You might be a BA if...

If you go to the liquor store with a $20 budget but bring and extra $40 just in case shit goes down.

 

...your local store gets in a few new brews and you come to a dead stop and check the ratings on BA from your smart phone... Guilty.

 

No, a BA would know better than that.

 

...if you judge every person at the grocery store/bottle shop who is not buying beer you approve of

 

You live in an apartment and no shelving room so your beer takes up half the floor space in your room.

Your BMC friends are always telling you about new "craft beer" they tried the night before.

Your girlfriend thinks you spend more money on beer than her ( she might be right).

You give suggestions to store owners on upcoming releases that they should get in the store because you will buy at least a case.

 

i've actually told someone at the grocery store that I didn't approve of their choice. They walked away without saying anything, which is a pretty good way of going. I have also told people that I approve of their choices. Pretty much the same reaction.

 

You tell the manager at your favorite burger place that if they don't change the beers on tap, you won't go back again.

 

You're watching a show/movie and if you can't easily determine what beer they're drinking, you rewind and slow-mo it just so you know for sure.

 

LMAO. I have sooo done this!!!

 

during pregnancy, you spend your entire time plotting the first week post-partum's beverage list, including the order of consumption, along with how and when to procure each brew for maximum freshness.

(in the interim, you drink flavored seltzer and torture yourself by reading this site, but avoid the "what are you drinking" thread, because it's too painful to read.)

 

you order pitchers of Yuengling at your shitty college bar, because the only other choices are bud light, miller light, and redds.

 

You trade so much that you end up getting back the same cardboard box and packing material that you've shipped out to someone...but you get it back from a different person.

 

you have only two hours until your plane departs DIA and you still hit Great Divide and Crooked Stave on the way

 

...if your idea of curbing your father's crippling alcoholism is introducing him to craft beer.

This actually worked, my Dad struggled with overdrinking for years. In the past few years I've introduced him to loads of different brews and the old man has cut back his drinking, he LOVES Stouts now. I got him a 2012 KBS and Smoked Porter from Founders for his past birthday.

 

So true.....

 

Do it all the time......

 

My buddies say that they have created a monster, because that's what I do....

 

When you attend a beer tasting, realize you've lost your credit card, and think to yourself "well, lemme do this tasting first, then worry about the card."

Yes, this happened to me. Tonight.

 

You might be a BA if you fly 2/3's the way across the country from Vermont to the Denver area.
Visit 17 breweries in four days; plus take in a Red Sox vs Rookies game.
Go to Red Rock Amphitheater and drive thru Eisenhower Pass just to say you did them.
And come home with 14 different pint glasses.

 

When you walk in a bottle shop, and the owner looks at you and says "oh, hey, one second, I've got it in the back"

And you have no clue whats in the back, or what he's referring to. And he always walks out with something and you say "shit, when did you get that? How many more do you have?"