10 favorite "shelf turds"

Founders Centennial IPA
Victory HopDevil
Dogfish Head Indian Brown
Green Flash West Coast IPA
Founders Breakfast Stout
Ommegang Three Philosophers
Westmalle Tripel
Dogfish Head Burton Baton
Lagunitas Little Sumpin
Founders Porter

 

I always considered a shelf turd to be a beer that doesn't sell. Without working in a liquor store I wouldn't know what they are.

You all are listing really good beers that are readily available.

 

I don't really understand. I agree with you list completely, some really awesome beers BUT you're basically describing any beer that doesn't sell ou or is very seasonal.

 

No offense to the OP, but the definition of "shelf turd" as I understand it, is wrong. A shelf turd is a tongue in cheek expression for finding a desirable, usually expensive, sometimes rare beer on the shelf. Usually a surprise, a beer you don't expect to see on the shelves. You almost have to be in a new store to find these surprises to call them "shelf turds". Example, I'm out of state and find a single Biscotti Break Natale shelf turding for anyone to buy. In my area that is a beer I cant get, so the allure is higher.

 

Yes, all the Belgian, German and British super beers in their respective country section of my favorite bottle shop that frequently has dust on the bottles. Usually the Brits have the most dust, but most all of Sam Smith's lineup of beers are so awesome!

 

Gulden Draak and other over looked Belgian Gems.

It just plain tastes better when you get it for $1.50 a 330 ML bottle.

 

Well put. The term is ignorant and inflammatory. This thread is a "message board turd".

 

Tank 7
Celebration Ale
Old Rasputin
BOIS
Anderson Valley Bourbon Barrel Stout
Drakonic
Three Philosophers
Rochfort 10
Ten Fidy
Speedway Stout

 

I'm so envious of people who can buy Jai Alai easily. If that was near me I would buy it constantly.

 

Seems the recurring theme is pricy bombers and old ipas.

People citing Double Jack as a shelf turd, those are the bombers not the 12oz bottles, amirite?

 

1. Founders Breakfast Stout
2. Dragon's Milk
3. Two Hearted
4. Duvel
5. Old Chub
6. Old Stock
7. Old Rasputin
8. Founders Porter
9. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald
10. Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout

 

That's basically the definition.

 

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Even thinking the phrase "shelf turd" aloud in my head makes me feel dumber by degrees.
If this keeps up, I'm quitting beer altogether.

 

Costco has shelf shits - rogue Christmas ale bomber 4 bucks - and not bad at all!

Samuel smith is my fav stuff- they've had the pint bottles on sale for 2.99 i buy em one by one

 

1. Rochfort 6 8 10
2. Saison Dupont
3. Imperial BB
4. Abt 12
5. Victory At Sea
6. 2 Hearted
7. Choklat
8. Yeti's (all of them)
9. Espresso IRS
10. Green Flash (most of them)

 

Heady Topper
Pliny the Elder
Zombie Dust
Hunahpu
Westvleteren 12
Grey Monday
Fou Fone
Dark Lord
BA Mexican Cake
CBS

(These top 10 lists are silly)
It seems people are trying to ask without asking what they need to trade for/buy/wait in line for. Or on the other hand, sort of... brag(?) about how "awesome their local bottle shop is". It's all fun. Don't hate me. I just don't get why people love top 10 lists!?

¡Viva Beer!

 

I assumed "shelf turds" were just beers that sat around a while and didn't sell. And in that case I don't understand people putting IPAs on their lists.

 

The most complicated post ever but I will bite

1.BA Kopi
2 BA Kopi
3 BA Kopi
4 BA Kopi
5 BA Kopi
6 BA Kopi
7 BA Kopi
8 BA Kopi
9 BA Kopi
10 Marron Acidife.

 

Rasputin
Two hearted
White rajah
Head hunter
Maximus
Ruination
Bodhi growlers
Anything SN
Dales
Eddy Fitzgerald

 

I don't really apply the "readily available" part to my shelf turd definition. There's a liquor store around me that has bottles of Southern Tier Oat that are over a year old (the beer has been discontinued, I believe). This beer is drinking insane right now.

Also, Victory at Sea sits on shelves in my area as well. It's 11 bucks and the label is not eye-catching so I think most people who don't know about it just pass on it. Their loss, it's easily top 5 in Porters for me.