The Duplex by Glenn McCoy for November 06, 2023

Flavor Is Not In The Mind Of The Beer Holder from NotAlwaysRight

I am a bartender at an outdoor cabana at a country club. It’s a very weird situation because I see the same customers every day, for hours at a time.

One day, our Miller Lite keg runs out and all we have is Natural Light. I switch the kegs and the tap and begin serving.

Rich Club Member #1: “Why are you serving us this cheap stuff?!”

Rich Club Member #2: “Yeah! With the amount we pay, we shouldn’t have to drink nasty beer!”

I call my manager and explain that the customers — most of whom have already prepaid substantially for beer all day — are getting angry. He comes down.

It should be noted that this manager doesn’t normally manage the bar; he’s usually somewhere else in the club but he’s having to cover. Not really knowing what he’s doing, but making an attempt to look competent, he switches the Natural Light tap (not the keg) to a Miller Lite one. I’m about to tell him when one of the club members from before marches up to him.

Rich Club Member #1: “[Manager]? Finally, they got someone competent over here! Get me the Miller Lite now!”

[Manager] pours him a glass of the cheaper, nasty beer from the Miller tap, and the club member takes a sip.

Rich Club Member #1: “Much better! You need to be here more often and train these bar guys!”

The same people came back, got the beer, and were overjoyed that we had “changed” it for them.

Thats because you are cheap Eno!!!

After a few, they’ll taste the same.

It worked for Trump.

Those yellow polka dot undies need ironing, changing, tossing.

During my drinking days, I considered myself to be a connoisseur. It turned out I was more of a common sewer. Then I realized I didn’t have a drinking problem. I had a stopping problem. Finally stopped it 32 years ago.

One beer company apparently could not get enough people to say their beer tasted good in a survey. So, they boasted that their beer was rated as having “more flavor”. (Nobody said it was a good flavor.)

I remember when folks believed weekends were made Michelob.

burp. :)

Your taste buds are acclimated to the cheap stuff.

Why I don’t touch the stuff.