Biggest beer pet peeves

Lack of bottle/can dating is pretty high on my pet peeve list. Other than that I hate it when I ask someone working at a beer shop if they have a certain brand/beer and they say no and then proceed to tell me how overrated that particular brand or beer is.

 

No bottle date by far!

 

When your girlfriends dad shells out for craft on a special occasion and ends up buying:



copious amounts of Leinenkugel's summer shandy or something equally mehz0rz....
(instead of just buying SN or Lagunitas which would be a guaranteed find at the stores hes going to).

Parents just don't understand.

 

"Craft beer" that gets a free pass because its made from magical "craft beer" ingredients.
There is a lot of crap craft beer out there.
Where did peoples taste buds go in the move...?

 

Besides lack of bottle dating, my biggest pet peeve has always been sexism. As a woman in the craft beer industry, I have always been bothered by the lack of respect from men in my store. I have to say it is usually middle aged men who kind of stick their noses up when I asked them if they need any help.

Interaction I've had about 1000x

Me, adorable Whole Foods Beer Specialist: "Hi! Can I help you find anything?"
Customer: "Oh, you know about beer?"
Me: "Actually yes I do. Looking for anything in particular?"
Customer: "Well, Have you had any of these?"
Me: "Yup. Every beer in the case. Let me know if you need anything..."


OR... a recent interaction with a regular at our in-store beer bar. After asking me if it is indeed true that I buy all the beer for the store, he complimented me on the selection.
Customer: "Well what kind of beers do you like?"
Me: "Everything really, just depends on the mood and maybe what food."
Customer: "I only like IPAs and double IPAs."
Me: (Hiding my eye roll) "I love IPAs, but I guess my favorite style would be Belgians. Saisons and sours."
Customer: "Of course you like wheat beers, you're a woman."
Me: "Wheat beers aren't a woman's beer. Try telling that to the Germans."

On a way more positive note, younger guys (20s-40s), are always receptive to my recommendations and often seek me out at the store for what I'm into lately. Glad to see the stereotype that "chicks know nothing about beer" is finally fading.

 

The two women who work at my Whole Foods beer bar are VERY knowledgeable about all beers. I go there a lot, never heard any demeaning comments.

 

Products not priced in a store.

 

Latest peeve is improper glassware. I hate everything just dumped into a cheap shaker pint, I want a Pils in a pils glass, snifter and such for stouts. Cheers to Neshaminy Brewing, they are the only place I've seen that's right down the line right across the board.

 

Not if B. United International has anything to say about that! Their import program is THE best on the East coast!

 

Being in PA they may actually be in violation of state law which requires cleaning every seven days.

https://www.lcbapps.lcb.state.pa.us...ay.asp?opinion_year=2009&opinion_sequence=110

 

This is probably my biggest pet peeve too. More power to anyone who wants to go to limited release events, but I'm at the point where I really don't want to be a part of them. I really don't have the time to go out of my way to acquire hard to find beers, plus there's plenty of good beer I still have yet to try at prices that are usually more reasonable.

 

#1. In the state of PA you are limited to 192 oz. in a single purchase from a store that sells singles, six-packs, and 12 packs. These stores have to serve food as well. (You can buy unlimited amounts by the 12 pack, case, and kegs at regular beer distributors).

Because I can add, I always make sure to approach the register with no more than the limit, but when I walk up with 2 six packs and a bomber (6*12 + 6*12 + 22 = 166, which isn't even close to 192) the employee at the register invariably tells me that I'm going to be over the limit. I reply, politely, that I think it'll be fine, and then they start scanning and act amazed every time that the computer at the register allows them to complete the transaction.

#2. When in the same stores mentioned above I get weird looks when I say "no thanks" to the person trying to get me to sample Blue Moon Horchata, or when I politely turn down unsolicited advice on what to purchase from the employee who I just heard extolling the virtues of Curios Traveler or Shock Top to another customer.

 

Peeps who cut in line at beer releases...are we in kindergarten? If you want to be first, get there early and earn it like the rest of the crowd.

 

oddball bottle sizes.....12.7 ounces? F OFF.

 

Stores with mountains of old beer, restaurants and bars with dirty tap lines and poorly executed releases.

These are being addressed really well by a few places but most just continue to do business as usual. The only way I think you can really impact these is to speak up and vote with your dollars.

 

Got you beat. I was in a store that had Bell's Oarsman from August 2011.

 

I dislike the term "craft beer" a lot... I mean, regardless of who makes it, beer making is a craft in my eyes. From a nano brewery to Budweiser.

The Julian date codes on bottles... What is wrong with a standard bottled on date?

To go along with the above, having a "best by" dating... Give us the bottled on date.

Barrel aged stouts... To me, they are so one dimensional in flavor. Don't understand the overwhelming popularity of these at all myself.

High prices for beer at breweries... Without the distribution and all that, it should be cheap at the source. Why am I paying $5 or more for a beer at the place it is brewed at? I have been to breweries that are $2 or more cheaper for similar styles and they are doing just fine, don't price gouge us!

 

@Yargamo

12.7oz is 375mL, so not really that odd of a size. I blame non metric units.

 

These two, yes. I really hadn't thought of it until about a year ago but the term "craft beer" is pretty pretentious in itself. And when folks throw it around like it has this philosophical meaning it starts to get irritating. Last year, at a concert, a local brewery had a stand. I've been drinking their stuff for over a decade but I didn't recognize a new tap handle. I asked the guy pouring what that one in particular was, his reply- "craft beer."

It does bother me in one way with tasting rooms being more expensive, but I can wrap my head around it in terms of they're employing the folks there to pour the beer so I guess we help subsidizing that? What gets me more is when bottles are more expensive in their shop than anywhere else around town - 10-15% more for something that was walked over, not loaded on a truck, stocked by someone and sold to you. That I just don't get.

 

@invertalon @oldn00b I've also seen beer at the brewery be more expensive than at my local bottle shop. 4 pack of cans: brewery $16, local shop $12.