That facepalm moment

a Bud Light drinker is likely not knowledgable so he's comparing it to something in his frame of reference. Instead of mental facepalm I wish the situation turns into a teachable moment where the BL drinker learns that it's a much better beer by a craft brewery.

 

Great avatar, MrOH. Mark it zero, Dude.

 

Articulating what you taste requires reference points (pineapple, clove, tobacco, etc..). If you only drank Blue Moon, Stella, and Bud, Brown Shugga is a hell of a lot closer to Blue Moon than the either two.

Just sayin'...

 

I work at a beer and wine store and a guy was asking about some beers at the growler station. I was describing a beer as malty (I forgot what it was but it was a good one) and he said "you mean malty like an Olde English?".....

 

It's all about perception and expectation. The kid swapped some carboy tags and I ended up bottling a 9% Belgian Golden Ale as if it were an ESB. Even though it tasted mighty sweet and strong for an ESB...I carried on with some notes about how it tasted weird and maybe that was because I tossed random left over crystal malts in with the base malt. A few weeks later when I thought I was bottling that Belgian...but was actually bottling an ESB...I realized the mistake. The colors were quite different too!

 

Gave a guy at work a Breakfast stout and he tells me that it kinda tasted like a poor mans Guinness and that honestly it just made him want to drink a Guinness.

 

This was a quality post.

 

Dead language, still used in medicine, and translation meaning what?

 

Like most tasting experiences, beer is subjective.

 

While at a very fancy restaurant recently I ordered a pale ale and it came in a pilsner glass. Needless to say I left no tip and got our food to go. After a long ride home in silence my wife asked what was the matter....she just doesn't get me anymore.............. and we are contemplating divorce.

I'm never going to Outback again.

 

Had a ex that went to a beer store with me, had no idea what to order, i ordered her a duvel, she loved it, said it reminded her of miller light..............

 

Agreed.

It was actually the "denting underdeveloped foreheads" that i wrote the "yikes" about. Lol

 

I had a facepalm moment when my dad asked me what I was drinking, it was Uncle Jacob's stout, I served him some, he told me it tasted like crap and asked me to go get him another bud light from the fridge...

 

Thank you sir.

 

Nothing wrong with that. Most people don't want to drink a milkshake of a beer. A real facepalm moment is when someone takes a high alcohol craft beer and chugs it, or worse, when someone willfully stays ignorant to good beer (i.e., you can have that "girly" beer).

 

I had a customer (drinks Miller High Life) watch another customer buy something from Stone IIRC. Hi Life drinker said something along the lines of "Why would anybody spend $8 on a piss beer from *** land."

Another time a guy was about to buy a 6 pack of Lagunitas while his friend was buying a 12 of Bud Light. The BL guy told him friends "Fuck that bullshit it's the 4th of July and I'm drinking American today."

I find that the wine and whisk(e)y know-it-alls are the worst though. Probably because there are more of them.

I could go on for hours.

 

I actually had a facepalm moment when I discovered I haven't reviewed sierra nevada pale ale and tumbler. I was reading a form post and wanted to reminisce about how I felt about them via review and was shocked since I know for a fact I have had SN pale ale on at least 3 occasions.

Needless to say I went out and purchased both post haste!

 

I didn't facepalm so much as throw it back. I was in the beer cave checking over the craft section. Dude walks in, grabs a jumbo case of miller light and says to me "You don't that shit. Here's what ya need." Unable to resist, I looked at him and said "I'm good. If I want to drink piss, I'll head to the restroom and get it for free."Unable He walked out shaking his head.

 

I do the facepalm moment on myself every time I take a sip of Alpine Hoppy Birthday.