWMBO just calls me a beer snob and says not everyone likes the kind of beer i do. True, but not everyone enjoys BMC either. I guarantee if they put something out there, a large portion of the group will drink it. Hell, ill even take SA boston lager. Rise up against the BMC oppression!

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2009/08/17/beer-geeks-vs-beer-snobs/

 

[jonmohno]

I just get tired of being considered a beer snob because i want to enjoy a good beer. Is it wrong to ask for a tap list cuz the waitress 9 times out of 10 doenst even know what the bar is serving at a restaurant? Is it wrong to want at least one decent beer at a massive company party? All that was there was BMC and Heineken. Heineken tastes like a dead skunks rotten butthole. SWMBO just calls me a beer snob and says not everyone likes the kind of beer i do. True, but not everyone enjoys BMC either. I guarantee if they put something out there, a large portion of the group will drink it. Hell, ill even take SA boston lager. Rise up against the BMC oppression!

Thats because your suppose to drink BMC. And not think twice about it.. You must obey! You must give them your dollar!

 

[Black Island Brewer]

Whether it's my beer or a craft beer, the statement "I don't like dark beers" makes me crazy! The "snob" in me usually jumps in with "dark" is not a flavor, but then the beer educator in me comes to the rescue, and I follow up with "what tastes do you prefer? do you like sweet, bitter, sour, salty, fruity, tangy" etc., and then help them hone in on what they DO like. I love serving a doppelbock or a foreign extra stout to someone who doesn't "like dark beers" and watch their surprise!

 

[maynardtl8]

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2009/08/17/beer-geeks-vs-beer-snobs/

Thats an awesome way to put it. Id love to meet Sam Calagione and pick his brain over some beers one day. Maybe finally get to try DFH 120 min lol

 

[Billy-Klubb]

while hooking the wort chiller up to the sink, "Is that how you put the alcohol in it?"

 

[theck]

Tastes like glue

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[CliffMongoloid]

while hooking the wort chiller up to the sink, "Is that how you put the alcohol in it?"

Someone has been watching moonshiners

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[Billy-Klubb]

Someone has been watching moonshiners

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hahaha!! naw, it was way before that show came out. more than a decade. and I meant to post this in funny things... meh, it works both ways I suppose.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Sometimes the stupidest things are the funniest.

 

[bajaedition]

After puttin it in a fermenter had a buddy once ask

When do we add the alcohol?

 

[msa8967]

After puttin it in a fermenter had a buddy once ask

When do we add the alcohol?

Inform your assistant brewer that it is his responsibility to provide you with two bottles of quality whiskey that will be added to the wort once it has become cold conditioned. It is very key for quality beer to use quality whiskey for the alochol to be absorbed by the yeast and thus reproduced by the yeast cells upon celluar division.



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[EdMerican]

After puttin it in a fermenter had a buddy once ask

When do we add the alcohol?

My 11 year old daughter read this post as I was flipping through this thread and just facepalmed and shook her head. She tends to help me brew and has a fairly good grasp of the whole process.

 

[bajaedition]

I almost swallowed my teeth when I heard that

but then I have had guys ask how soon till we could drink it as if they thought it would be the same day.

oh well

on the other hand, guys who do not drink dark beer just crack me up. I brew some pretty light beers that are dark in color just to mess with them. First light beer I ever drank was in the 70s, Michelob dark lager, used to get it on tap at a local pizza joint. Tasted like Michelob except for a bit more malty.

 

[beaksnbeer]

on the other hand, guys who do not drink dark beer just crack me up. I brew some pretty light beers that are dark in color just to mess with them.

I love seeing their expressions when I give them a sample of Schwartz or a Black IPA.

 

[specialkaye]

The first time I drank a couple, I had no idea at all I was wasted until I tried to get up out of my lawn chair....

Ran into this same situation in a bar in the Philippines. In that instance, Mojo was the culprit. Found out when I tried to stand to go to the head. Papason had to hold me up by the armpits.

 

[specialkaye]

swmbo said my honey porter tasted like dirty pond water. You cut me deep, babe. Next time ill use dirty pond water and give her an excuse to say it.

lol.

 

[bajaedition]

I love seeing their expressions when I give them a sample of Schwartz or a Black IPA.

I make a low hop beer that comes from a Coors light clone, except I add a 1/2 pound of black patent. and put it on tap for the light beer drinkers.
So many will take one drink a get a sour face and tell me they can not stand dark beer. I am telling you right now, the stuff taste like coors light, has a ABV or about 3% and if I used less hops it would be hard to shave that pellet any thinner.
but, then...........

 

[bajaedition]

Another beer I do is a bit of a High Life clone
uses a grain and flaked corn, low hops
comes out very golden and refreshing, but not what you expect from a home brew at all
funny thing is, it goes like mad at parties, and I mean regualr parties and home brew parties.
usually one of the first kegs emptied.

And guys tell me they do not drink American style beers because they have no taste.

You know, I cannot figure it out. I love the German lagers, the English ales, scotch Ale, trappist beers, I just love beer. I cannot figure out how someone would grab a Asahi, quaff it down, say "damn that was good" and then pick up a IPA and tell everyone Americans brew **** beer.

 

[day_trippr]

[...]I am telling you right now, the stuff taste like coors light, has a ABV or about 3% and if I used less hops it would be hard to shave that pellet any thinner.
but, then...........

Pretty sure the folks in Golden just wave the hops over the kettle...

