You're not a beer geek unless...

You refuse to pour beer in someone's glass that hasn't been rinsed out between tastings at your yearly tasting party.

 

You are morally outraged by the "mule" concept to obtain more than one's "fair share" of bottle/can release allotments.

 

Some of my friends get offended when I rinse a glass out at their houses.

Outraged friend: "You think it's dirty?!"

Me: "There might be one speck of dust. Sorry man."

 

When your family(who you are not with) and without your asking, try to swing by a brewery to pick up beers that aren't distributed in your area.

 

When you're traveling to a new state you stop into EVERY store that MIGHT sell beer, just to see what's available.

And if something new and good is available, you buy it then and there, logistics (and complaining travel partners) be damned.

 

When at every beer purchase the teller has to grab a wine or beer box for you so you can carry your purchase to your car.

 

You're not a beer geek unless you've bought a $200+ case of beer you've never tried, but another beer geek said it was really good so you went for it.

 

Haven't seen it but I'm sure it's been said, Checking dates on beers

 

Unless...you buy beer for a party, rather than take beer from home, either way ya go you'll being buying beer. Right?

 

When friends or co-workers travel, you ask them what hotel they are staying at, so you can do some web searches to find a quality bottle shop close to their hotel where you give them instructions to go to and get "x" specific beers.
You also contact that particular store in advance to find out if they have "x" beer, and hold one for your traveler to pick up to make it easy for them.

 

"You're not a beer geek unless"...

YOU PEE YOUR PANTS! Of course I peed my pants, everybody my age pees their pants; it's the coolest.

translation:
-You aren't a beer geek until you geek out about beer. Even in regards to the smallest detail or the big picture in general. There isn't 1 thing that makes you a geek. Some people are glassware *****s (I'm one of them, I LOVE my glassware but i'll take a beer out of a solo cup if need be), some people love bottle releases, others cream over their cellar. Geek and Snob have 2 different connotations. I think a beer geek is much more approachable than a snob (even though the geek may know more than the snob).

Alas, titles and strict categorization never solve anything and nothing is ever truly black and white. Geek out while you can

 

When you spend an hour reading this thread, chuckling all the way through because it's tru!

 

When you know you are traveling to a great beer state, so you only pack your suitcase half full in order to bring back the other half with beer.

 

Funny because it is so true!

 

you know what the term "truck chaser" means
you think the three floyds has it out against you if you dont get DLD tix
you bitch about ipa bomber prices while drinking 2 in a night
you think shaker pints are bullshit... even for bud light
you whine about goose island selling out... while in line for bcbs at 4am on black friday at binny Lincoln Park
you buy your inlaws a set of tulips for chirstmas.
your kids know how to behave at the home brew shop (not cuz they are perfect, but because by the 30th time you have dragged them there they know how to not piss you off).
your jewish wife (im not) is ok with you drinking beer during passover

I'm guilty of all of these

 

Funny shit. Pun intended!

 

Could be many things but right now I'd say try a Trappist beer. Amazing how many I've met that haven't. I just don't see how you get to the point trading for extremely sought after beers regularly for a few years & never coming across a Trappist beer.

 

I do this. I'm not even sure why?

 

If you bring beer to the liquor store because the beer guy there hasn't tried it (and it is important to stay on his good side because ______________ is being released soon).

 

If you have your 79 year old mother race over to the store (Binny's) for you because the 3 Floyds shipment just came in and they are already running low on Zombie Dust.