Overlooked pet peeves at bars (consumer standpoint)

Bar stools with a seat back would not only eliminate my main pet peeve (and provide relief for my bad back) but they would also provide an answer for all of the complaints above on the coat hook issue.

 

Sounds like a good place to leave.

 

Bars that smell like soap, suds, and other cleaning materials like previously mentioned. I also hate when the bar tenders stand around and don't do shit, but won't refill your beer or ask if you would like something else. The worst is though if you don't get a complete tap list though and it is like a battle to find out what kind of beers they have on draft.

 

not knowing the product. I was at my local brewery having dinner in their pub, and asked the waitress about one of there beers because it tasted very different to what it normally does. They have a tendency to randomly insert barrel aged versions of their normal year-round brews and that is what it tasted like. I asked, and she had no clue what I was talking about.

 

Even one over the urinal.

 

Came here to say that.

 

I hate bands or open mic nights. Just leave me be with a beer and maybe sports. I dont want to hear your shitty band.

Also hate at BWW where the bartenders stir their beer to create head. Just pour it right and you will get head!

 

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That right there.

I can tolerate the other things mentioned (and I don't disagree) but places who don't clean their tap lines properly starts at the most basic level where the experience starts: from the tap to the glass. Despite the other reasons, nothing is worse than having a craft beer (or any beer for that matter) coming from the glass and tasting like chlorine and/or other off flavors. The brewers put blood, sweat, and pride into their kegs and the bar owner should treat the tap delivery with the same care and respect.

 

terrible music. I love Congregation House but their juke box selections is god awful

 

I don't like when ABV's are not posted.

I absolutely hate shaker pints except to collect.

I prefer pretty girls who smile serving my beer.

I don't mind cold glass, wait 5 minutes and it's not frosted anymore.

 

Truth! BUT I go to one bar that has proper up right stool backs and then these reclined stools....I HATE THEM! I also hate beer lists on televisions....Yeah they can up date them instantly but most of the time I have to stand behind someone to read it because it isn't visible form 3/4ths of the seats.
I love informed bartenders who want to talk beer as long as they leave me alone for a bit so I can decide on a beer or at least what I want to sample. I'm not interested in trying the beer the manager told them to push.

 

Technically, the space between the bar top and the floor is a wall, so they are coat hooks by your definition, not purse hooks. Take that, Sheldon!

 

Doesn't work so well with long coats.

 

No prices listed

 

The people have spoken.

 

This always happens at sports bars/casual restaurants-

me-"What do you have on tap?"
waitress-"We have everything!" (I hate this reply. It means they have Bud, Coors, AND Miller!)
me-"Have anything made by Boulevard?" (50/50 chance they might)
waitress-"No, sorry" *sad face

I reluctantly order the Blue Moon or Shock Top. fml

 

Asking what local/ craft beers they have on draught and getting a response along the lines of "shock top, blue moon, killians etc". Also, cant stand dirty glasses- I prefer not to have dried lipstick residue on my snifter- happens a lot here in CO in the wintertime with chapstick etc and it's a bummer.

 

Yeah, but odds are your beer is still nowhere near the correct serving temp. That shit works fine for Bud light or some other stuff I don't want to taste in the first place.

 

People have already mentioned this, but when the staff doesn't know their beer, or ANY beer, for that matter. My bf and I used to go to a place which was fine 2 summers ago, but last year, they hired an airhead who probably didn't even drink BMC. He ordered a Weihenstephaner Heffe weisse and she gave him a Lindemann's Framboise. Um, what? The worst part if that he pointed to the beer name on the menu, and she still royally fucked that up. On subsequent visits, we were unlucky enough to get her again, and she kept mixing our beers up (no biggie, at least they were right) until she later mixed up a beer I ordered with a completely different style from the same brewery. Again, I not only pointed to it on the menu, but said it aloud. I also saw the table next to us switch their beers once after she left.

We didn't go back after that. We did go to an actual brewery a few weeks later that is just across the street from this bar, and we saw this waitress there (must have been fired from the other place). Thankfully she wasn't our server, and she messed up the food order of the table next to us. Something tells me she isn't there anymore either. Looks like you need to find a new calling, lady.

 

I can think of only 2 bars that serve in the right glass and the correct temp for style. The rest are all frosted shaker pints regardless of style. I don't sweat it, I ask for a wine glass/red wine glass, and I'm good, simple, works every time.