Since I'm both city & country,I understand that country & western are a bit different from personal experience. I've gotten some amuzing responses to remarks about Willie Nelson,etc down home in WV.
Funny things you've overheard about beer
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NickTheGreat
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That drives me nuts
Then again, if I asked my mom for a Kleenex growing up, she'd say "We don't have any Kleenex, but here's a tissue"
catdaddy66
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nasty_rabbit said:
In SC it's a "Co-Cola"! We're pretty lazy with our regressive consonants...
homebrewdad
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Here in Alabama, if you ask for a Coke, they assume soft drink. They will usually ask if Pepsi is okay (if they don't carry Coca-Cola), but they are just as likely to ask the "what kind?" question, as well... asking for a "coke" merely means carbonated, non alcoholic beverage.
In PA, especially the eastern half, it's ubiquitous. Yuengling sells more product in it's 13 state market than Sam Adams sells in all 50.
That should be an indicator for how popular it is in those 13 states.
When Yuengling was re-introduced to Ohio (after they stopped selling it there, due to production limitations and demand several years prior), folks lined up 24 hours in advance to reserve their cases.
About the only yuengling we can get around here is the lager & light. None of the other ones that might be better.
This is interesting:
www.popvssoda.com
Pop is definitely a midwest thing, but the distribution of "soda" doesn't necessarily follow a pattern. Unless you count "not midwest or south" as a pattern.
www.popvssoda.com
Pop is definitely a midwest thing, but the distribution of "soda" doesn't necessarily follow a pattern. Unless you count "not midwest or south" as a pattern.
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Wat. That's so weird!
Here if you order lager you would probably get carling, carlsberg (NOT export) or foster's, whichever they carry.
Or in Scotland, Tennent's...
jlb307
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Man this "lager"
is getting worst than all the others... but at least it is still kind of about beer.If anyone that knows a thing about beer asks for a lager and expect Yuengling, that is wrong.
But for those that don't know much about beer - if they ask for a lager and got something other than Yuengling; would they even notice?
JoeyChopps
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I have a funny one about yuingling I ask my buddy who is a die hard bl fan if he has ever tried it and he always says " I don't get down on any ding a ling" he's an idiot.
Man this "lager"
If anyone that knows a thing about beer asks for a lager and expect Yuengling, that is wrong.
But for those that don't know much about beer - if they ask for a lager and got something other than Yuengling; would they even notice?
I understand beer, and when I go to the bar and ask for a Lager, 9 times out of 10, there isn't even a question...
Also, in a noisy bar, you don't even need to hear the word "Lager" to know what they said, anyone can read that.
Finally- if you seriously don't think that anyone would be able to tell the difference between the amber color of yuengling with any of the piss-yellow BMC types.. I'd question your knowledge of beer, or at least this one.
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Yeah... All of this is absolutely hilarious.
But did you get a lager? and would you feel justified to be annoyed if you had got lager B instead of lager A?
What do this have to do with it?
But what if you were actually comparing between Yuengling and another non-BMC / non-light lager? Something simliar to Yuengling but not actually Yuengling, again under the assumption that you are not a beer "expert"Finally- if you seriously don't think that anyone would be able to tell the difference between the amber color of yuengling with any of the piss-yellow BMC types.. I'd question your knowledge of beer, or at least this one.
mattd2 said:
Do you talk like this to your friends?
Do they actually like you?
Would you know if they just act like it so they can talk behind your back about how obnoxious you can be?
Thread is getting unfunny again. Why am I having flashbacks to economics?
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I wouldn't ever ask for a lager simply because I hate redundancy when dealing with waitstaff.
I'll have a coke. What kind? The coca cola kind...
I'll have a diet. What kind? The kind you have...
I'll have a lager. What kind? Yuengling.
I'm short to the point and leave no room for error in anything I order. I don't want to have a pointless conversation with a waiter because I was too lazy to clearly define what I wanted.
I certainly don't get mad, berate or even care about how other people order beverages though.
I'll have a coke. What kind? The coca cola kind...
I'll have a diet. What kind? The kind you have...
I'll have a lager. What kind? Yuengling.
I'm short to the point and leave no room for error in anything I order. I don't want to have a pointless conversation with a waiter because I was too lazy to clearly define what I wanted.
I certainly don't get mad, berate or even care about how other people order beverages though.
DrunkleJon said:
That's probably because you can call Yuengling a lager only when it's demand is really high. If the demand drops then you have to switch over to the high demand lager. Vice versa with supply. Now price...don't get me started....
As Homer once said. Or I imagined he said. "Ahhh! Sin it to Hell!"
A friend of a friend told me last night that all Surly brews are 12%. I told him he was pretty incorrect on that and he told me it was in a red can, thus having to be furious. Furious is not even 7% which I explained. And he said it mustve been a special release, unless I am missing something, only special releases I know that could be even close to 12% is Darkness and that for sure doesn't come in a four pack or in cans. Needless to say though, he was not giving up on this argument. So I shut em up by having to go online and show him. I wouldn't be that upset if he wasn't saying ALL of them are 12%. Why in the world would they do that? Basically they would just use tge same grainbill and yeast and just add different hops if that was the case.
