Funny things your BMC friends say when given craft.

"Don't you have any, you know, American beer?" is one I get from one of my uncles all the time, a Keystone Light drinker. I've stopped wasting oxygen trying to educate him that all of my craft beers are American, brewed and owned, while his Keystone Light is now foreign.

 

Poured a Goose Island (Honkers maybe...can't remember) for my Dad a few Thanksgivings ago and when he saw me pour it he said "Goose Island? Pffffttt. I don't drink their beer , they suck". So I drank it. Later I poured each of us a Goose Island Oatmeal Stout, out of his sight range, and after a few sips he said how good it was. After he was finished I revealed it was a Goose Island beer all along. Months later he loved Hop Rod Rye so I think the conversion is complete.

 

So a guy in one of my group projects was talking about doing his part of this presentation on German food and beer. He mentions beer so I obviously start talking to him about it. When I mention craft beer he says:

"That shit's nasty. I won't touch craft beer. I only drink German beer and that's it. All these new breweries don't know how to make anything good."

I then tell him that there are well over 2,000 breweries in the US, and that he has no clue if he'll like them if he doesn't try them. He just says "Nope. They're not German. I'll never try them."

Dafuq?

 

Wow, what blinders that guy has. So sad. While a lot of German beer is great, there's just as many, if not more, great Belgian, English and especially, American craft beers out there. Oh well, more excellent American craft beers for us. His loss, our gain!

 

and by double the strength he means its equal to the strength of lets say....... a bud light? (ha) which is about double the strength of.......water i guess? ha Classic.

 

In graduate school back in 2004 I brought a 6-pack of Rogue American Amber Ale to my professor's house. He called the wife over + said, "Look honey, Sam brought us some good American working-class beer." Hardly, you "erudite."

 

A few minutes ago I let a friend try my Stone Old Guardian Oak Smoked, she said that it tastes like wood. I informed her that she's right. It wasn't stupid what she said, but how she said it. Come to find out she didn't read the label, and indeed knows that oak is wood. I know, cool story bro.

 

Today after tying a bottle of Supplication..my dad announced how it tasted just liked his home brew and and went on to say how he made it with "pale malt" "six lbs of sugar" and opened to the air to breathe and it tasted just like supplication...

 

Lmfao!

 

I just have to share this funny video from my favorite brewery. It's kind of related to this thread subject.



Hahahahaha! I love it.

 

My next door neighbor is from Vermont (his family lives about 20 minutes from Hill Farmstead); every time he goes back home to visit, he brings me back some HF, but when I try to share some of it with him he says "that stuff has too much taste, I'll stick with my watery girl beer" as he holds up his bud light. I guess that just means more HF for me!

 

The logic there makes me cringe. He PREFERS beer that has no taste? Why do people put up with drinking piss water when they actually know other, BETTER things are out there? Ahhhh.


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Also slightly funny but triumphant story from the other day.
Twice weekly I play table tops with some friends, and each time we bring beer. They normally drink BMC, I normally bring a craft or two unless I run out. Each time I've gotten in the habit of letting them all try a sip of my beer to try and broaden their horizons, since we're all poor and in college, etc. The last time I go, I let them try Highland Brewing's Thunderstruck Coffee Porter. (I've also let them try some quads, tripels, blonde ales, hefes, etc.)

These were essentially their replies:

"Where do you get all this fancy shit? I didn't even know they made this kind of thing?"
"They put...coffee...in beer? Wait. What? How? I don't even-"
"You need to start bringing more of this good stuff for us to try."

I would say that I'm becoming victorious. >

 

And THAT is Beer Advocacy

 

My dad doesn't like most craft beers even though he's had plenty. He doesn't like the citrusy taste of IPAs and most stouts are too filling for him; he's willing to try anything I offer him and I'm fine with that. He just likes his beer to taste like what he's been drinking all his life.

My mom on the other hand, she'll drink anything I give her. He favorite is Black Butte.

 

I run beer tastings at my store, and while they are not my "friends", my customers routinely have something interesting to say about the beers i sample.

Last weeks Great Lakes sampling " OH EW, that tastes like sun block"

Harpoon UFO White (After explaining the beer) " O see that tastes like a light lager, like a landshark"

And I wish i could take a picture, but every 3rd persons face after trying a pale ale or IPA is priceless.

 

My father compared Sun King's Osiris Pale Ale to Budweiser. Using the word "Hoppy" multiple times... He doesn't like those "Hoppy" beers like Budweiser.

 

a lot of these comments aren't that funny or outrageous considering most bmc drinkers just dont know any better. I used to think anything dark tasted like Guiness, anything wheat or citrus tasted like Blue Moon, and bitter=bad. The IPA tasting like rubberbands comment was hilarious though.

 

My mom's favorite was Saint Arnold's Winter Stout. When she enjoyed that the first time, I poured her a snifter of Yeti the next night. She took a sip and said "Wwwwwwwwwwow that's not for beginners... tastes like that Winter one yesterday with all the water evaporated from it."

Well... whether she knows it or not, at least she has a fundamental understanding of the Eisbock process.

Oh, she also, without understanding her folly, took a chug of my Ruination one time (much to my dismay and amusement). She immediately looked like she'd popped 16 Warheads in her mouth, and said "yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyow, is this some sort of Lemon-Flower beer for masochists?"

sometimes I bring extreme beers to her just for these moments...

 

Gave my friend a Torpedo... He says he doesn't like it, tries to sound smart and says, I only like ales, not ipas. Obviously doesn't know what ipa stands for...

 

Horrible I say.......how dare they