We need a vocab term for...

Spirit collectors refer to them as "dusties", and you go dusty hunting...

 

good point about little obscure stores that get a case of this or that and it just goes by the way side because the stores normal patrons arent maybe beer ppl. damn shame. I also think places like this are very few a far between.

 

I found this humorous. My cousin next door calls my place "The museum". I only had a mini fridge that holds about 45 bottles, but he was strictly a bmc drinker before I moved in and the thought of storing beer month's/years at a time was very foreign to him. That was about three years ago. Now he has a fully stocked mini fridge of his own.

 

I used to think "shelf turd" was a sarcastic term for elite beers that you come across in out-of-the-way places where no one knew what they were sitting on. My current interpretation is that it applies to a beer that sits on the shelf and gathers dust - not that it necessarily means the beer is bad, mind you, just that it's been there for so long.

 

This gas station near my buddy's house, out in the middle of nowhere always has past date stuff for cheap...too bad it's not beer I normally buy (lots of Summer Shandy's, Shock Top, Redds), but this week they had 4 packs of DFH Aprihop for $1.99...I think I have that in my couch cushions

 

I would have bought that Celebration Ale.

 

I would have bought the Celebration, and I like the term "dusties".

 

Once and for all, the proper definition:

shelf turd
compound noun / slang, plural: shelf turdz
1. a term that has no relevance to beer, except that when used, it indicates that the user is someone you would not enjoy drinking a beer with.

 

A shelf cougar - A tad past its prime but still alluring. You take the time to ponder what it would have been like if you crossed paths back in the day. You'll discretely take part. In 3 weeks, you'll tell your friends how great it was.

 

Don't be so crude. The politically correct term is Shilf.

 

I'd do the work of a beer advocate instead of a snark and let Fathead's know there's Hopstalker still on the market: ponder buying it to see what it tastes like just for fun, and then buy the SN Celebration, because, if as you say it was packaged in February, which I find to be extremely doubtful because hop harvest is done in the fall. It's still within it's window for flavor and it will be more round in flavor. Even if you misread that as its drink by. I'd still debate buying it because it's angels tears fresh, so I'd be curious what it'd be up now, and then let them know it's still on the market.
These are not primary markets for their sales people, so it's good to let them know when these things happen in the markets they don't get to that often so that prospective drinkers can get what ya'll are so stressed out about in your buying habits. The freshness.

 

Personally I like the term Placekeeper for a beer that is old and sitting on shelf.

 

Ticker bait

 

"Voobsips"

Acronym for "Victims of overzealous beer sales people". They will get a push to sell "X" amount of cases of "X" beer so they convince their more chummy customers to buy something they don't need, then maybe hook them up on a release or something.

 

I thought a shelf turd was beer that always sat on the shelf, like something that nobody wants. If you find a beer that is hard to find, even if it is old, I don't know if that is a shelf turd.

 

Your definition is correct.

 

Nerbles.

 

A Turd Mirage. You think you have found a hidden oasis. But its just shit.