Have You Ever Spilled A Special Beer?

Total spill? No. I came close once, but only spilled about an ounce at most. Don't even remember the beer.

 

Every day, for 15 years, I would look outside of my house and say, "Yup, one of these days someone is going to drive into that tree." That day finally happened in 2015. Don't sweat it -- shit happens.

I came close to spilling a BCBS in 2010; carpet no less.

 

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/ever-broken-or-spilled-a-great-beer.107871/

 

My dog's tail whipped half a glass worth of fifty fifty eclipse vanilla off a table about a week and a half ago. Also broke the duvel glass it was in

 

Mine was funny and sad at the same time. I got back from a Treehouse/Trillium beer run awhile back. Through trades and purchases I had a boat load of great beers. It took me 4 trips to bring it all in the house. It was a long day of driving and I was pretty beat. I'm making my last trip in and the beers left were all singles that I traded for including my first can of Swish. I'm carrying them down my steps and I tripped a little - didn't fall but there went the Swish out of my hands into the air. It was like slow motion watching it - my hands were full so there was nothing I could do. Anyway, I remember thinking " its gonna land on the grass - I'll be fine " It does clear the deck and hit the grass but of course it hits a sharp pebble that punctures a pin hole in it. Well, I wasn't going to let it go to waste so I shot gunned it. LOL

 

No but my 1.5 year old daughter was playing with a couple year old bottle of BCBS a few months back! I thought it was hidden away under this cabinet.

Luckily it didn't break.

 

I've never spilled a special beer but I did lose one via breakage. It was a beer trade from a guy in California, AleSmith Noel I believe. I opened the door of my beer fridge and heard clink - pop - glass on concrete - boom! It was gone. I guess I just had too many bottles in there. I never replaced it, and to this day I haven't tried it. Oh well.

 

Around two years ago my dog knocked into my end table, toppling over my full pint of 120 minute by Dogfish Head. I couldn't even yell at him because I was in too much shock lol

 

I spilled a friend's BCBS one time with a dramatic hand gesture. I think it was a signal we needed to stop for the night.

Another time I was sipping on a snifter of Central Waters Rye Barrel Chocolate Porter. Some friends were over and one had ordered a pizza delivery. Apparently I was so entranced with whatever we were watching that when the doorbell rang I jumped and swished a nice splash of it out of the globe of the glass into the white carpet.

 

I spilled about half a bomber of BrooDoo, Three Floyds' wet hop IPA a couple of years ago. Brought it all the way from Indiana to Arizona just to soak it up with a towel. Also had a bottle of their War Mullet shatter in my luggage.

 

The bottle cap from Three Floyd's Floy Division 1 shredded a pin sized hole in a can of Ninja v. Unicorn I was hauling back from Chicago. Luckily it happened in the parking lot when I sat my bag on the ground transferring to my car from the car pool, so I was able to stick the can in a bag and not soak through my entire back pack.

Don't transport Three Floyd beer lightheartedly.

 

Does foaming count? Twice, I've lost a third of a westmalle dubbel when I opened it without cooling it first. This was in my beginning craft days.

 

Barrel aged Old Rasputin fell out of a fridge that was too full. Cleaning it up at least smelled good.

 

Spilled the entire contents of a Founder's Imperial Stout onto my open laptop. Flipped out, immediately grabbed the laptop and turned it over on the carpet, wiping the keyboard down while the laptop was upside-down, frantically trying to unscrew the tiny little screws. Ended up stripping the little baby screwdriver and not getting the thing open to clean it out, and just had to hope for the best.

Somehow, by the grace of Odin, the laptop survived. But the beer... the beer was gone forever.

 

Lol.

 

I was being nice and split a bottle of Morning Wood with my Mom (stouts and porters are about all she drinks). She had a bottle of water and a coffee on her coasters, so she was just holding it. I turned away for a minute and she must have tried to move while balancing it. Then I hear a profanity and the contents of the snifter were all over the couch and floor. I was not pleased that such a nice beer went to waste. I did not offer to share the remainder.

The only plus was the livingroom smelled amazing for a few days.

 

Not exactly a spill (it was actually much worse than that).
About 3 years ago, I was moving stuff out of my beer fridge into a new fridge, and I lost 6 bottles of Christmas Stock (Solera) Burton ale, thanks to a severe case of butterfingers and a concrete floor (that year, it was a 22 year solera)
When that happened, I used expletives I never thought I even knew.

 

Ohhh! I thought I hadn't spilled a special beer but your story sparked a memory. I spilled a full bottle of water on laptops before that killed the thing. So laptops must like good beer and hate water.

Turns out I did spill a full '13 BCBS on my Macbook Pro. I didn't know whether to freak out more over the beer or laptop. Thing still works like a champ. At the time, my now wife just laughed at me.

 

I spilled about 5oz of one of my 10oz pours of Younger last year (or in 2015--Younger trips blurr together). Could have been worse.