Originally posted by: alkemyst
I agree here... I am talking about the idiot taking up a bartenders time throwing out 'do you have this?', 'ok, how about this?', 'ok...' or the classic 'What's the best beer you have?'
In most bars you can see the drafts clearly at the bar...and most have menus or a list somewhere of the bottles (or cans ).
I actually enjoy the "what's the best beer you have?" question, because I hand them a DFH 90 minute IPA and either watch them break into a huge smile when they drink it, or watch them sprain a tastebud on a substance they hadnt previously known was supposed to be in beer, named hops. Either way, I'm rewarded.
Questions about what is on draft doesnt bother me, as most people dont know what Rodenbach or Beamish is from looking at the side of the tap handles (which is all you can see from most places at the bar).
The biggest beer idiots I recently (and by recently I mean last weekend) encountered have fallen into these groups:
-Acts like the difference between their favorite BMC on draft is huge compared to it in the bottle. Believes that since we dont have their favorite BMC product on tap, everything that we do have on tap is sh!t, and they know this because they've never seen any of these other beers advertise during the Super Bowl. With
twins!!!. Because, as we all know, Corsendonk Pale Ale on draft is a much inferior product to Coors Light on draft. If it was any good, they certainly would be putting it in TV ads with big chested women, as that is how all quality beer must be marketed. It's in the German beer law or something, man.
-This group is closely related to the previous one. They attempt to order something like Killian's/Blue Moon. I tell them we dont have that, then suggest a beer within the same style that we have in stock. They've never heard of the beers I suggest, and so instead of trying them, they order a Bud Light, then turn to their friend and b!tch that we dont have
anything to choose from.
-People in this group orders an expensive beer, love it, spends all night exclaiming over how much better this beer is than their normal Bud/Bud Light/Coors Light, calls friends on their cell phone to tell them how great this beer is, etc. Then the bill comes, and
SURPRISE!, that fruit lambic they've been drinking all night is not $2/bottle. Suddenly the customer is pissed, and asks me if I realize how many 12 packs of Bud Light they could have bought for the same price as their tab has totalled out to.
I usually see these idiots as entertaining, but occasionally there are just too many of them at the bar at one time, and then I start getting ticked at them.