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[Revvy]

Amen brother. All except the Bud Light part--I spent last Saturday chopping wood, and I burned a hole in the bottom of a case of BLs, and boy were they tasty! But I did switch to "real beer" afterward, in that case my spiced Christmas ale.

+1. It's all about liking what we like. It wasn't until I started brewing that I realized what I don't like about Bud, Bud Light, etc, and that is that they're rice adjuncted beers. I also don't like sapporo either. But I do like Corn adjuncted lagers (which the only difference really between them and a cream ale is the type of yeast.) I like Labatt's for instance, and some of the other brands.

I will say that I liked the Batch 12 Budweiser Beers (there's been a couple threads on it.) The three beers didn't use rice adjuncts, or really limited them, and made for three very tasty beers.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

I once had a BMC drinker try my Vienna/Northern Brewer SMaSH and he said it tasted like Blue Moon. At first I was offended, but as he kept talking I realized that Blue Moon is one of his favorite beers and that was probably the best compliment he was capable of giving. I just smiled and said "thank you" because all that really matters is that the beer I made was enjoyed by someone else and that will open the doors for me to share new styles and tastes with him. If I was a jerk or EAC about it, then I wouldn't get the opportunity to broaden his horizons further in the future.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Yep, probably never going to drink with you. But hey man, be your own you, long as you're happy with it!

you'd probably hate me drunk then. bwahahaha! my wife & sons get all my sugar. there's none left for a coating or helping to smile through a back handed compliment out of sheer one sided politeness.

 

[Whattawort]

We recently hosted a Christmas party and I had made a batch of Irish Red for it. Most of the people were BMC or wine drinkers, so I expected to have at least half of the keg after the party was over. To my great surprise (and disappointment) the keg kicked at the end of the night. Comments ranged from "this is what I imagine real beer tastes like" to "this is your best batch yet. make it again." There was a couple that doesn't drink at all there that were curious enough to try a sample. No bad beer face made. That was the first time I ever used Golden Promise too. All that said, I was once told that my alt tasted like a honey brown made with hose water. That person is no longer allowed to partake in my beer.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I've said it a million times and I will say it again... who are these people who say such messed up things about something someone else has made??

If someone offers me something they have made, I assume that they are proud of it and want my opinion, but not a critique. My opinion will be filtered through diplomacy. If whatever it is isnt to my personal liking I am not above lying, and if they want my honest opinion I'll be constructive. But, "tastes like a honey brown with hose water?"!! Hope that guy gets the 'roids.

 

[bchurch]

I just had that happen to me at the Valley Forge beerfest, someone said my Belgian golden strong tasted like a hoegaarden. I just paused and gave him a ummmm.... Sure I guess I could see that a little bit.(it was a la chouffe clone so it did have coriander) Even so it didn't really taste like a hoegaarden.

 

[bchurch]

If someone says that it tastes like hoegarten or dogfishhead 90 minute, then they should bloody well know what they are doing, so you remove the glass of beer from thier hand, and dump it over their head.

OH! So that's how I should have reacted! Now I know for next time. Thanks cheezy!

 

[Golddiggie]

I just had that happen to me at the Valley Forge beerfest, someone said my Belgian golden strong tasted like a hoegaarden. I just paused and gave him a ummmm.... Sure I guess I could see that a little bit.(it was a la chouffe clone so it did have coriander) Even so it didn't really taste like a hoegaarden.

You should have asked how the hoe from his garden tasted... Or is it a ho in the garden? If his SO was there, it could have been even better.

 

[jerrodm]

I've said it a million times and I will say it again... who are these people who say such messed up things about something someone else has made??

If someone offers me something they have made, I assume that they are proud of it and want my opinion, but not a critique. My opinion will be filtered through diplomacy. If whatever it is isnt to my personal liking I am not above lying, and if they want my honest opinion I'll be constructive. But, "tastes like a honey brown with hose water?"!! Hope that guy gets the 'roids.

I absolutely agree with this. As much as I don't get offended if people who try my beer don't get "as much" out of it as I do, I couldn't imagine telling someone that their beer was terrible, if the context was that I was trying it as a friend. I might point out things that they could do differently if, for example, they wanted to avoid esters or oxidized flavors or what have you, but unless I'm judging a contest, I wouldn't say something like that about someone's work. Now, if they asked me for a really impartial opinion I might be a little more blunt, something like, "This tastes like it was underpitched, or the yeast didn't get a chance to finish converting the sugars," something concrete and helpful but not sugar-coating. But it depends on the context of the conversation. I think in most cases when you're sharing a homebrew with someone it's because you're proud of it and you want them to experience it as well. That's not a good time to sh*t in someone's Cheerios.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure there's ever a good time to do that.

 

[Whattawort]

I've said it a million times and I will say it again... who are these people who say such messed up things about something someone else has made??

If someone offers me something they have made, I assume that they are proud of it and want my opinion, but not a critique. My opinion will be filtered through diplomacy. If whatever it is isnt to my personal liking I am not above lying, and if they want my honest opinion I'll be constructive. But, "tastes like a honey brown with hose water?"!! Hope that guy gets the 'roids.

I actually took the beer from him and pointed at the door and said "go buy your own". He came back with a 6'er of (gulp) Purple Haze. I knew there was something off about him but I didn't realize just how much cheese had done slid of his cracker.

 

[bchurch]

You should have asked how the hoe from his garden tasted... Or is it a ho in the garden? If his SO was there, it could have been even better.

