I said this a little higher up. Shower beer is one of those things that people who haven't experienced it will look at you like you're mad but Iykyk.
(and you can't JUST get in the shower with a beer. at the very least you should do it after hitting the gym. The physical exhaustion is a key component of the shower beer experience.)
Funny story: When I was in college, my friends and I went on a ski trip over spring break. Being broke college students, we stayed at someone in the group's brother's apartment, who lived there. It was jam-packed, with 8 of us on the living room floor in sleeping bags. We were all heavy drinkers (college) and did a power hour after the slopes closed on one of the days. For anyone who doesn't know, a power hour is one shot of beer every minute for an hour. It adds up to 90 Oz or 7.5 cans of beer over an hour. Since we were all sweaty from skiing, and there was only 1 shower, everyone was taking turns with the shower beers to keep up with the power hour. I puked right after finishing. Good times.
The beer you have before/during/after doing an ordinary thing in a day, because you don't want to admit that you are or are becoming addicted to alcohol.
Hey I’m just about there! 10-15 drinks every night for so many years. Stopped almost six months ago! I’m gonna have some Champaign for a very special event in my life, and a few beers in the coming months because I have ONE event I am GOING to be hardcore trashed at… the furry con my partner and I go to. Then it’s back to sober for a good while!
Medical stuff tho, if splitting a bottle of Champaign doesn’t treat me well, I’ll have to nix all the other drinking plans and just do the other substances I do at furry con without drinking D: New years sober was totally easy, my wedding anniversary super easy, very few times in the past half year have I been even sort of tempted. But I’m determined to get just skronked at our furry con.
This is just me, but I just wouldn't man. I drank for years and then quit completely about 6 years ago. To me it wouldn't be worth the risk of falling back into my old ways. I know me and even if it was fine just this once, that would quickly turn into "it was fine last time, so it'll be fine again" and then just creep back up on me. Sure, sometimes I still fancy a beer (or maybe I just still have cravings), but being sober all the time is really not that bad. It's pretty sweet actually.
Nice. Eventually you realize you never needed it in the first place and wonder why you ever thought you did.
Then it’s back to sober for a good while!
Don't be so sure... (source: someone who's quit drinking several times)
"Quitting's easy. I do it all the time!" It's staying quit that's the challenge, at least until you learn to appreciate sobriety. One sip can turn into a binge. One night of drinking can lead to a week or a month or a year of being wasted. Our brains are wired to want "more".
Thank you and thank you for the very correct advice! Alas, and I know everyone says this, but my situation was a bit different than yer bog standard alcoholic. I was a bog fancy alcoholic! Nah, but really, my partner and I started drinking heavily every evening during COVID cuz it just made everything even more fun. Never to feel better about stuff going badly or to escape or anything, we just liked to drink all the time and talk and play stuff and laugh. Way not healthy to do every day, as evidenced by my big ol health issue it caused! It was temporary and I’m better now, and technically I COULD have been drinking the past couple months… I had a few times I planned to have a few beers, just just decided not to.
I’m definitely never giving it up fully if my body can handle it, I’d for sure kms. But I’m saving it for special stuff in the future, assuming my body actually lets me have some drinks without having the issue I ran into again. If it causes the thing I dealt with again after a few drinks, then I guess I’ll give it up and stick around anyway hahaha.
My partner and I definitely enabled each other. I told them when I was in hospital that they can totally drink around me and I won’t have a problem with that, I won’t be upset, and I can handle any cravings. Turns out, no cravings! I’m very lucky. No withdrawals, no seizures, no DTs. Just some really shit sleep for a couple weeks. My boy has been INCREDIBLE. Went from drinking every day with me to only very occasionally now. We’ve both lost a ton of weight, too! We were never huge huge, but definitely gained a good chunk since 2020 (we were both very petite before then, got fairly big, and we are on our way back to petite again already!)
But yah, I firmly believe I can handle my shit more responsibly now, having felt the full effects of the repercussions it can cause. I believe this because I’ve done every substance out there (except opiates, never touched those until I went to hospital for this issue and they loaded me up with Dilaudid all day every day which was WILD) and even the things folks classically go overboard with, I’ve been responsible with. (A ball of the best blow you can imagine generally would last my partner and me two weeks!) I know it’s time to treat alcohol that way now too, rather than treating it as night-coffee.
Whatever you need to tell yourself to rationalize it...
