Funny things your BMC friends say when given craft.

He said, in his area, Craft Bier isn't located in the "Domestic" section, which causes people to look at it as a "Fancy foreign" product, because that's where it is stocked.

I commented that in my part of the Midwest, Craft Bier has it's own section, DISTINCT from BMC and Imports.
I theorized this is because the Midwest has had non-BMC biers long before Craft was what it is today (Schlitz, Schell, Leinenkugel's, Point, Old Style, PBR, City, etc.). My Grandpa NEVER drank BMC. He's an Old-Style guy since the 50's. I've been introducing him to Craft. He doesn't know most of them, but he knows most of the guys I listed above; they're regional breweries that have been around for a long time (by American standards).
Being settled by so many Germans, we've had a LOT of regional breweries kicking around, even during the darkest days before Craft came around.
It seems like THAT section of the liquor store has been expanded and filled with Craft.

 

Gotcha. I just thought craft beer having it's own section was the norm now, regardless of which part of the US you're in.

 

Tailgating at a Dolphins game, handed out Jai Alai to a couple friends
Friend #1 "Taste's like Guiness and papaya!"
Friend #2 "Wow I didn't know they made pineapple beer!"
Friend #3 "This indian beer isn't that bad!"

 

Letting my friend try a Third Coast Old Ale from a Snifter. " Tastes like wood, cherries, booze, and disgusting. Hand me a Lime Cactus ".

 

My mom calls everything I drink around her during the holidays, "motor oil."

 

"I want my beer to taste like beer"

 

My wife after catching a whiff of Cantillon Classic Queuze: "Ooooo, it smells like feet!"

 

Yeah, Utopias is a pretty harsh beer to start a BMC drinker on.

 

Ah! Mr Clean doesnt have nearly the sweet hop as 120.

 

" This Fore Smoked shit isn't a craft beer, Leinenkugel's Honey Weiss is ten times craftier and better than this and it's actually good "

Now that one gave me a good laugh.

 

I was drinking something from Stone (I think it was Ruination or Double Bastard) and my mom wanted to taste it. She looked like she was going to throw up. I knew she wasn't going to like it since her favorite beer is Corona.

 

"HACK ! -cough- UGH ! ACK ! Must...not...experience...FLAVOR..."

 

"Dude.... this is amazing. It's like ALL flavor!"

Not even joking.

 

my wife tried my NN last night...."this is even worse than regular beer" but Mom loved the Deviant Dales

 

They don't say much because their facial expressions tell me all I need to know.

 

While tailgating I offered a guy a ST Bernardus 12. He asked if it was an IPA. I almost spit the beer in my mouth right in his dumb ass face.

 

"Did you put something else in here?"

 

Just had a customer come in today and get 2 cases of Natty Light and he asked me if anyone buys "That Wild Beer" and he pointed to our craft beer section, I said yes, it is a good seller and getting more popular all the time, he said "I guess I am too much of a tight wad to buy that".

 

Gave my roommate a Nugget Nectar, he said it taste like a "bitter blue moon" wanted to rip the beer off his hand!

 

Also had a customer recently tell me that De Struise's Pannepot Grand Reserva 2008 (on Draft) tasted like Tequilla, lol.