Anybody stop by Twisted Spoke last night for an Off Color Troublesome and get some dark robust porter instead? I got my beer and suspected it wasn't a gose by the color (a really deep brown, almost black). I decided to try it thinking Laffler might have put some spin on the style, but it tasted dark and roasty, not light, slightly sour, and salty as the menu described. I pulled up BA to check reviews and saw it was supposed to be a pale straw color, so I called over my server to say he must have mistakenly given me the wrong beer. He told me nope, that's the gose. I asked him if he minded checking the keg, but he said he didn't need to check, it was the gose. I asked are you sure as I showed him pictures of Troublesome from Untappd which were clearly nothing like what I had in front of me. He said he didn't know what to tell me, but offered to take it back while I picked another beer (this took three more attempts as each time I picked one, he told me it was gone and replaced with something else). It's frustrating enough trying to pick a beer at Twisted Spoke since they don't regularly update their menus, but that server trying to convince me I was wrong without being willing to check for me was a little insulting. It's like a waiter trying to convince me the chicken he put down in front of me is a steak. If that was some new version of Troublesome or something, I'd take it all back, but these are the reasons I only go to Twisted Spoke once a year instead of once a week like I used to. I keep hoping they're going to get their act together, but I always leave disappointed.
I'd imagine you got scurry the altbier from off color not troublesome. Why keep banging your head against the wall at twisted spoke? Local option, northdown or a number of other beer bars have clearly surpassed twisted spoke for this consumers $$$. Cheers!
I know man, I know. It's like I said, they hold a place in my heart, but I guess it's time to let go. We even went there on my suggestion. We met up with a couple friends who were in the area already, but after that we left and checked out The Matchbox right up Ogden. That place was cool as shit. It had a decent craft selection, and it lived up to its name (it's tiny). The bartender was also a really cool guy. He had the hilarious dry wit of a young Steven Wright.
This has happened to me before. Its just a really awkward situation. They gave me FW's black IPA instead of sucaba (pretty much the same beer,right..............). I had to go through 3 people to finally get my sucaba. I wanted to be a total djag and slam my BJCP card on the table and be like "look brah, now give me my sucaba". Luckily it the situation was rectified before i had to go to such measures. That, and well, of course i dont carry that card around.
I miss that bottle list. Such wildly varied prices. BCBVS? $25. Alpha Kong or some 2006 (?) Dark Lord? $80. Drank so much 2008 BCBS at $10 each or so... Edit: The price list is still on their beer menus. Alpha Kong was $45, 2007 DL was $80. $70 got you 2008 DL, and $60 got you a 12oz bottle of BrewDog Atlantic IPA... which meant you then had to suffer through a BrewDog beer. A 365 of Cantillon Gueze was $19, though, and BCBS 2008 was $12 (well worth it).
The problem was (at least 6 months or so after the Twisted Spoke 15th was released) that the bottle list either was not an accurate reflection of what was actually in stock, or the bartenders were unwilling to look for what you ordered. Dvelcich and myself played that game for about 30 minutes one night at Twisted Spoke before we both gave up and ordered something on draft (which amazingly was in stock). Cheers!
wrong thread. deleted. anyway, yeah twisted spoke, it's been a long while since i've gone there. mostly for food in recent times.
apparently i had multiple tabs open, i thought this was the new glarus thread. it doesn't help that i'm drinking as well. thanks.
I had a similar one, ordered a sofie paradisi and got regular old sofie. While that sucks and all, does local option or any other beer bar have smut and eggs aka hardcore 70's **** and brunch on after midnight on a saturday?
Yeah, I had the same issue at one point. This was 2010-2011 when I was getting awesome stuff out of there. They did look for stuff at one point, which is how a friend and I discovered that we drank them out of BCBVS
This all sounds like an awful experience. I had pretty much this exact thing happen to me at 2 different places in Philly and I haven't been back to either since. If they cant tell the difference between Stone Enjoy By and Coronado Orange Wit then I don't need to be drinking there.
