I recently had Boskeun Brouwerij De Dolle Brouwers and it was so sour it was almost undrinkable. It almost had no head, so I wonder if there was something wrong.
If it’s bad it’s bad and away it goes. I don’t buy much beer that’s expensive so I am ok tossing a beer that cost a few $. Not poured one out in a while. A few during clear my cellar month just had to go down the drain. I guess the Rayon Vert on Orval day was the last one. I was so disappointed. Zero carb and it was so dark in color. Just a terrible mess that tasted miserable. Enjoy
Who says we shouldn't drain pour? It's my beer and I'll pour it out if I want to pour it out. If I'm not enjoying it it's going down the drain.
My most recent pour, sad to say, was Lawson's Epic Sip. I wasn't too keen about it, although it was still OK. I thought it would be more potent somehow, an amped-up Sip. Another factor was it was the 19.2 oz can and I didn't want to drink that much of a 9.5% beer, as I was planning to drink another beer later. I drank about half, enough to get a good impression of the beer. I'm of the mindset that if I am not enjoying a beer I won't finish it. This is especially if I have one I've kept around too long and it's gone stale, or just one I don't like for whatever reason. I will just move on to the next one.
I'm a bit of a Dovetail fanboy, but I agree that the Vienna is very hit or miss in cans. So much so that I only drink it if I'm at the brewery. When it's fresh and "on" it's really good IMO; when it's not...
While I'm not a huge fan of craft beer heading toward commodity territory, I haven't poured out a fresh beer in forever. Everyone is making the same thing, but the end result = varying levels of okay to good. I went to a tasting a few weeks ago and the only things people didn't drink/dumped were old beers that had morphed into rusty cardboard. There were a lot of "this tastes exactly like X, Y, and Z" sitting right next to it, but almost no fresh beers were truly bad enough to warrant totally dumping them. Is that bad or just boring? I'm still not sure.
This is why I never cared for stovepipes and bombers. I used to buy a lot of bombers when I first got into this "hobby." Not much went to waste, but a helluva lot went to waist. Since cutting my alcohol consumption drastically over the last few years due to health issues, I have no place for the large format containers.
I’m always in heaven when I’m sitting at the brewery, but the cans have been hit or miss in my experience. My last drain pour was War Horse 50 Miles from Mexico. My bad for not realizing it had “lime.” Their bad for the “lime” flavor. Nuh uh.
I was not going to log in to post but really? Lawsons 2 & 3 in order of your pics are rated 90 and 91 on BA. You drank the first beer only in the pic. The other six are still full..
Mike, I got the Lawsons already old and they were horrible , my personal preference is that Lawsons can be overrated… I do like Sip consistently. Btw in my post I drank the last beer in the row, and all the others were full/ then poured. I call them like I see them. Glad you liked the post
My gf drain-poured a beer from Troon. The horror! I wish I had the curiosity or energy to give a damn which beer it was. Haha, peace.
I'd say a beer can be fresh and bad if it's on the edge of the extreme stuff. Adjunct imperial stout that overdoes it and it cloying or tastes gross. In my case, a beer that's way too boozy and has a dominance of fusel alcohol notes. I agree that most fresh semi-regular beer is never bad enough to dump.
You’re no windbag, this thread will have a lot of drain pours, so if you don’t like to see or hear about them, this may not be for you. All good here. Peace and love
For petes' sake folks, MARINADE, man, MARINADE!!! Many of my waaaay too fruity-foo-foo beers have made great pork/poultry/seafood (sometimes really expensive) marinades. And if'n it's too nasty for even marinade? Onto the compost pile as a 'starter' (as well as flat cola/soda pop). Unless it's strong enough to be, 'drain cleaner'.....and then only rarely.......
Wasn't able to edit my first post in time but I've still got bottles of my now 30 year old homebrew melomel & braggot mead that make great drain cleaner. I haven't yet tried them as furniture polish or rust remover, but I'll get back to you........
I tried using beers I didn't like for cooking, but I mainly drink Ipas and found out pretty quickly that super hoppy beers are generally not very good for cooking. If you could prove me wrong with some recipe links, I wouldn't mind.
They can make for a good marinade, depending on what the overall dish is going to be, but godawful for using as a cooking liquid.
