Biggest beer pet peeves

1) Boring, repetitive, lack luster and passionless beer reviews that are submitted just for the sake of reviewing beers in quantity. Be more creative!
2) People submitting reviews for beer styles they absolutley hate to begin with. Just stop.
3) US "style" beers. Don't imitate flavors and stylize a classic beer. Make a real version!

 

Customers who steal nice glassware so we can't pour each draft in the proper glass.

 

I work at a craft beer bar so my pet peeve has to do with customers...

Asking if we have "Pliny", then the customer proceeds to order a Cider or a Lager if we don't. Even if i recommend several other DIPAs that we have on tap that i like more than Pliny.

We do get Pliny from time to time so it is fair to ask, but i feel like people are asking just because they read about it somewhere as one of the "best beers in the world" or "beers to have before you die" list.

 

Goose Island

 

So effing irritating!

 

Easy, Ogre

 

Breweries that only fill their own branded growlers!

One of the points of a growler is to reduce our footprint. Cut do on our waste of bottles/cans.
I got to about 10 growlers and said to myself "this is ridiculous". Now i only get growler fills when the brewery fills all growlers, or i already own one of theirs. Never again will o buy another new growler!

 

I have no opinion on your overall point. I'm sure it's valid. I just think asking Is IPA too difficult to spell funny as shit no matter the context.

 

I think that a smart proprietor should clean his own lines, to make sure that it is done correctly. Beer is a food product and the responsibility to keep clean lines should be the same as cleanliness throughout the establishment. It keeps the proprietor honest and not beholden to any distributor that may hold the line cleaning task over his head for special treatment. Assign the task to a trusted employee.

 

When my beer fridges aren't crammed full with tasty beverages.

 

I was at a bar with a friend of mine the other night and he proudly proclaimed "I've stolen one of every kind of glass they have here!" I wanted to say something, but what can you even say about that? Stealing is bad, mkay.

Some of my pet peeves:
- No dates on bottles
- Sort of the opposite problem: Stores with tons of old stock
- Bombers. Everything about them. The pressure to drink them before they go flat, the inflated prices, the inconvenience, etc
- When breweries use clear or green bottles. Too many times I've gotten a skunked or nearly skunked imported beer, partly because of the bottle and partly because the shop doesn't know how to store them. Why can't everyone just use cans?

 

But that would require original thought which is something I shun.

 

This has most definitely been said, although I didn't read the whole thread. I experience this every time I go to a popular shop now. Dudes on phones checking every beer rating to see if it's worthy of their purchase. I was a at a top shop today and more guys/ gals were looking at their phones then the beers on the shelves. Damn thats annoying. Take a freaking risk or go with a style you enjoy. Why does everything have to be top rated. Oh and then it's shit if it's below like 90. Please.

 

Those are the beer version of the Robert Parker people; just let 'em be, nothing can be done about it.

 

And avoid eye contact which seems to make 'em nervous.

 

No bottling date or no ABV listed on the label.

 

Over spiced pumpkin ales, old lousy IPAs, not dating the beers. Steel Reserve I find it appallingly bad I'm offended they brew it, if it's brewed and not created in an old dumpster.

 

I have a few:

• First, to the person bashing 50 yo's as people who know nothing about the craft beer scene. I'm 52 and I've been drinking craft beer and imports since the late 80's. I was bringing growlers of Boulevard home from KC before they were bottling and going to the only decent beer bar in my town to get Anchor Steam on Tap before some of you were born. The selection then wasn't even a shadow of what's out there now. It was an amazing surprise to walk into a place and find decent beer on tap. You celebrated and went there often.
• Anyplace that touts their great beer selection but can't keep an up to date tap list. A local place has over 20 taps, but their menu only lists the standards (about 10). If you ask about the rest, the server doesn't know. I have to put on glasses and go to the bar to decipher tap handles to figure out what they have that's out of the ordinary. KEEP AN UP TO DATE MENU FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! Why has nobody created an app for that?
• Related to above - TV's with the tap list. It always scrolls too fast to read one page, so you have to stand there looking at it through several iterations, trying with each page change to figure out where you left off the last time that page was displayed (I know, learn to read faster, right?).
• Bartenders that pour your beer but overflow the glass, then hand you a dripping mess or set it down with no coaster, leaving a puddle right in front of you.
• Seriously overpriced beers. They charge $15 for one 12 oz. bottle of Prairie Artisan here. And I thought $20/4 pack of KBS was bad.
• Untappd racers - racing their buds to reach the next big milestone for unique beers. Relax. It's not a race. Enjoy each beer...don't be afraid to drink them repeatedly when they're special. Go to a place with multiple great IPA's, sours and stouts on tap and they bitch that there's nothing there....because they've had 'em all and want something to tic off on Untappd. (Disclaimer - I got sucked into this for awhile).

 

beer served too cold at bars... I find this especially to be a problem with stouts. Had a vanilla rye on draft that was served way too cold. Thankfully I had a sip and realized how cold it was and let it sit. The simple solution is to buy a $15 IR temp gun, which has honestly been awesome at bottle shares, to ensure the DL we're pouring isn't too cold to enjoy.

 

It's annoying. It's a state law in Massachusetts.