I'll take "Things that annoy" for $200

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Hipster douchebags who suck up all the seats at the bar. They'll sample 8 beers, drink 1, and groom their soup catchers. Oh to be young and unafraid of consequences.

 

To get back on topic....
1. Geeks that shout down non-geeks
2. “Local” beer that uses malts, hops, and other adjuncts half a planet away.
3. $100+ beers.
4. Beer “rules”.
5. Being served infected beer.
6. Poorly trained / advised bar staff.
7. Beer know-all’s that know feck all.
8. Behemoths pretending to be craft.
9. Over the top pretentious descriptions.
10. Not being able to sample as many wonderful highly praised brews as I’d like....

 

LOLOLO!

 

I don't follow. Are you saying retailers shouldn't force distributors to pull old beer from the shelves? Regardless of the choices you have in your market, why would you want to drink old beer?

 

I literally just laughed out loud!

 

Scott Janish did a sort of aggregation/breakdown of many studies pertaining to hop oils and their behavior during the brewing process (especially fermentation). https://scottjanish.com/examination...s-for-achieving-maximum-hop-aroma-and-flavor/

I’ve had crappy NEIPAs where a lump of grub cold crashed at the bottom of the can, and there is certainly a fair amount of suspended yeast in the style.

Even without data, I’ve seen enough anecdotal evidence for me to consider terpenoid biotransformation to be an acceptable theory.

 

Uh, fat finger whilst scroll. Can't figure out how to erase.

Sorry.

 

Wut? You're not down with the baggy pants homies? You hate the sag?

 

Well, Dubuque?

 

I say: drink one (at least) of everything, and be willing to say that popular might not be all that.

Fuck the hive mind.

 

BTW, unless the OP is actually Alex Treebark, which she/he must be, who the bloody hell actually phrases their language by Jeopardy rules?

Questions are answers: answers are questions?

Uh, I'll take "Beer Nerd Problems " for a Trillion, "Alex".

 

"Welcome to Beer Jeopardy, the only Jeopardy who requires a credit card hold to order a question.."

 

Not using the multi quote function to fit all your replies into one post.

 

Not so sure I agree with this, many women look great is spandex!!!

 

Except for when, like I saw last week, one of those oversized monsters gets his disgusting paws (that have been on NYC sidewalks btw) on the bar.

Atrocious.

But as far as I'm concerned they should all be out. I don't want to have to keep an eye out for fear of stepping on your chihuahua while also negotiating a crowded taproom carrying a couple dripping beers filled to the brim.

 

You are going to love this comment by me:

The arrogant bearded guys, what you refer to as "Alpha-Dorks".
The arrogant bearded guys blocked me on Twitter because I was amused by the notion we should not refer to craft beer as craft beer bit simply as 'beer'. Try that in most bars and you will be offered Bud or Coors.
And I agree with your comment on lagers, NEIPA. Most recent love affair tho is with a Sierra Nevada Hop Hunter. Love hops, tired of the over hopped madness.

 

I get all that, but nothing is worse then when your first pull of a beer is skunk.
I've seen people use the cooler as a mix and match, some bottle shops frown on that others are to big to notice and some (one of the main ones I frequent) allow it. I've seen a carriage full of four packs with 1 or 2 missing that the stock person just culled from the cooler headed for the shelf in a big box discount warehouse. I'm not a fan of cold, warm then cold beer, reminds me too much of my pre legal drinking age when we used to sneak beers and hid them in the woods. Cheers.

 

Yeah, this drives me nuts, the proliferation of so-called beer experts who think they are experts simply because they camp out in front of a brewery overnight for some bull**** barrel-aged hype stout with vanilla, hazelnut, crushed donuts, pecan pie and god knows what else. Yet 100%, these people have never had a tripel, witbier, bock, etc. etc.

It is also the weird obsessive male (mostly) collectors' mentality applied to beer. The idea that you can "make money" with it as well makes it even worse, IMO.

 

Haha I'll play
Soooo tired of bitterbozos who can't help but pat themselves on the back for liking beer with an excess of a taste, bitter, we are genetically programmed to recognize as poison. Most of these WCIPA are basically throw 95% two row, 5% caramel, into the mash, and then throw as much hops early into the boil as possible, then use a super forgiving yeast to ferment it. Basically the easiest recipe in the history of beer. Then they complain the NEIPA brewers with their complicated malt bills, complicated hopping schedules, temperature regimes, and difficult to use yeasts aren't talented brewers, and the folks who enjoy the style aren't real beer drinkers even when they like 100 other styles.

Soooo tired of the completely delusional folks who moan to insist there was a marvelous past of American beer that was filled with so many more styles than today, fresher and made better, easily available, a veritable happyland of beer that has been ruined by modern brewers and modern beer lovers into a sameness of mediocrity and few choices.

Sooooo tired of this repetitive thread being warranted so often by the sea of negativity that exists in our beer culture.

 

Neither have I, but there have been comments on BA in the past that you should drink an AAL if offered because it's bad manners to refuse a beer.