I'm not gonna claim everyone's experience is the same, but I remember my first few times quitting alcohol and what you're saying sounds a lot like the things I told myself. "Of course my situation is different. I'm me!" "I can handle it better in the future." "Life would be unbearable without it."
But at the end of the day, I destroyed my life enough times that I don't feel any desire to watch someone else destroy theirs. I'm not gonna try to talk you out of your decisions. I won't tell you what to do or not do. But I won't encourage it either. So don't try to convince me of what you're ultimately only trying to convince yourself...
Hey, I’m just sharing my own experience. Everyone is different, but lots of people (including… no, especially alcoholics) like to think everyone who drinks is the same, or everyone is like them.
It was fun as hell and I don’t regret it, but my body says I don’t get to do that anymore. I’m not even sure I’ll let me drink occasionally, I have yet to find that out. But I physically cannot drink like I used to, it’d be worse than death.
I have the same gripe. I stopped going to AA cause I got tired of some old dudes telling me I'm lying to myself because I didn't identify with their deplorable backstories.
Like, yeah, I've made some mistakes, and I'm not without regrets which pain me every day. But some of the stuff I heard people say they had done made even me clutch my proverbial pearls...
And then they look at me like they think I've done the same shit and just don't have the integrity to admit it.
But like I said, I'm not gonna try telling you how to live your life.
Imagine how much more metal it would be to not drink for any reason, even to "celebrate" or because... well, whatever your reason is for being "determined to get just skronked".
I don’t need a fuckin reason, as long as my body can handle it I can just do it because I like it. And no, 5-MeO-DiPT was fucking metal. DOC was metal. DMT is metal the rare rare times we break through. I’ve chilled out a lot in my years but those were insane experiences that showed me things I’ve never seen before. Drinking is just fun to do sometimes.
Looking forward to? Taking a heroic dose of Molly with my best friend partner for life ever twice a year and spending ten hours naked in bed rolling around watching stuff and listening to music and staring into each other’s eyes and linking our brains is my “look toward to”
I’m just gonna drink sometimes, unless my body does the thing again. If it does, I’m never touching it again. If it doesn’t, imma drink occasionally. My reason?
Until year 2009, the Berlin transportation's rules said "Disturbing use of alcohol is prohibited in public transportation."
...meaning that non-diaturbing use was allowed. The new rule dropped the word "Disturbing", meaning that the procedure is now no longer allowed.
But, the last time I was in Berlin, a few years ago, I was relieved to see that the tradition still lives on. I bet there are cities where it's still outright allowed to this day! But even where it isn't, it's still being done.
Plus, people do drink their Feierabendbier in parks and benches. And often simply first thing after coming home. But Feierabendbier, the concept of drinking a bottle of beer ASAP after the end of your working day, is still alive and kicking indeed!
When I was explaining my German friend that there is no alcohol allowed (technically) on the campus in France, he replied: "What?! I was drinking beer all the time during my studies, why do you even study if you can drink in the morning?!"
Don't you worry, during my masters in France I was borderline alcoholic. We find ways.
The sleeper - the beer that you've never heard of, has a shitty label, but tastes like the nectar of the gods. You will never see it again, but will think about it for weeks
Lagunitas Aunt Sally. a beer that I had exactly once, was maybe my favorite ever, and I tried for two years to find again before learning it was a seasonal that's been discontinued
Last summer we rode our bikes to a pub nearby and I had the best fucking blueberry cream ale that I'd ever tasted in my life. I had just worked up a sweat on my bike, and the beer was cool, creamy, and sweet. Like Jesus just came in my mouth.
Went back a few weeks later and tried to order one, only to be told they have rotating taps and no longer had it.
The bartender didn't know what it was called. I've never seen a blueberry cream ale anywhere else. I'm gonna be chasing that dragon for the rest of my life.
I still remember the beers I drank on an overland trip from Germany through Poland & the Baltics to Belarus. Some of them were exactly like that. Just local breweries, no chance to ever find them again.
I got wrongfully fired with a couple other people when I was young and I immediately went home, rolled a fat blunt, and smoked the whole thing to myself. It was amazing. (Then I got a lot of money for the wrongful termination… thank you, judge!)
River or lake beer. Beer that has been in an ice chest for a few hours and you enjoy while tubing, kayaking, swimming, motor boating, etc. on a river or lake.
