How often do you drink shelf beer?

Discussion in 'Beer Talk' started by Biff_Tannen, May 28, 2014.

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How often do you drink shelf beer?

  1. Never...Whalez only

    4.0%
  2. Occasionally but I limit it to a few very specific beers

    6.4%
  3. A healthy mix of shelf/limited beers

    66.7%
  4. Straight shelfie, homie

    22.9%
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  1. RangnaR

    RangnaR Initiate (0) Dec 17, 2012 California

    That's what you get for going to strange beer blags...
     
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  2. bleakies

    bleakies Maven (1,355) Apr 11, 2011 Massachusetts

    I'm so exclusive and elite and generally unavailable myself that I'm free to drink whatever I like, since my own presence imbues even the humblest, dusty shelf beer with an unimpeachable glamor.
     
  3. cwehr13

    cwehr13 Initiate (0) Aug 4, 2011 Illinois

    My go to beers would be Surly furious or Overratted, FFF gumballhead, and half acre daisy cutter.
     
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  4. rgordon

    rgordon Pooh-Bah (2,701) Apr 26, 2012 North Carolina
    Pooh-Bah

    I usually chug a Rose De Gambrinus after I mow the grass, but that's just me.
     
  5. moshea

    moshea Initiate (0) Jul 16, 2007 Michigan

    See that is what makes the internet fun.

    We both read the same post.

    I walked away thinking "Excitable Newb.
    You walked away thinking "Rich Braggart"
    Who knows, maybe someone else walked away thinking "Excitable rich bragging newb"
     
  6. dennis3951

    dennis3951 Initiate (0) Mar 6, 2008 New Jersey

    True and the OP is going to change his views anyway as soon as George McFly decks him!
     
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  7. RangnaR

    RangnaR Initiate (0) Dec 17, 2012 California

    I guess I drink mostly shelf beers, because I don't trust beer that floats.
     
  8. creepinjeeper

    creepinjeeper Initiate (0) Nov 8, 2012 Missouri

    We are in the age of amazing beers and I am still that kid in a candy store. Right now, even a Lord Chesterfield Ale is rare to me. (Can't get it here!) Cellar or not, it's all good to me.
     
  9. byronic

    byronic Initiate (0) Nov 8, 2013 Canada (ON)

    How does one discover or stumble across new beer if "shelf" beer is avoided? Oh right.. whalez only I forgot!
     
  10. pathman

    pathman Pooh-Bah (1,665) May 25, 2011 Ohio
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    The way I see it, unless you're sipping "M" from a solid gold, diamond-encrusted chalice while attended by a bevy of naked underwear models, you're a douche!
     
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  11. tdmccarthy

    tdmccarthy Initiate (0) May 6, 2010 Illinois

    I'm going to buy the shit out of Centennial and SN Summerfest 12 packs of cans this summer. Two Hearted cans, too. Now if only Victory would can Prima Pils and sell that in 12 packs. And I'll always have shelf stouts and porters from Founders, Bells, Great Lakes, Anchor, SN, and Deschutes in my fridge.
     
  12. Leebo

    Leebo Initiate (0) Feb 7, 2013 Massachusetts

    I'm a drink fresh, drink local kind of guy. Not quite understanding the term, shelf? Don't all the beers sit on a shelf in the store? For those of you outside of MA, we have Jacks Abby here, good fresh, local lagers. Wormtown, Wachusett, Harpoon, Ipswich, CBC, Smutty, Trinity, among many others as well. I walk into the store and buy them, doesn't everybody?
     
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  13. otispdriftwood

    otispdriftwood Initiate (0) Dec 9, 2011 Colorado

    Shelf beer? Bah Humbug. I only buy from coolers.
     
  14. MNBeer1017

    MNBeer1017 Initiate (0) Mar 27, 2013 Minnesota

    Getting a little shelfy????

    Whoa budweiser/hopslam guy
     
  15. BrettHead

    BrettHead Initiate (0) Sep 18, 2010 Nebraska

    Except that biff isn't a newbie. He is just a guy who posts troll threads all the time.
     
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  16. moshea

    moshea Initiate (0) Jul 16, 2007 Michigan

    It may seem like he has been around forever, but he is a 6 month newbie according to his joined date.
     
  17. Davepoolesque

    Davepoolesque Pooh-Bah (2,686) Aug 25, 2012 Massachusetts
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    I don't really drink shelf beers. I usually hit up breweries(Trillium or Night shift) for growlers. Basically the only shelf beers I drink are Jack's Abby stuff.
     
  18. Philthe

    Philthe Initiate (0) Aug 18, 2013 Pennsylvania

    There are too many great shelf beers to worry about chasing whales and emptying my bank account.
     
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  19. EricTKole

    EricTKole Initiate (0) Jan 4, 2014 Michigan

    You know what reading this thread has changed my mind.

    I'm gonna stop playing any golf courses that don't at least charge $100/18 holes. Fuck it nothing but the best for me anymore. Shit I might as well stop going to those crappy driving ranges too. Those range balls a messing up my game!
     
  20. zac16125

    zac16125 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,432) Jan 26, 2010 South Carolina
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    I think you are missing the point.
     
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