Ask before you open....

Doushe move. Just let it go. Let your wife know that some beers are not easily replaceable and mark them or seperate them. It's just fucking beer. Friends are about 1 million x more important. Any beer I own is available to drink by my friends and wife. If it's rare or special I mark it so it can be opened while I'm home so I can enjoy it too.

Enjoy....... Life is short

Happy holidays to all

 

I don't mind guest grabbing the beer....what I do mind is that they open the beer, take a sip and leave the rest untouched because they just wanted to try it, now that's a crime against humanity

 

My girlfriend knows how possessive I am too, but all my stuff is stored in a cellar and she knows to ask first, and if there's a party, I put the untouchables out of reach (not in the fridge). But it sounds like you made a few mistakes here. First, she offered it back to you, so why not drink it, enjoy it, and be done with it? Beer is for drinking, especially a fresh IPA which can only sit so long anyway.

Second, you didn't ask how she liked it. Maybe this is the beer that turns her into a craft drinker. Last night, I convinced a cashier at Harris Teeter who works 2 jobs to splurge on a BCBS when I was buying 6 for $12 each and she was fascinated by it.

Finally, she offered you a case of imported beer in exchange for a can of Julius. Might have just been Stella, but could have been something cooler. She also seemed like she could have hooked you up with her buddy at the liquor store, and friends who work at liquor stores are very good friends to have indeed.

We're beer advocates here, not beer hoarders. Spread the love, share with friends, or share with people and make new friends. If you got Julius once, you can get it again, and if not, drink something else. And don't be the asshole host who loses his cool over a beer, because that is all your wife's friends are going to remember you as, and they will tell her and she will be pissed at you, and in the end, you will find it much more worthwhile to put down your beer and your pride and just be a decent dude.

 

And props to you, Rav, for dropping the word "machatunim" without a blink.

 

having a family holiday party on XMAS eve, going to masking tap off the entire middle rack in my refrigerator...

i will fight a family member no problem if I catch them with one of my brews, try me.

 

I was at my brothers for a weekend (which is in michigan) . I live in Florida now so he went out of his way to snag some zombie dust to share. Also many other beers he could find locally. One night we were tasting other beers he had purchased and we were having a bon fire. Our neighbor who is very close with us but is known as the beer garbage disposal . The guy will drink the worst beer out there just to get drunk. Well he decided to go grab a beer from his craft beer fridge .. I happen to notice he had a zombie dust but no one else noticed . Drinking from the bottle I might add. I asked him if my brother said it was cool ? He was like " I noticed there was plenty of them so I grabbed it" haha I gave him some shit about it and I could tell he felt bad about it . So as we were sitting around the fire he was trying to hide what he had and I kept messing with him . I asked him if he wanted me to take his empty . Haha he kept saying nah I'll take it with me . It was a honest mistake but sometimes it is better to just ask . We had plenty of high abv bad beers he could of had .

 

My bro took a Devil Dancer from me one time. Maybe not the best beer, but I paid $20 for a 4 pack, so 1 beer cost $5... He didn't pay me, and didn't like it either..

 

When I was into wine, and living in my parents house, I'd routinely have expensive and difficult to find bottles of Rose and White opened and used in chicken recipes. What bothered me was 2 fold:

1) that the quality of the wine hardly impacts the taste of the chicken
2) that only about 3 ounces of wine was used

Thankfully, my beer has yet been sacrificed needlessly to the culinary gods.

As far as other people drinking my stash, my three-fold modus operandi is:

1) proactively stow away my stash when a party is a'coming (no one is drinking warm beer off the floor of your bedroom)
2) buy a large selection of accessible craft and try to introduce people to good beer at said party
2) don't open any of my beers from my stash at said party unless I intend on sharing them with the anyone who asks

Apologies for all of the bullets, but I'm at work so my mind just naturally goes there.

 

Makes sense that he felt bad about it, as you were trying to make him feel bad about it.

Peoples' Feelings > ... > Beer

 

This type of thread always blows my mind. Do people not communicate at all with their SOs/family/friends? Who just goes into someone's house and starts consuming food/drink without asking first? Crazy..

 

My mother-in-law poured out half of my 1995 Triple Bock (one of the good bottles) while I drinking the first half of it on my birthday this year. I got over it... I think.

 

Im with TCJ on this one gracious host, and is a beer or two worth a fight with your wife??

 

Are your wife's friends hot? If they are you can let that slide, if not I'd tell them to get out of the house.

 

My 24 year old genius son drank 4 Firestone Opels and replaced it with a 30 pack of Bud Light. When I asked him why Bud Light he said "Because it is a better deal." I told him if he touches my beer again I will give him a 10x10 foot spot in the backyard and a tent to live in. and . . . he didn't even bother to put the Bud Light in the fridge!!!! I was hot.

 

With the exception of my dad, whom I invited to try any beer he wants in the fridge, most family and friends know most of the beer there is a big deal, usually ask first, but as long as they enjoy it, I suppose I wouldn't feel too bad about it. I won't forget the time my 22 year old(back then) step-daughter opened a bottle of Prairie Bomb without asking or knowing what it was, took a drink, made a face, looked at me and asked if I had anything "normal"...bargh!

 

Definitely not as hard to come by as some of these beers mentioned in this thread, but anyways, I had a Sierra Nevada Bigfoot sitting in my fridge for a few months "aging" more or less. I was saving it for the 4th of July, I believe. Anyways, while I'm at work, my brother calls me to tell me that he wanted a beer and since he had no money or didn't feel like driving to the store, whatever, decided to drink the Bigfoot. The worst part is he didn't even like the beer. Said it was nasty and doesn't know how I could drink that shit I do. He couldn't even finish it, he said.

 

There's one of you in every family-unfortunately.

 

This is why I'm getting my own fridge for XMAS

 

Yah, uh, my wife knows better. She would karate kick the shit out of some chick trying to sneak one of my important beers- or if she wasn't 100% sure she would ask me. God bless her soul.