Biggest beer pet peeves

Currently: haze-bro fanboys

 

If it's not already bad enough that we have styles based on color or ABV, I bet some will want to make a case for hazy beers being a style, presuming NEIPAs will already be a style any day now.

 

Do not take the bait....do not take the bait....do not take the bait....do not take the bait....
@cavedave

 

Alright. I know I have something new to add to this every weeks, but the one on my mind right now that's pissing me off is "shelf beer" is used as insult. Please! As if a beer is lesser somehow, or mediocre, simply because it's widely available. Conversely, it's absolutely laughable that a beer is superior simply because it's difficult to acquire.
Shelf beer is mostly what I buy. I dare to say that it constitutes most of what even hardcore craft drinkers buy. Which is also why I don't watch beer reviewers much on YouTube anymore. Almost none of them review widely available, easily acquirable beer--and those are what I want to know about! I don't really care if some microbrewery in Washington made their 87th iteration of triple-dry-hopped juice bomb, I want to know how the new Sierra Nevada/Lagunitas/New Belgium/Dogfish Head, etc. beers are that I can actually go to my grocery store and buy!

 

No, I know it's on the label now. But back in the early bottlings (2005-6) it wasn't - the beer was labelled as "Bourbon County Stout". It seems lame to me to change the acronym just because legalese necessitated the addition of "Brand" in there.

 

I have a new acronym..... DGB © ™ (I just copyrighted and trademarked it).... Damn Good Beer You're welcome

 

Prepare to hear from Minhas' lawyers...


Maybe even from "Best Damn Root Beer" brewer, Anheuser-Busch's legal team. "Not close enough", you say? But those guys are lawsuit crazy:

 

My legal team has been prepped.

 

If your legal team has not already briefed you, you can expect a letter stating something such similar to this, "We regret to inform you that your application for Copyright has been denied as not meeting the critera required for copywriteable material since it is not an original work of authorship, i.e., it is not a literary, musical, dramatic, choreographic, pictoral or graphic, audiovisual, or architectural work, or a sound recording."

 

It was bottled as Bourbon County Stout for 2-3 years with maybe a couple thousand cases worth released over those years.
It's been bottled as Bourbon County Brand Stout since 2007, with hundreds of thousands of cases released since then.

it's BCBS.

Think about it. If next year they changed the name to Bourbon Goose Stout we probably wouldn't keep calling it BCBS, and we definitely wouldn't keep calling it BCBS 10+ years later.

 

I'm old school, 2 older brothers, plus friends. There was a time when the drinking age here was 18. Fyi. Plus I was like 6' in 8th grade.

 

I'm so sick of people saying "Treehouse". It's "TREE HOUSE". That's two separate words! The brewery is "Tree House", not "Treehouse"!

 

Wow ^^^

 

Just hearing someone in the beer store aisles say "I'm into sours, mainly". Really? Fuck off, you trendy cookie cutter beardboy.

 

Every coffee beer I have had tastes like bad cold coffee (sometimes with beer as a background flavor)

 

I worked at a local brewery and my biggest pet peeve was parents letting their kids run wild. I understand we allowed kids, but they should at least had control over their kids and made sure they weren't breaking things and running into people.