Drain Pour Scientific Research Coming Through

I drain poured once. I fell asleep before I finished it, so technically I had to pour the remainder down the drain. But other than that I finish everything.

 

not sure what's so hard to understand about people not wasting their sobriety, calories, and time on unexpectedly bad beer. remember: the money you paid for the beer doesn't come back when you drink it.

 

I actually finished the bottle of Crazy Ed's I shared with someone (she likes Chili beers). But I've drain poured hundreds of beers, I really don't get why some people think it's this huge deal. Why do you care what I do with my beer?

 

I've poured about 6-10 craft beers down the drain. Out of 1800+ beers, that ain't bad. Mostly, these were infected or just plain bad.

...and I still have my Atari 2400...

 

You should be doing this per year, people who've been drinking craft beer for 10+ years may drain pour twice a year, etc.

 

I've never had anything that offended me enough that I wanted to pour it down a drain.

 

I think they are serious. I have had two beers so far that I could have probably rationalized drain pouring but whats the point? DFH 61 was damn close, but I doubt I will ever taste a "beer" that crappy again. In fact I don't really have a problem drinking crap beer, but crap wine on the other hand I cannot stand. DFH 61 tasted closer to crap wine, so I doubt I will have that problem again. My immeidate reaction : "If you poured this into my glass and didn't tell me what it was, I would think it's the worst glass of wine I have ever had. In reality, it's the worst glass of beer I have ever had."

Opening a four or six pack than drain pouring the entire is completely mind boggling to me. Even if it tastes so bad that you would want to pour the fist one I can think of several things I would rather do with the other 3-5:

1. Give to friends when they are over chances are someone will atleast somewhat like it.
2. Cook
3. Leave in my fridge and try in 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, 1 year. Is your fridge space so valuable that you have to dump immediately? Honestly my pallet varies rather quickly too. Something I don't really like today I may have a craving for tomorrow. Even if you never ended up enjoying one what did you really loose by experimenting?
4. Drink while already drunk.
5. Give to strangers.

 

Had to pour a Boulevard Chocolate that was infected because it really wasn't what I wanted. Reimbursement check was already en route though.

I usually just give unwanted beers away.

 

True...but I'm less likely to remember spending it.

 

I do not drain pour...I paid for it...I'm drinking it. I have had infected brews...I drink them anyway, but I'm stubborn.

 

I've had quite a few good beer breads since I started drinking good beer.

 

I'm not one of those guys who tastes a beer looking for what's "wrong" with it, but I still drain pour at least 5-10 beers a year. If you drink enough beer, odds are you'll encounter some past their prime or just outright bad. You're not doing yourself any favors finishing a beer you don't care for.

 

Man, a few things:

1) Yeah, sure, someone would want to drink it, but it's already been opened. Do you have a magic device that transports opened beer to someone who would want to drink it?
2) Even if I did have multiples (which isn't likely, but whatever) trading costs money. Is it really worth $15 shipping to send some beer I hate to someone else? I mean, it's not like I'm opening beer and dumping it without drinking it, the only time I've done that was with a 5-month-old hopslam someone left at my house. I could've traded it, sure, but it wasn't worth my effort. And I'm guessing that leaving it on the curb had some small (but non-zero) chance of legal ramifications from that.
3) Most of the beer I've drain-poured I didn't buy. Either beer at festivals, people brought to tastings, or beer that was extra'd to me. (Or beer from non-exchangeable beer-of-the-month clubs, which I sort of did buy but not really.) So it's not really like I'm wasting money. And anyway once the beer is opened the money is a sunk cost. What difference does it make if I drink it?

So the tl;dr here is that I think your complaint is ridiculously ill-conceived.

 

Lets See if I remember em all(4-5 I think):

Dogfish Head Fort 2008 bottle drank in 2011(first ever)
De Proef Lozen Boer; was very old and tasted like death; 2009 BB date?
De Proef Signature Les Deux (flat cardboard)
Mikkeller Jackie Brown (best before date was 1-2 years prior to when I drank it)
Big Sky Kriek(obligatory, accidental purchase not knowing of shit reviews)
Flying Dog Wild Dog Collaborator Doppelbock. (I bought this, completely knowing it was old as hell. Talk about subconsciously wasting 16 dollars.)

So overall, all of my drain pours have been old/unproperly aged beers, and De Proef plastic corks suck. Weee

 

I drain-poured two beers; both from Trader Joe's (I haven't seen them elsewhere). One was a cheap "chocolate stout" bomber (in quotations because it tasted like shit) and the other was one of the 6-pack of a "porter." I at least attempted to give the other 5 of that 6-pack away... my boss tried to drink one at a holiday party and thought it was okay, but still poured about half of it. Not sure if someone took the other 4 bottles home or not, but I left them in the work room. They were that bad. Since then, I've had a lot of bad brews (many tasteless, and one that literally tasted like vomit) and I still finished them. I even plugged my nose and chugged to get the job done for the vomit one, since drain-pouring makes me feel guilty. Maybe I should have just poured that one...

 

I only "drain pour" really lousy beers; probably because I hate wasting beer or anything else. Totally understand this perspective, though: Why consume the calories from something you'd just as soon not drink?

As far as the more obnoxious drain pour comments: I'll usually blow them off as run-of-the-mill messageboard bragging.