Drain Pour Scientific Research Coming Through

37 y/o here.
The only hing I've really drainpoured is a half-bomber of Southern Tier Creme Brulee. I'd managed to choke down the first half of it, but when I went back to the kitchen, I couldn't face the reality of the other half.
I have dumped a few sips of leftover beer now and then, I don't really count that.
I guess I've been pretty lucky that I haven;t found any horribly infected bottles in all the years I've been drinking. There may have been some part their prime, but I usually find something redeeming about them.
The only other things I can remember that I really hated was when I was first getting started (say, mid-late 90s,) I'd pick up Shipyard 6-packs now and then. I'd eventually drink them, but wonder what was off about them.
I have dumped samples at tastings and fests now and then, but I don't think that is in the same realm, or same spirit of the thread.

 

It would literally have to be the most disgusting thing out there for me to drain pour. All though I did have to pour half a bottle of choklat because the damn cork broke off in the bottle, I tried to get it out with a cork screw but it just got chunks of cork all in the beer so I said forget it and tossed the rest of the bottle.

 

ST makes corked and caged Choklat?

 

Literally only ever had beers a couple times that were so bad that I couldn't finish them. Even if the beer is infected I will sometimes finish them. I spend too much money on this stuff to just dump it out. It hurts my soul to ever dump them but some just need to go down the drain.

 

It's happened to me just once, first time I had New Glarus Serendipity. Technically not a complete drain pour; my GF and I emptied probably 5 ounces each. It wasn't a night for that big of a fruit beer/sour; my stomach got the ouchies after most of my glass.

 

25 yrs old. I don't think I ever drain poured one (aside from unimaginably foul homebrews).

I do have a tasting friend who likes to pick out the weirdest beers available, whether they're made with hibiscus, kelp, oysters, or whatever else is strange on the shelf (those are just three that come to mind as having struck her as awful). She has tried to drain pour, but instead I stop her and drink it myself. Maybe I haven't forgotten my poor college days, but I believe that there is only one proper way to dispose of anything alcoholic.

 

This, this, and this. Also, posts like the OP's make people think that the only reason people drain pour is because of some sub-25 snobbery due to taste, rarity, and alcohol content. While I've only drain poured one beer due to taste, Insanity [shudders], I've drain poured others for other reasons. Sometimes I'll crack a brew after a long day and get 75% of the way through and dump the rest in the sink. Sometimes I'll open my third of the night and realize halfway through that I didn't want a full beer. Down the drain it goes. Sometimes I see sub-25 hipsters drinking PBR Tallboys outside their favorite bike/coffee/used vinyl shop, I look at the glass of two month old Abrasive in my hands, and decide that it's better spent throwing it in their faces than inside my belly.

There are many reasons to drain pour.

 

no I corked it.

 

Did it for the first time last week and thought of all you drain pour happy hipsters. An old bottle of long trail pollenator that I got for one dollar was just not very tasty, so I didn't make myself suffer the whole twelve ouncez

 

I thought 11.11.11 was very good with a year on it!

 

Ouchies? Really?

 

I drain poured Anderson Valley's Wild Turkey BA Stout. Call me crazy. I was even temped to buy the rest of the bottles at the store and drain pour them to save the other customers.

 

My thoughts exactly. If I don't like the beer, which is rare, I'll cook with the rest of it or give it to a friend who might like it better, but I will never waste something that I spent my hard earned money on just because it doesn't taste as good as I'd like. It's still potable, and it's still beer.

 

Of the "I'm nine years old and had a bunch of cake frosting and Sun Drop on a hot day and an empty stomach" variety.

 

I have no problem drain pouring samples if I do not like them. Purchases are an entirely different story.

 

I drink beers that don't even exist yet

 

I do it all the time.

 

Let's see, I've read so far you kids are old at 30 and things were way different back in 95. Christs sakes, It sound like for me, I was around when they invented beer!

 

I was wondering when someone would bring this up. I'm younger than the OP myself so I'm not really in a position to call him out but DAMN... when did being 30 make someone old?

 

I poured out 1/2 of a New Belgium Peach Porch Lounger yesterday. What a sugary mess, blech.