Or, Oh so that's how your wife tastes. I didn't realize she liked to garden so much.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

In a thread about a year ago someone was told at a competition by a judge that his beer tasted "like wet baby diaper." Some people who have been judges at competitions disagreed with me, but I still think there were constructive ways of saying the same thing that didnt reek so bad of ******.

With all that said the weirdest thing anyone has said about my mead was "its too much for me flavorwise. There are no off flavors or anything wrong with it perse, but its not my thing." Still dont know what I should have taken away from that! ha!

 

[Golddiggie]

In a thread about a year ago someone was told at a competition by a judge that his beer tasted "like wet baby diaper." Some people who have been judges at competitions disagreed with me, but I still think there were constructive ways of saying the same thing that didnt reek so bad of ******.

That begs to have the question asked of how the person KNOWS what a "wet baby diaper" tastes like.

With all that said the weirdest thing anyone has said about my mead was "its too much for me flavorwise. There are no off flavors or anything wrong with it perse, but its not my thing." Still dont know what I should have taken away from that! ha!

Translation: It's too good for me.

 

[bchurch]

In a thread about a year ago someone was told at a competition by a judge that his beer tasted "like wet baby diaper." Some people who have been judges at competitions disagreed with me, but I still think there were constructive ways of saying the same thing that didnt reek so bad of ******.

With all that said the weirdest thing anyone has said about my mead was "its too much for me flavorwise. There are no off flavors or anything wrong with it perse, but its not my thing." Still dont know what I should have taken away from that! ha!

How does one find out what wet baby diaper tastes like anyway, I think it would be more relevant to you a descriptor that people may have tasted before. Like "wet dog"

 

[Billy-Klubb]

How does one find out what wet baby diaper tastes like anyway, I think it would be more relevant to you a descriptor that people may have tasted before. Like "wet dog"

how often do you lick a wet dog?

 

[bchurch]

how often do you lick a wet dog?

Well there was that one time in college

 

[CreamyGoodness]

We all went through dating rough-patches when we were single...

 

[Golddiggie]

Well there was that one time in college

Dude, you were supposed to put the peanut butter on YOU... :smack:

 

[jerrodm]

Wow...what...?! Yeah I think the facts just speak for themselves on that one.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Seriously though, people need to be nice.

My feelings were hurt when my ex-gf's roommate happily described my homemade pot of sauce as "tasting just like Ragu!" but I would have been appaplectic if she said it tasted like wet baby diaper.

 

[BierMuncher]

If at the end of the night the kegs are drained, it really doesn't matter what they say your beer "tastes like".

 

[LakesideBrewing]

My dad (78) has loved just about any beer, wine, scotch he's ever drank. Every single homebrew I have ever given him (22 years of brewing) he always say's "mmm, taste just like a Sam Adam's!" From wheat beers, Belgian beers, porters, whatever. Actually, the only beer that he didn't like was a Heady Topper. "Frightful", I believe was his assessment.

-Mike

 

[Revvy]

If at the end of the night the kegs are drained, it really doesn't matter what they say your beer "tastes like".

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What the heck? Have we gone totally ghetto these days? Where's the famed rolling garbage pail kegerator? Did it bite the dust?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

My dad (78) has loved just about any beer, wine, scotch he's ever drank. Every single homebrew I have ever given him (22 years of brewing) he always say's "mmm, taste just like a Sam Adam's!" From wheat beers, Belgian beers, porters, whatever. Actually, the only beer that he didn't like was a Heady Topper. "Frightful", I believe was his assessment.

-Mike

Heehee. About 10 years ago I introduced my grandfather to guinness extra stout. "Tastes like spearmint"

I still scratch my noggin over that one.

 

[Monster Mash]

My neighbors come over for beer on the weekends and sometimes their daughters and friends. I had a girl taste my IIPA and said "I like this, it tastes like Guiness" I started telling her about the difference in styles and when I saw her eyes were glassing over from stimulating lesson about beer I just said "all that matters is you like it".....

 

[Krovitz]

If someone says that your beer tastes like something they like, then it is a compliment.

I effing HATE guinness, but when I am told that my darker than your soul stout tastes like Guinness, I know it is a compliment. They don't have the tools.

If someone says that it tastes like hoegarten or dogfishhead 90 minute, then they should bloody well know what they are doing, so you remove the glass of beer from thier hand, and dump it over their head.

Hahaha. Very true. I think he is aware of 90 min but never tried it. He really likes the 60 min. Comparing my beer to any DFH is probably the best compliment I've ever gotten though.

 

[VTDuffman]

If at the end of the night the kegs are drained, it really doesn't matter what they say your beer "tastes like".

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This is the metric I use as well. While I appreciate the sentiment, I usually disregard comments/compliments about my beer as anything other than politeness. The true measure of what someone thinks of your beer is if they go get a second glass. The true measure of how good your beer was overall (for me) is how much is left in the keg at the end of the party (or how fast it's kicked and to what lengths people will go to get the last few pints out when you ran out of CO2 charges at thanksgiving dinner at your in-laws.)

 

[BierMuncher]

What the heck? Have we gone totally ghetto these days? Where's the famed rolling garbage pail kegerator? Did it bite the dust?

Heh heh...


This was a last minute impromptu thing. The "Roller" is used to serve at other places. I just threw that ghetto setup together. Though only 20 feet away was this guy.... Next time I'll roll him out to the front and class the place up a bit.