I like to go to stores and look for out of date stock and whine about it to a clerks who dosen't care. Than i post about it on BA.
My strategy is.. Pay rent.. Buy ramen noodles and pasta for the week...go spend way too much money on beer.
For 18 bucks you could have bought two sixers of some average beer you can get every day. I'm sure spending 18 bucks doesn't leave you broke, so forget about and just enjoy it, most here will never see that bottle on the shelf.
My strategy is to try everything, buy enough to share, and to exercise enough not to gain weight from actually drinking the beer.
My strategy usually consist on going to the stores I frenquent and grabbing about 40-50 dollars worth of beer. What I buy depends on what they have. Its kind of a simple strategy.
Drink mostly homebrew and then obtain as much Hill Farmstead, Tired Hands, Upright, and Logsdon as possible. Other than that, do my best to keep a very healthy stockpile of Drie Fonteinen, Cantillon, De Cam, Tilquin, and Girardin.
My strategy? Why, thanks for asking. A. Buy my favorites fairly often; 2. Try new beers now and then; C. Splurge once in a while; IV. Skip any wildly expensive beers. (I'm a simple guy with a simple palate and probably wouldn't appreciate the depth, complexity and oh so subtle nuances of pricey beers. And besides, there's just waaay too many good beers out there at decent prices to overspend on costly beers); 5. Stick with the reinheitsgebot philosophy and consume beers the way St. Gambrinus intended: hops, water, malt & yeast. No fruits, veggies, spices, or other flavors meant for the dinner table.
beer is beer, right? as long as it contains ethanol and doesn't contain botulism and gets you real good and funny drunk, who cares if it tastes like your basement smells...
Old Rasputin. Always solid, affordable, and down-right delicious! Sure, there are some better RIS's out there, but for what it is, Old Raspy always delivers.
My strategy of late has been: Do they have Alesmith?--Yes, buy Alesmith until my wallet can't take it. | | No---Do they have Lagunitas Sucks? Yes--Purchase it! | | No--Purchase Founders or Sierra Nevada---Leave store happy.
Nearest good bottle shop is 35 miles away, so make a run once a month. Since they give 20% off on mixed 6 packs, get roughly the equivalent of 2 cases, usually around 130 bucks Get mostly first time beers in styles I like that are rated above average (3.6) on BA Using this method, have accumulated a "go-to" list of 40+ beers, some of which I'll pick up if I have a hankering for them. Rarely get 6-pack of same beer, unless I really want it. Currrently looking at you FIS and Nugget Nectar. Make a few trips to relatively nearby brewpubs. Always bring back growlers. Go home, enjoy beer, and watch wife's lips get thinner.