It is important to note that this is NOT the same as a beach beer OR fishing beer; which are similar, but distinctly different beers for reasons I can't fully explain.
Hm. River or lake beer for me is a bunch of beers tied together and lowered into a body of water. Usually less than 1m is enough to keep it cool. It's a different coolness.
You work one of the dirtiest jobs in the summer heat and you're exhausted but need to get clean before you pass out. Cold Beer, Hot shower. I can't explain. It has to be lived.
The beer that isn't everywhere, but you had one over a year ago, and you thought "Man, that beer was delicious. I should try it again. But will it still be just as good?"
And then you get one and it's exactly as delicious as you remember.
the "I'm working 3rd shift and living at home to make ends meet, so here I am drinking a beer at 7 am as my dad sits next to me eating breakfast before work" beer.
I love the weirdness of working overnight shifts. Get home at 0730, and it's like your 10pm while everyone else is just waking up. Then you have the opposite when you wake up and have to eat dinner immediately.
I have the utmost respect for your beer choice but that sounds to me like a sweaty, i-dont-like-sand-its-course-and-rough-and-irritating-and-it-gets-everywhere kind of beer
My life is falling a part beer.
The I am going to fight everyone in the bar beer.
I just got rid of the body beer.
I just saw a stripper shoot out ping pong balls with Cotton beer.
Told my family I was getting milk beer.
The inappropriate funeral beer.
The movie theater beer, if you've never experienced a good movie while slightly buzzed do yourself a favor and try it, you can even pre game a bit to avoid paying too much at the theater concession.
I mean that applies to people who drink sodas as well. Honestly I've never had much trouble holding it in for a hour or two, although anything approaching 3 hours tests that limit
This just needs to be on the list. And the subsequent wonder of "holy crap, that actually helped" and then the realization that there's a name for that condition.
Similar to their concept of the post-yardwork, let me introduce "the 'miring", the beer you have after completing some DIY project, drunk in silent contemplation of the result.
Partner: "All done love?"
Me: "Yep, just having a 'miring. Be with you in a minute."
Love having a drink garnished with a sense of accomplishment. Though it depends on the nature of the project if actually needs to be a beer IMO, whisky etc. is fine if the project doesn't involve physical exertion.
The "I've just spent 14 days in the bush digging holes and staying in a dry camp" beer hits like a fucking freight train. You're exhausted, been craving beer for weeks, and your muscles ache. It's consumed after a hot shower, a shave, and some scrubbing to try and get the dirt out of the fold of your neck. It's all that is cold (but also warming!) bubbly goodness
One time, on a trail nearby the big music festival in town, I ran into a coworker, his partner, and his friend and his partner. They were standing by a huge bush and they asked if I wanted a beer. I don’t normally drink beer but I said sure and he went into the bush and brought out a Busch for me.
Apparently they were just avoiding the high costs inside the festival lol
those beers are a necessity for grad school.
I do a metric fuckton of technical reading and writing. The "Fuck you, braincells, slake your thirst in a sea of alcoholic foam and recall what it's like to be human again" beer hits hard.
i also call it the "If I tilt my head, my brains will pour out my ears beer"
It's that or a mind melting dab rip that immediately transitions me out of the mentality required for all that writing. Isn't it lovely how self destructive higher education can be? Lmao
I don't think I've seen this one specifically, the I've partied all night taking substances and waited till the liquor stores opened to buy beer, for the rest of the day partying.
Only done that one a few times but it's a damn good beer. Mean unless you just want more substances, sometimes but to be honest that's the first good beer I ever had was that beer. I never enjoyed it much before that time. Was a corona of all things heh but been up for over a day so whatever.
More of a honey lager type overall or a good stout, which I have trouble finding beyond Guiness but still got many small breweries to check out. Not that I don't like Guiness but there must be something similar that's not Guiness. Just enjoy new tastes, often more than I enjoy the actual taste heh.
The first beer of a planned giant session where everyonein a friend group is meeting up for a fun weekend together, usually in a different place, maybe around a purpose like see a game.
When we play a live music show and have that first beer after walking off stage. We play smaller bars so it’s not an arena or anything but wow does it always hit the hardest.
This is a very particular beer, but the “after hauling and securing a boat at 2am with your boss because you’re a tide dependent yard” beer. Those were my favourites.
Seriously though, anytime we had a haul outside of regular working hours we’d all go sit in the back after and have a beer or pop or whatever and shoot the shit. It was nice times.
