impromptu bottle shares at MN bars

sarcasm doesn't go well on the internet.

 

Five years ago a bomber of Fat Tire would've fit the criteria.

 

well this isn't 5 years ago. hopefully people will go to these and bring the best stuff they can and people will be patient and not get too uppity about it. we all start somewhere.

 

Exactly my point.

 

What?

 

I'm not the arbiter, it's not my event, I'm just a regular attendee.

 

Just trying to be contrary are we? It's actually a pretty simple and common requirement (in practice, more of a suggestion) for these type of gatherings. The point is to not to exclude but to encourage sharing beers people don't have regular access to. It defeats the whole purpose if someone brings Fat Tire when it's probably on tap at the bar or across the street.

 

Thank you. I was stating the requirements so that people who want to attend know what to bring.

 

Not necessarily. Some bottle shares might be more open to common shelf beers, some might be "whales" only.

 

You are over complicating things...it is real simple (as someone that does a few shares a year with different groups). He said out of state OR cellared OR rare, not that it had to be a rare beer from out of state that was cellared.

 

This thread is thick with the typical douchebaggery and elitism that has poisoned the craft beer community. I'll show up with a 40 oz of Steel Reserve and knock over your precious Cantillon

 

How about this:
"Bottle share. Bring something nice."

 

On second look I see you did in fact mean or with the /'s, but I still believe you are over complicating it. Either that or we (the groups I share with) are much nicer/chill than the craft beer people you know.

edit: I will say that in our groups there aren't rules because it isn't necessary. Everyone knows it isn't about drinking things you can buy straight from the shelf. Which means it has to be out-of-state/rare/cellared.

 

So it isn't sharing for the sake of sharing then?

 

Just make sure that Steel Reserve has been cellared for a year or two first.

 

F-that. It needs to have spent the past four years in a beverage cooler that was unplugged, in a greenhouse, in Lake Havasu City, AZ (hottest city in the U.S. with a population greater than 50k).

 

You are correct sir, and thank you for pointing that out.

 

No. I have never seen or heard of this happening here.

 

I wondered this same question after moving here from ATL, where this kind of thing went on at the Brickstore most Thursdays and Fridays. I think some of the responses on the thread indicate how foreign this concept is in MN.

For the sensitive guys whose feelings are hurt by such "elitism and douchebaggery", how does one feel so slighted about something they have no interest in anyway? Clearly the point of this kind of event isn't sinking in. It's not the same as BYOB. Part of the rationale for the bar letting people drink these bottles is that they are not competing with the bar. People get a small amount of something they wouldn't drink at the bar anyway and they still purchase food/drinks and tip the bartenders accordingly. Good luck getting together your bottle share without any expectations. I'm sure the bartender is going to be cool with you cracking your Grainbelt or Steel Reserve in their bar. I sympathize with those of you turned off by the constant Cantillon/rare/whale obsession on this site. But for the record, I've never once seen someone criticized for what they brought to a bottle share at a bar.