Cheers

 

[beaksnbeer]

Gave a bomber of my 09 Barleywine 18% to a guy at work who drinks a pretty wide range he said he prefers malty vs. hoppy ones so thought he might enjoy. He say next day "Yea six of us did that beer as shots mixed with vodka" Uhm ok no more for you

 

[n240sxguy]

Gave a bomber of my 09 Barleywine 18% to a guy at work who drinks a pretty wide range he said he prefers malty vs. hoppy ones so thought he might enjoy. He say next day "Yea six of us did that beer as shots mixed with vodka" Uhm ok no more for you

That's retarded! Send me some. I will thoroughly enjoy it as it should be.

 

[troy2000]

Gave a bomber of my 09 Barleywine 18% to a guy at work who drinks a pretty wide range he said he prefers malty vs. hoppy ones so thought he might enjoy. He say next day "Yea six of us did that beer as shots mixed with vodka" Uhm ok no more for you

That's enough to make me rethink my opposition to the death penalty....

 

[troy2000]

Ran into this same situation in a bar in the Philippines. In that instance, Mojo was the culprit. Found out when I tried to stand to go to the head. Papason had to hold me up by the armpits.

I have lots of 40+ year old memories from the Philippines - and one pretty good scar on my arm, from a butterfly knife wielded by my favorite girl at the Bar Mary in Olongopo City. I'm pretty sure she was aiming for my face, but I was moving too fast.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Another beer I do is a bit of a High Life clone
uses a grain and flaked corn, low hops
comes out very golden and refreshing, but not what you expect from a home brew at all
funny thing is, it goes like mad at parties, and I mean regualr parties and home brew parties.
usually one of the first kegs emptied.

And guys tell me they do not drink American style beers because they have no taste.

You know, I cannot figure it out. I love the German lagers, the English ales, scotch Ale, trappist beers, I just love beer. I cannot figure out how someone would grab a Asahi, quaff it down, say "damn that was good" and then pick up a IPA and tell everyone Americans brew **** beer.

People just spout off bullschlitz without any kind of knowledge. Just because they have taste buds, doesn't mean they have an educated pallet.

I too, make Miller, although Lite, as a homebrew and yes it's always the first to kick dry. Both BMC'rs and brewers like it because its light crisp and triple hopped for real. See my pull down for the recipe.

Garrett Oliver says it best. "Imagine a life where you have only had wonder bread." That's the American beer drinking populace. They say sourdough, rye and pumpernickel sucks because they have a wonder bread standard to what is good bread. So, anything not light, yellow and fizzy sucks to them. Wonderbeer is their standard!

Ironically, the hardest beer to make is light beer, so any decent home brewer should know better not to slam on somebody making a light beer. It's not forgiving on mistakes, any off taste from a mistake stands out front.

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[Billy-Klubb]

People just spout off bullschlitz without any kind of knowledge. Just because they have taste buds, doesn't mean they have an educated pallet.

I too, make Miller, although Lite, as a homebrew and yes it's always the first to kick dry. Both BMC'rs and brewers like it because its light crisp and triple hopped for real. See my pull down for the recipe.

Garrett Oliver says it best. "Imagine a life where you have only had wonder bread." That's the American beer drinking populace. They say sourdough, rye and pumpernickel sucks because they have a wonder bread standard to what is good bread. So, anything not light, yellow and fizzy sucks to them. Wonderbeer is their standard!

Ironically, the hardest beer to make is light beer, so any decent home brewer should know better not to slam on somebody making a light beer. It's not forgiving on mistakes, any off taste from a mistake stands out front.

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I must be a horrible home brewer then.

 

[n240sxguy]

Everyone should read "A Short Course in Beer". It inspired me to explore the various types of beer. I understand why the light lager style took over America. I respect it as a style. I don't like miller lite, Budweiser, or bud light. They all give me a headache. I like leinenkugel lager, and coors banquet. They don't give me a headache. I don't make a light lager style beer personally because it's so cheap to buy, and so easy to drink, I can't compete. It's cheaper and easier to just buy it, then make my more flavorful beers myself.

 

[bajaedition]

Ironically, the hardest beer to make is light beer, so any decent home brewer should know better not to slam on somebody making a light beer. It's not forgiving on mistakes, any off taste from a mistake stands out front.

I have to agree about making light beers, the entire reason I first tried to make one was because a professional brewer who works for Miller told me that if I thought I was good, try making a beer that you have nothing to hide behind. (I was building a house for him and we would talk a bit in the afternoons.)

After my first attempt, I realized I needed to step up my game.
most Ales are easy, you make a bit of a mistake and it is hidden by the fruity esters or the high hops schedules. But screw up a bit on a American style lager, or a American style light lager, and you know you need to improve your game.

 

[Schlenkerla]

I must be a horrible home brewer then.

That's not what I meant......

........More specifically, stated.... The challenge of making a light beer without flaws or variation in taste, color or aroma over and over again is difficult. Thinking an experienced brewer knows this.

Generally speaking if one doesn't like a light pilsner or its not one's style preference, then it doesn't warrant harsh criticism.

I don't like Berliner Weiss. I don't like the style. But I would not critique the beer since I really don't like the taste.
If I did, I would look like an idiot in front of people who geek out on Weiss. Hence, this whole thread.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, most home brewers despise the macro beer business more so than the beer. Prohibition and then large monopolies killed the micro brewery business the early half of last century. More recently the aggressive actions of distributors trying to push out the small guy. I dislike the distributors more than anything else.




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[day_trippr]

[...]Correct me if I'm wrong here, most home brewers despise the macro beer business more so than the beer.[...]

I suspect "despise" would be way too strong for most HBers opinion on the matter. For me, I simply have no use for the product, and am definitely not a fan of the producers.

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Nobody cares a lick about ^that...

Cheers!

 

[jimmarshall]

I must be a horrible home brewer then.

I truly believe that they brewers at AB-Inbev and Miller-Coors are some of the most talented brewers in the world.