Ask before you open....

Back in the late '70s or early '80s (before the craft beer industry took off), I was fond of Point Beer, which was not available in the Chicago area. I had a 12 pack in the fridge from a trip up north, as well as some mainstream beer for general consumption. My brother-in-law (who liked even the crappiest beer) arrived for a visit earlier than expected and drank all of the Point, leaving the swill untouched.

 

Doesn't anyone else have a lock on there beer cooler? I feel kind of strange. The lock really evolved because the latch on the door didn't work right and sometimes didn't stay closed so the lock keeps the door closed tight.

 

Barrel-aged Sexual Chocolate

 

My housemate in college opened one of my three Parabola while I was out of town. It was in the box, in my personal fridge, and he said he didn't realize it was special. He then laughed when I got mad and told him how special it was. He said he hadn't liked it and poured it down the drain. His favorite beer is Blue Moon, for reference.

 

Did you punch him in the throat and then say "Oh, I didn't realize your throat was special to you"

 

All of this has made me very upset.

 

my father in law once opened a bottle of maine lunch that i bought, my mother in law saw him, grabbed it from him and corked it with a wine saver! Though i was planning on sharing with friends, i was glad she was atleast able to save it for me to enjoy.

 

My wife respects beer a great deal, we do a good job sharing most of the limited stuff we have(read: I have). She would never even venture into my cellar, let alone drink something from there. She once found some millipedes on the walls there, so the cellar is safe from her raiding it. Now, she HAS drank a lot of my fridge beer on me(Heady and SOS especially), but it's cool cause she pushed a couple kids out of her vag.

 

C'mon let us know what happened
Sadly I have nothing more to add since my wife doesn't like my strange brews and we generally go out for parties

 

I have the same mentality for most of my beer, I do have a few things I'm saving for a good time. I have a wws I'm saving for my college graduation in December that I'd be mad if it got opened.

 

This happened for the first time on Sunday. My wife, who knows how possessive I am about my beer, had a party with all these chicks that I know don't drink beer.... well so I thought. I came home when the party was going on (still!) and my beer was untouched so to cope with all the yapping brauds I grabbed a beer.

Not a short time later, I see one of the chicks I know was drinking a Julius out of the can. So I confronted her as nicely as I could and she offered it back to me after she drank some of it. She said my wife told her it was okay (which she fucking did, like what the fuck!?) I told her how hard it is to get that beer and she kept telling me she has a connection at a liquor store and I can have some of her imported beer at her house and shit.

After I kept telling her you have to go to the fucking tap room in Massachusetts to get Julius, she keeps repeating herself saying "I will get you a case from my guy at the local liquor store. He can get anything." Yeah right. As all this going on, another girl at the party suddenly is interested in this beer because it's so hard to get, asks me if she can have some of it. I was fucking losing my mind at this point and could not take it anymore so I told her to just drink it. Well guess what. After the other chick takes the last half of can Julius in her Dixie cup, she leaves like a full cup untouched and leaves. I said "fuck it" and just drank it. Sorry for the rant but had to get it out.

 

So has she gotten that case for you? She should've at least gotten you something...

 

Put masking tape on the bottles that are off limits. I learned that trick after a bottle of Orval became a soup ingredient.

 

simply get you wife's favorite purse and drop a huge power dump in it...she'll know better than to give your beers away during the next party

 

Great for making Carbonnade a la Flammande! If I won't drink it I sure as hell won't cook with it. The better the ingredients the better the dish!!

 

I guess I have to count myself among the very fortunate here. I can't imagine anyone giving away a Julius (or equivalent) or even just helping themselves. My wife is supportive of my hobby and if she does participate she basically has her own stash. The only minor incident we've ever had was that she gave a beer to a coworker thinking it was a DDC Aphrodite (hers) when it was actually a Peche Mortel (mine). Easy mistake as the two labels do look very similar and they were right beside each other. Other than that, I've never been in the scenario you others have described (knock on wood).

 

If your wife knew of the importance of your beers to you and she took some anyway, then it must have been important to her for whatever reason. You reacted wrongly at your wife's 'party.' I think that you should apologize and then tell your wife that you forgive her too, and then you need to get over it. Yeah, it's a yard-to-get beer, but it sounds like you have more of it.

 

I'd be bummed that happened, but it is just beer. Glad I don't hang out with you guys at your house cause it sounds like it was a pretty dick thing to do considering you were a semi-host. It's not the girls fault drinking it, so why make her feel bad about it and try to take it back?

 

Sorry I don't really feel you here. There will always be more Julius and other rare beers. Things like being a gracious host and kind to your wife's friends are things you will remember long after the taste of whatever beer has faded.