Drain Pouring, acceptable?

I've only DP'd a few and I feel that if it sucks that bad then don't waste space in your gut or on your liver...

Such DPs include:


http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/13307/83287
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/804/21095
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/132/72720

 

Totally acceptable. Why drink something that is godawful? Drain pour away!

 

They do in Montreal...

My BMC friends who are starting to get 'interested' in craft beers, get my mediocre brews (saving quality ones for those who bring/appreciate em), as for the awful ones - those go to the gators in the sewer.

 

Taste like shit = dump it

 

You bought it didn't you? Do whatever the hell you want with it.

 

There's entirely too much good beer out there to have to suffer through the bad. Besides ingesting meaningless calories...we only get to drink so many beers at a tasting. And seeing as how we don't get to get together for tastings but once a week, I don't want to spend my time laboring through shit beer. Get rid of it, and move on.

 

It's beer, not some religious symbol. If you don't like it, pour that shit. You won't go to hell for it, I promise.

 

Sometimes drain pouring is a neccesity. I never feel bad about it.

 

I just did it with a bottle of Bud Light Platinum. Thank goodness we have a store in town that sells mixed 6 packs.

 

Acceptable for whom?

Facepalm #DrainPourValidation

 

I actually take it a step further that that. If I buy a beer that is highly rated here (the only ones I dare try); and I hate it, I force myself to drink it. Then....I proceed to another. Then another. I continue until I have an epiphany and start loving the beer. Why? Because the collective tastes of everyone here surely knows more about what I should like and do with my beer than I do!

 

If I don't like what I'm drinking, down the drain it goes. Having a beer is supposed to be about enjoying the experience of having a good beer. Why waste your time and calories on something you don't enjoy? That's why God (or GE, depending upon your personal belief system) invented beer fridges. Just open the door and get a different bottle.

 

Why wouldn't you drain pour something you don't like? You own it, you presumably bought it for the purpose of enjoyment, not senseless inebriation. Would you keep eating food that was disgusting?

I'm more and more likely to pour it out lately. Why would I kill my liver, kill my brain cells, and get fat doing something I'm not enjoying?

If I KNOW I'm not going to like it, i.e. someone brought a party gift of very average beer, I'll find someone who will - a neighbor just out of college, a snowed-in blizzard party, a relative with different taste in beer.

Last night I tried a bunch of random things left in the fridge - party gift left-overs, cellar experiments, old trade extras, etc; the drain got a lot of exercise. I have no problem doing this - the cost to me was less than a single pour of a good quality strong beer at a bar in a city, and I'm not hung over today.

 

Drainpouring isn't a strong enough action of disdain for those barrel-aged Mikkeller beers. I generally smash them on the ground, douse the shards in gasoline and burn them, then salt the earth for 5 feet around.

 

I sometimes just skip the whole drain pour thing and throw the unopened bottle in the trash.

 

word to yo motha

 

I'm not even sure why it's an issue. If you brought home take-out food and it was crap, would you force yourself to eat it? I'd throw it out and eat something else. Same for beer.

Life is too short for bad beer. There are too many good/great ones to enjoy.

 

I've surprisingly never drainpoured a beer in my life, and I've had countless beers that I didn't enjoy at all.. if I don't like it, I ususally just suck it up and finish it..

 

Buy a capper and some caps at your local homebrew store and your undrank beer will keep just fine for at least a couple of days. No need to futz with pouring into a growler, because unless you have CO2 to remove the air from your growler, your beer will oxidize very rapidly. I've also found that vacuum wine sealers work pretty well, though I now use a rubber wine stopper that you twist to expand so you're guaranteed an airtight seal. Works like a charm.

As for beer I hate, I won't hesitate to pour it out, even after a sip or 2. Life is too short, and my cellar too full of good stuff, to suffer a shitty beer.