Searcher? Ticker? Who are you?

Ticker for sure. Although most of my list does consist of good quality micros

 

The term "Ticker" started out in the world of beer without most of the negative connotations when it was used in the UK to describe such folks as Mick the Tick.

http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Drinks/Beer/Meet-Mick-the-Tick

 

75% searcher 25% ticker. I want to try as many new ones as I can, but lean towards stouts, porters, quads, and hefeweizens. I won't knowingly buy a new beer to try if I have reason to believe it sucks. I will try highly acclaimed beers that I know I probably won't like based on style - just to experience the best of a style.

 

I search out "traditional" beers that locals drink and drink those.

 

I'm an occupational ticker. Travel a bunch for work and have the ability to try many new beers. There is an allure in the chase. Many times I have found beers I enjoy that I'd never have considered based on rating. I find it exciting to find that next hidden gem on a tap line.

 

60% Ticker 40% Searcher. A year ago I would have been more like 90% Ticker 10% Searcher but jumping in the trading game along with meeting a few new friends that decidedly Searchers have swung me closer to 50/50. I still felt like I enjoyed good beers being a ticker but now I am not only enjoying good beer but also great beer since diving into the world of hunting beer.

Cheers

 

I'm definitely a full blown ticker. I generally don't drink beer I've already tried unless I'm at a restaurant, friends house, block party...At that point I generally go for the beer that was the best or I haven't had in awhile to refresh my memory.

 

I've tried a lot of beers, I'm sure not as many as some on this site but definitely my fair share. I'd say that toward the beginning I would lean heavily toward ticker (though not really for sport or anything, I was simply amazed at this gigantic world I'd discovered and HAD to try ALL of them). After a number of years I drifted the other direction, as I feel like I've tried most things available to me that I care to (though that White Chocolate from The Bruery mocks me from the shelf). I find myself reaching for beers that I truly love more often than not. I still try new stuff, but most if the time I walk in knowing what I want. Actually been doing a lot more exploring in the wide world of spirits lately, sipping some Mocambo 20 yr old rum

 

99% Ticker. Though if a beer is exceptional I'll pick it up more than once for sure.

1% Searcher. Sometimes I'll get off my lazy ass and reserve something special at my local liquor store. But seeing as over the years most super hyped brews to come through don't live up to the hype, I'm a bit selective about which ones I bother with. Price plays a factor too. $15+ for a twelve ounce? Fat chance.

 

Trying every beer on the planet vs. trying the best beers on the planet? I do like to tic (I'll admit ), but if I find something I really enjoy, I have no problem sticking with it and enjoying time and time again => totally down with that. !

 

Searcher of good tasting beers that ticks as a hobby.

I have been trying new brews for 26 years and will continue to do the same. I have a couple of great beer bars near me and I pony up them and have what ever is new to me in half pours. I am a explorer, trying new brews is what I like to do, with all the new breweries it is tough not to try all the new stuff. I do not seek out the highest rated beers but I have been in the right place at the right time for some of my highest rated ticks.

Here is the gist of, my everyday at home beers are Yuengling Lager and Curious Traveler right now and when it cools down it is Oktoberfest's, I started home brewing because I had a couple bottles of Gumballhead and couldn't get it anymore. All the beers that I made were clones of stuff that I couldn't get anymore.

I am a beer geek to the max in search of the next best thing for me not what someone says is good.

 

I am mostly searcher. Like others, when first getting into craft I spent some time trying lots of new styles and breweries. Not sure that really ever made me much of a ticker. Once I started to learn what styles I liked I started seeking out the better/best representations of those styles. That journey continues and I like to expand the number of styles as time goes on. On rare occasions that I visit breweries I will sample number of styles.

I don't think I drink a lot, 3-5 beers a week, so when I do I prefer to drink great beer.

 

For me, maybe I'm half and half. I don't bother trying every beer because that's Damn near impossible. For a while I mainly bought beer from really 3 companies: Founders, Bells, and Sierra Nevada but then I discovered the greatness in many other breweries. So now what I do is I try to try all the top rates beers I can afford and get my hands on. Beers like Toppling Goliath Kentucky Brunch Brand Stout and 3 Floyd's Dark Lord I will just pass on, not going to pay that sum of money. Now kind've what I do is try new brewing companies and if I like them I continue to buy other styles from them, if what I buy is unenjoyable and I try more with same results I stop buying from that company. For me I like all styles and from many companies and I really just like to consume a variety of good beer. So I guess I could be considered half and half but really I'm neither because I really have one desire only and that is to try a variety of good different beer and if I like it you bet I'll revisit it. And I rate each beer and take notes to help me remember what I had and how it tasted in case I forget.

 

This. Over and over again, this. While I trust the folks on here to offer me a decent snapshot of how a beer performs (after all, that's the reason I joined here), I don't always align with the group. Finding a hidden gem among on the hyped mountains is glorious. That's apart of the ticking journey.

I'll still take Jolly Russian over Pirate Bomb any day. The ratings don't prove it, but I know better

 

I'd say mostly a ticker. I would like to try every beer on the planet. A little bit of a searcher, as I do have good distribution being on the border of Illinois and Wisconsin, so I can try hard to get beer. However, I still have a few beers that I will always go too.

 

Used to search out beers that I hadn't had. Gave up on that a while back when I had drank the vast majority of the "classics" and figured that I couldn't possible drink every beer out there. I guess I'm just happy to be able to look at a beer menu/draught list and know what's probably going to be good.

 

I am very curious about beers I haven't tasted and will usually drink those if they're available. I'm very lucky in that I get exposed to a lot of different beers - due to my job, travelling, and friends. I enjoy the different takes that brewers can have on a single style. Yesterday I had 2 hefeweizens side by side - Two Brother's Ebel Weiss and Baxter Coastal Haze. They couldn't have been more different. For me, that's fun. I'm a ticker by accident and I'm pretty happy with how it's working out!

 

Good for you. I'm a touch jealous of those that pack a list of conquests, but I forget that slight envy/jealousy very quickly. The other day I went into my favorite local, hot, after working in the garden. I had the latest incarnation of Foothills IPA of the month- I forget the name- but it was great and my love of beer was unabated and undocumented until now. On Fridays, Martha and I will often go downtown, have a Double IPA at Joymongers and finish with a Gibbs 100 Blind Man's Holiday Greensboro Pale Ale. These are both great beers that I trust and at Gibbs I just ask for a Pale Ale! I have lived a long life in beer and we are truly lucky to have all of these great options, local and otherwise. Cheers to all and I love these stories and testimonials.

 

I wouldn't consider myself a "searcher" because most of the more popular or higher-rated beers are hard to come by. When I want to enjoy a good beer I don't want to worry about whether I will have to wait in line for hours to get it or have it shipped to me. I suppose I would fall more in line with a "ticker" because I try so many beers.

Really the most apt descriptor would be "explorer." I will try hundreds of beers to find the ones that I like. In the end I have a portfolio of what I enjoy the most and I constantly go back and drink those beers. Instead of waiting for the world to tell me what is good, I find out for myself.

 

Fantastic subject! When I stumbled across this website 10 years ago I quickly became a ticker.

Within 2-3 years beer was my #1 hobby and I was a searcher. Eventually trading became harder for me because I moved to a rural area and I became someone who was out to spread the love of good beer.

I also realized that beers I searched for and ended up trading great and more expensive local beers for often weren't what I thought they were going to be.

Now I find myself to be more of a traveler. When I am on the road with my family I will pick up new beers or stop at pubs and tick as many as I can but it's for my own notes... otherwise I drink what I know I like unless something new and interesting pops up locally.