Tickers?

Less concerned about the work than I am about the wallet. The work is fun. The paying hurts.

 

One thing I will NOT BE TICKING: Guinness the 1759

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/will-you-try-guinness-the-1759.222481
http://www.brewbound.com/news/guinness-introduces-limited-edition-the-1759-amber-ale

Stupidest idea ever.

 

While I don't trust that Guinness would make this with the quality or ingredients necessary to make it an excellent beer, it does sound pretty good in the description. I'm curious to see what those whiskey malts would do for/to a beer. What's your beef besides it being a gimmick that will surely be overpriced (haha)?

 

Mostly just the overpriced thing.

1) I think it is a stupid idea because: Most people wouldn't spend $35 on a bottle of beer, no matter how good it is, and the people who would spend that much on beer? They probably know better. I expect these to sit on shelves for some time.

2) I agree that this beer sounds interesting enough to pique my interest - but there's no indication that this beer involves any premium ingredients or anything justifying a $35 MSRP that is essentially more than twice as much as beers that were sitting in Bourbon Barrels for over a year (i.e. Parabola)

3) I don't want this beer to succeed because it sends a bad message to the breweries that this kinda gimmick/pricing is marketable, and that beer drinkers want to see more of it. This has the potential to set bad precedent. If it is successful, i predict we'll see more overpriced beers like this all over the place. I say we all do our part to advocate AGAINST this kind of bad market trend.

 

Duuude, it comes in a "stylish black velvet lined gift box". How is that not worth $35??? Also, Parabola is not even corked and caged, and everyone knows that means it's a better beer that costs more.

 

OOO. I didn't know it came in a velvet lined gift box. ---MIND CHANGED---

 

What's interesting as it just strikes me as what a lot of these older, more established booze and beer companies do to keep their core consumers interested: offer something fancier/pricier and offer the packaging gimmick to ice the cake.

 

I was at GABF as well and it def help. Like I said, it's more to get a direction and using others, although sometimes skewed, opinions as a starting point. Gotta go to Chicago for Baudoinia but fortunately it's "retired."

 

If by ticker, you mean someone that actively seeks out new beers in order to try them, then yes I am a ticker. But if you mean someone that does that in order to check them off their list, then no I am not. I do it for no other reason than I want to personally try as many different beers as I can because I am always looking for that next new favorite. I could care less what my list looks like, I do it for me, not a list or some kind of 'glory'.

I think a lot of this 'seek it out' mentality came from when I started getting into craft beer and found a couple that I absolutely loved. I was hooked after that.

 

There are varying degrees of ticking. Keeping track of every beer you've had on BA is the most basic form of ticking. Wanting to try as many new beers as possible and making that a goal is another step. This is where I'm at and enjoying the journey.

To an extreme a ticker passes on beers they know they enjoy to have a different beer simply because they have not tried it. Beyond that ticking as many 2oz pours at a festival just to get your count up is the far end of ticking. I don't find either of these practices enjoyable for me.

 

I was definitely a "ticker" when I first started drinking craft beer. I think most people go through that stage. After a while though I got fed up of "gambling" on new beer. I still try new beer fairly regularly but only alongside old standbys.

 

By it's seemingly endless definitions, yes, I am a "ticker". To me, experiencing as many different beers as I can come across turns the activity of drinking beer into an adventure. I'm not just rushing through beer after beer in any attempts to find my "all time favorite" or to "get my #'s up". New-to-me-beers co-exist very peacefully in my fridge along side my favorite and recurring beer purchases. But you can bet your ass that when I'm traveling, I'm going to seek out beers that I cant find at home. Good reputation or not, every beer deserves a fair shake.

 

I think I fit the profile, but for me drinking isn't about having three or four ounces of a beer just to say I had it. I give every beer a fair shake when I review it. Unlike some other prolific reviewers here, I don't have a template review that I plug a few sensory notes into.

In the "yes, I'm a ticker" column, I'd almost always rather have something I haven't tried before versus something I've already had.

You decide: I buy hundreds of dollars worth of beer every year, but you'd be hard pressed to find more than two or three bottles of the same thing in my cellar.

I probably drink one beer a day, on the average, though it's usually more like two or three one day then nothing for a few days.

So... ticker?

 

Tonight we have a tap takeover. In this case it is a mini festival from 1 brewer. There will be 25 beers to try. I have had 5 already so there are 20 left I have never had. I will go hog wild having an ounce or two to swill. I will tick away with 20 to add. Do they all get a fair shake....no. An ounce is enough though to know whether I want more. I hope to be able to go back and revisit a few and have a bit more. Still not a fair shake. Out of these I would bet I will buy a sixer or growler of most. Did I give every beer a fair shake. I believe not. Have I had a blast..........absolutely. There are fun times to tick and fun times to sit and evaluate. My ticking is a sort of triage to see what beers are worthy of a much better evaluation. I imagine I could miss a beer that I would enjoy if given a fair shake, but I guarantee I will not miss a new favorite.

 

I've personally lost count of the amount of beers i've tried, i'm usually having too good a time to note them all down but i do use various apps to try and keep a record of what I've had.

Would i consider myself a ticker? Probably; just mainly because i have kept track and do (sloppily) still try to. Not in any hardcore sense of chasing down the next beer but certainly i'm interested to try new beers when ever i can.

I will go back to favourites though as i'm not a purist, just a drinker who knows what he likes!

 

Welcome to BA! Nice first post!

 

That's my definition, too, and I kind of used to be one except for keeping track of it part. If I was somewhere I would always order something I hadn't had before unless something super special that I'd had in the past was on. But what started to happen over time is that I had a whole lot of average to below average beers (the dirty little secret of massive variety of beer we've been moving towards the last few decades) and found that there are styles that I just don't care for no matter who makes them. So, you take away the enjoyment factor of those many many beers and add that to not wanting to deal with reviews (back in the pre-"add"-feature days) and there you go. I like the idea of tracking everything I've had for amusement, but find it tedious. I had Untappd for a while, but deleted it after a few months of minimal usage.

Edit: I just want to add that I don't have a negative view of it. Whatever floats your boat. Tickers are such a small subset of the already small subset of better beer fans, that I don't see how their behavior has any negative impact on the better beer world.

 

I don't consider myself a ticker, but I very much enjoy trying new beers I have not had (and there's a lot of those!) to help me determine which ones I like better than others. A ticker, in my mind, is someone who does not truly enjoy the beer, rather, they want a sheer number. For example, I kid you not, I once saw a woman at a beer festival putting ratings into her untappd, based on 2 oz. samples. That's a ticker!

 

Y'all tickers ain't got shit on ol' Mick the Tick

 

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They are bouncy bouncy fun fun fun fun fun. and the wonderful thing about tigers is I am the only one.

I am the only one.

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