"I'm at home petting my cat" beer (which is almost every beer!) lol but for real, a "just loading up games with my buddy on my day off" beer is super good. Actually, evening of my last day before a day off is even better.
The "just read something uniquely ridiculous online but it's plausible enough that I feel like it needs a dumbed-down response or the person who made it won't understand why it's so ridiculous" Beer.
Shower beer
This is a good one. Used to work 12h night shifts and that 9:30 am shower beer was heavenly.
I said this a little higher up. Shower beer is one of those things that people who haven't experienced it will look at you like you're mad but Iykyk.
(and you can't JUST get in the shower with a beer. at the very least you should do it after hitting the gym. The physical exhaustion is a key component of the shower beer experience.)
Funny story: When I was in college, my friends and I went on a ski trip over spring break. Being broke college students, we stayed at someone in the group's brother's apartment, who lived there. It was jam-packed, with 8 of us on the living room floor in sleeping bags. We were all heavy drinkers (college) and did a power hour after the slopes closed on one of the days. For anyone who doesn't know, a power hour is one shot of beer every minute for an hour. It adds up to 90 Oz or 7.5 cans of beer over an hour. Since we were all sweaty from skiing, and there was only 1 shower, everyone was taking turns with the shower beers to keep up with the power hour. I puked right after finishing. Good times.
Here's one.
The beer after reading unnecessarily pessimistic comments on social media
No I'm isn't
I drink two beers before I drink two beers, and then I drink two more
¼oz to freedom
I got one! The "it's Thursday which is basically Friday so it's totally cool and normal to have a 6 pack" beer.
The "it's twelve o'clock somewhere" beer.
The "six months of sobriety" beer.
Wait...
Hey I’m just about there! 10-15 drinks every night for so many years. Stopped almost six months ago! I’m gonna have some Champaign for a very special event in my life, and a few beers in the coming months because I have ONE event I am GOING to be hardcore trashed at… the furry con my partner and I go to. Then it’s back to sober for a good while!
Medical stuff tho, if splitting a bottle of Champaign doesn’t treat me well, I’ll have to nix all the other drinking plans and just do the other substances I do at furry con without drinking D: New years sober was totally easy, my wedding anniversary super easy, very few times in the past half year have I been even sort of tempted. But I’m determined to get just skronked at our furry con.
This is just me, but I just wouldn't man. I drank for years and then quit completely about 6 years ago. To me it wouldn't be worth the risk of falling back into my old ways. I know me and even if it was fine just this once, that would quickly turn into "it was fine last time, so it'll be fine again" and then just creep back up on me. Sure, sometimes I still fancy a beer (or maybe I just still have cravings), but being sober all the time is really not that bad. It's pretty sweet actually.
Nice. Eventually you realize you never needed it in the first place and wonder why you ever thought you did.
Don't be so sure... (source: someone who's quit drinking several times)
"Quitting's easy. I do it all the time!" It's staying quit that's the challenge, at least until you learn to appreciate sobriety. One sip can turn into a binge. One night of drinking can lead to a week or a month or a year of being wasted. Our brains are wired to want "more".
Thank you and thank you for the very correct advice! Alas, and I know everyone says this, but my situation was a bit different than yer bog standard alcoholic. I was a bog fancy alcoholic! Nah, but really, my partner and I started drinking heavily every evening during COVID cuz it just made everything even more fun. Never to feel better about stuff going badly or to escape or anything, we just liked to drink all the time and talk and play stuff and laugh. Way not healthy to do every day, as evidenced by my big ol health issue it caused! It was temporary and I’m better now, and technically I COULD have been drinking the past couple months… I had a few times I planned to have a few beers, just just decided not to.
I’m definitely never giving it up fully if my body can handle it, I’d for sure kms. But I’m saving it for special stuff in the future, assuming my body actually lets me have some drinks without having the issue I ran into again. If it causes the thing I dealt with again after a few drinks, then I guess I’ll give it up and stick around anyway hahaha.
My partner and I definitely enabled each other. I told them when I was in hospital that they can totally drink around me and I won’t have a problem with that, I won’t be upset, and I can handle any cravings. Turns out, no cravings! I’m very lucky. No withdrawals, no seizures, no DTs. Just some really shit sleep for a couple weeks. My boy has been INCREDIBLE. Went from drinking every day with me to only very occasionally now. We’ve both lost a ton of weight, too! We were never huge huge, but definitely gained a good chunk since 2020 (we were both very petite before then, got fairly big, and we are on our way back to petite again already!)
