The Tickers Club

There's drinking good beer, and trying new and worthwhile beers when the opportunity arises (enphasis on worthwhile).

And then there's ticking. Only drinking beers repeatedly on a "special occasion"? Meh. I'd rather mostly buy beers I know are good than chase what might be good.

I get the ticking thing... it's not just what I want in terms of beer. I want to drink and enjoy good beer, not make beer into pokemons.

Spcial/tasting groups, now that's a different gig. Mixing trying new beers and hanging out with other beer geeks, now that's the best way to go.

 

Gotta tick em all! Gotta tick em all! (yeah).

 

That offensive label really ticks me off!!

 

I am a ticker and I love it. 1540 and counting...

 

I give in depth reviews for beer I expect to try again, and to add helpful info to the review database. As opposed to tickers whose reviews generally are like: "this is a really great brown ale really brown in color and it had some nice malt and hop flavors and a pleasant mouthfeel," for beers they never will try again, and even if they wanted to the review they gave wouldn't help them remember the beer, and doesn't give any info. helpful to anyone else either. Or they click a had button, which is about as helpful as a map with no names next to any of the roads.

If I ever make a post that reads, "What beer should I have to celebrate my XXX th review," just shoot me.

 

I wouldn't consider myself a ticker, but I suppose there is a little bit of ticking going on. I love to try new beers but I am not obsessed with trying every beer I see on the shelf, and when I find one I like I revisit it often, in situations where that is possible. I still don't understand this concept that by drinking multiple bottles of the same beer you are cheating yourself out of the opportunity to try something new.

 

Sure sounds like someone started early

 

Was wondering when I would see you post in here.
You better be ready for tomorrow as well.

Cheers!

 

Keep a spreadsheet of my new ticks, but if I find a beer I love I will almost always choose that over a new beer given the choice. I have always liked trying new things so it's just a great way for me to look back on past beers and remember what I thought about it to see if I want to buy a sixer or even a whole case in the future.

 

Hey man, I started when I was legally allowed to! for the most part

 

I like to try beers I haven't tried before. And I like to drink pleasurable beers over, and over, and over, and over again.

 

I dO this. I had no idea it was called ticking, I just like to keep track of what I've had.

 

I guess I was a bit of a ticker when I started out. That didn't really last too long tho. I normally know what i'm in the mood for and know what i'm going to pick up when i'm buying some beer. I pick up new beers when I know i've heard good things about them from others, or they got a decent amount of good reviews online. I pretty much gave up reviewing beers as there are way to many i've had and it takes up way to much time. I do however like the new grading system where I can just log on and give a quick grade on a beer without having to type out everything I enjoyed and didn't enjoy about a beer.

I guess after a while i just decided its better too just go with stuff I know I like rather than keep chancing it on random beers i've never seen/heard of.

 

Hah sure sure

 

I'm a ticker. I enjoy reviewing beers because I enjoy going back and reading whether or not I liked or what kind of smells it had or what the particular flavors were prominent. I also find it personally helpful comparing beers of different vintages.

 

2063 and counting.

 

I am just assuming by "ticking" you are referring to untapp'd (or other things like it...if there are any) and if not I'm missing something that I need to find out about!

If it is untapp'd then I am a middle-of-the-road "ticker." I looooove untapping beers but I also don't lose sleep if I am unable to untap or just forget or things of that nature.

I do need to work on taking tasting notes when I try new unique beers though. I have a beer blog and I get too caught up often in how good the beer is and/or in just the excitement of trying certain new beers. I'm getting better but it's hard sometimes to focus on anything but the beer in my hand

CHEERS!!
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Really? Did you have the Citra??