Things that bug you about craft beer.

A phone app that can allow your phone to scan a beer label to determine bottling date. Too many have a code that is confusing to decipher, or has been smeared, or is too small to read, etc.

It would be such a cool app, everyone demanding it, that the vast majority of breweries would comply with modifying their labels so they could be read.

 

Restaurant Glass Defroster

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And Wifer Looker Awayer When the Waitress Walks Paster

 

I'm betting that an easier way to counterpressure would be welcomed by the growler crowd. It should be commonplace, yet it is not.

 

I might make a few more accounts so I can "like" this several times. Couldn't agree more, this would be wildly useful. I wonder if this would save any production time on the bottling line to help the brewery's bottom line as well (maybe not, I don't really know).

 

I do not see this ending well. The only thing that bugs me is that there are so many good IPA's out there that a lot are not being consumed fast enough to keep them fresh on the shelves. Some of the pricing bugs me, but that is a personal problem....being cheap. This will solve itself . If people pay the price it is not too high. If it is too high and people stop paying it will come down.

 

What about collar of some sort for bombers. You know, to keep it from dribbling a little on the first pour. Am I the only one that happens to?

 

You need to pour at a lower angle. It only happens if the bottle is too close to vertical.

 

It only happens once I'm done pouring and tilt the bottle up, I think. I'm not generally one of those guys who tries to be careful and spills as a result of that... I just get the one drop that streaks down after the pour, not a legitimate 'spill'... tell me if I'm confused because I'm not sure.

 

that would be so awesome, i stopped buying Sculpin here on the east coast because i have no idea how old it is and have been burned before and it ain't cheap here...same with a few others

 

I would like to purchase more "likes" please.

 

A test strip divided into 5 sections - hop, malts, yeast, pH and adjuncts (if any - but limited to adjunct family, i.e. corn, rice, fruit, etc.,). Pour beer on strip, colors in different sections would correlate with what was used in the beer (handy dandy accompanying guidebook). Homebrewers could use this to reverse engineer beer. You never said the item had to be realistic, right?

 

perpetual beer machine

 

Or a universal, easy-to-figure-out standard that all breweries would use and print on bottles in the same manner. No phone needed!

Secondly, something to disguise my beer of choice to my AAL drinking friends to not make me "mister craft beer".

 

I drank three of those big new size bottles of Lagunitas sucks last Saturday and when I bent down to pick up the remote I fell over and fucked up my elbow, and I also had trouble getting up afterwards like a flipped over turtle. Really annoyed the shit out of me. I feel a new rollout with slightly smaller bottles would fix that problem.

 

I get a strange feeling smaller bottles would have made zero difference.

 

When it used to come in 12oz bottles it never fucked up my elbow. Though one time after about 8 of them I did accidentally drop my empty snifter and when I went to catch it with my foot I ended up kicking it across the room like a football and it shattered against the wall. That bugged me too. I feel that if they can find the sweet spot in bottle size between breaking my glass or my elbow it would greatly improve the product.

 

You're definitely not. In proper wine service, the bottle is generally poured with a napkin in the server's hand around the neck of the bottle. That "dribbling" is exactly the reason that napkin is there.

I'm not saying you need to go out and buy fancy white linens for the task, but even a paper towel wrapped around the neck of the bottle helps to manage the mess.

 

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