Intentionally tasting bad beer!

ok ask a serious question and I be glad to help yea.

btw welcome to the forums.

stone AB, you love it or hate it.

 

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Just stay the hell away from this one, and everything will be fine.

 

Probably just a coincidence considering the OP's Virginia location and the traditional New England market for this discount beer from The Lion, but I thought his screen name was amusingly ironic...

 

yea and it sucks you cannot search other reviews anymore. had to do it manually.

 

its a long process, take your time to develop your palate, enjoy the ride as it is more subjective

 

Eventually you'll taste a bottled beer from a brewery that is infected or sitting out on the shelf for too long.

 

drink what you like, not what others tell you to like

 

Admittedly, early on I had to drink a few BMC's to make sure I wasn't fooling myself. I just needed to make the clear distinction in my taste buds between hoppy and corny.

 

Drinking a BMC isn't necessarily going to tell you much about bad beer/flavors. Remember, most of them are brewed to have as little flavor as possible (i.e. light and easy to drink= easy to get drunk). You'll learn more from poorly made "craft" beer than an ice cold Bud Light.

 

I haven't been drinking considerable amounts of beer for very long, but I'm making an effort at finding things I like and don't like. Got my foot in the door with Tucher Hefeweizen - I'm working my way from there.

A few nights ago I went and got a bottle of Arrogant Bastard out of morbid curiosity, emphasis on "morbid." The hoppiest thing I'd drank before that was some other Stone brew almost a year beforehand. I can't recall which one, but I do recall thinking that it was bitter foulness that I ended up feeding to the sink.

But I got Arrogant Bastard anyway knowing that I was unlikely to enjoy it. So why get it? I'm asking myself that as much as any of you are. Perhaps I was hoping to prove my expectations wrong (surely it has a 93 on BA for a reason), but maybe I was also willing to put my masochistic streak to the test. Also, being a relative newbie to the wonderfully diverse world of beer, I was curious to see just how broad the flavor spectrum really is. As I found out, AB is a looong way from Hefeweizen.

The first sip was barely tolerable, and everything after that was a siege on my olfactory senses. Being a trooper about it, I decided I'd finish the bottle anyway - like falling down a rocky hillside, it wasn't going to stop until I reached the bottom.

I finished it with no regrets, save for one - I wish I'd gone through that ordeal with a friend. Would've been a helluva bonding experience...
"Hey, remember when we split the Bastard?"
"F*** you, good sir."

EDIT: Oh, and uh - hello, BeerAdvocate Forums!

 

Your a stronger man than I was. I could not finish mine, nice story btw.

 

wow expensive DP?

 

infected bourbon Barrel Stone Imperial Russian Stout...I thought "how bad can it be I'll just drink it", but it was just too bad.
point is, to the OP, I wouldn't worry too much about "knowing" what a bad bottle or beer tastes like, if you get an infected/bad bottle you will know it...and you will pour it

 

Ha, send that pic to Stone Greg. I think his head will explode.

I'll try anything just about once and I had to try this when I saw it...



Earthquake... a $1.49 12% ABV Lager at my local gas station. It tasted like bubbly corn tears. Sweeter than apple juice from using waay too much corn sugar to create such a high ABV. I've heard that other states now have this at 8%. Even less a point in that.

For a moment, I felt what it was like to be a hobo.

 

As a side note... is there such a thing as a high quality "High Gravity" Lager? Can such a thing even be accomplished?

 

This is what i think you should do. Rate the beers you drink within the context of all the other beers you drink.

It shouldn't matter that you only drink "great beer." If you only drink great beer, then the best of those great beers gets 100/100 and the worst gets 1/100. It is not that hard.

You should not seek out beer you know you will not like for the sake of producing a more even distribution. You should simply acknowledge that its ok to give a good beer a mediocre score if much of what you drink is better than said admittedly good beer.

 

Every beer I rate tends to be green, and way over the standard avg of other BA scores. I do not care. Every person has their own brain to decide what they think is right.