The enjoyment or search of special releases?

Either drink them or admit you are a hoarder.

 

I hate the search. It was once exciting but turns exhausting very quickly.

 

This. Now I just dread all the running around I'm going to have to do just to get a damn beer. Its become like a second job, and I'm ready to quit.

 

Would you rather be seen with a beautiful women or sleep with her? drink your beer

 

Don't enjoy the search, enjoy walking in not expecting to see something and then there it is sitting on the shelf then taking it home and drinking it.

 

What if you're seen with beautiful women while sleeping with other beautiful women?

 

To me, "having" a beer means drinking it.

I do cellar some beer, but that's always because I want to taste it with some age.

 

...and she has awesome beer?

Beer searching kind of reminds me of a time when I was (quite a bit) younger, and the days of finding "rare" Star Wars action figures. Except drinking beer is better than playing with small dolls

 

I'm not that lucky!

 

To me, the search is kind of a pain in the ass. While I admit I do get a nice feeling of satisfaction when I'm able to find and purchase a rare beer, that feeling is really more of a product of the work I had to put in to get to that point.

If given the option I'd much prefer to be able to walk into my local store and purchase special release beers with little to no effort involved.

 

I hoard therefor I am!

 

This fall I walked into a random liquor store. I never go to this place and it was extremely small. They only had about five varieties of craft, two Bells regulars, two Founders regulars, and then a single glowing four pack of Founders Harvest, and it was only about seven days old.

Last spring I had to annoy my local store and reserve a single bottle of KBS. When I went in to buy it, the owner looked like he had been through a boxing match with the entire beer geek community all morning.

I much preferred the first instance.

However, 'searching' can be fun if it entails taking a road trip to a brewery for a special release or just something you couldn't get elsewhere.

I think I answered that question...

 

talk about exhausting, i drove almost three hours to PA to pick up some stone enjoy by and of course drive back.

 

The search sucks. Finding out which beers are available where is exhausting. The point of good beer is DRINKING it, not spending $100 on gas getting it or fighting in long lines for it. If some of these breweries really gave a damn about their customers they'd make some of these more readily available.

 

Long time beer lover, just starting to get deep into learning about all the special releases. I couldn't sleep last night because my family just decided to visit Chicago in April, and all I could think about was the giant haul of beer that I might find that's not available in the Finger Lakes.

 

I admit that I am a hoarder, but not in huge quantities. I have about 20 "special beers" that I am holding and plan to keep them for special occasions.

 

I enjoy hunting down beer. I don't hoard it though, I hunt it for my husband. He also hunts for me. It's fun when you buy it for someone else that will love it.

 

I enjoy drinking them, definitely not hunting them. All the douchebaggery was too much for me. I no longer waste my time chasing them. Whatever the beer store happens to have when I happen to be there is what I buy.

 

it is quite exhausting and sucks but for some reason i find myself taking on greater and greater challenges and searching for rarer and rarer beers. Addiction? Maybe? Satisfying? most definitely

would I do it all again? yes lol