OK, so 2014 comes to a close. Another year. Time to purge those demons! What is your one unique hot button or a subverting trend that picks you so much you just want to scream about it?
For me, it is all about beer. We had some great craft beers emerge this year, and I'd say the variety has never been better. But I gotta rant about some disturbing trends in this tasty industry.
Rant1 - Stop with the warm beer sleeves and this ridiculous pre-rinsing craziness!
Sheesh, a nice cold beer should be served in a nice cold glass. A frosty mug. A chilled pint. So who the hell came along and put all the sleeves on the counter instead of the cooler? And who started this stupid pre-rinsing shit where the bartender takes a nicely chilled glass and destroys it with an inverted warm water rinse? Cold beer in a warm glass = ruined orgasm! :doh: Fuk, I hate that. Now I have started the 'no-rinse' beer glass request in each pub and restaurant I visit. So far there are three members, but we are strong, passionate, and we are making a noise. Hope it becomes a global movement. :thumb:
Rant2 - Beer board please. I don't want to look in the back of a menu or that little foo-foo cocktail book to see what you've got on tap. Scanning the taps at the bar is fun, but often the taps have incomplete or inaccurate signage, and sometimes there is a large smelly schlepp blocking the view of a few choice emblems. A huge nod to the bars and pubs that write it up on a chalk board for all to see. Extra points for fancy colouring, a brief description, maybe a chalk-drawing or too. Yumm! Now that's the start of a great beer experience. No, I don't want to hear the server attempt to rattle off a dozen elixers in rapid succession while their eyes search the skies for memory, they umm their way through about half of them before giving up. If you are in the beer business, put up a fucking beer board! :high5:
Rant3 - Dark, darker, darkest. :nod: I don't care if you've got 23 IPA's and a new Belgian wheat beer that everyone is raving about. Colour and texture matter. So gimme some dark matter (actually the name of a very nice dark beer). Honey lager is good, but not quite a dark beer. So please, whoever decides these things, please make sure you have something on tap between Bud light and Guiness! There are wonderful dark lagers, porters, stouts and winter ales that frankly prove the existence of god and confirm that she wants us to be happy far better than your Christmas decorations do. So please support your local pubs and enjoy a darkie before you go home. :clap2:
There, I feel much better now having that rant off my chest. So what's eating you?
-Punt.
For me, it is all about beer. We had some great craft beers emerge this year, and I'd say the variety has never been better. But I gotta rant about some disturbing trends in this tasty industry.
Rant1 - Stop with the warm beer sleeves and this ridiculous pre-rinsing craziness!
Sheesh, a nice cold beer should be served in a nice cold glass. A frosty mug. A chilled pint. So who the hell came along and put all the sleeves on the counter instead of the cooler? And who started this stupid pre-rinsing shit where the bartender takes a nicely chilled glass and destroys it with an inverted warm water rinse? Cold beer in a warm glass = ruined orgasm! :doh: Fuk, I hate that. Now I have started the 'no-rinse' beer glass request in each pub and restaurant I visit. So far there are three members, but we are strong, passionate, and we are making a noise. Hope it becomes a global movement. :thumb:Rant2 - Beer board please.
I don't want to look in the back of a menu or that little foo-foo cocktail book to see what you've got on tap. Scanning the taps at the bar is fun, but often the taps have incomplete or inaccurate signage, and sometimes there is a large smelly schlepp blocking the view of a few choice emblems. A huge nod to the bars and pubs that write it up on a chalk board for all to see. Extra points for fancy colouring, a brief description, maybe a chalk-drawing or too. Yumm! Now that's the start of a great beer experience. No, I don't want to hear the server attempt to rattle off a dozen elixers in rapid succession while their eyes search the skies for memory, they umm their way through about half of them before giving up. If you are in the beer business, put up a fucking beer board! :high5:Rant3 - Dark, darker, darkest. :nod: I don't care if you've got 23 IPA's and a new Belgian wheat beer that everyone is raving about. Colour and texture matter. So gimme some dark matter (actually the name of a very nice dark beer). Honey lager is good, but not quite a dark beer. So please, whoever decides these things, please make sure you have something on tap between Bud light and Guiness! There are wonderful dark lagers, porters, stouts and winter ales that frankly prove the existence of god and confirm that she wants us to be happy far better than your Christmas decorations do. So please support your local pubs and enjoy a darkie before you go home. :clap2:
There, I feel much better now having that rant off my chest. So what's eating you?
-Punt.
