Weird beer things you do...

Paper labels that are hard to peel without ripping them apart, I simply fill the bottle with water to make weight and submerge the entire bottle in water for about 30 minutes. Most of the time they peel off easily while wet.

Plastic labels are easier to peel, just carefully or they may warp.

And now and then there are some completely impossible to peel labels, thats life. Haha.

 

I'm neurotically hypervigilant about keeping my beers out of sunlight. Like, even seconds at a time drive me crazy. It starts with me throwing a shirt or towel over them in the car when transporting or "burying" them under my tools and building materials when I'm empty handed. This is because my local bottleshop hardly ever bags my stuff, and I don't even think about it til I'm outside walking to my rig seconds later, holding my stash like it's an albino infant that can't be exposed to sunlight... God forbid I have to suffer a skunked light-struck beer. Ever again.

 

A few more weirdesque things:

• Post pictures of beer on Instagram and tag them with things like #crafbeerporn
• About once a week my kids and I review craft and crafty root beers, similar to the way I rate beer
• If a beer has sediment on the bottle, when I get to the last third of the glass I swirl and dump it in the beer as I love the yeasty flavour it imparts and as an occasional home brewer I love the yeasties
• I really, really enjoy having a beer, quietly, one my own (not getting drunk by myself, typically just one beer), it's a nice way to turn down the evening
• Santa puts a beer in my stocking every year
• My father and I make beer advent calendars for each other at Christmas time (not weird, awesome)
• I make my own note pads for writing beer reviews and have them printed

 

I have spent as long as 2 hours in one store, in the case of Beer Junction in Seattle, WA. Their selection is insane, and I had to choose wisely as I had to check bags on a plane with the beer and that ain't cheap.

Normally, I spend anywhere from 10-30 minutes in a given beer-focused store. That includes looking up reviews on my phone and double-checking to see if I've had said beer before.

 

My girlfriend gets the leftmost line of beers (I have a rack in my fridge), and the other 7 are for me. Don't touch!

 

In. Sane.

In a good way, of course.

 

This is both a curse and a blessing... when I have a new beer, I absolutely MUST, MUST, MUST review it. Write it down on scratch paper, type it into my phone...whatever. I still have a notebook full of beers I haven't typed into the BA database yet. 600 beers? More like 1,000 probably...

Also, I have a ridiculous amount of beers. Well, to some. My last count was at 170 or so. That's a lot of beers. And 80% of them are singles of different kinds. If someone comes over and says, can I have that, usually my response is, "no, but you can have anything on...that side."

I spend a lot of time while reviewing beers. Usually 20 minutes or so. I take pride in writing reviews, it helps me understand what I like and what I don't. For instance last night I was trying to decide whether to have a Too Cream Stout or a Tres Blueberry Stout (both from Dark Horse). Took a look at my reviews and decided I wanted the shot of lactose more than a slight bitter blueberry. I made a good choice.

Sometimes I stand in front of my fridge for 3 minutes at a time trying to decide what I want to drink. I'll pick up a bottle, think I know what I want, take it to the counter and say...oh, nope. I only have one of those left, do I really want this one at this time?

And I'm also the beer store guy who spends copious amounts of time choosing what he wants.

I'll ask for samples on tap before I choose a pint. I may go through half a dozen samples before I decide. Then I have more samples after my first pint. I make sure to tip well for the freebies.

I've never slept with a beer under my pillow or anything. Once I think I hugged a beer. Got some weird looks for that one but hey, it was just what I was looking for!

 

Hmmm, I have never hugged beer, maybe I need to try that. Have definitely slugged tequila, though.

 

If one 170 is ridiculous...well lets just say I got issues than!

 

You'd think someone with his avatar would be doing much weirder things to/with his beer

 

In retrospect, the weirdest beer thing I ever did, was to carry a case of Ringnes bottles up 3000 feet to a camp site. I was young, it was on my shoulder..... crap I'd do it again!

 

I am pregnant and told my hubby he cannot try any NEW beers while the bun is in the oven, only beers we have had already. Sound mean?

 

Maybe more a weird thing beer has made me do...

Ever find yourself sniffing a glass of liquid that's not beer, say a plastic cup of tea after or glass of orange juice?

 

the weirdest beer thing I do is buy beer for myself to enjoy it. I know, crazy right? I mean, how weird is it that I am not trading it?

 

Go into a store with the intent of spending 10 dollars and spending 70. Although i don't know if that would be considered weird on this site lol

 

I pay $15 to send beer that I find on the shelves of local liquor stores to far away places like Vermont or New York and in return receive beer from the shelves of their local liquor store to put into my refrigerator.

 

I talk about beer on a **** site.