Hopinista
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Well, I made seamen on CGC Decisive, then went to Boatswain's Mate
Well, I made seamen on CGC Decisive, then went to Boatswain's Mate
Well, I made seamen on CGC Decisive, then went to Boatswain's Mate A School, then Coxswain School. I made third class at a rescue station, second too.
There are more fun words to say!
First time I'd seen that acronym. Figured it out though. I'm still pretty new. Started last fall but I'm active duty navy in sea duty so I'm only on my 6th batch. 1 bottled, 1 fermenting, and currently brewing 1. Non ready to drink since I've been back sadly
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Yup my nephue on his 21 bday I offered him a beer and he said they all tast the same and there nasty. Well I hand him a craft brew ( dont remember wich kind) and he said wow thats beer? Glad to say he stopped playing beer pong( choking down crappy beer with the beast light or ice) and now enjoys founders dirty bastard.
Not really sure if this is funny or just a head scratcher.
I was in a beer bar that has 75 beers the other day. It is a sea of hop bombs. I asked if they had a pale ale. The bartender suggested Bells Two Hearted Ale.
Really? Have we become so obsessed with hops that a very good IPA gets suggested as a pale ale. Is this happening everywhere?
I had been trying to find a "representative" example of an English Bitter for about 3 weeks. In every store I went (several touting the fact that they had over 400 craft beers in stock), it was pretty much all IPAs. To paraphrase Henry Ford, "You can get any style you want, as long as it's an IPA."
Green king IPA made the list? Maybe a long time ago. Green king is pretty much the bmc of ales. Although they just opened a small craft brewery that has a nice bitter. But they are responsible for buying pubs around the country and "starbucking" them.
Reminds me of that scene in The World's End, when they guys are reenacting the pub crawl, and the first two pubs they visit look exactly the same because they were bought out by chains since the last time they had visited.
While I do agree that it's funny, at one point in my beer life I preferred Bud Light over Coors Light because "it has so much more flavor".
Lol. They were definitely talking about Greene king. Always the worst beer selection. Free house is the way to go.
I had a Belgian style beer this past week that I think you would like. The brand name is "Shock Top" and it is sold in limited volumes and is brewed in Colorado.
I don't.....I received this text from a family member who knows I'm a beer nut and into brewing (anonymized for their sake).
I don't even know where to begin... :smack:
These days it's pretty amazing people haven't even heard of Blue Moon or Shock Top. There's quite a bit of advertising around here for it.
I wasn't trying to be a dick, I just think if your restaurant name is going to have the word TAPHOUSE in it, your servers should have at least a little beer knowledge. I'm not asking for total beer connoisseurs for servers, but come on...
.... She walks up and says, "we don't have the pale ale, but an excellent substitute is Boulevard Tank 7". I said, "that's not even the same style of beer". She didn't seem to care, and asked me if I wanted it anyway...so we left.
I wasn't trying to be a dick, I just think if your restaurant name is going to have the word TAPHOUSE in it, your servers should have at least a little beer knowledge.
I'm not asking for total beer connoisseurs for servers, but come on...
I received this text from a family member who knows I'm a beer nut and into brewing (anonymized for their sake).
I don't even know where to begin... :smack:
My friend owns a brewery in Custer, SD, a local restaurant that boasts being a "Taphouse" was carrying his pale ale. So my wife and I went down there hoping they still had it on tap...she noticed that they also had his stout on the list of beers they have when we walked in. We were seated and asked about those beers, the waitress responded with, "I have no idea...we probably don't have it because that list hasn't been updated in like, FOREVER". The list is written on a chalk board, why couldn't someone erase it or draw an X through it if they don't have it anymore...I was annoyed but whatever, it's what happened when the waitress came back that made me want to leave. She walks up and says, "we don't have the pale ale, but an excellent substitute is Boulevard Tank 7". I said, "that's not even the same style of beer". She didn't seem to care, and asked me if I wanted it anyway...so we left.
I wasn't trying to be a dick, I just think if your restaurant name is going to have the word TAPHOUSE in it, your servers should have at least a little beer knowledge. I'm not asking for total beer connoisseurs for servers, but come on...
What an OUTRAGE!
You realize that expecting every waitress to memorize the BJCP style guidelines as well as the category into which each of the restaurant's beers falls - and then repeat that information without making an error is a bit of an unrealistic expectation, no? Walking out on a waitress because she has failed to live up to that expectation seems beyond the pale (pun intended - I know, I'm hilarious!).
Except... you are. Yeah I get it - she works at a place called The Taphouse. But, she makes $2.15 an hour plus whatever tips she can make serving rude customers, some of whom simply walk out because she was unable to dazzle them with her command of brewing science.
I doubt she was a sorry to see such a lovely customer go, but it probably hurt her earnings for the night because she had to wait for someone else to get seated in her section.
Somewhere, on another internet forum, is a thread titled "Jerky things customers have done" with a different version of this same story.
... So my wife and I ...
I think we're all missing a very important part.
Was she attractive?
Lighten up. Expecting servers at a place called the Taphouse to have a little minimal knowledge about the products they're serving is hardly the same thing as "expecting every waitress to memorize the BJCP style guidelines as well as the category into which each of the restaurant's beers falls - and then repeat that information without making an error...
Hopinista said:Is this the 14th time, or 15th that there's been a customer vs. server argument on this thread?
I received this text from a family member who knows I'm a beer nut and into brewing (anonymized for their sake).
I don't even know where to begin... :smack:
I had a Shock Top ... but but I paid $15 for it.
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