How to be a better craft beer customer

Why do I feel like you might have been that bartender?

 

This is just a symptom of the existential narcissism that has become the American way. Who would have thought basing our beliefs and lifestyles simply on what makes us happy and content as individuals would have lead to a society of grown up children?

 

If this thread is intended to list other suggestions too, then mine is: Don't congregate with your 10 buddies in front of the ordering station at the bar. I'm polite enough to break into your active conversation to ask if you're in line in the hopes that you'll get the hint. I've always received a 'no' answer, but I've never had the group split to allow me to access to the bar; I have to go around the group. MOVE you're beer klatch elsewhere you morons! (And while you're at it, stay off my lawn!)

 

OP you bartend somewhere or you go to a place with a high density of douchebags?

 

I would say, be open. Be open to trying new things and open to new interpretations of a style. Every single beer is different in it's own way, and the ingredients are natural and prone to variation. It's good to remember that not every beer from a style will be like the "best" of it's style or your personal favorite. I try to appreciate beers for what they are, not what I want or expect them to be, and I find that helps me enjoy it more.

 

Taprooms? Lines at the bar? Is this really a 2020 thread?

 

Those are signs of hope. Don't harsh the mellow, dude.

 

@SFACRKnight yeah! What this guy said

 

My post is the second time complaining of many more times to come, although it's not very applicable this year. I figure that it will take multiple iterations for the morons to get the hint. To be realistic, maybe those self-centered social climbers aren't likely to be BA members. (But they still need to stay off my lawn. )

 

Paging, Karen

 

Advise applies to any customer interaction for any product.

 

Yes, I would suspect they bartend or go to a place in America.

 

If you're the kind of person who needs the advice in this thread:

1) You are assuredly a rude, shitty person in general and it permeates into every aspect of your interactions with people in customer service positions.

2) You would probably deny ever doing any of this, and if you did admit to doing any of it, you'd probably try to rationalize it being okay.

 

Lotta First World Problems and bad Karma being exposed in this thread.

 

Be honest about your tastes. Don't ask for a recommendation and say, "I like pretty much all styles" when what you mean is "I like pretty much all hops (except sabro and laurel and noble hops and EKG...)"

To add to that, stop calling beer from styles you don't enjoy "bad". You don't have to like every style and that doesn't make styles you don't " bad" beers

 

Quit reviewing all beer styles against each other.

 

But bro, this dunkel doesn't taste anything like papaya juice and the its so thin. The DDH lactose and mango dipa i drank first is waaaaaay better
2/5

 

My personal favorites are the ones that review a lager of some sort and rant and Rave about how it's the best one they've ever tried and give it a 3 out of 5