Ever periodically lose interest in beer?

Sometimes for a day or two after a festival or big tasting event I will pass on beer.

 

Same here for me. I had two or three beers a week tops while my kids were in their single numbers, even stopped completely for a few years to make wife happy. Kids grown now, wife's happiness somewhere on the list below consideration of my own now, beer much much better now, what will I put in the fridge for after work today?

 

Sort of the same thing here too. I never really lost interest, it is just that I fell into a 7 year rut for the same reasons (major change of lifestyle, marriage, kids, etc.). The beers I was drinking during that 'rut' were varied, and all of exceptional quality mind you (fave German, Belgian, English and American classics) but I didn't have my finger on the pulse on what was new, what was coming down the pike, or where to get it. At this point I'd say that I'd say that I have a pretty good sense of balance going on all fronts and I can see this feeling lasting indefinitely; and that being on BA was pretty instrumental in helping me get there.

 

Yes. When I get my health screening results back, and my triglycerides and GGT levels are through the roof.

 

It's funny but I was thinking about something like this just this past weekend. I started out with some high ABV beers [> 9%] on Friday but went to mid-level [7% - 8%] on Saturday. On Sunday I went to session beers [5% - 6%]. I decided I enjoyed the mid-level and session beers more so I came to the conclusion that I have lost interest in the higher ABV beers for the time being. I'm sure I'll be back but for now, it's nothing more than 7.5% for me.

 

Kidding and jokes aside, this happens to me a few times a year. Usually it's more from being busy with running a homebrew club and beer festival than the beer itself, though. I still drink beer often during this time, I just don't pick it apart or get into it as much.

 

I am very hot and cold with hobbies for the most part. So there may come a day when I don't look for Tweets about new beers arriving at my local beer shop, but for now, I can't see my craft enthusiasm dropping any time soon.

 

yep. over the last decade, some of what cavedave & Zimbo mentioned. but not just beer, all drinking, cigars, get togethers, events & entertainment in general are less. typically a beer a week or sometimes one every 2 weeks has been the norm for the last 5 or so years.

experience-wise, the first period of lost interest i recall, when i was 17 i got hooked up with this dream summer job for CA Beverage Distributors. i remember first or second day on the job, a damaged case came back on a truck. i peeked inside, there were live ******s. i promptly proceeded towards the dumpsters arms stretched in front of me with case as far away from self as possible when the foreman yelled: "Where the hell are you going"? i was thrown a greenish rag (face towel dimensions) & was instructed to clean = smear & shine the mold on the 5 good quart bottles then discard the box with the 1 broken quart/glass. i later realized the rag was mostly greenish itself because it was completely covered in mold. needless to say my beer enthusiasm soared south.

 

Im content with being more casual with craft beer. Ill trade and go to some launch parties but no where near as much as I used to. I think it's easy to get obsessive about it because there is so much going on all the time. Then you just get burnt out from it and lose interest. You need to find a middle point.

 

I'm completely burnt out from all the beer I can get in 6/12 packs because I know longer have as much money to burn on bombers. I'm spending much more time in homebrewing and less time shopping for beer and I don't see this fact changing for the foreseeable future.

 

I go through periods, depending on what else I have going on. I do not go through them as much now that I cut back to 3-5 beers a week. When I was popping twice that I would get burnt out.

 

Not yet but I definitely see myself getting burnt out on trading one-offs. It's hard for me to stop myself from trading for the newest releases (Jester King Rodeos, BA Sexual Chocolate, CCB Leon). It's just not worth the time and money to do so, I should just be satisfied with what my trading partners pick up for me and releases in the area.

 

Burnt out isn't exactly the right term for me, and I always remain interested in beer, but my tastes definitely shift subtly over time. For me it's a pretty seasonal thing. During the winter I'm more likely to crave a cocktail or a glass of red wine when I get home from work than I am a beer. Doesn't mean I stop drinking beer entirely, just scale back to 2 to 3 a week. Then as the weather warms up again I inevitably find myself reaching for the beer more and more often.

Beer is a fantastic thing, but it's not the only fantastic thing. Drink what you want. That beer craving will come back for sure.

 

If I'm sick it's the last thing I'm thinking about...

 

I dont ever really burnout but I do get into making mixed drinks during the summer sometimes.

 

The day after a long night of drinking when I'm hangover and sometimes the day after that too.

 

It got colder and I was putting on some chub for the winter and got really into Bourbons and Cognacs last year. I got really into it when I started bartending at this awesome hotel with some wicked choices, discovered Bombay Sapphire and chilled a bit on the beer, and I'm back into it because I'm working in a liquor store with a decent selection. Just wanting to try different things.

 

Yeah, that's how I felt at first. But I'm an ink chemist and I work with solvents, so the smell doesn't bother me. I just chase it with Pepsi and it's all good.

But now, I have a glass of Grumpy Monk in front of me, and another Sam Adams in the fridge... and it feels SO good to be back!

 

I tend to burn out more on certain styles then I do on beer in general. Just gotta back off for a while and find something else that really hits the spot. Come back to it and you will wonder why you ever got tired of it in the first place.