Beer Ticking Documentary

What is beer ticking? I got bit by a tick once...I hope it isn't anything like that....

 

Yeah, I watched that a couple years ago and loved it. Those guys are having a blast. I'd certainly go tick some brews with 'em. It's worth watching.

 

There are a ton of people like that on this site. Just sub Star Wars/D&D/video games for trainspotting and add barrel aging and trades to arrive at the U.S. version.

EDIT: that said, the scenes of the hand-pulled ales are making me thirsty for some real ale.

 

Mick the Tick..that crazy son of a gun!

 

This looks like a job for the Reluctant Scooper...

 

"sport" huh? Sounds a lot like drinking and writing to me.

 

The national pastime of Denmark.

 

I hear ya. Just the documentary calling it that, lol.

 

A half-pint seems like a particularly British aspect of ticking. IME here in the states, most tickers find a pour of just a couple ounces sufficient for a tick.

 

Here in the US, we have Nick The Tick....nickd717...he's been slacking as of late though.

 

The video has it's own narrow definition.

In common use in the craft beer community I see it as having a pejorative sense. Usually it does not mean mere record keeping of beer reviews. Basically the deal is that tickers focus heavily on getting credit for trying a beer, regardless of how small the sample was, rather than the normal experience of drinking and savoring a normal portion (a pint or two).

Tickers prize how many ticks they have, and are "proud" of their number. They tend to focus on quantity over quality of experience, as it is common to hear of getting more than a dozen or so ticks for different people from one twelve ounce bottle at someone's tasting. Tickers are more likely to tick (and rate) a beer that was infected, expired, light damaged, etc. because it would be a life-crisis if a single bottle of beer was purchased yet one did not "get credit" for the experience. Some tickers' obsession with their number of beers tried is so important that it's as if their self-esteem depends on it. They commonly confuse having a high number with being knowledgeable about craft beer, beer styles, and brewing.

 

Interesting. Never would have evolved to something like that myself.

I drink beer because I like it. Like the taste. Want more than a sip.

Sex without a "finish" is just aerobics.... Beer without enjoying the beer itself for want of a "tick" seems to be the same to me.

If it floats someone's boat - great, more power to them. Just not for me.

 

Please educate me. What is a "tick"?

 

Could just be me, but I don't necessarily view ticking so negatively. For example, I'm currently trying to tick the Beers of Fame list (I tend to set pretty attainable goals for myself, keeps my self-esteem up ), meaning I buy a full bottle or glass of a given beer and post a full review. To me, that's ticking. I'm not even counting Beers of Fame I had before I started reviewing. Now, there are probably other meanings closer to what you describe, but I've never limited the term ticking to such a negative, narrow definition.

Not sure if a BA poll has been done on this, but I'd like to see what the dominant BA perception of ticking is.

 

Like a check in a box. A notch in one's belt.

 

Well, a lot of folks here are tickers, so that would show up in the polls and I'm sure they don't necessarily see it so negatively.

Also I didn't mean to imply if someone is a ticker, then they do all of the things I mentioned. Those are just some of the behavioral examples.

When someone says "heh... they got 15 ticks out of that bottle of Hopslam" it isn't devoid of negative connotation, in my experience.

 

or like those swedish guys on rb that take one sip. Technically if you are just trying as many as you can that is all that is necessary. What is absurd when people review these tiny samples.