Drain Pouring, acceptable?

I'll dump beer I don't like, and occasionally dump half a glass of beer at the end of the night. (sometimes I just shouldn't have opened that last beer) It's not exactly a crime against humanity.

 

Hell yes, there are way to many calories in beer to force yourself to drink something you find revolting. I try to limit myself to two beers a night, will not waste one of them on a beer I dont enjoy drinking.

 

I havent drain poured in a while. I did it a lot early on in my craft beer drinking because I just couldnt handle the overpowering hop flavors in certain beers. Now that I'm more used to it those same beers I drained poured then I would drink up now. I drain poured Goose Island IPA a beer you wouldnt even consider to be a very hoppy IPA compared to the best ones but at the time I was so new to the style so I couldnt tolerate it. I also drain poured Lagunitas Red Ale and Widmer Bros Drifter Pale Ale because they were too hoppy and I thought they were gross lol.

 

Let's face it, in the craft brew world there are so many choices now our heads are spinning and most of us want to try as many different beers as possible. In that quest, we are fortunate to enjoy many hits and if you're lucky a few home runs. However, when a beer strikes out with me I just move on to the next one. If you want to call that snobbery or wasteful, that's fine. Neither I nor the beer going down the drain will hold your opinion against you.

 

I typically offer it to somebody else first, But since none of my friends can handle anything that isn't a BMC product, More often than not it hydrates my sink. The last thing I drain poured was a Natural Ice which I bought to review just for the hell of it. It was a pretty bad beer, But it wasn't uhhhh " Terrible " I guess you could say. I could have finished it, But why? I had better things to review in my fridge so I dumped it. Usually if a beer is too sweet I'll dump it, Especially if I'm already pretty well lit since Sweet + Drunken me usually doesn't mix to well.

 

Why kill the palate with something that doesn't taste right? No brainer, after a couple sips, you'll know. Once you discover a poor beer, it's time to be quick and efficient;
1. Save the palate and take no more than two sips
2. Get up from favorite chair, take skunky brew to kitchen sink
3. Engage in drain pour ceremony
4. Re-visit beer fridge and reach for a known favorite, pour into fresh serving vessel
5. Enjoy and contemplate the saved palate, good decision making skills

 

Have only had to drain pour one beer, a Duchesse...god awful. As everyone else in this thread has said, if you don't like it dump it, who cares?

 

If you paid for it you can do whatever you want with it.

 

For some reason I read this, then looked at your avatar - then laughed really hard

 

I poured out a cerise last night. gross.

 

If someone wants to drain pour a BA Mikkeller beer, if it's Weasel Brunch Calvados, I'll take it.

 

Different strokes for different folks. Threads like this seem to be over thinking a rather simple thing though, drinking beer.

 

It's gotta be bad. And I mean BAD. Never drainpour anything mediocre, as I use it to learn about what I DONT value in a beer, and take mental notes on flavors/profiles/etc I DONT want in my homebrew. Also helps me zero in on what I really do value in beers of different varieties. Very few drainpours over my life, but I did pour our our second Mikk. Brunch Weasel (the first was great but this one, a dift. year, was VILE) and, in my young BA days, an oak-aged Yeti that I was certain wasn't supposed to taste like that. In the case of the Yeti, it just so happens that fresh that beer is insanely oaky, and I wasn't ready for it at that point. Oh, and some wretchedly infected homebrew batches.

 

I've never drainpoured a beer before, but it likely has more to do with me being a cheap bastard. I've had beers that I didn't want to drink again, just nothing that made me feel like dumping it. It's certainly acceptable if you are so inclined. You bought the damn beer.

 

Simple and to the point. I drainpour a lot of beers. Why waste the calories on something I don't want to drink. Except if I'm drinking to get drunk I guess - which is rare nowadays.

Dope

 

A drain pour is Going to happen. How else would you expand your horizons on craft beer. We've all crawled from the cave to the light. Bad craft happens, and thats a good thing, it means less BMC and more craft. Palets and tastes develop and things i would have drain-poured 5 years ago, I crave now.

 

I just drain poured a bottle of Founder's Cherise. I love everything I've tried by founders except that one, so down the drain it went.

 

Cook with it you nut bags. Pot roast Sunday's.

 

Holy fock

Reduction of beer with pot roast?

Keep pouring it down the drain nugget.

 

I'm a strict vegetarian, no pot roast on Sundays for me. And there aren't many vegetarian recipes that call for beer.