Ever broken or spilled a great beer?

This thread makes me feel better about my life.

Even working at a beer store the worst thing I've dropped was a 4 pack of 2011 Leinenkugel Big Eddy imperial stout a year or two back. Not so terrible, but I found the remaining 3 bottles in the breakage area this week and got to bring it home. Kinda excited to see how it aged the last 2 years (albeit in not so ideal conditions)

 

Good regular beers, yes, Boulevard and Stone come to mind. Have never had a rare or expensive spill thankfully.

 

On my birthday a month ago my friend went to grab the Mango Magnifico out of the cooler and the entire beer shattered, cut his hand open and was gone. I salvaged about one ounce from the 750ml bottle then we drained the cooler and made a watered down punch with the rest of it (we called it punch). I was devastated until I happened to find another bottle a week later and all was right with the world. But still of all the bottles to shatter, it couldn't have been one of the five bottles of Pumpking there.

 

I have done the whole bust a ton of shit at DLD. Cliché, I know. The handle of the bottom case of a two box stack broke. Adios 2 Dark Lords, 2 Permanent Funerals, 1 Rabbid Rabbit, and 4 Zombie Dusts. I was mildly bummed to put it lightly.

 

Damn... I don't feel so bad. Was pretty tipsy last weekend and dropped about a third of a pint glass of Pumking on the concrete patio. I was seriously bummed.

 

I was putting a case of GD Chocolate Yeti on a rack and I had a bottle explode. I went to put another bottle on and the instant the bottles touched, it went off like a hand grenade. It made an enormously large sweet, sticky mess, and sent shards of glass everywhere. There was a piece of glass about 2 inches long stuck into the wood of the rack. I guess it was over carbonated or something, I've never had a bottle pop like that.

 

I was in Vegas recently and a BA brought some beers he picked up locally to me. Later that night in line for a cab out behind the casino I tried to open a bottle of Sucaba on a garbage can...bottle cap popped right off! I was so proud until I realized that the cap took the top of the glass bottle with it. Small shards of glass on my hand made me realized had to pitch the bottle...it was a sad loss.

 

Once shotgunned a Natty Light and half the beer ended up on my shirt and the floor. Did kegstands of all types of beers as a freshman in college and yakked those beers up with little remorse.

 

i want to like post for condolences, but i feel like id be liking your loss

 

Funnel it through a cheese cloth into your mouth and you would have been golden :-)

 

I never have but once I was sharing a Bell's The Oracle with a buddy and he went in to take a whiff of the aroma and forgot he was wearing a hat and knocked the glass right over. The glass was only half full and the glass did not break but it was disappointing nonetheless

 

Spilled some rare last weekend. My first and last time (probably) having rare... Its ok though, it wasnt all it was hyped up to be.

 

Fortunately have not broken a rare beer(other than a homebrew). I once tripped on a curb while carrying a case of Dogfish 90 minute and instead of dropping or letting go of the beer I went down knuckles first into the sidewalk to save the beer. Not a one broke but I bloodied the hell out of my hands!

 

Maybe not a great beer, but I spilled half of an Avery Hog Heaven Barleywine. At the time, it seemed like a big deal. I have had a few highly carbonated beers foam up so bad that I lost half the beer....Deus was one of them. Not a great beer but one of the more expensive ones I bought.

 

Wasn't there for it, but apparently a bartender at a Massachusetts bar was carrying a tray of Zwanze last year and ended up dropping the entire tray... so sad, so incredibly sad.

 

I spilled BCBS right into the side of my computer tower last winter. Nothing like trying to clean computer parts covered in a 15% abv imperial stout...

 

there are ways to make sure it doesn't happen again

 

Man, if I had the time, I'd tell y'all the story about the big bottle of Chimay Blue and the broken coffee table. It's probably for the best that we don't re-visit this particular situation.

 

My first Cantillon, 375ml Rose was problematic. I think there was a hairline fracture in the bottle by the cork, so when I tried to uncork it, the neck cracked with shards of glass falling down the side. At first I was going to drain pour it, but then thought why not get a fine strainer and pour the beer through that into my snifter. It actually turned out okay.

 

lost bout 1/3 of w00tstout when my glass fell to the carpet but glass didnt break so the loss wasnt really that sad.

biggest loss was when i was gettin into beer dropped full six pack of bud light lime walking home from the store. 6.99 lost now i think it was a blessing