Ever buy the "wrong" beer?

I once went to buy a bomber of Rogue Chocolate Stout, when I got home I realized I had purchased the Hazelnut Brown Nectar. The stout is so much better!

 

I just did this yesterday. I wanted to buy Imperial Tanilla but instead got one of knee deep's ipas. (It was on the wrong part of the shelf) Oh well.

 

In 2007 I was in the infancy of getting into craft beer while I was in Munich with my brother - it felt like Christmas day when I finally sat down at my first beer garden. Anyway, the stand I went to had 2 offerings: a Helles (I've had one of those before back home, I thought) so I went with the other offering - a Radler. Unbeknownst at the time to that certain style, I thought that someone literally pissed in my beer. I couldn't finish it. At least now I know better

 

It's the same beer, just relabeled. From New Belgium's blog, entry dated February 10, 2014 :

 

I'm hoping that's most people's mistake when buying Wild Blue.

 

I once mistook Wild Blue for a craft beer.

 

Once I had thought I had found Okocim's Baltic Porter. I saw a bottle with that brewery's name in big letters, with a similar lookng label, thought, "That's IT!," and when I got home discovered I had bought a nasty Strong Euro Lager. I still drank it to satisfy the inner ticker, but was not pleased.

 

great lakes

 

I've only had Wild Blue once and that was enough. Seemed like a date **** beer to me, or maybe meant to drum up business at the local dentist

...the horror...

 

The one you wanted would have been older (not an admirable quality in an IPA), since it's the same beer, but the brewery was forced to change the name.

 

Living on the other side of the country, sure I'd buy it. It's the oldest brewery in America, and it's not like I'd be paying a premium price.

Now, if some douchy local beer store got some and charged an arm and a leg because it's "rare", I'd pass, and I'd sure as hell not lay any down for aging, but there's a time and a place for most beers.

 

I would have taken the Gose off you hands, but here's what also happens: the 4 pack or 6 pack doesn't contain all 4 or 6 beers it should. I bought a 4 pack of DH Festina Peche, got home, cracked one, took a sip and yuck, it was Aprihop! Aprihop is not bad beer, but when you're expecting Festina Peche, it's a shock, just like the OP story. Now I check the packages to make I'm getting all the same beer.

cheers,

>But this whole thing got me thinking...has anyone else had a brain fart and picked up a beer that they didn't mean to? If you have, did it end up being disappointing? Or did you find a new gem that you might have otherwise overlooked?[/QUOTE]

 

I went the other way. Thought I grabbed Extra. Got home popped one and thought " this tastes no different.

 

I was at a tap takeover at a local watering hole a while back. My first selection for a sample didn't look anything like we expected, but was really, really good. The server thought it may have been leftover in the lines from the previous keg. Never did figure out what it was...

 

I did it unwillingly. Again, I think the batch was bad.

 

Once in a while I think that one beer will match this days drinking conditions, so I pick it up. But then I get home, and find out that when I pour one and drink it that I was wrong.

 

Wait till you get older. It will happen to you.

 

I would like to thank FirestoneWalker for Velvet Merlin and Velvet Merkin. By the way, Velvet Merkin doesn't come in 6 packs...

 

I know it could be construed as a bit insulting but you hit on my point with the Cheerios example. Subtle changes in packaging is a trick that has been used since there was packaging. Going by color, etc. and not bothering to at least read what the product is the reason the changes are made. Not bothering to read the package is just lazy. And to me, that's insulting.