Liquor Store Pet Peeves

Beer prices in Canada are generally a bit higher than the US. In British Columbia 6 packs generally cost around $12-13, but for imports like Deschutes or even Sierra Nevada, it's more like $15-18. Beer in general is taxed like crazy here, and I'm pretty sure imports are taxed even more.

 

Four month old Founder's Centennial IPA, warm, rotting on the shelves.... I'm looking at you Binny's......

 

That escalated quickly

 

They fucking know here! : ) ...1 bottle limit at a local chain liquor that in the past (previous years) I've seen cases stacked up 5 high waay after it was released...not this year...must be shipping it back East at a much higher MSRP.

 

Some of us can't, by law. But in places you can, I guess that'd be peevish.

 

Bottle limits. I'm here and I've got the $$, just give me what I want.
Or having to prove yourself the the resident beer geek.

 

I hate it when liquor stores don't have the prices marked on their six packs. I don't like being surprised by some ludicrous price when I get up to the register.

 

Only thing that I can think of is waiting more than 5 minutes to checkout. i don't really get that annoyed by stupid stuff to be honest

 

Just had this little discussion with a waiter tonight.

 

Same here. I know very little about wine and liquor but I leave that to the manager who is a wine geek. But when someone asks me about beer, I'm a lot more comfortable helping people out.

 

A beer that is in a freezer that should not be in a freezer.

 

Having expired beer on the shelf. This has happened on several occasions. I understand that if you have a large selection, that it may be hard to keep up with rotation, but seriously it should still be done. It's super annoying.

One moment comes to mind. One time, I told one of the employees that there was a Stone Smoked Porter that was expired by like a month or two. All he did was say "Wow, I guess you shouldn't drink it then." and that's it. I come back 2 days later and that same exact expired beer that was once out of refrigeration is now in the refrigerated section despite me telling them about it two days earlier. Ergh. I really hope that never happens again.

 

Um...all of them?

 

I don't believe you.

 

I appreciate that you realize it might be hard to keep up with rotation... Since expired beer seems to be the main complaint in this forum then I would suggest contacting your beer providers and say so.

As I previously stated there are 2500 types of beer in my store. Let's say that all the beers come in a case of 24 bottles. That's 60000 bottles of beer if I only ordered one case of each... Honestly, that's not a very accurate number since not all beers come in cases but I generally order more than one case (typically 12 bottles/case of 22's and 24 bottles/case of 12's) of each type of beer. There are four beer guys (me included) at my store with at most 2-3 of us working together only a few times a week. Are you starting to see how difficult it is to find and remove the expired beer off the shelf?

In addition you should read this: http://beerdates.com/faq

 

Not really an issue to drink a porter a month out of date.

Enjoy

 

Wow, now that you put some numbers on it, I can see how difficult it can be to rotate and keep up with the expiration dates. And thanks for the website. I'll definitely check it out.

 

No Dogs Allowed

 

Boo Hoo, the person wants to know if it's good, so tell them if it's good who cares. Please stop posting stupid threads like this, they're not about beer

 

Only one. Old, out of date beer. WAY too much of it.