Sharing beer is awesome! but....

I think a bomber/750 is the perfect amount of beer for many solo endeavors: movies, books, sits by the fireplace in winter, and so forth.

If we're talking sours, I can take 750s down no problem. I fully intend on dome-ing a Peche 'n' Brett Sunday. With a big stout, 750s can be too much. I'm not sure I could handle a Black Tuesday solo.

 

Double Sunshine twice in the past week. And each time, I got a real nice tan afterwards, maybe sunburned. Wait, you say that's Asian glow? Damnit.

 

Plenty wrong with this in my opinion. Since when do you have to have extra money/beer/resources to share? Interestingly enough, numerous scholarly reports indicate that low-income people contribute more of their income to charitable endeavors than high income people, suggesting that it's a matter of willingness that leads to sharing, not a matter of resources. It seems like many BA's are only willing to share if their needs are taken care of first. How silly? Beer is a communal drink that brings people together, it should always be shared. If I have a friend over and one bottle of beer, I'm splitting it two ways. If I have a nine friends over I'm splitting it 10 ways. The, "I'll share once I'm taken care of" mentality seems to have infected far too many areas of our society.

 

I domed FW 14th watching the season finale of Game of Thrones last year.
Best beer I've ever had and I'd do it again.

There have been many, many other examples I've taken to the head without another soul getting one sip.

 

I'll be having a nice bottle of Rare all to myself tonight

 

Recently, I had no qualms about drinking an entire:

Speedway Stout
Firestone 16
Old Raspy 16

I'm a selfish prick and get pissed when I bring a $20 Lolita to a party and my friend's bring an $8 local bomber.

 

There is a mentality where people would basically only want to open the "good stuff" if other people were opening equally "good stuff", especially if their "good stuff" is stuff you want to tick off. People like keeping score. There was a brief but shameful period of time where I was thinking this way, and it was not a good thing. It really shouldn't be that way. What it should be is that you do whatever you want with your beer; if it means you invite friends over to drink it and enjoy it with you, that's one thing. If you want to enjoy all of it all by yourself, then fine, don't invite your friends to come drink it. Open the beer whenever you want, however you want. Don't expect your friends to be eternally grateful to you for opening "good stuff" with them.. they probably will be grateful, but there is no point in expecting them to and even worse, expecting them to reciprocate.

Because at the end of the day, all you're doing is drinking beer with them, having fun, talking the shit, telling stories, whatever. Isn't that enough? The focus should be on the people around you, not the beer in front of you or hidden in your stash until you find someone you "deem worthy" to drink it with.

 

I got three different pint bottles about 2 weeks ago of:
Maines Lunch
Maines Mo
Stochasticity Grapefruit slam ipa
and drank all of them that night to myself : x

 

In the name of all things good. You better put a ring on it.

 

I almost always share the good stuff.
It's just more enjoyable to me that way.
But it is nice to have a nice 12 oz if I'm alone on a weekend.
I have rarely drank a bomber or 750 alone, unless it's an IPA or APA.

 

Drinking an excellent beer at home by myself while watching a good movie, show, or doing some work is entirely different from drinking good beer in front of my pals and not letting them in on it. I don't ever do that. I won't bring "world class" beer to social events if I don't feel like only tasting 3 oz of a single bottle that I jumped through hoops and obstacles to get my hands on. That sounds stupid to me. I'm just saying, I think your 'my personal beer needs to be distributed amongst all my friends or else whats the point in having it' mentality is far from universal. If that's how you go about it then I tip my cap to you and your friends must be very lucky to have a generous BA as a friend, but saying that its wrong for people to do otherwise is ridiculous. If you read through the past 1.5 pages worth of posts, I would say that it seems like the vast majority of posts agrees with me completely. I treat beer as a novelty and a personal collection of mine and you treat it as a social tool. Either way, we are both enjoying our beer so what's the problem?

 

There may be something wrong with me, but I've never bought a hard to obtain beer (and many are hard to obtain here) without already knowing which friend I was going to share it with or send it to. I just find it enhances the experience so much. Sometimes the friends are thrilled, other times not so much, but sharing new beers with friends is one of my favorite past times.

Now, I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with not sharing. It's not harming anyone. It's not immoral. It's just your preference.

 

Sorry, my response was more of a general rant than anything specifically directed at you; and I know you're responding to Providence more specifically. My rant is more about using "sharing" as a tool to get what you want out of other people. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to take a beer to the dome by yourself. It's your beer! You choose the time, place and occasion to drink your own beer and it doesn't have to happen with anyone else present. All I'm saying is that I think its wrong to go into a bottleshare/gathering with the particular mentality I just ranted about.

 

I drink bombers alone all the time. I just usually try to make it my first beer of the evening so that I don't end up wasting any or not finishing it after already getting a buzz.

 

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That's the perfect type of beer to bring to a tasting in my opinion. Not everyone has the ability to jump through those same hoops and I bet they'd like a sip.

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You call it stupid. I call it being kind.

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So we're going with majority rule on issues related to behavior? Seems like a slippery slope.

No problem at all, I just disagreed with you. You're the one calling my behavior stupid. Additionally, my comment that there was "plenty wrong" shouldn't be taken as I think it is wrong to sit and enjoy a bomber of something awesome all by yourself. Do what you want on that. What I was meant was there is plenty wrong with that mentality, as it sometimes goes too far.

 

I accidentally quoted you both on that when I was responding to Providence. I am not refusing to share all my good stuff due to a lack of a return though (even though I already know it will be one sided every single time). I primarily drink my good stuff at home when they are not over because I don't have the privilege to purchase or re-acquire the things I would be sharing so I wan't to savor what I do get. For example, I traded for one bottle of Pliny. Who knows when I will see that again so I drank it myself the same night I got it. There was no way I was going to essentially donate half the bottle. If I got another one, maybe I would. I had a four pack of HT on hand not too long ago. I drank one the first night, took two to my dads so we could each have one, and shared the fourth with my best friend another evening. If I know I have a good amount of it, I will be more generous. If it's just a very small quantity you better believe I'm savoring every drop. Same with ZD. It's like a goddamn chore just to get your hands on 2 bottles at a shop in OH. I'm not gonna start calling all my buddies up who put no effort into getting it as soon as I buy it and be like "HEY WHO WANTS TO DRINK ALL MY ZD TONIGHT?!"

 

Boulevard BBQ.

It was fantastic, but now I kinda wish I had had someone to share it with.

 

I always share my beers. I share with my mailman who is a home brewer. I leave him samples on my porch once a week. I share my beers with the librarian who likes Budweiser but whose husband (who I never met) likes stouts and porters. I once brought two cases of Jai Alai to party, plopped them in the cooler and never looked back. A douche acquaintance of mine brought a six pack of craft beer and kept it hidden under his chair. (I hate shit like that). FYI I don't get free samples or discounted cases and I am far from well off. Beer is sharing! Period...

As far as 22 oz bottles are concerned...I think they are a better format than 12oz bottles for end of day drinking. They are just under two full beers...one 12oz of some really good beers are not enough...but two 12ozs bottles are a hair too much. If you have a six pack two 12 oz beers can lead to three or four which with some beers becomes overkill, or the beginning of a binge session. With a bomber, you really think twice about opening a second.

Last bomber I killed alone Big Bear Back Stout...excellent liquid!