But yah, I firmly believe I can handle my shit more responsibly now, having felt the full effects of the repercussions it can cause. I believe this because I’ve done every substance out there (except opiates, never touched those until I went to hospital for this issue and they loaded me up with Dilaudid all day every day which was WILD) and even the things folks classically go overboard with, I’ve been responsible with. (A ball of the best blow you can imagine generally would last my partner and me two weeks!) I know it’s time to treat alcohol that way now too, rather than treating it as night-coffee.
Whatever you need to tell yourself to rationalize it...
I'm not gonna claim everyone's experience is the same, but I remember my first few times quitting alcohol and what you're saying sounds a lot like the things I told myself. "Of course my situation is different. I'm me!" "I can handle it better in the future." "Life would be unbearable without it."
But at the end of the day, I destroyed my life enough times that I don't feel any desire to watch someone else destroy theirs. I'm not gonna try to talk you out of your decisions. I won't tell you what to do or not do. But I won't encourage it either. So don't try to convince me of what you're ultimately only trying to convince yourself...
Hey, I’m just sharing my own experience. Everyone is different, but lots of people (including… no, especially alcoholics) like to think everyone who drinks is the same, or everyone is like them.
It was fun as hell and I don’t regret it, but my body says I don’t get to do that anymore. I’m not even sure I’ll let me drink occasionally, I have yet to find that out. But I physically cannot drink like I used to, it’d be worse than death.
I have the same gripe. I stopped going to AA cause I got tired of some old dudes telling me I'm lying to myself because I didn't identify with their deplorable backstories.
Like, yeah, I've made some mistakes, and I'm not without regrets which pain me every day. But some of the stuff I heard people say they had done made even me clutch my proverbial pearls...
And then they look at me like they think I've done the same shit and just don't have the integrity to admit it.
But like I said, I'm not gonna try telling you how to live your life.
It's good to have something to look forward to?
Imagine how much more metal it would be to not drink for any reason, even to "celebrate" or because... well, whatever your reason is for being "determined to get just skronked".
I don’t need a fuckin reason, as long as my body can handle it I can just do it because I like it. And no, 5-MeO-DiPT was fucking metal. DOC was metal. DMT is metal the rare rare times we break through. I’ve chilled out a lot in my years but those were insane experiences that showed me things I’ve never seen before. Drinking is just fun to do sometimes.
Looking forward to? Taking a heroic dose of Molly with my best friend partner for life ever twice a year and spending ten hours naked in bed rolling around watching stuff and listening to music and staring into each other’s eyes and linking our brains is my “look toward to”
I’m just gonna drink sometimes, unless my body does the thing again. If it does, I’m never touching it again. If it doesn’t, imma drink occasionally. My reason?
Becuz
What about the "I'm totally going to stop drinking, at least for a little while.... tomorrow" beer?
Hey I don’t appreciate seeing my problems thrown in my face
Feierabendbier!
That's what happens en-masse in Germany in the early havening.
Everyone goes to a corner shop to buy a bottle of cold beer, enters the metro train, opens the beer bottle and drinks it in the metro on the way home.
If this really is a thing, I'm moving to Germany tomorrow
It is, in some places and to some extent.
Until year 2009, the Berlin transportation's rules said "Disturbing use of alcohol is prohibited in public transportation." ...meaning that non-diaturbing use was allowed. The new rule dropped the word "Disturbing", meaning that the procedure is now no longer allowed.
But, the last time I was in Berlin, a few years ago, I was relieved to see that the tradition still lives on. I bet there are cities where it's still outright allowed to this day! But even where it isn't, it's still being done.
Plus, people do drink their Feierabendbier in parks and benches. And often simply first thing after coming home. But Feierabendbier, the concept of drinking a bottle of beer ASAP after the end of your working day, is still alive and kicking indeed!
When I was explaining my German friend that there is no alcohol allowed (technically) on the campus in France, he replied: "What?! I was drinking beer all the time during my studies, why do you even study if you can drink in the morning?!"
Don't you worry, during my masters in France I was borderline alcoholic. We find ways.
The "Just finished setting up the tent and campsite" beer
See also: just got to the campsite and about to build it but gonna cool off with this beer first
Especially after waiting in line for a festival campsite
Ah, the good ol' Step 2.
