Pranking Beer Snobs

I was hosting a beer tasting at my previous job and it just so happened to be April 1st. We were doing a lager sampling... all across the board, a Vienna, a pils, a doppelbock, etc., about seven or eight total. Well, I ran to the bathroom right before the Victory Prima Pils came out, and I sat down and started running through my notes on the beer and talking about the flavor profile, etc. Everyone kept asking if I was sure this was the right beer... and I had no idea what anyone was talking about. After three or four minutes of blabbering on, I finally tried it and was quite confused. As everyone was staring at me awkwardly, I was trying to figure out what was wrong with the beer. Massive palate burnout (this was maybe the 4th or 5th 8 oz. pour of the night)? Way out of date bottle? Bartender screwed up? None of those things added up... the beer tasted almost like nothing. Well, finally I convinced a friend sitting next to me to let me try his, and everyone started laughing. Turns out our bartender decided that it would be hilarious if she brought me a glass of Miller Lite instead of Prima, and since I was in the restroom at the time, everyone but me was in on it.

 

I know what Bud Light tastes like so I don't think you'd be able to prank me. Even if I didn't ID it as Bud Light in the blind taste I would know it's not craft based on the mouth feel. And if convinced me it was a new craft brew I would tell you it was a piss poor example.

Blind tastes do result in different evaluations, for sure. Before we taste with our tongues we "taste" with our eyes and our expectations can play a big part in how we see something. I used to get a cigar magazine and they would send out cigars to select readers for their evaluation. One time they sent out 2 batches, one with the bands to one group and another of the same sticks without the bands to another group. The evaluations from both groups were significantly different.

 

Dude honestly, your prank is awesome.

 

Nice one, lol!
Cheap BMC beers are as good as craft beers. No shame in saying this.

 

i think your "friends" just came over for the free beer

 

Boston Beer Co.'s labels have always been transparent on the breweries (both their own and others' under contract) they are using for their beers.
The current SABL label:

Looks like BBC is back to brewing at City's Latrobe and La Crosse breweries.

 

To the OP: funny story and prank.
To the people saying OP "scammed" them: lol, go to Walmart and buy a sense of humor.
To the people saying, "why would he do this?": to show people that 1: preconceived notions can affect peoples judgment and 2: too many self proclaimed beer connoisseurs don't have the palates they think they do
To the people bashing Anchor Brewing: Yeah, what did Anchor ever do for craft beer?

 

Couldn't find a link as I think it was lost in the purge but for everyone's reading enjoyment, here is a review of BX by the man himself:

The price for Black Xantus is one soul and most of your dignity.
You should be paid to drink Black Xantus.
Black Xantus makes no typos. It is so awful that it abuses the English language as a whole. (in response to a question about the ABV)
Black Xantus invented Mad Cow Disease.
Black Xantus puts razors in children's Halloween candy.
Black Xantus created the hole in the ozone layer.
Black Xantus gives you hemorrhoids.
Black Xantus is the reason my landlord hates me.
Black Xantus gives you ingrown hairs.
Black Xantus only poisons the pot. It cannot sweeten it.
Black Xantus encouraged Creed to reunite.
Black Xantus is responsible for apartheid.
Black Xantus kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.
Black Xantus was not brewed; it was dredged up from beneath the earth's crust. Even now it sits there, lurking. Waiting.
Black Xantus caused the recession.
Black Xantus is the only thing that makes Chuck Norris cry.
Black Xantus is what Dan Brown drinks for inspiration.
Black Xantus is responsible for forest fires.
Black Xantus will release foul spirits into your home. It will cause your wife's womb to become barren.
Friends don't let friends drink Black Xantus.
Black Xantus dashed my expectations, ***** them, then dashed them again for good measure.
Black Xantus is the #1 cause of highway fatalities in the US.
Black Xantus causes children to wet their beds.
Black Xantus pokes holes in your condoms.
Black Xantus wears no deodorant to the gym.
Black Xantus keys your car when you're in the grocery store.
Black Xantus stalks the children in your neighborhood.
Black Xantus pees in public pools.
Someone else: "if this had been an actual emergency ..." // Me: "... then Black Xantus would have been involved."
Black Xantus is the reason San Francisco has an emergency evacuation plan.
Positive comments about Black Xantus give me angina-like symptoms.
Black Xantus does not sell, because people fear what it will do to them while they are sleeping.
Black Xantus shot from the grassy knoll.
Black Xantus faked the moon landing.
Someone else: "Black Xantus hit on my wife!" // Me: "Black Xantus did a lot more than hit on her."
Patrick Henry's first draft proclaimed, "Give me liberty or give me Black Xantus!"
Black Xantus finishes with tannins and spite.
Black Xantus killed Dumbledore.
Black Xantus's 15 minutes of fame were over in 3.
Black Xantus totaled odiedog's car.
Black Xantus took John Locke's kidney.
Black Xantus caused the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The British PM was caught drinking Black Xantus and resigned.
Black Xantus drives too fast in school zones.
Black Xantus wrote the LOST finale.
Black Xantus inspired the Star Wars prequels.
Take Back the Night was originally founded as an anti-Black Xantus movement.
Black Xantus has two superfluous letters.


Black Xantus chopped down a cherry tree and blamed George Washington!
Now that I think about it...Black Xantus hit on my wife!
Black Xantus crushes your head!
Black Xantus farted and blamed it on the dog.
Black Xantus sodomized Doc Brown, stole the DeLorean, took it back to the 14th Century, and re-labled itself as Black Death. Global pandemic ensued...