Biggest beer pet peeves

Also, I've been to bars and asked "what beers do you have?" They respond with "all beers". By all beers they mean watered down American piss. AKA anything from Bud, Coors, Miller, etc.

 

In movies/shows when a person just asks for "a beer" without specifying which kind, and the bartender just gives them one without questioning. What a fake world that must be.

 

Probably been covered in the previous 13 pages, but I'm not reading all that.

When I go to a tap house with a fuck-ton of taps and the wait staff knows dick-all about them. And on top of that the
5 copies of the tap list that are floating around the joint are out of date. Don't mind me hovering over your shoulder at the bar as I try to read all 41 tap handles.

For fuck's sake.

 

Just don't frequent many bars these days (and when I do, it is usually at a time when they are all but empty) but that certainly used to happen all the time. Particularly in the pre-craft era days when even the "macro" national and many large regional brewers only brewed a few beer - AB = Bud, Michelob and the regional Busch, Coors = Coors Banquet, etc., it was common. Bars with only 1 or 2 different beers on tap often with more than one handle for the same beer - 2 Buds + 1 Schaefer (replaced with Miller when they got hot in early 70s) or 4 Rheingolds are two local bars I recall. In most cases the customer would have specified the serving type "Gimme a bottle of beer..."/"Lemme have a glass of draft beer..." (I suppose later "I'll have a "light" beer." was added).

I recall having a conversation with the bartender a few times when I noticed what beer they always poured when it happened - specifically one with my cousin and her boyfriend who both worked a local Albany bar and I told them they should be supporting the local Genesee rather than the national Miller (which had just built a brewery in NY State at the time).

I guess back then or nowadays a bartender might reply "Bud OK?" to such an order, and still get some "Yeah, whatever..." responses.

 

Similar things can and do happen in the real world.

There are many small towns and areas in PA where you go into the bar and say, "I'll have a lager" and the bartender will simply pour or hand you a Yuengling.

 

Tree House doesn't need to put the date on there can because you can only buy it if you visit them. So you should know when you bought it and when to drink it by. When and if they start to sell off the farm, then I agree they should place a date on the can, but I'm sure they will be on top of that.

 

Fair point, But Other half is also brewery only and they date all of their stuff.

 

I have no beer pet named Peeve !

 

I hate it when a server hands you a beer menu and they "forget" to tell you what has floated or is no longer available. Really annoying to get your mouth watering for something...just to be told "oh yea, I forgot to tell you that isn't available right now." Secondly, after this conversation you make another selection and they go to the bar...and the bartender forgets to tell the servers that is out as well. So I guess lack of communication is my pet peeve.

 

Lol these have been fun reading.

1. Beers with no info about beer style on label, I haven't tried some Lost Abbey beers because of this.
2. Trying to engrain myself in BA by looking up abbreviations lol
3. Trying to acquire whales so that I can trade for things out of state. Still haven't had KBS, Heady, DL etc...
4. Going to a tap room with 15 taps of all IPA...gimme some chocolaty stouts duuuude

 

There are many small towns and areas in PA where you go into the bar and say, "I'll have a lager" and the bartender will simply pour or hand you a Yuengling.[/QUOTE]

That's different.

 

That's different.[/QUOTE]

Why? How?

 

I just had one happen to me. It isn't so much a pet peeve, but just one more reason why this particular bar/bottle shop sucks and is on my blacklist (regular joint was closed). So I just want to drink one ten fidy. Regular joint is closed so I go to the bottle shop/bar that I dislike. There is a bunch of Founders Imperial Stout warm on the shelves. I know for a fact they store all of their beer in a cooler. I ask if there is a cold imperial stout she can fish outta the cooler for me. She says some horse shit about they're trying to push all of their "old label" founder's first to make room for the "New Label". Ya, OK sure whatever. it's a fucking imperial stout. The old label isn't going bad by being there longer. Get rid of some of those fucking pool tables and add more coolers. (they have 2 small coolers.) I pulled my toothpick out of my mouth and threw it on the floor and rolled out. Fuck em.

 

Why? How?[/QUOTE]

Well, because in PA everyone knows a "lager" is a Yeungling. And in PA asking for a Lager is not the same as asking for a "beer".

I feel like if you asked for a beer, they'd hand you any old whatever, but if you ask for a lager here, without fail, you'll be handed a Yeungling.

 

Well, because in PA everyone knows a "lager" is a Yeungling. And in PA asking for a Lager is not the same as asking for a "beer".

I feel like if you asked for a beer, they'd hand you any old whatever, but if you ask for a lager here, without fail, you'll be handed a Yeungling.[/QUOTE]

All true, and there are some places everyone knows just asking for a beer means Coors. So what you may get is surely regional but it isn't a fake world.

 

Sunday liquor laws (I'm looking at you Minnesota). It works for 38 other states, why not the other 12?

 

It's a western Wisconsin conspiracy!
But at least we can fill our growlers on Sunday now, right?

 

Pumpkin beers in July.

 

pumpkin beers period .

 

bottle dating always and forever.