"Hopslam Mania" Nearly Ruins a Good Night Out...

This sounds like a typical Saturday night in most bars I hung out in growing up....and that was well before HopSlam was a twinkle in Larry Bell's eye

 

I can get why you are upset, but unfortunately a drunken heathen's money is worth the same as yours. The bar can always put a limit on how much of a certain beer you can have, but without a limit they are allowed to drink as much as they want. I can't say I'd enjoy having this happen to me, but I know I've missed out on a lot of top beers, some of the time to people that have a pint or three too many before I get there. At the end of the day I can always find something to drink (as you did) and it won't bother me too much. As much as I like it, it's just beer.

 

Better just get used to it. As craft swings more and more mainstream this is exactly what we are all in for plus so much more. Respect unfortunately is not something that I foresee occuring as this hobby picks up steam.

 

Sounds like a shitty bar tendering not obeying the whole don't sell to visibly drunk people thing. Cut 'em off, Kick 'em out, Control your bar.

 

We have all been there at some point havent we? I remember drinking Plinys, Parabolas, BA Old Rasputin, and other "rare" beers out of the bottle while roaming the streets of Seattle during my brothers bachlor party. Were we drunk? Hell yeah we were. Did we have a good time? You bet your ass.

These things happen and it's just beer. I agree that being obnoxious at a quiet bar is not cool. But I can't say I've never done it in certain situations. Boys will be boys am I right?

 

That ridiculous. I'm over the Hopslam hype. Beer stores here sold out in 30 mins. evern with 6 pack limits not leaving much chance to those of us who don't get off work till 530. It's a great DIPA, but there are others out that are just as good and you don't have to take a vacation day to chase leads from store to store.

 

Hah you went out on a Saturday.

 

Well, it's not called Hopsip, now is it?

 

Perhaps they just really liked Hopslam?

The whole "respect beer" thing has either gone out the window, or will be gone soon, as craft continues to move into the mainstream. Fact is people like to get drunk, they like to be boisterous and have a good time on a Saturday night, and they are increasingly switching to craft beer as their drink of choice. Until your traditional rowdy/party/dive bars start catering to the craft crowd, you're going to continue to see strange bedfellows at your typical sleepy little pub.

 

I've only been bartending part-time for a short while, and I've done this already. It's really not hard to stop serving someone who clearly is drunk. I don't get it.

 

how did one group drink all the hopslam? was it a 100 person group?

 

People these days are way too chicken hearted to suffer possibly getting yelled at/causing a scene by cutting off the wrong drunken fool. The best bar tenders are the battle hardened men/women who have been doing it for years (Paying off Law School!! I SWEAR!!) who keep their bar on lock like it should be. God bless their hearts every time a drunk idiot gets tossed and lips off only to catch it worse from the bar tender.

 

This is a good question. Unless there was a single torpedo and a group of 20, in which case the beer wasn't going to last long anyway, I'm really not seeing how this played out...

 

Based on the overexuberance I see on these boards about Hopslam, I'm not surprised. And just because people like craft beer, doesn't mean they have class.

 

He never said the keg was full.

 

Or, by another reading:

A large crowd came into the bar and drank so much Hopslam that the bar ran out of it.

The bar owner was delighted and the bartender left with pockets stuffed with tips.

 

Everyone needs to stop getting bent out of shape because the product sell's well...It's not the beers fault it tastes so damn good, we can blame Larry for that. It also wasn't Bell's that created the hype....I have not seen one single commercial about it anywhere. I guess you could/should blame us for the hype monster we create??? How else does word get out about these releases???

 

Hypeslam.

 

So the bar sold out of Hopslam. I bet management was happy. I bet the bartenders were too. How was beer disrespected? Is beer even something deserving of respect? Was anyone hurt? Did any of them start a fight? Doesn't sound like it. I think it would have been an entertaining spectacle enen though it's not the sort of thing I participate in.