Biggest beer pet peeves

The other day, I went to a beer/wine store and saw four-packs of Bigfoot... sitting right there in the window where they undoubtedly get blasted by so much sunlight that they might as well relabel them Skunk Ape. I know brown bottles protect against light better than green/blue/clear, but sitting in front of a window for days or weeks? Unless those windows were seriously coated with UV-blocking stuff, that can't possibly be good for the beer...

(Somebody walked over and picked one up to buy while I was in there, too... for her sake I hope they hadn't gotten too much sun!)

To be fair, the calendar definitions of when the "first day of X season" starts are kinda BS... and the spring/summer and summer/fall borders are especially shaky. When summer starts and ends (in terms of weather, not in terms of what some guy decided would officially be the season named "summer" on the calendar) depends on where you are and what the weather decides to do that particular year. I figure it's a bit different in Minnesota than Virginia, being so much further north and all, but here the weather's been feeling pretty summery most of the time since... maybe around the end of April, start of May.

March is still a little early to be putting out summer beers for sure, but a beer bottled in mid-March that's intended to be drank starting on the warmer days in April isn't that odd.

 

Lack of beer selection at so called sports/multiple tapped bars is a huge pet peeve of mine.

 

Breweries who produce a highly sought after beer and only release it once a year or so, making it nearly impossible to get. Sorry, I don't chase beer trucks or stand in line hours for the privilege of getting a lottery ticket at a chance to buy their beer. Stop making varieties that gather dust on the shelf, and just concentrate of making the good stuff and get THAT on the shelves. Hear me MBC!!!

 

Stuff....and things....

 

People that think Shocktop, bluemoon, etc. is real craft beer.

 

Anyone who reads this site knows my pet peeve is people who think everyone actually likes the taste of American Adjunct lagers, but some of us won't drink them because we're just beer snobs.

Yeah, it couldn't be that we simply don't like the taste of brewed corn.

 

This is not rational, and possibly already mentioned, but bile rises in my throat every time I see "Beer X is drinking beautifully/wonderfully/splendidly right now"

 

People who say they like "cheap beer" with pride, while insulting the beer I'm drinking by calling it things like "queer beer."

 

Not to mention, those bottles do a lot of clinging together during the distribution process which thoroughly degrades the integrity of the glass.

 

You should tell them you like cheap women while staring longingly at their wives. J/K!

My pet peeve is people standing around on line at releases and setting trades on their phones before they even get the beer. There's absolutely no logic to this. Just something about the fact that they are trading beer that's not in their hands yet just gets my goat.

F it, the whole culture of the beer trading scene gets my goat. Seeing people maxing out their limits or utilizing mules specifically for trade bait, while some poor fool at the back of the line will be denied, makes me feel some kind of way.

 

When I hear "tropical goodness" my guts rumble. Not sure why - just irks me endless.

 

Fruit in my beer pisses me off.

 

Seriously +1

 

People who don't see the value or joy in drinking shelf beer.

 

Off topic, but I had some beer in a hotel room last year and realized I had no bottle opener, so I did the old hack of wedging the bottle cap against a table and hitting it. The cap came off along with a perfect ring of glass.

 

How people on the west coast bag on Bell's Two Hearted for being average and "nothing special".

Call me a homer, or whatever...

 

"Shelf beer"
"World class"

Edit - shelf beer winds me up anyway. But then when people talk about HF "shelf saisons" - wtf? Yeah they're all over the place....

 

This has been said before, but one of my biggest pet peeves is the lack of a decent beer selection at "high-end" restaurants. There are a few around here that sell great food, have a wine list that covers 4-5 pages, and the standard offerings of Bud, Miller, Coors, Stella, and Blue Moon. If you're lucky, there may be an option for Dogfish Head. I just think some local options would be nice. Thankfully, there are also a number of restaurants around here that are the exact opposite when it comes to beer.

 

yeah, it's not the best terminology for sure, but it's more used to just denote saisons that are available at the brewery more regularly than the more glitzy ones- Art, Flora, Ann, Le Sarrasin, whatever.

It's about the brewery's shelf. But I do agree that whole "shelf" terminology is kind of annoying

 

This. This. A million times this.