Besides trading, how do you dispose of perfectly OK beer that just does nothing for you? I have almost 2 cases of of beer that I can look at and just know I am never drinking it.
Wow- that's a lot. Whenever this sort of thing happens to me it's usually just a few bottles I have to deal with. I find that having a bit of fun with blending beers helps keep things interesting if I have some lying around that are too sweet, too bland, too 'whatever'...
I drink just about everything I buy, but if there are beers I don't particularly care for, I just serve them to guests at my house. If they don't like it, they can bring their own beer.
It's a hodge podge of stouts, some ryes, a ginger beer, a dozen oddball, some that have nuts, and some hopslam. No fabulous rare items, but stuff a non-craft drinker wouldn't touch. I have been cooking with it, but my house is starting to smell a little too much like beer.
Luckily has only happened with Festina Peche for me, threw the other 3 bottles away. It'll take a while for me to try another berliner lol
I need some names of the beers to put in a good opinion. Hopslam? That one has me stumped though I respect you're not liking it; we all have our own palates and what pleases it.
In the cellar: Breckenridge 72 Imperial Left Hand Good JuJu (may be too old) Well's Banana Bread Souther tier 2x stout Ruthless Rye Arcadia Coco Loco Arcadia Cereal Killer Hopslam Kuhnhenn Christmas Stollen Shorts Woodmaster Arcadia Imperial Stout
I have this problem, right now as we speak. I have a lone bottle left from a sixer of Weihenstaphener Hefe-weiss. I've struggled all weekend with the stuff, I realize it's rated world class, but man... I do not like banana/clove flavored beer. My son drank a couple. That's about all he could handle. Oh well. Gonna pop the top now and man up. I don't drain pour.
It depends how much I don't like it. If I don't care for it but I still find it drinkable/tolerable, I'll tough it out and finish it. One recent example for me is DFH Punkin. I didn't like it, not sure what the hell DFH had in mind when brewing that one. It was still tolerable so I finished it. Ifa beer is undrinkable I just dump it. However, keep in mind that its different when you drink for "buzz/feel" as well as "taste". I see that many BAs don't even so much as like getting a buzz, much less getting drunk or bombed. I am not one of them. So even if I buy a beer I don't particularly like, I finish it anyway because it still serves a purpose. If you're drinking strictly for taste, it doesn't make sense to hold on to something you don't like.
Unless of course you are aware it is vile. in which case you wouldnt give it to your worst enemy. If its astringent enough, heat will probably not do it any favors either. Save it for a bad beer tasting ?
Hmm what a predicament i guess i would have to get sad about letting it get in that condition and pour it out
Wow, I know that opinions vary but those are some solid beers. Hopslam is my favorite beer (yeah nostalgia factors into this), and I drank the town dry of Coco Loco this year, I thought it was one of the best and balanced chocolate stouts I have ever had. I've never had Kuhnhenn's Christmas offering, but it definitely sounds interesting. Ruthless Rye is always solid, 2x Stout is a great brew, and Woodmaster sounds very intriguing. Ok Ok, I know I'm not answering your question but that is just a very solid and eclectic list of beers. You really have almost two cases worth of all that and you don't like any of it? Ok Ok, I will stop judging. The correct answer is that you should send them to me.
They are yours if want them! Seriously, I am close. Some have nuts, I am allergic. I haven't found a chocolate stout I like, and Hopslam is just too much for me. I like Sucks and will pick that everytime over Hopslam, so it sits.
BTW I have tried to use this as guest beer. Three weeks of poker and no one will touch it. I even crossed the line and told them they were a bunch of p-words. Corona and Loonie Koonie, anything else is "too dark". Babies.
