Sour Crap

Why is it that when someone gets a beer that is not to their liking...it instantly must be infected. With that being said, Cigar City Big Sound Rum Barrel was awesome...and actually infected.

 

That's like getting angry at Jolly Pumpkin for not listing Madrugada Obscura as sour....

 

Whoa whoa whoa. So they call a sour a barleywine and you'll never buy from them again... but if they had bottled an IPA and called it a barleywine you would be delighted? I don't care if a bought a PBR, that shit better be full of PBR. You can't fault them one way but champion them for doing it with a style you like. But I have heard you can cellar a DIPA and make it a barleywine...

 

This has been quite the thread so far. Time to pop more popcorn...nom nom nom

 

You are aware that microwave popcorn has diacetyl right? I'd hate for your feathers to get ruffled because it wasn't on the label and therefore must be a flaw

 

I wouldn't use fake butter flavoring if they paid me in beer(and I've done a lot worse for beer). I pop mine on the stove, little sugar, little salt, lots of lurking on BA. Repeat.

 

Actually I just checked my Orville redenbacher and it says no added diacetyl flavoring, so I guess diacetyl would be a flaw. A delicious buttery flaw.

 

I'm such a beer geek, the only popcorn I'll touch is Orval Rodenbacher.

 

So if I'm understanding the argument here, the bottle is clearly labeled as a Biere de Garde and OP assumed that meant not sour. Or he skipped Biere de Garde and focused on Barley Ryne?

A quick look at the Top Beers page for the Biere de Garde style shows 3 of the top 5 spots held by JP brews so you can safely assume they probably contain some brett and/or bacteria. One of the other spots is BFM, a brewery I'm not personally familiar with but that seems to be well known for funky brews. It seems to me that the "best" representations of the style are known for being part of that huge sour umbrella.

Price paid, lesson learned. I pick up beers without knowing exactly what I'm buying from time to time. Usually they suck, occasionally they're great. Nothing to get mad about. One of the first craft beers I picked up years ago was a Biere de Garde and I hated it. Now I love the style, but I've also grown to love most sour styles.

Also infected is not the same thing as inoculated. People throw infected around a little too freely.

 

Whoops. Good catch. Not at all sure how I messed that one up.

 

BFM Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien is a pretty well known sour even though it is not labeled as such. Hell, Stone just had a few different vintages of it at their Sour Fest. As far as I know though, BFM doesn't have any other sours.

 

Dude, wooaaah, like no one is calling anyone names like man, well, no, that's not true, you are, dude brah, chillax, brodude,

but I said simply you shouldn't come on here complaining if you don't do your research. Make all the impulse buys you want, but don't come on here complaining that boo hoo I had no idea what this beer was gonna taste like when easily providing us with that info is the main thing this site does.

Well, no, I guess you can come on here complaining if you want to, but don't expect to gain sympathy from those who don't complain when impulse buys don't work out, and use the site reviews. What next, complain that Fantome saisons don't advertise they have bottle variation? Oh, boo hoo, fellow beer advocates, this bottle of Fantome tastes different than the last one I had, why didn't they warn me on the label? Oh, this Orval tastes like it is infected, itmust be a bad batch I want my money back.

Labels aren't always the end all be all. Impulse buys don't always work out, and it isn't always somebody else's fault. Why don't you learn this instead of attacking those trying to teach it?

 

Meh. You win some, you lose some. Move along.

 

No one is saying you have to research any beer before you buy it, but if you do, you are intentionally making a less informed decision than you could be making and therefore should expect less accuracy than if you did research. It's fine not to research or ask the beer guy (I do that plenty of times) but I also expect to know less about what I'm getting into when I do that.

Also, you essentially argue against your own complaint when you say all would have been fine if it had been an IPA labeled as a barleywine.

 

From this point forward, I am going to refer to CaveDave as Brodude!!!

OP, The point that several people are trying to get at is that Shit Happens when you make a blind choice at purchasing an unknown bottle...Go knows we've all been burned from labels, it happens and you move on. I know you weren't looking for sympathy from anyoe and had a pissed off moment and vented here...your execution of said venting was poorly done. You really missed the mark when you crapped on the rating though...it would be hard for some people to take your ratings seriously becase of one non subjective rating. I had the misfortune of tasting a can of Bud Light Lime a rita recently and I still couldn't give it all 1's. Subjective is keyregardless of style preference or mood.

 

I didn't se this turned into a thread flaming you, so don't take this as such. I'm just saying you can't have it both ways.