Ever broken or spilled a great beer?

Salvaging a gusher is pretty easy. Just pour it as it's gushing, odds are if you're opening a beer then there's a glass pretty close to it. You can save most of the bottle that way.

 

Not beer but this glass met my table ~10 minutes after receiving it in the mail..

 

Last year my buddy dropped an entire case (allotment for 3 people) of Huna at the event. Thankfully only one broke and we were able to pour most of it to some bystanders. Could've been much worse.

 

And I don't mean just a little bit spilling out the side, I'm talking about knocking the glass over and almost all of the beer going to waste. Has this ever happened to you with a really nice beer? And how shitty did you feel afterward?

"Valuable" can refer to a beer that was either difficult to acquire, or something that was a limited or one-time release.

Also, based on the first post by JaefromLA, it could also be a beer that was spoiled or ruined in some way.

 

Not really expensive but. I had left about 5 bottles pliny in my car during a so cal heat wave summer. 105-110 degrees for three days. I thought they were in my beer fridge. This was 2 years ago around the time the pliny hype train was at an all time high. They ended up tasting pretty crappy. But still drank some haha

 

Still valuable nonetheless, as in pretty difficult to acquire. I would have been pissed haha.

 

Back when Lawsons - Double Sunshine was in bombers, 'Was taking an outside picture of this nectar in my glass, on a stupid, unevenly grounded surface - and guess what happened next? My wife loves this beer also and it wasn't worth the photo op ... half the bomber spilled into the yard before I could save the remaining contents. Lawson's is hard enough to get, you're all beer geeks and understand. That one hurt.

 

Not a spill, but I think it fits with the theme. My mother brought me back some Westvleteren 12 from Belgium, and while I shared the first several bottles with friends, I held on to one last bottle of the 12 to age. I have no explanation as to why I did what I did, but I stuck this last bottle in the pantry right next to the dryer sheets, where it remained for about two years. I surprised a friend and brought it along to a tasting we did (it's hard to explain just what a big deal this beer was back then).
After a single sip it was clear something was wrong because it tasted like perfume. It took about five minutes for me to realize that somehow my beer had been "dry hopped" with Snuggle dryer sheets! The perfumey aroma drowned out everything else and turned my beer into a drain pour.

 

Dropped an Eclipse Java and a 2013 Freakcake as I was putting them in my fridge. Broke my heart so bad I went back first thing the next morning and replaced them both. Cost a pretty penny, too.

 

My 4 oz pour of 2010 Bourbon County Rare during a tasting party at my house--before I could even take a sip! Everybody just stopped and stared and then one of my friends said "Sadness...". Needless to say I felt like shit! I literally tried to wring out the tablecloth in an attempt to reclaim some. Didn't work, of course. Luckily I have great friends and family, each of whom donated about an ounce of theirs so I could still sample it along with everyone.

 

Accidentally spilled half a growlers worth of a limited release local beer (Picaroons Afterglow Aphrodisiac Ale). Not really expensive but seeing as how there was only two kegs of the stuff made, I was pretty sour.

 

half a can of Sip of Sunshine...

drank half, fell asleep watching TV, woke up wearing the other half.

I'll tell you one thing, though: i smelled phenomenal

 

Bought a $20 bottle of Crime from Stone. Poured the whole thing into a big, 20 oz DFH snifter. Being a 20 oz snifter it is pretty wide and hard to hold, as I found out 2 sips in when I dropped the glass on the counter and spilled 95% of the beer.

 

I was in LA for the weekend last year and managed to acquire three Plinys while in town to bring back to NY for my buds. I get to LAX 40 minutes before my flight and tried to check in my bag with United. They said I had to check in my bag 45 minutes before departure and there was nothing they could do. I pulled out my bottles of Plinys and asked if they can just give me a 5 minute grace period. It was the wrong audience since the gate attendant had no idea what Pliny was.

I kept them in my carry on bag hoping the TSA security guard would have more sympathy. He kept them.

 

Probably a DFH 120 minute, with my klutzy ways I knocked my glass off the edge of the coffee table a few years back. I was as depressed as Sam was when they had to dump a batch of 120 on the Brew Masters show.

 

Same thing happened to me a few years ago when I brought one down from VT to share with my brother in CT. Poured his half then went to pour mine and slapped the bottle right off the table. I was licking the granite countertop for a minute before I gave up. Needless to say my brother got his share.

 

Was in Chicago last weekend, bought a Double Daisy Cutter (couldn't believe they still had any, either). When unloading the haul for a picture, I set that glorious bastard down on my friends granite countertop and BOOM!

Glass in my hand, blood pouring, 5/6 of the delicious DDC is on the ground. The 1/6 I had left went down my gullet and I loved every second of it.

Fortunately, after talking to the guys at Half Acre, they are going to replace it for me. Apparently they've seen this before with granite counter tops and now I know I'll never buy them.

Also, I had an Anchorage Brewing Whiteout in my former beer closet, ambient was about 65 degrees and it exploded one morning, taking out a couple other bottles of stuff and making a huge mess. I no longer buy their beers.

 

You did yourself a favor on that one!

 

Maybe I posted this in the thread a couple of years back, but I knocked a 10oz pour of Pliny the Younger onto the floor. I was in shock at myself. I had one pour, so not the biggest deal to me.

 

cracked a bottle of Angry Chair German Chocolate Cupcake while packaging it to ship to friend in LA......20$ il never get back and he may be shit outta luck unless i move to Tampa!