Lost/stolen beer stories

Haha! This post is amazing. Well played.

 

When I was 21 we had a house party, bought three half barrels of Christian Moerlein lager. Spent what, at the time, seemed like a fortune. Killed one half barrel quickly and was almost through the second. Later in the night I'm feeling pretty confident because I knew we had one left and yes, it somehow managed to walk out the door with no one seeing a thing, along with the tap. Not only were we out the beer, but also the deposit since we lost the tap. We also ended up blowing the speakers to our house stereo that night. Rough morning the next day, to say the least.

 

Wow. Just wow. I live in an apartment so if I am expecting anything I request a signature. That is the way to never have that happen again. You can also have ti delivered to a neighbor who will be at home with a signature as well. On the tracking page you have options.

 

If you want the details of a truly awful story of this nature, BM user aerozeppl. The original posts were lost to the site crash in 2012 unfortunately.

After his story, /thread.

 

I sent a huge box of Pliny, vintage supplications and consecrations to a user on here. It got stolen off his porch. I replaced it for him, out of kindness.

 

How are these beers getting stolen off people's porches? Are y'all labeling the outside of the box....

"FRAGILE!!! EXPENSIVE BEER!!!"

 

You may have thought about these already, but I can't help myself.
Is your cellar hidden or easily visible? If hidden, have you told many people about it? How many of the people at that party know about the cellar location? Did you ask someone to retrieve something for you during the party? You may be able to narrow down the list somewhat and if you get the list low enough, in a few weeks, ask each of them if they've ever had a 2012 BCBS.

 

I knew of some kids back when I was a teenager who would ride their four wheelers through the woods to the local Moose Lodge that was out in the middle of no where and cooler hop for all the normal redneck brews , those rotten kids

 

Brilliant! But only if your water supply and drainage capacities are adequate.

 

I once temporarily lost a package of beers from a trading partner. It was delivered to the wrong house and I had to drive across town, leave a few notes and finally got into contact with the person holding my package. Fortunately they didn't drink anything and I got it without issue.

Then when moving out of my house before I deployed one of my friends let a friend walk off with a case of beer and all the cans I had. I wasn't around at the time and the friend sitting on my stuff didn't think I'd notice it missing. Boy was he wrong... I was hellaciously pissed because both of them don't know beer and he grabbed one full of RR sours of varying vintages to include a bottle of consecration I'd been sitting on for over two years that was marked with an alphanumeric code instead of a bottling date. I was out of space in my fridges that another friend is sitting on so I wasn't too mad in the end. I asked him what he had so I knew what I didn't have any to spare of so I let him have everything but a bottle of FFaC, the Consecration and a few cans of 2010 Pro Am Smoked Porter.

 

That must be some package.

 

my girlfriend and i go out to this place in the desert quite often. it's a very quiet, peaceful place. no kids allowed. only 10 rooms. natural hot springs. we know the manager blah blah.. one of my favorite places.

we were there 2 weeks ago mid week and for half of the time we had the whole place to ourselves. midway, two other couples came. some French couple, and a Canadian woman and her husband. generally the kinds of people who go here are very quiet and respectful. lots of yoga hippy types and nature lovers who come for the natural hot springs. these people seemed kind of annoying. occasionally people are overly chatty or whatever, that's just part of life. but the French guy was a total douchebag. he was rude to our manager friend, and at one point took a long cell phone call in the pool area and was yelling at someone over the phone. the Canadian woman seemed pretty pretentious and was talking way too much. i'm just setting the stage for my stolen beer scenario (and killing time while i try to buy Black Tuesday)

more to setting the stage.. some rooms have private kitchens, some don't. the room we like doesn't have one. the best part about the place is you don't need one because there are 2 communal kitchens (and a grill, utensils etc if you want to cook)... so you don't need one. i kept my beer and our food in one of the kitchen fridges (which was pretty much empty otherwise since no one else was staying there) the entire time, as we've done in the past many times. cut to - our last night there we came back from an early dinner. i knew i had a 16oz Torpedo and my Velvet Merkin waiting for me. was saving it for the last night. driving on the way back from dinner i thought about getting more beer, but realized that a 16oz Torp and my Merk would be just the right amount of beer for my grand finale in the desert. so i didn't stop and get anything else.