The sleeper - the beer that you've never heard of, has a shitty label, but tastes like the nectar of the gods. You will never see it again, but will think about it for weeks
I also miss that beer that had dragon somewhere in the name that I could never find again.
Dragon's Milk, maybe? It's one of my favorites.
That's it and their website lists where I can buy it nearby. Apparently they carry it in stores I didn't check.
Thank you!
Lagunitas Aunt Sally. a beer that I had exactly once, was maybe my favorite ever, and I tried for two years to find again before learning it was a seasonal that's been discontinued
Last summer we rode our bikes to a pub nearby and I had the best fucking blueberry cream ale that I'd ever tasted in my life. I had just worked up a sweat on my bike, and the beer was cool, creamy, and sweet. Like Jesus just came in my mouth.
Went back a few weeks later and tried to order one, only to be told they have rotating taps and no longer had it.
The bartender didn't know what it was called. I've never seen a blueberry cream ale anywhere else. I'm gonna be chasing that dragon for the rest of my life.
I still remember the beers I drank on an overland trip from Germany through Poland & the Baltics to Belarus. Some of them were exactly like that. Just local breweries, no chance to ever find them again.
Summit beer.
Nothing like climbing a mountain and cracking open a warm one on the top.
There's a direct correlation between altitude and improvement of taste.
You demon! If it's not cold, I am being trolled!
We put the beer in the freezer before a hike once, but either the hike was too short or the freezing too long, I had a slushy at the summit.
So pick your battles 乁[ ◕ ᴥ ◕ ]ㄏ
This is because your taste buds become less sensitive at low pressure, and your ability to process alcohol decreases.
That, "I just told my boss I'm quitting" beer
I got wrongfully fired with a couple other people when I was young and I immediately went home, rolled a fat blunt, and smoked the whole thing to myself. It was amazing. (Then I got a lot of money for the wrongful termination… thank you, judge!)
Cheers
I love that! Never stop at one though.
River or lake beer. Beer that has been in an ice chest for a few hours and you enjoy while tubing, kayaking, swimming, motor boating, etc. on a river or lake.
It is important to note that this is NOT the same as a beach beer OR fishing beer; which are similar, but distinctly different beers for reasons I can't fully explain.
bonus points if it's thrown to you from the boat/dock
Hm. River or lake beer for me is a bunch of beers tied together and lowered into a body of water. Usually less than 1m is enough to keep it cool. It's a different coolness.
Kayak beer
The “first warm day of spring and all the terraces on the old market square are packed but you managed to snag a table” beer.
The "post afternoon nap in warm weather shower beer"
The first Friday beer after a long work-week
Having one of those now. It’s glorious.
How about the first Friday beer after another long week of unemployment? 🙃
I am also enjoying this beer. Hang in there. Yours will come.
Same. It's cheap, It tastes like mostly water, but at least it's ice cold.
The post beer beer
The "This group of friends are all moving to different areas of the country and we may never all get together again" beer
Father and son first beer together
Also only known well after the fact: the last one …
☠️ My dad can't drink anymore and I already don't remember our last beer together.
That shaky final beer at 7 in the morning before the drive to rehab.
Extremely specialized case, but the “thank fuck I’m done with that booze-free 28-day tug boat hitch” beer slaps like forbidden love.
From what I understand.
The, "I just need to steady my hands" beer.
The "I've got the next 10 days booked off work" Friday bank holiday morning beer
Sauna beer!
Preferably by the lake. Summer or winter, does not matter.
Last time I drank in a sauna was probably my worst hangover in recent memory. Though you just reminded me of summer shower beer which is also great.
Yeah I drink very sparingly during Sauna and not much more afterwards, and light beers usually work better.
Once I drank Vodka during sauna and that was psychedelic. But my body was different then, I definitely could not handle this today.
related: Shower Beer.
You work one of the dirtiest jobs in the summer heat and you're exhausted but need to get clean before you pass out. Cold Beer, Hot shower. I can't explain. It has to be lived.
I tried once, and I don’t get it. Maybe I wasn’t fillowing the tradition closely enough? I nice hazy ipa ….
"It's Friday, 17:00, you are working from home"
It's Wednesday, 14:00 and you're in the office today so beer is free
It's Thursday, 9:00 and you're home cause you're still unemployed.