Not necessarily. You could still use completely different grain bills and use blends of yeasts along with the high gravity strain. There is a brewery here, Triple Digit, who's beers are all right around 10%. Doesn't change the fact that he was wrong about Surly, but the idea that all 12% beers would have nearly the same ingredients isn't really correct either.
mikeysab
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I just heard a good one at the beer distributor. Normally, the guys working there know there beer, but this guy.....not so much. I was looking for a sour and asked him if he knew anything about a capt lawrence hops n roses. He looks at the bottle and says "Well, this says its a malt beverage, so it's not even beer". Probably one of those things people that don't brew don't know. Sounded pretty funny though
jakenbacon
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Other: "Wow you brewed these?"
Me: "Yup, sure did."
Other: "Cool man, what's the ABV?"
Me: "This one's around 7%"
Other: "Whoa that's getting into ale territory."
Me: sigh......
Me: "Yup, sure did."
Other: "Cool man, what's the ABV?"
Me: "This one's around 7%"
Other: "Whoa that's getting into ale territory."
Me: sigh......
While I was drinking an Atwater Lager from the can.
"Lager?!?! That just sounds too dark to drink." [takes a pull off a Bud Light can]
I really don't mind the ignorance of those who do not want to get into craft beer...but when that ignorance is thrown out to criticize the beer I'm drinking, it gets a little obnoxious.
EDIT: I occasionally enjoy a glass of wine but will admit to being as ignorant about wine as the typical BMC drinker is about craft beer.
"Lager?!?! That just sounds too dark to drink." [takes a pull off a Bud Light can]
I really don't mind the ignorance of those who do not want to get into craft beer...but when that ignorance is thrown out to criticize the beer I'm drinking, it gets a little obnoxious.
EDIT: I occasionally enjoy a glass of wine but will admit to being as ignorant about wine as the typical BMC drinker is about craft beer.
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Ridire said:
I like the red ones. Yep, I'm pretty much a connoisseur....
hunter_la5 said:
That's me too. Dark and dry. I usually just get merlot because it is the only style I know I'll probably like. I might even look like I know what I'm doing because I almost always order red meat...merlot "goes" with that, right?
GrogNerd
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my comment on every wine I've tasted in the last 30 years: "busy... without being precocious"
I'm no connoisseur either, but my brother is a hoity-toity professional winemaker in Napa Valley, so I get top-notch stuff for free. Yay. Anyway, I'm pretty sure merlot is on the fruity end, not real dry, which is why it's so popular. Cab sauvignon, cab franc, zinfandel (not white zin) are dry. My brother makes really good beer too.
Keith66 said:
Seems dry to me. But I've already confessed my ignorance. I'm comparing it to the sugary sweet stuff my wife drinks...Riesling.
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It has the word platinum in it, so you know it has to be good stuff.
well actually, I prefer the Bud Light Adamantium, which is much better than the platinum. My local beer shop says if I like that, he'll get me some Coors Silver Bullet "Kryptonite"
I'll just grab my hat and coat and duck out now....
flyingfinbar
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I was talking beer with an old coworker of mine, and the conversation came to Stella. He goes "oh man, back when I was younger we used to call Stella a wife beating beer...that stuff is so strong that if you drank more than a few, you'd go home and beat your wife!"
^ More disturbing than funny, but at least it isn't about "lagers"...
Cheers!
Cheers!
flyingfinbar said:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_artois
Under the advertising banner and United Kingdom
flyingfinbar
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russrob81 said:
Wow, he wasn't kidding! Thanks for posting that, interesting/disturbing stuff!
Yeah, it's definitely drier than a riesling, which is a dessert wine, but so are all reds. My brother will be the first to tell you "Drink what you like, whether it costs $100 a bottle or comes in a box... that's why you drink it, to enjoy it." ...which is why I drink beer... so back to beer!
dinnerstick
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somewhere in the vast internet must be a wine forum with a 'funny things you've overheard about wine' thread.... i bet a few of the entries here are on it!
assuming wine people have a sense of humor
which they don't
so forget it.
i don't know if this was already on here, i'm sure it's quite common. on a bus, high school kid, massachusetts accent, passing a sign for narragansett lager (in a tall can). "what's lager beer? it's a laahghah beeah, means it comes in a tall can". same kid later, when asked where rice is grown, told his friend that you can't grow rice since it's just chopped up spaghetti.
assuming wine people have a sense of humor
which they don't
so forget it.
i don't know if this was already on here, i'm sure it's quite common. on a bus, high school kid, massachusetts accent, passing a sign for narragansett lager (in a tall can). "what's lager beer? it's a laahghah beeah, means it comes in a tall can". same kid later, when asked where rice is grown, told his friend that you can't grow rice since it's just chopped up spaghetti.
HBT has a wine forum.
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The reason we call it that is because for a long time most British beer was <4%, but Stella always stayed at 5.2%. That's also why it was expensive.
Presumably it says all that in the wikipedia article though...
