BEER DRINKERS OPINIONS REQUEST

[jimmyj]

Hi:
Not been a "Drinker" for several years due to Chemo.
Last evening I went with my Wife to a "Get Together" with Her Friends/Business Associates.
Some of these Folks were drinking draft beer with a toothpick and two olives floating in the beer ?
Also the drinkers would put salt on the napkin coasters before putting the beer glass on it ?

Did I miss something in my drinking past?

Jimmy (out of touch)

 

[steveno]

salt , olives , tomato juice , lemons or anything else do NOT belong in bier.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Salt is so the glass won't stick to the napkin.

As far as the olives, I have no idea.

Food is overrated!

 

[mjr]

Two olives? Time was a bartender would refuse to put two olives in a drink (at least, if the drink was a martini). One olive, three olives, fine. But two is just crazy bad luck.

 

[mike from st pete]

Hi:
Not been a "Drinker" for several years due to Chemo.
Last evening I went with my Wife to a "Get Together" with Her Friends/Business Associates.
Some of these Folks were drinking draft beer with a toothpick and two olives floating in the beer ?
Also the drinkers would put salt on the napkin coasters before putting the beer glass on it ?

Did I miss something in my drinking past?

Jimmy (out of touch)

Sounds like a way to make stale (skunky) beer drinkable.

 

[Chuck24]

I prefer my beer to taste like beer, coffee to taste like coffee, steak to taste like steak and for Lords sake keep the yuppies away from the Krispie Kremes before they do something weird to them.

 

[Bajadoc]

People be crazy.

 

[Xfuzz]

They were already gassed when you got there.

 

[DeathGrip]

You're not out of touch on this one jimmy.

The ones who would do such an atrocity to the Nectar of the Gods are the ones out of touch.

I suspect they were really never in touch.

 

[Drm50]

I knew the world was going to **** when they started making
fruit flavored beer that was "artfully crafted" I bet this makes
a lot of old brewmasters flop in their graves. Look at all the
good stuff the yuppies have ruined, Flannel shirts with 1 pocket
no flap, short tails and designer jeans and the list goes on.

 

[sheepdawg]

Just how well do you know this place?

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Te only thing one should put in a glass of draft beer is a shot glass full of tequila!

 

[snubbyfan]

As Willie Dixon once said, "It just don't make sense."
I could see the salt on the napkin thing like Rusty pointed out.
But olives in the beer?

 

[Onomea]

Salt is so the glass won't stick to the napkin...

Well, I'll be darned. That's a new one for me.

 

[Golphin]

Not my style at all. No way would I want to keep that many olives stocked anyway.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Well, I'll be darned. That's a new one for me.

I'm a trained professional!

 

[DWalt]

Have you noticed all the different flavors being offered for gin, vodka, and even Jack Daniels? I remember that back in the early 1970s, several types of flavored beers (think beer with kool-aid added) were the rage among the college-age crowd. Maybe it's coming back.

 

[chmpco]

I suppose if your beer has no flavor ya gotta do something.
I have a occasional Stout which would probably melt any olives you put in it. You sure couldn't taste the olives. It's probably some kinda disease. I would stay clear from these people. Couple feet.

 

[Coldshooter]

There is a beer that had an advertising gimick with an orange slice sort of like a lime wedge with Dos Equis. The olives must be a variation carried on by those who know no better. This place wasn't full of Hipsters by any chance was it? The picture below shows what should be in beer.

 

[jackvs1]

After many years of drinking craft beers at brew pubs I have finally come to realize that beer should taste like beer. So I am back to drinking Bud, PBR, and recently had Genny Cream Ale (screamers) while eating chicken wings at the original Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY.

 

[vytoland]

Guinness drinkers don't need no stinkin olives..........

 

[41collector]

I don't get the idea, but here's an article on it - Olives in Beer - Beer and Brewing

 

[DeathGrip]

Te only thing one should put in a glass of draft beer is a shot glass full of tequila!

I remember Boilermakers but never thought it was a good idea either.

 

[S42N8]

Well, I'll be darned. That's a new one for me.

Salt is hydrophilic, so it absorbs the condensation and keeps the glass surface off the napkin -- napkin stays where it belongs. Olives, however, do not belong inside/outside beer in any manner...they belong in martinis (vermouth optional).

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Even the Germans are mixing their beer with stuff - particularly wine to make "radlers". You only need to walk the refrigerated section at Wal Mart to see beer mixed with cactus, fruit and lemonade. Times keep changing.

 

[Onomea]

I think mixing beer with lemonade is called a "shandy," and is primarily a ladies' drink in the UK. It's been around a long time.

Maybe LVSteve will enlighten us.

As for me, I don't even like the lemon (lime?) wedge in Corona beer. I am with the let beer be beer crowd.

Used to know a guy who drank bourbon with a beer chaser. I suppose if one only had 15 minutes to get loaded it might make sense, but I am positive drinking that way would be the ruination of me in no time flat. (I tend to walk the edge of the envelope just sippin' whatever is at hand without turbocharging the experience...)

 

[wnwitzell]

What kind of beer was it? There is NO good reason to put anything in a good beer....

 

[joeintexas]

I saw an ad for that once, I went blind in one eye and didn't sleep for three weeks and two days! Don't do it Jimmy!

 

[DeathGrip]

Even the Germans are mixing their beer with stuff - particularly wine to make "radlers". You only need to walk the refrigerated section at Wal Mart to see beer mixed with cactus, fruit and lemonade. Times keep changing.

Believe it or not. My wife used to mix beer and sprite or 7up.

The German surprised me with that one. Said it was refreshing.

This from the girl that got me off of the domestic stuff and created a beer snob.

You just never know.

 

[Wingmaster]

I was sitting at a Black Jack table in Deadwood South Dakota a year or so ago when some guy sitting with me orderd a beer with "a couple of olives". I watched him drink it and drank a couple more plain beers.
Then, I thought "what the heck". I orderd a beer with "a couple of olives".
It might have been because I had been sitting there drinking beer for a couple hours but it really wasn't that bad.
I havn't drank one since, but you never know, I might just find myself sitting at a Black Jack table in Deadwood South Dakota.......

Wingmaster