The “it’s morning and I’m out of coffee and tea and there is only beer in the fridge, guess I’m gonna call in sick today” beer.
The beer that isn't everywhere, but you had one over a year ago, and you thought "Man, that beer was delicious. I should try it again. But will it still be just as good?"
And then you get one and it's exactly as delicious as you remember.
I had an apple cider hit like that this fall and I can still remember the taste. Damn what a drink
the "I'm working 3rd shift and living at home to make ends meet, so here I am drinking a beer at 7 am as my dad sits next to me eating breakfast before work" beer.
I love the weirdness of working overnight shifts. Get home at 0730, and it's like your 10pm while everyone else is just waking up. Then you have the opposite when you wake up and have to eat dinner immediately.
The free "bartender accidentally poured a mistake" beer.
The "i just woke up in a ditch but still have half a 40oz" beer.
The "I'm not an alcoholic, you're the alcoholic" beer.
Edit. Spelling
7 in the morning before school end-of-year exam beer, Germany
(just kidding, I do think I drank a lot of espresso back then though)
The "stand back I'm about to do science" beer
Or the darker "watch this" beer
The hold my beer, beer
"4 weeks sober after 10 years of crippling alcoholism" beer.
You said 'hits different,' not 'good hits different.'
Anyone in this scenario should remember it's temporary and they can get right back on the horse of sobriety without destroying their lives again.
The sitting in the sun at the beach after a long miserable winter beer
I have the utmost respect for your beer choice but that sounds to me like a sweaty, i-dont-like-sand-its-course-and-rough-and-irritating-and-it-gets-everywhere kind of beer
Sweaty beers are the best beers IMO. I can take or leave the sand part though.
Don't drink beer at a nude beach, you might get sand in your Schlitz
Friday afternoon, right after work, with no plans for the weekend.
Post exercise, run, playing a sport beer.
The "It's hot, I'm thirsty and should drink water but there's only beer available" beer.
Always makes me feel like a medieval peasant. Glorious!
My life is falling a part beer.
The I am going to fight everyone in the bar beer.
I just got rid of the body beer.
I just saw a stripper shoot out ping pong balls with Cotton beer.
Told my family I was getting milk beer.
The inappropriate funeral beer.
6 o'clock on the porch watching everyone else go to school and work because you got off work at 4 a.m. and are just getting settled down beer.
On a warm but not overly hot summer morning that's particularly awesome
80 MPH beer
Driving-home-from-work-and-fuck-the-police beer
This one got me
Calm down there, Tiger
The "my favorite sportball team is playing" beer.
The "it's my 3rd Mass at the bierfest and we are dancing standing up on the bench" beer.
FYI, a Mass is the standard 1L beer in Germany, in the bierfest they only come in that size.
Shower beer before a pre game with friends
Shower beer is peak.
I miss r/ShowerBeer
The movie theater beer, if you've never experienced a good movie while slightly buzzed do yourself a favor and try it, you can even pre game a bit to avoid paying too much at the theater concession.
But be prepared to miss some of the movie when you need to pee
I mean that applies to people who drink sodas as well. Honestly I've never had much trouble holding it in for a hour or two, although anything approaching 3 hours tests that limit
Pee in the empty bottles
Absolutely none of these things aren't improved by it being a lemonade, iced tea or a delicious Arny Palmy
I’m looking at mango wheat beer at the beach and would certainly also enjoy a mango lemonade!
The "it's been too long since we've got together, we just sat down and your friend is going to explain the rules to this game" beer
And, since it is the season
"First beer of the season on opening day at the Ballpark" beer
A bit ritzy but the first beer after a full ski day is straight buzzin.
Beer sitting off to the side in the trees with your buddies on a bluebird day.
Beer at the mountain chalet patio after a long day of skiing, looking at the mountain landscape goes hard
The "I'm starving and just spent the last of my change on this" beer.
The beer for gurgling after brushing teeth
Hangover beer
This just needs to be on the list. And the subsequent wonder of "holy crap, that actually helped" and then the realization that there's a name for that condition.
Similar to their concept of the post-yardwork, let me introduce "the 'miring", the beer you have after completing some DIY project, drunk in silent contemplation of the result.
Partner: "All done love?" Me: "Yep, just having a 'miring. Be with you in a minute."
Love having a drink garnished with a sense of accomplishment. Though it depends on the nature of the project if actually needs to be a beer IMO, whisky etc. is fine if the project doesn't involve physical exertion.
