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I got my Double Arrogant Bastard. :) have you?
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Leper Messiah
Banned
Hm. Up in The U.P of michigan, a winery sells wine called fat bastard. Its pretty good.
Leper Messiah
Banned
Hm. Up in The U.P of michigan, a winery sells wine called fat bastard. Its pretty good.
I drank some Arrogant Bastard Saturday night. And some Stone IPA, too, come to think of it.
For free.
While I was working.
In front of my boss.
With his knowledge.
And encouragement.
I only wish that they sold Stone Pale Ale around here. But until that happens, I'll just have to console myself by drinking good free beer on shift. The Rodenbach we have on draft this month is fairly nice, but not nearly as good as their Grand Cru, which we only have in bottles.
I havent seen the Hop Rod Rye around here, but I'd be willing to ship some AB and Ruination. It's be expensive, though, both because the bottles are $4 and $5 (for the 22oz bombers), respectively, and because I've have to pad the crap out of them in order to be willing to ship them, as I hate to see good beer wasted.
I never make a scene if I go to a bar and my choices are only BMC (Bud, Miller, and Coors). I may make one comment about it just prior to placing my order, but I dont make a scene. I dont return to that establishment unless I have a very compelling outside reason, though.
Just because I expect my beer to taste like... oh, I dont know... actual beer does not mean I'm being overly picky.
Bud is waaaaaaaaaaaaay closer to being a wine cooler than something like Arrogant Bastard.
BatmanNate
Lifer
The Bigfoot is more of a barleywine style than the celebration, but they're both good. :heart: those cascade hops, mine are done for the season.
If by order you mean, place your order, then I completely agree with you. However, I dont know any beer snobs that require that long to place their order with the bartender. The only people that take that long are those who fake being beer snobs. Deciding what to order can take some time, however. If you are in a bar for the first time with an extensive beer list, it can take a while to make your selection, depending both on how long the list is and how they have organized the beer list (if there even is one). If they've done it logically (ie, IPAs, stouts, porters, etc are listed together by style), then it shouldnt take much time at all. If they've done it to accomodate retards who like to order their beer from a region without regard to the style of the beer, then it will take longer for me to decide. I almost always have a beer style in mind to order, however I will look over the taps and what they have in the bottle in case there is something that catches my eye.
If the noise level permits it, asking the bartender what they have is acceptable (I'm a bartender BTW), so long as you know what you want. Asking what IPAs are in stock is a easy question to answer. Asking "what beers do you have" without narrowing it down in a bar with ~90 different beers is going to be rather unproductive. The only people who take more than a minute to order are the retards who pretend to know a lot about beer, but couldnt taste test the difference between a pale ale and a doppelbock.
alkemyst
No Lifer
I agree here... I am talking about the idiot taking up a bartenders time throwing out 'do you have this?', 'ok, how about this?', 'ok...' or the classic 'What's the best beer you have?'
In most bars you can see the drafts clearly at the bar...and most have menus or a list somewhere of the bottles (or cans 😉).
I actually enjoy the "what's the best beer you have?" question, because I hand them a DFH 90 minute IPA and either watch them break into a huge smile when they drink it, or watch them sprain a tastebud on a substance they hadnt previously known was supposed to be in beer, named hops. Either way, I'm rewarded.
Questions about what is on draft doesnt bother me, as most people dont know what Rodenbach or Beamish is from looking at the side of the tap handles (which is all you can see from most places at the bar).
The biggest beer idiots I recently (and by recently I mean last weekend) encountered have fallen into these groups:
-Acts like the difference between their favorite BMC on draft is huge compared to it in the bottle. Believes that since we dont have their favorite BMC product on tap, everything that we do have on tap is sh!t, and they know this because they've never seen any of these other beers advertise during the Super Bowl. With twins!!!. Because, as we all know, Corsendonk Pale Ale on draft is a much inferior product to Coors Light on draft. If it was any good, they certainly would be putting it in TV ads with big chested women, as that is how all quality beer must be marketed. It's in the German beer law or something, man.
-This group is closely related to the previous one. They attempt to order something like Killian's/Blue Moon. I tell them we dont have that, then suggest a beer within the same style that we have in stock. They've never heard of the beers I suggest, and so instead of trying them, they order a Bud Light, then turn to their friend and b!tch that we dont have anything to choose from.
-People in this group orders an expensive beer, love it, spends all night exclaiming over how much better this beer is than their normal Bud/Bud Light/Coors Light, calls friends on their cell phone to tell them how great this beer is, etc. Then the bill comes, and SURPRISE!, that fruit lambic they've been drinking all night is not $2/bottle. Suddenly the customer is pissed, and asks me if I realize how many 12 packs of Bud Light they could have bought for the same price as their tab has totalled out to.
I usually see these idiots as entertaining, but occasionally there are just too many of them at the bar at one time, and then I start getting ticked at them.
anxi80
Lifer
touché! 😀
its funny though what you said about some people not knowing good beer exists because all they know is coors light from commercials (joe six-packs if you will). i have a friend like this who absolutely *refuses* to go this microbrew down the street from us. he'll stay at home and do nothing rather than go down there. "dont serve coors light? ill stay at home and watch tv then." oh well, the place has arrogant on tap, more for me then.
anxi80
Lifer
a healthy amount. actually, a few waitresses at this place look pretty nice also. but its right next to a movie theatre also, so you have to watch it or you might catch a case r. kelly-style. but of course the girls show up to consume the mixed drinks.
edit: man did i butcher that quote
yes, its 10 percent alcohol.
oh... you will have a hard time finishing the Double 🙂
well, I just tried it two days ago.... it wasn't literally "doubled", the bitterness and hoppiness level is roughly 50 perecent more (WILD guess, but definitely not doubled)
matter of fact, if I lick my teeth hard enough I can still taste the beer between the gaps.
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