walk in, go straight to fridge and my beer is gone.

i've had my car stolen before (right in front of my house) and have to say, though not quite as shocking, the feeling was almost the same. total confusion followed by shock and anger. i could not fucking believe it. i sat there and tried to think of what could have possibly happened. there were only 3 scenarios: the maid threw it out thinking guests had left (this was not likely as they didn't throw out leftover chips and salsa that were right next to the beer). the maid stole it (no way because we actually know her too. we've been coming to this place for years). one of the other guests took it (this was the only option)

it seems really unlikely that someone would be that tacky and stupid to steal beer there since there were obviously only 3 couples total in the whole place. also, it seemed really unlikely that someone would actually have thought that was complimentary beer that came with the hotel - especially a Velvet Merkin that comes in a fancy box. my main thought was that if it was the French guy it was going to get ugly.


i tried getting ahold of the manager but she was out. sent her an email about what happened and asked if she had any idea what might have happened. then i went out to drown my sorrows in non Merkin beer. while out she emailed me and said she was really shocked and didn't know what could have happened. i sent her a picture of my Velvet Merkin box and asked that, if possible, maybe she could send the maid in on a covert mission to see if it was in the trash in either of 2 other rooms. and i told her that if it was the French guy it was potentially going to be ugly heheh. when she got back, the other guests were out to dinner and she found my empty Merkin box in one of the guests rooms - not the French couple but the other people.

could not fucking believe this shit.

i know this is a long story about 1 beer, but hey

my manager friend promised that she would make the guests pay for it etc.. and she was just as pissed as i was. the next morning i was planning how i was going to approach these people, and what i was going to say. am i going to get in to fisticuffs with some fat guy by the pool area? draw blood? slash their tires? many scenarios were playing out in my head.

the manager came to my room with a bag. i guess the people had apologized profusely and claimed that they didn't understand that that was someone else's beer (what the fuck?).. they had bought me 3 bombers of what i'm guessing they thought was a worthy apology (some Hanger 24, Stone, something else).. i told her to go tell them if they wanted to give me 20 dollars i would prefer that. didn't accept the beer.

then the guys wife comes to my door (he was too cowardly to show his face) and starts apologizing to me. she gave me 15 dollars and a bottle of wine. i accepted just to get her off my back, and my girlfriend likes wine, but the whole thing really pissed me off.

i guess the moral of the story is don't automatically assume the worst about the French?

 

All of these stories make me not want to ever trade, but I really want to start trading some time!!

 

If you send me an hour, I'll send you 60 minutes.

 

bravo to you sir

 

yea I trust Europeans to honest, In my experience of traveling its ALWAYS the damn Americans, so sad is it not.

Not to mention If I had a nickle every time overseas I heard some one being loud its always the ugly American,,,,

I have a nice Canadian story but its not related to beer.

 

Does it involve the "Canadian Ballet"?

 

I've had an ice chest stolen out of the back of my truck, a couple of times. Thankfully it was a Coleman or Igloo and not my Yeti! That was back in my Busch Lite days, so it was not a huge loss. It still made me mad, and I would have caused someone to bleed, if I had known who. I don't have much use for a thief! Oh Yeah, the Yeti does not stay in the back of my truck! Lightman1

 

About a a year ago I came back from a trip to the midwest with my biggest beer haul ever. Bramble, BCBCS, King Henry, CBS... Yadda Yadda Yadda right. Best beer haul every. Set up the photo shoot to post my haul. Snapped some pictures. Total was something like 50 bottles. Left everything on the counter. When I got home from work my King Henry was missing.

I checked the shippers, my suitcase, the fridge, my cellar, the recycling bin, called out a few friends, looked back at the photos to verify that King Henry made the flight.

Yup, it was in the photos.

Screamed at the wife accusing my brother-in-law.

Screamed at the wife accusing her.

She saw the look in my eye, went to the closet and said, "is this what was missing, oops."

GRRRRRRRRRRR