The "I've just spent 14 days in the bush digging holes and staying in a dry camp" beer hits like a fucking freight train. You're exhausted, been craving beer for weeks, and your muscles ache. It's consumed after a hot shower, a shave, and some scrubbing to try and get the dirt out of the fold of your neck. It's all that is cold (but also warming!) bubbly goodness
The Shower Beer
The Friday work is over and I'm not doing anything else productive the rest of the evening beer
The after the first bite of fresh pizza beer
The just got into the stadium beer
Just wrapped up a week long home renovation project beer. Delicious.
For me though, replace the 'beer' with 'water'
One time, on a trail nearby the big music festival in town, I ran into a coworker, his partner, and his friend and his partner. They were standing by a huge bush and they asked if I wanted a beer. I don’t normally drink beer but I said sure and he went into the bush and brought out a Busch for me.
Apparently they were just avoiding the high costs inside the festival lol
At first I read "bear."
The "I don't like beer" beer.
I do the exact opposite of that one: the "I no longer drink alcohol but I still love the taste" nonalcoholic beer 😁
Just took the dog for a walk beer
This is very particular to me but the 3-4am just finished writing for 8 hours beer.
those beers are a necessity for grad school. I do a metric fuckton of technical reading and writing. The "Fuck you, braincells, slake your thirst in a sea of alcoholic foam and recall what it's like to be human again" beer hits hard.
i also call it the "If I tilt my head, my brains will pour out my ears beer"
It's that or a mind melting dab rip that immediately transitions me out of the mentality required for all that writing. Isn't it lovely how self destructive higher education can be? Lmao
The "I'm going to drink regardless but I need to fabricate a reason" beer
The "just opened" beer, no matter the circumstances.
I don't think I've seen this one specifically, the I've partied all night taking substances and waited till the liquor stores opened to buy beer, for the rest of the day partying.
Only done that one a few times but it's a damn good beer. Mean unless you just want more substances, sometimes but to be honest that's the first good beer I ever had was that beer. I never enjoyed it much before that time. Was a corona of all things heh but been up for over a day so whatever.
More of a honey lager type overall or a good stout, which I have trouble finding beyond Guiness but still got many small breweries to check out. Not that I don't like Guiness but there must be something similar that's not Guiness. Just enjoy new tastes, often more than I enjoy the actual taste heh.
The first beer of a planned giant session where everyonein a friend group is meeting up for a fun weekend together, usually in a different place, maybe around a purpose like see a game.
The "i hope this time, something good will happen" beer
The “I gotta work early tomorrow but fuck it” Beer
Home alone, finished cleaning beer
I'd like to think all this was over the course of the same day
When we play a live music show and have that first beer after walking off stage. We play smaller bars so it’s not an arena or anything but wow does it always hit the hardest.
The "I just woke up and am thirsty" beer.
The, "fuck it I have beer" beer
This is a very particular beer, but the “after hauling and securing a boat at 2am with your boss because you’re a tide dependent yard” beer. Those were my favourites.
Seriously though, anytime we had a haul outside of regular working hours we’d all go sit in the back after and have a beer or pop or whatever and shoot the shit. It was nice times.
A beer with my Pop.
"I'm at home petting my cat" beer (which is almost every beer!) lol but for real, a "just loading up games with my buddy on my day off" beer is super good. Actually, evening of my last day before a day off is even better.
That one bottle in a Serbian farmers ass in 1985 that hit so hard a country collapsed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e_Martinovi%C4%87_incident
The "just read something uniquely ridiculous online but it's plausible enough that I feel like it needs a dumbed-down response or the person who made it won't understand why it's so ridiculous" Beer.
The just successfully fixed the car after a long day/weekend of greasy work beer
The "I'm the first at the pub and waiting for everyone else beer."
Train beer.
Breakfast beer.
The "pass out and wake up to find your jujutsu senseis about to draw a dick on your face with a Sharpie" beer(s)
The "guess I'm an alcoholic" beer.
Beer I get on the last day of a work trip by myself and tomorrow morning I fly home to my spouse I haven't seen in a week
(They don't let me drink)
Why are you in that relationship if you can't do the things you seem to enjoy?
The joke is that one would assume its a sappy sentiment that I'm thinking about home and my spouse while I relax with a beer.
And the punch line is alcoholism