Ask before you open....

It's got berry in the title. Berry beers are ones non-beer drinkers seem to gravitate toward. I don't think they knew what they were opening.

 

Had this happen to wine, had a wine tasting at our house and a friend brought over one of his friends. He got in the weeds and was shouting for another bottle, and then shut up, he had reached into my wine fridge (in the kitchen at that time) and just grabbed a random bottle. When I saw what it was I was gobsmacked. Moved the fridge the next day to the utility room.
For beer I have a dedicated small wine fridge. Everything in there is somewhat offlimits. My future son in law somewhat knows the rules, on what can leave that fridge and what can't. I have another full size fridge that houses the ML, BL and other beers for mass consumption, but stay away from the bombers on the door. I like the sticker on the bottle cap, going to have to adopt that.

 

This hasn't happened to me yet. I generally keep all my beer in the basement, but don't age anything. Nobody I know likes warm beer - even in the winter when my basement keeps my heavier stuff at the perfect temp (for my tastes anyways). Anything special that I plan on drinking/sharing usually comes up the morning of and gets finished off that night. There are exceptions, but I usually do a decent job keeping the special stuff sequestered.

 

Several years ago when it was much harder to aquire, I had a friend grab my only Westy 12 late night and said "this one has no label its cool if I drink it, right?" Luckily as he had the bottle opener on it, I stopped him.

And while house sitting for us my brother in law drank a bcbs I was planning to age bc "we had a bunch of these." Naturally he happened to grab my only 2013 instead of one of the eight 2014's. Bonus note: he drank 1/3 of it and drain poured the rest because he said it was too strong. *Sigh*

 

My drinks craft beer but she would never open anything that was unusual unless we bought it for her.

 

My wife and I play a game. She will grab a beer or two from the cellar and open it without me in the house. The game part is when I get blindfolded and have to tell her based on smell and taste: 1. What style the beer is, 2. Who the brewer is (if known), and 3. What the beer is (if known). Primarily keep Imperial stouts, belgians, barleywines/old Ales and Sours and have over 130 examples of the styles to choose from. I don't want to be present for the opening because It would tell me if it's a cork, cap or can closure limiting the possibilities. The blindfold is especially hard because how we enjoy and identify beer is heavily influenced by what we see. The first night we played she brought up a TenFidy and DFHS Raison D'Extra (18%). The only problem with this game is that she doesn't consider the ABV of the beers and will only have a little of each leaving me to finish these booz bombs in the DFH example. I'll soldier up every time. It's turning into a fun game.

 

That's come bull! You need to have a talk with her.

 

Here is my story from last year that fits this to a tee.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/communi...rned-on-where-to-keep-the-cellar-beer.177658/

 

My SO knows that the big bottles aging at the bottom of the fridge aren't to be touched unless I open them first. Thankfully she doesn't like sours or really big beers so it works out. We'll go half in on IPAs...most times lol

 

My last Jolly Pumpkin La Roja Grand Reserve, and Biere De Mars Grand Reserve from a few years back disappeared from my fridge when only my sister-in-law and her two friends were up in the wee hours of the morning after a party. I asked her about it, and she didn't own up but speculated that one of her friends opened them. When I grilled him out about it, he finally fessed up, and said that there must have been something wrong with them because they tasted super sour, and that he drain poured them into the flowerbed after only a few sips of each.

 

Over a year ago my Wife had some people from work over to the house for a nightcap after a long night of drinking. This resulted in one of the last Westbrook Gose I had traded for being opened and subsequently drain poured.
Not a particularly valuable beer but frustrating. I used the occurrence as valid reason to buy 3 cases of Gose when we got married in Charleston a couple months later.

 

Ok, but what about the girlfriend you DON'T live with?

 

It's usually the other way around. She drinks bourbon and not frequently. So there are several very nice bottle of bourbon just sitting around all the time (Pappy, Elmer, and the likes). But a buddy of mine, after a long night a few years back, drank multiple bottles of BCBS and one Parabola after I passed out. Shitty move.

 

Only time it's really happened to me was at a BYOB party, someone decided to go into my personal cooler and crack a bomber open. It wasn't a special beer (new belgium hoptober, I think) but the guy, not a friend, could have at least asked or said thank you.

I usually keep anything I don't want to get opened by someone else in a small wine fridge in my basement.

 

Haha I guess that sounded a little odd...

 

My bf and I do it this way too! And we share our bombers so those don't get opened without the other present, even by the person that bought it.

 

Great Lakes Barrel Aged Black Out Stout some co-workers were over and a little inebriated. Somehow one of them confused it for one of his Bud Selects... I wanted to cry.

 

Never had anyone go digging through my fridge. So: specials in the back, general consumption up front.

I do like @jesskidden 's approach of offering anything there's multiples of. Might start using that line. You know...just in case that day does come when someone roots through the fridge...

 

Happened to me but with a bottle of wine a few years back, a 1997 Rubicon.

I come home and my Dad who was watching the kids with my Mom has the half empty bottle on the table next to a pizza box.

I give him a WTF?

He says he grabbed that since all I had was "expensive" wine in the basement. Expensive meaning he recognized some bottles to be around $25 or so.

Told him he drank half of a $100+ bottle of wine with his pizza, a bottle that I was saving to have with my wife on a special night.

He laughs and tells me to grab a glass because it is pretty good, so at least I got to finish the bottle with him.

 

my beer fridge only consist of KBS, firestone walker vintage series bottles and other BA stuff..... nothing else....when people come over its a freaking KBS massacre, and they complain how it smells and taste liek soy sauce....pisses me off......i dont buy other stuff