Bite Your Tongue!

Usually gathering dust because of the $2 Uppity Upcharge that the locals refuse to pay. The pain of that upcharge is totally worth it, but further eased when they fill the rocks glass halfway.

 

The only time I distinctly remember saying something was at a high(er) end bottle shop that serves bottles and now has a few taps. I ordered a 750 Almanac saison and the bartender poured all the sediment/yeast in vigorously. Sorry, but you should know what you're doing at that point. I asked for a new bottle. She was annoyed and kind of shoved it my way saying I could pour it myself. Excellent! What I wanted all along!

 

Yep, didn't really say anything to the waiter when he brought us our pitcher of Big Storm Wavemaker and then proceeded to bad mouth Cigar City and saying they didn't make any good beer. Although I did mention a few other up and coming local breweries that he knew nothing about. Nice try bro.

 

At a local wing bar-ordered a Sam Adams BL. When it hit the table I took one look and said 'that's not a SA...'waitress ROLLS her eyes and goes back to the bar and brings me the SAME thing...again,I say 'wrong beer'. This time I taste it so I can tell her what it is;it was SA Octoberfest I told her and she says 'what's the difference?'....wow.
My sister told me this story from her waitress days-customer orders a tea and gets a dirty glass-waitress apologizes and returns to bar where she just pours his old dirty glass tea into a new clean glass-but she didn't know customer dropped a penny in the dirty glass and got it it back in the 'clean' glass...scary world out there.

 

I'd rather be associated with being an enthusiast rather than a snob.

A lot of my siblings enjoy their shit beers and malt liquors as well as nice craft brews.. everyone has their own personal taste and preference, just as we craft lovers do.

However, if you're getting a buttery diacetyl taste from a draft at the bar, that's worth telling the staff. That's a bad keg hah.

 

IMO craft beer is like fantasy sports. I'm not into fantasy sports and don't enjoy people talking to me about them. I'm sure that beer drinkers including some craft drinkers don't enjoy talking about beer or not. I only talk about craft beer with others who enjoy talking about it.

 

Is it too "00's" to use the term "shorties" or the even more dope, "shawties"?

But seriously, with regard to skinny chicks and beer, the beer buyer at one of our craft-centric bars is a girl, certainly on the thinner side, and she will seriously fuck a dude up on beer knowledge.

 

I try to bite my tongue when people who don't like craft beer just say it all tastes like pine or tree bark or "beer" without getting any other flavors. I realize it's an acquired taste and everybody likes different things and has different sensations, and that most beer does taste like pine or tree bark, but I like to appreciate the better qualities of it. The pine usually provides a nice balance to the malty or fruity sweetness. I guess you have to really be into it and appreciate beer to pick up all the different notes.

 

It isn't about being a snob, or geek, or any such thing.
You don't have to be a dick, or rude, or negative in any way.
Simply pointing out something you don't agree with can easily be done without being an ass about it.
It may or may not be received well, and may or may not bring education and change, but "biting your tongue" will always assure nothing changes.

 

My band was playing a dive bar this past weekend. I'd just had a Yuengling IPL on draft (only decent selection) and decided I was gonna switch it up to a SN Pale Ale. As I approached the bar, the bartender lady was in conversation with someone sitting at the bar. Once she saw me with an empty glass she proceeds to grab it and refill the same glass with Yuengling IPL while still talking to dude at the bar so I had no room to interject before she had already poured most of it. Obviously this is a place where people order one beer and stick with it the entire night so she was clearly acting on instinct. Bit my tongue and drank what she gave me cuz our tab was comped at the end of the night anyway.

 

Over the line!!!

 

If it involves a fixable problem like with a tap line that isn't moving and is tasting like it. You should always let them know and have them taste it as well. It's their job, and this is in their best interests to fix.
If it's an issue with them and their ways. I've learned to not bother the natives about such things.

 

I'll say something if they're doing themselves or their establishment a major disservice. Like if they go on about "Those heffer-wis'uns contain a sedative" or "That Ginnuss has like 10million calories and is stronger than moonshine."
Ditto if a tap is old/soured/diacetyl-laden/etc.
I won't go on a tirade, but I'll explain that something is up and that I need another beer and most other people will too.
Otherwise, whatever, it's their place.
It won't keep me from ordering anything I want to order, but I won't make a fuss about anything.

 

Are you sure you would have been comped if you had ordered SNPA?

 

When on vacation in Banff, Canada I had bartender who was probably an Irish ex-pat tell me that hops were just a preservative, not a flavoring, and that Americans were all wrong about their IPAs. He knew I was American and said it semi-joking way, but you could tell part of him believed it. I just said "OK" and ordered an IPA.

 

I was at a place I go to a bit, sports bar with the usual macro lagers and a nice selection of local brews. I asked "what do you have on tap?" as I couldn't read the board. He started down the Bud, Bud Light, etc. I said "You can skip the macro lagers?" he looked confused, as if I was speaking another language. When I explained i didn't want any of the big, national beers, he said "Oh, you mean the domestics." I didn't know people were still thinking in terms of domestic or import any more, that was so 1970's.....and isn't most American craft beer produced domestically? Needless, to say, I did bite my tongue....

 

Sometimes it's worth it to speak up. Was at a brewpub in Raleigh. Ordered their DIPA and when it came, I thought "I'm no expert but that sure doesn't taste like any DIPA I've ever had." When the server returned, I politely asked her, "Is that the DIPA I ordered?" She laughed and said no, it was their Altbier. She told me to go ahead and drink it and then she'd bring the DIPA. Sweet. And to her credit she was taking orders at multiple tables without writing anything down, so I was quite impressed.

OTOH, I was at a fancy restaurant with a big wine list and their beer selection consisted of the usual AALs. I decided it was time to be a beer advocate, so I went to---I forget, the bartender? hostess?---and said, "You have a great wine list and all you have for beers is this? There are lots of good beers out there now, and a lot of people who drink them."

 

I'm fond of Shawties, beys, boos, whoadies, and main piece. If I ask my wife to "Grab me a beer whoadie", it's almost a certainty that a cold beverage will be in my hand in less than a minute.

 

I hear you. Been to many nice restaurants with my wife and get the fancy wine menu that is numerous pages, but the beer is AAL's or Stella at best listed in the menu with the soft drinks. As if beer is still considered for the commoners and wine is the only proper drink with fine dining. Quite annoying. Many nice restaurants have decent craft beers but yes, you do run into a few that are behind the times.