Life after Poo-Bah

The details of the methodology of gaining karma points is a secret around here. So I can't say it's the easiest or fastest way, but I notice my points go up whenever I add or rate/review a beer or place. Other than that, I'd say just keep participating.

Assuming this is an honest question, if you have a list of 10,000 beers to drink and you drink one, you tick it off the list. It's that simple.

 

Completely agree with @PapaGoose03, I'd attained "poo-bah" before I was even a consistent reviewer. But I was adding places, beers, pictures, etc., while rating beers.

 

No, we're not drunk. We're just a bunch of nice guys who welcome a newcomer to the club.

Actually by the time that you attain poobah status you've aged enough into maturity that you realize afterward getting drunk does too much harm to your body so that you quickly learn to stop doing it.

 

you broke the first rule of beer karma

• The origins of Beer Karma, and its mystical calculations, remain unknown. Seeking it out is not the way of Beer Karma.

 

Didn't Old Style used to use kräusening? I'm pretty sure that it no longer does.

 

I even did not know that I'm Poo-Bah and how I got there.

 

Yes indeed. And that was a place of employment as well. If you look I had almost a year gap of not logging anything. I have a Budweiser today. Enjoyed it. Was a good feeling. Cheers

 

Too bad you won't even remember as far back as the past 15 minutes haha

 

Yeah, that one's on my KRAEUSENING webpage which zid was referring to. And Heileman used the term repeatedly in some ads as well as on the label.

Once Heileman disappeared in '99 when it was just a subsidiary of Stroh, Pabst bought the brand and moved the brewing of it to Miller. (IIRC, Pabst for a time had Special Export contract-brewed at City, the original Heileman brewery but I don't think that was ever the case with Old Style).

In 2009, when Pabst, still under Kalmanovitz Charitable Trust ownership, announced Old Style was going to return to being kraeusened, but also would move into the "premium" price segment. Don't know its status these days. With Pabst moving their contracting to City (owned, in part, by Pabst execs), seems likely it will again come out of the Lacrosse brewery.

Heileman with its Old Style ad campaigns was probably the most notable promoter of the process in its marketing area - while in the northeast that would have been Schaefer or Genesee or, in a smaller distribution region, Matt's Utica Club.

 

Ever had beer kräusening? Takes days to get over that

 

I didn't say it was good, only "famous".

Only time I recall being there was in the early 1970s (at the start of my diner fandom), when it was still a classic diner not one of these modern monstrosities. So, still the older diner as illustrated in this Baeder painting.

 

Don’t strive to become a Poo-Bah, behave naturally and the Poo-bah will come to you.

A newly accomplished Poo-Bah, yet still so much to learn……

 

Had it - but a shot of penicillin cured me and my skin cleared up in days.

Do you mean "kräusen"? As a noun, the word refers to the "rocky head of foam which appears on the surface of the wort during the first days of fermentation" (Dictionary of Beer & Brewing, Assoc. of Brewers) while "Kräusening" is "the process of adding a proportion of active wort to cellar tanks containing fully-fermented beer." (Anchor Brewing).

 

I'll probably never make poo-bah. I started too late, and there may be something in my character or fate that precludes it. Still, I drink a lot of beer... My own personal entrance to poo-bah might close before I can get through...

I think of the last paragraph of Kafka's parable "Before the Law":

The gatekeeper sees that the man is already dying and, in order to reach his diminishing sense of hearing, he shouts at him, “Here no one else can gain entry, since this entrance was assigned only to you. I’m going now to close it."

 

To all us not yet Poo-Bahs. Which year do you predict to be The year? Took me almost five years to get almost halfway. Something tells I'm speeding up. I predict the Status in 2026. Hope I will remember this thread to check

How about you?

 

If anybody wants to know how beer karma ‘works’ you need to ask The Mighty Favog.

Cheers!

P.S. Don’t forget to bring a chicken as payment for his services.

 

I will, even though I couldn't open the file...

 

Hmm? It works for me.

Here is a photo which doesn't quite have the same effect as the linked video.



The basket within his arms is where you would need to deposit your chicken.

Cheers!

 

You get it all back in Valhalla

 

Sounds like you used your time up to now wisely to find what you really like, and now you've found it you can concentrate more on enjoying than searching. Congrats on getting to Poo Bah!