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

Agreed... If you have hours to kill, check out all of the other threads about "dogs and children at breweries", lol. .

 

So does the Government. As do most professions. It's Murphy's 9th Law: "Every profession and hobby speaks to itself in its own unique language - and no, Virginia, there is no Rosetta Stone."

 

I figure something worth saying is something worth typing out but I'm retired so time is not an issue.

 

Many people in the Midwest forum refuse to call beer "beer". They exclusively call it a "pour".

Yes, I know you had it poured into a glass, from a can, bottle or keg. But it's a beer.

If you're going to buy another 4 pack, don't say "can't wait to get more pours from the bottle shop". You're buying beers.

If you had it on tap, don't say "What an exquisite pour. Can't wait to have another."

If you are literally saying that the person did a masterful job actually pouring it, I get it. But call it a beer otherwise.

Also, get off my lawn you scrawny punk.

/rant

 

Any Kelly's Heroes Reference with the Tiger gets a like for me

 

Threads that get bumped 10 months later

 

Thank you. I can't explain it but it drives me crazy too. I just cringe when I see it written. Out like that. Please, make them stop

 

I'm someone who uses that term frequently, be it here or in the wild. Not all beers are pours (Mikerphone beer ice cream cones, beer slushies) and not all pours are beers (liquor, wine).

Never heard it in the context of the phase in bold above, and I personally wouldn't use the word pour in that context. Like many/most born and raised Chicagoans, I do and will continue to use the term to describe an individual pour, but the term beers is appropriate for the plural of pour.

Hope you hadn't crossed the Phase Three thread. I found 10 posts containing the term pour, though in a few cases, it was used in a manner acceptable to you.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/search/119224774/?q=pour&t=post&o=date&c[thread]=630635

Language is fluid, and in many examples local. For example, I would find it absurd to call pop anything other than pop (soda, "Coke", etc.). Ditto washroom (restroom, bathroom). It's not like pre-Common Core math, where there is a correct acceptable result for all proven equations.

Taking things full circle, and returning to the Phase Three thread, one thing is for certain

 

Haha you are one of the worst offenders! But I appreciate your contributions so much that I give a pass.

I assumed its a regional thing, but growing up with half my family in the Kalamazoo-Lansing corridor and the other half in the Milwaukee metro I spent a lot of time around drinkers around Chicago and never heard it used the way you Chicago folks do.

 

Thanks, I also enjoy your posts and the great info in the Pacific forum as well. Hope I don't annoy folks with my posts in the Pacific regional folder, can't wait until everything reopens and I can visit California.

One additional point, I use the term pour to describe draft beer. I'll typically say I had a can of XXX or a bottle of XXX versus I had a pour / cask pour of XXX as shorthand for draft beer.

Speaking of shorthand, the use of beer acronyms at times becomes annoying. Many here who are not traders or avid consumers of a brewery or particular release aren't able to understand certain posts or conversations. I can follow if the acronym is widely used (Pliny the Elder PtE, Bourbon County Stout BCS), but it would be better if all of us could follow conversations in the public forums without a secret decoder ring.

I'm not sure what beer(s) I would receive or be required to send if I attempted to trade beer here.

 

I never hear anyone say this.

 

Lately, it's been folks who call some brewers' suggested shelf life pull dates by the term "Best Buy". Isn't that the name of an electronics retailer? Does ANY brewery print "Best Buy" on their cans/bottles? All I see is "Best By" (along with all the variations like "Enjoy by" "Best before", etc...)

So, you'd rather have a new "pet peeves" thread started every few months instead, so all the posters above could again tell of their annoyance(s) over 12 pages of posts?

I think I'd have to add that to my list of "Things that annoy...".

 

I don’t have many things that annoy me, I have so many choices. But....

Retailers who don’t pay attention to their stock. I’m not a retailer obviously, but if I see a certain IPA for instance that always seems to have a bit of age on them I’m asking myself why. Does it come from the distributor 4 months old? Or does it flat out not turn and I get stuck with 8 month old beers clogging my shelf. So retailers pay attention to your stock and don’t trust distributors to do you a solid, check the dates as a lot of retailers let the distributors stock their shelves.

Beer dorks in bars that bitch to the servers about the glasses being wrong for the style or they’re chilled etc. They’re servers not the owners, if you have a complaint don’t bark at the bartenders send the owner an E Mail. Then you simply ask for a red wine glass to sniff swirl and quaff. The owner might not know, or simply cant take the loss in stolen or broken glasses, as “proper” glasses don’t stack well and tend to be thinner glass, so they break.

Last up is it’s beer you paid for it you so gotta finish it. No I don’t, if it sucks I pour it down the drain. We’re not 16 anymore, and I’m not drinking something I don’t like, and I won’t cook with something I won’t drink, I’ll pop the other cans too and pour them away. The exception here would be for style, if I just happened to buy a style I didn’t like, it’s not the beers fault, like say a Gose, then I’d find a friend and give it away.

 

UPDATE: I meant the Great Lakes forum, NOT the Midwest forum. Sorry to falsely disparage you, Midwesterners.

And to @ChicagoJ you are absolutely one of the worst offenders...but my post was really meant in jest. There's no real animus here!!

 

This can be a tough issue in some places, sometimes I get very local beers in the store that are already 2 months old. There’s so much out think the age of hoppy beers is going up across the board. I’ve had 4-5 month old Heady and if there was a difference between what I bought in VT and what I had in NC wasn’t astute enough to tell. Depends on the beers, but in general I agree, send the freshest beers you can find.

 

I personally wish that imported and seasonal beers would have a year on the label. It's hard to tell quickly in a store sometimes if an imported beer is from this year or last, and even Sam Adams Octoberfest doesn't have a year anywhere on the label or package, just a monthly enjoy before date. Quite frankly I don't trust some of the corner stores around here to keep fresh stock and so it irks me that these seasonal releases don't at least have a year printed somewhere on the package. A few of them switch up the package so you can tell if it's new or not but others remain the same. I just got a 6pk of SA Octoberfest from a nearby convenience store and even after looking at pics on untappd I'm still not sure if it's from this year or last because I think it's the same packaging.

 

I have been told by a very reliable source that John Kimmich takes extraordinary steps to eliminate oxygen ingress at The Alechemist brewery. Hence beers like Heady Topper will have increased beer stability (e.g., a longer shelf life). In addition for the four-pack of Heady Topper I purchased a month+ ago on the top of the plastic can holder was a statement that the beer must be stored cold (which my local beer retailer did) and cold storage helps lengthen beer shelf life as well.

Cheers!

P.S. Do you drink your Heady Topper directly from the can?

 

A growing & serious annoyance in my universe: brewers with bottle/can art so cute they can't be bothered to put the style or name of the beer in legible font, if at all.

There are a few breweries on MN shelves that are guilty of this. If you're so enamored of your Visual Arts Degree that you can't be bothered to put "IPA" or "Sour" someplace on the label, or put the name of the beer in Zephyr Jubilee font so I can't read it, you're an idiot.

I regularly walk by these beers without bothering to find out what they are. Doesn't seem like very good marketing to me.

 

Me too!

Maybe the Haze Bros are choosing to purchase these beer because of the groovy artwork and lack of labeling?

Cheers!