Gifted beloved beer down the drain

Did you ask her if she was going to drink it? If so, what did she say?

 

As my two year old grand daughter would sing..... Let it go.

 

I get similarly polarizing reactions from those of my friends that "love to drink beer" and "love to get fucked up" yet "left Black Tuesday and Grey Monday laregly untouched after opening". Don't share things other than PBR & such with them now

 

Weird. Doesn't make sense. I think I would have just asked her what she thought of the beer.

 

Something like this. I would have asked her what she thought about it long before it reached the drain pour stage.
If she did not care for it, no big deal, I would have drank it and never let it reach the 2 hour mark.

 

i would've drank it.
fact.

 

You gave it as a gift so you really had nothing to lose. Lesson learned.

 

I'd hate to be around when you really get pissed about something...

 

You have a lot of patience, my friend.

 

Probably wasn't rare enough.

 

So three ounces were tried it sounds like. Hopslam is a polarizing beer and not for everyone. My guess is she tried it a couple times and hated it.

 

Problem, solution.

 

The closest I got was when I made my wife try a Lindeman's Framboise and on a separate occasion the Cantillon Kriek. Both times she took probably three sips each. Not a problem really, as I drank the rest with no complaints. The only beer I myself couldn't finish (within the past 10 years) was the Ta Henket. I have it to my friend's brother though. So not really a waste.

I would have been curious to ask your friend what she thought of the Hopslam. Did she not like it? What's going on?

 

Never a problem with me or my friends. They know me well enough that the beer I give them is nothing short of a nectar from the gods or at least something to be drunk the whole way through.

 

I would have made her pay for it. Ok not really just a running gag I have with people I know.

 

Me too on the Ta Henket. I love Dogfish Head, and hate the idea of "drain pours", but I opened one at a bottle share at my house, everyone tried it, everyone hated it, and we dumped it.

Once my colleague and I were out and he was my DD home. He got messed up and called a woman he knew (a mistress would be more accurate) to come and drive us back to my place. The second we got to my place, he passed out on my futon. Then she asked me for a beer. I'm one of those people who are too nice, so even though she wasn't into craft, and I didn't know her at all, I opened one from the fridge, she took a sip, and then she left. Needless to say, I didn't finish it...

 

Probably a good idea not touching that one. It's also a different scenario entirely if that half-empty beer is not yours. If it's your beer, you will usually feel more compelled to finish a half-drunk beer.

On the Ta Henket- I actually felt damn bad about hating it so much. I love DFH and all their other ancient ales. I love history and beer, and DFH does it right. I also had been wanting to try the Ta Henket for a few years. I finally bit the bullet and bought the bomber (somewhere around $20 if I remember correctly). I was also a bit hung over when I drank it, so I was sensitive to putrid tastes/smells.

 

I'd rather my guests enjoy what I offered, so if it became obvious that they weren't then I would just say something like "it seems like you don't really like that- let me get you something else" before things went too far.

I guess the question then is- what happens with the beer after that? If it was somebody close and it was a 'special' beer, then I would finish it myself. It it was more of a casual acquaintance, then it would be disposed of properly.

Most recently, at a family gathering, my cousin's wife grabbed a beer I brought, took a sip, and declared it too bitter for her. Without a second thought, she put it in my hands, and I continued drinking it while she got something else. All relationships should be so free of the normal bullshit .