Ever broken or spilled a great beer?

Good but not great. Someone did carelessly bump into me and caused me to drop a Sam Adams Merry Maker Gingerbread stout bomber a couple of years ago.

 

Lost a Night Shift Harborside after opening the trunk when getting ready to leave for a beer weekend. A lot of bottles fell, so it could have been worse. I was very sad

 

I live in Alberta, Canada. It gets really cold up here in the winter. The day after Christmas this year (what we call Boxing Day) I was at a gathering of people with limited fridge space. So, I left a fresh growler of Lagunitas Nighttime Ale outside on the deck. By the time I got to it the beer had frozen and the growler had exploded.

I was sad. I love that beer.

 

Last month the plastic holder of the fridge door where I put my beer broke when I opened it. Lot´s of great beer fell and none of them broke, but a very nice Lagunitas IPA fell right on the crown cap and it started to leak precious liquid. Had to open it right away to save the most, I got to drink less than half of it :/ then cursed gravity.

 

Not my fault, but I had to help clean it up: last Friday morning on of our delivery guys rolled in a stack that had a couple cases of cans on the bottom and several cases of expensive stuff on top. For some reason the cans didn't support the weight, and about two minutes later (while we were in the office cutting him a check) we heard an incredibly loud pop/smash sound. After cleaning and pulling out the handful of bottles that didn't explode, this was the final death toll:

12 bottles of Mikkeller BLACK
4 (750) bottles of Piraat Triple Hop
5 bottles of LambickX Kriek
7 cans of Mikkeller Keeper

All told it was a little over $400 worth of beer.

 

Last year I brought a bottle of Double Sunshine down to CT to share with my brother who had never had it. Poured our glasses and then I proceeded to slap mine down onto the countertop. Felt like and ass. Luckily granite makes for an easy slurping surface. My brother looked at me like, "you're not getting any of mine, you did this to yourself".

 

I said it was an ACCIDENT

 

Walking away like nothing happened was an accident?

 

Have done this many times with many whalez at DLD. I mean what are they thinking with those short and wide cups that they fill the the brim??
Then there was the time when I first started getting into craft beer. I was settling down in bed with an ice cold Old Rasputin (I know, not a whale). I barely got a couple sips out of it when I began falling asleep and felt the cold beer pouring on my waist. Naturally, I tossed the full glass away from myslef. I'm not sure which woke me up faster, the cold beer or the scream from my pregnant fiance whose body caught the majority of the ice cold stout. Needless to say, beer is no longer welcomed in our bed.

 

You said you just left it there and blamed it on your child.

 

I was given a bottle of Abyss '14 as a birthday gift. Sometime during the course of the night it was placed on a chair at the bar we were at. My sister, unknowingly, pulled that chair out to have a seat and that was the last of that.

 

Dropped a 4 pack of otter creek/lawsons collab double dose. It was very limited this year in CT so i had to put in some work just to score one overpriced 4 pack. Two died, one i was able to salvage half a bottle and one survived. Sad day.

 

This is why when I send my ten year old in to pick up beer for me, they won't sell it to him. All the blame kids get for breaking beer. Feels like there may be another reason why they won't sell, but it's not important right now.

 

Atrial down

 

No, I take holding my beer very seriously. Especially if it was expensive.

 

A few months back I was cleaning out one of my bottle fridges and as I had several bottles out on the garage floor and I accidentally bumped a box that was on the ground and I watched a bottle of Veritas 14 fall in slow motion. My garage smelled great for days. The worst part is that this was only a week or so after I watched a bottle of Barrel Aged Numbskull fall through the bottom of a box.

(And in case you are wondering I did try to take a sip from the puddle on the ground.)

 

I don't think I have ever broken or spilled beer or even a glass. I did, however, have UPS break and "lose" a case of Heady for me. That was pretty awesome.

 

Ditto. Watched some grown men weep like babies over it. Sad.

 

Nothing yet (knock on wood)

 

The Alchemist got back at me for not drinking Heady Topper out of the can. I was splitting it with my buddy and i knocked it over spilling half of it out on the countertop...