Ever broken or spilled a great beer?

On Saturday evening, my best friend and I were challenging each other to a great game of Street Fighter V on the PS4. Ken vs. Ken. He was playing new school, while I was playing old school ken with 2 hit, 3 hit at most 5 hit combos with fireballs and dragon punches. I won about 7 straight with the regular , and all the while playing SFV, we were drinking Founder's Breakfast Stout. And since they started distributing to California, we grabbed as much as we can and had about 5 each that evening.

He got pissed after my 8th straight win and hit his fist on the table. He hit the table so hard that the glass he was drinking out of, flew about 5 inches in the air and and tipped over and spilled on the table and over his Mad Catz SFV controller...so now, he's even more pissed. I was mad because he spilled an awesome beer. He just have been drunk already (because he was drinking hard liquor before I came over) and he started to lick the table and lick his controller.

Needless to say, we ended SFV game play and got more drunk with the other adult beverages.

 

Coincidentally, one of the only two beers I've ever broken was a FBS. I got it as a leftover from a March Madness Beer tournament. Luckily it, just like the only other beer I've broken, a Corsedonk Christmas ale, was broken outside for easier clean-up.

 

It's happened to me once (three years aged Old Stock Ale from North Coast Brewing) I asked those in attendance to observe a moment of silence as I solemnly intoned "For the Brothers who have gone on before." Then I got out my Miracle Mop.

 

Let the brother-in-law house sit a few years ago when my wife and I went on vacation. Came home to find this...

 

Knocked over a glass of FFF Wigsplitter recently after forgetting I left it sitting on the arm of the couch. Luckily it came in a bomber so I still had another pour. Also luckily I keep a trash can next to the couch which all of the beer spilled into, minimizing clean-up.

 

I did this a few weeks ago. Almost started a thread just about this and titled it "The Great Tragedy."

Anyway, I had just finished evening chores, cleaned up cat vomit, etc. And had just come up from the cellar with about 5 bottles, all the while thinking, "This could go horribly wrong."

I made it all the way to the kitchen, put them all down. Then when transferring them one by one to the fridge, I dropped one no more than 3 or 4 inches on to the counter. It EXPLODED. Throwing glass and sticky beer in an full 8 foot radius around the kitchen.

I had special ordered this beer as it's not available in my area: Avery Fortuna. Sour, barrel aged in tequila barrels and especially sticky.

 

It's tough to 'like' this post, it being Westy and all, but this is a really great story.

 

Grabbed the last bottle of Le Terroir in town last year. My fiancé (then girlfriend) proceeded to spill her half of the bomber across my parents porch. So I have yet to drink an entire pour of that beer.

 

!!! Couldn't bring myself to click a "Like" on that one because of the unfortunate loss. So what was his "explanation" for that one?!!!??

 

Double Sunshine is still in Bombers

 

Hasn't happened to me so far, thankfully... but I did happen to be standing at the other end of the beer aisle once and saw some very unlucky guy pick up the last 12-pack of Torpedo in a Kroger... with one hand... and the other end of the box gave out right when the box was fully out of the cooler. Probably about half of the bottles shattered, beer-puddle and broken glass everywhere.

I assume they gave him a marked-down price on the surviving bottles, at least, since when I came back to that same Kroger the next day or so, they weren't in the discount bin like how most "somebody broke/stole a bottle out of this pack and now we can't sell the full pack together" beers end up.

 

had half a case of pliny's freeze in the mini fridge. I didn't know someone had turned the fridge down to 8. Very very very sad.

 

That's an FO

 

While on a camping trip, I poured a bomber of Smuttynose Big A IPA into a red Solo cup and then placed the cup onto a cooler to go retrieve something.

When I returned, I found that the cup had fallen over and everything had spilled out onto the grass.

I said a few bad words.

 

a growler of Fiddlehead IPA froze and burst on the back step during a cold snap. rookie move.

 

First release of Enjoy By..was a block from home. .was gonna grab bite to eat..crack that bomber open..and the bottom of the fuckin bag rips...aroma of tropical fruit and resin almost made me lick the sidewalk..thankfully got another one a few days later.

 

I recall one time on vacation with a fully packed to the brim mini-van, we finally got home I went to start unloading. In my stupidity I had packed a mixed 6 pack of beer on top of a cooler and clearly it had shifted during the drive home. Being that I was tired, we had driven for 6+ hours, I didn't even think about this when I popped open the trunk, the 6 pack flew out and smashed all over my garage destroying all 6 bottles and spilling beer everywhere. Can't recall the bottles I lost (wiped from memory), but certainly they were interesting singles that I had brought back from a vacation to Oregon.

This was a lesson I learned the hard way and have since changed how I position beer I bring back on vacation.

 

Bullshit. After your first ever sip of Supplication at City Beer Store (I wanna say 2013?), you dropped the glass, subsequently breaking the glass and spilling the beer everywhere.

 

Yeah, ever broken or spilled a great beer, great beer.