tasting event faux pas

You must be a lot of fun at parties!

 

Use an old whale that has already been consumed, funnel in a not as great beer, pour it for the tasting and watch as people's minds are blown by your BA Top 50 stout that actually has Old Rasputin in it.

Mystique and acclaim ruin beers. That's why I love blind tastings. And at them, I'm always shocked when whales lose to regularly available beers.

 

This thread should give you plenty of ideas.

 

Oh, shitting all over the floor and making whale sounds, that's a good one

 

Someone did that with a bottle of Rare at a tasting. But he filled it with 2012 BCBS. After 2 sips thought it was off but it was still delicious BCBS. He later pulled out a real unopened bottle of Rare

 

You wear a trench coat that makes you look like a shady character and it has lots of pockets on the inside. from those pockets you pull out your beer, beer tasting journal, pen, coaster, couzy, opener, glass, water & bucket for rinsing, and sponge for washing the glass.

Old vaudeville routine I'm sure.

 

I heard about an event once where the host got quite intoxicated and got pranked with a Heady Topper can filled with Sam Adams Latitude 48. Apparently he carried on for quite some time, to everyone's amusement, about how it was the best beer in the world.

 

I was at a bottle share and someone who was likely new to them poured a full glass of Zomer. One of the hosts went over to him, took the glass out of his hand and said it's ok, you didn't know. The host then proceeded to pour from the offenders glass into other peoples glasses and gave it back to him when there was just a sip left and said enjoy It was one of the funniest things I've seen.

 

Just act like one of those know it all douchebags that corrects the speaker/brewer all the time at tastings. Add ridiculously far fetched tasting notes (the reviews section on this site is a good place to start) like cactus fruits, kumquats, etc. Throw around big words like phenols, alpha acids and diacetyl.

Basically act like you are smarter than the host. That should draw the ire of the crowd pretty quickly.

EDIT: I've skipped out on free tastings after tours because of people like this, so I know it works. If someone can make me miss out on free beer because of words alone then you know it works.

 

that's the frat house technique! plastic bottle vodka in to a giant bottle of "grey goose" always makes the girls think you are balling at 19 years o.... I mean 21 years of age.

 

With the best trolls, you never do know.

Phenols is a big word?

 

Haha, I wish I'd known this move when I was in college! I would just like to do it more to show people that we read too much into beers that we're trying once we know "OMG, this is a whale!!"