Would you drink a used beer? (on topic climbers!)

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phylp

Trad climber

Millbrae, CA

Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 11, 2011 - 12:33am PT

So I just did a quick 2 day trip to the Leap, and my partner was saying how she liked a little beer after climbing, but she couldn't drink more than 1/2 a beer, so would I split one with her. And I say, yeah I like a little beer once in a while on a hot day, but I'm thinking, maybe I could drink 2/3 of a beer. It's been a sunny day.

So after climbing, I go over to the Strawberry Market and buy two whole bottles of beer for four bucks. And she drinks her 1/2 and I drink my 2/3. Now we're done, and she is a recycling engineer so she doesn't want to dump the leftover beer, and I'm thinking, well I supported the local economy so I'm OK with sending the rest back to nature (not to Nature, it would be silly to ship an open beer to Arizona). But she really doesn't want the beer to go to waste.

So we pool our beer into one very full bottle and she takes it to the campers next door as a gift, which they gladly accept.

Tonight I tell my husband this story and he thinks this is totally disgusting. "The backwash!", he says, "you're drinking beer from a bottle and it's only 6% alcohol and it's half beer and half backwash. That's disgusting. I wouldn't have drank that even when I was a dirtbag".

What say you fellow climbers?

MisterE

Social climber

Jul 11, 2011 - 12:37am PT

Once in college... We all woke up hung over, and my buddy reached for the nearest beer and guzzled it to cure his hang-over.

The thing was, it was full of cigarette butts, and he was too sleepy to realize it until he had chugged half the contents...

You can guess what happened next, I imagine.

Srbphoto

climber

Kennewick wa

Jul 11, 2011 - 12:44am PT

I would have chugged it then peed off the Millbrae Ave overpass onto the old front entrance of Oshman's.

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Jul 11, 2011 - 12:47am PT

Phyl, you should try shandy on a hot day. Half lager, half lemonade, a bit of ice.

Daphne

Trad climber

Mill Valley, CA

Jul 11, 2011 - 01:06am PT

Well, now I know to bring very little beer when I climb with you, that's fer sure!

I think I would pass on the bottle in question unless I knew the donors personally and liked 'em.

east side underground

Trad climber

Hilton crk,ca

Jul 11, 2011 - 01:12am PT

If it was cold :) Edt - here here for Beer!.........hic

climbski2

Mountain climber

Anchorage AK, Reno NV

Jul 11, 2011 - 01:15am PT

I drink beer period.

Cold beer, warm beer, used beer, flat beer, free beer, cheep beer, expensive beer, bad beer, good beer.

even pissed beer..accidentally once.

salute to beer.

MisterE

Social climber

Jul 11, 2011 - 01:17am PT

Personally, I'd only swill something on the pass that was strong enough to kill the germs from the last person:

Everclear. ;)

climbski2

Mountain climber

Anchorage AK, Reno NV

Jul 11, 2011 - 01:18am PT

Whatever germs don't kill you make you stronger..

I think they call that immunology.

bergbryce

Mountain climber

South Lake Tahoe, CA

Jul 11, 2011 - 01:21am PT

I had a friend who had this tactic they used and they called it "old-manning" beers....

When you are a broke ass college student, you go into a busy bar, watch people go to the bar, order a bottle of beer and if you're lucky they are playing pool or something and set it down, better to have it set down among many other bottles. You casually walk over and grab recently opened beer like it's yours and viola, free, almost full beer.
Of course there are caveats... the most likely is getting caught, but you can mitigate the potential fallout of being caught by not old-manning a football player-looking guys beer. Old man the geek wearing the Bauhaus shirt instead.

apogee

climber

Jul 11, 2011 - 01:37am PT

2 bottles for 4 bucks?

Life is too short to drink cheap beer (esp. with the risk of backwash).

Edit: Waitaminit...that means it was about $10-12/sixer....that's probably reasonable. My math skillz lag a bit after a few good beers.

Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

Jul 11, 2011 - 02:04am PT

Phyl do you really have to ask that question in this crowd? If i drank beer, I'd, of course, finish that one!

ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber

bouldering

Jul 11, 2011 - 02:28am PT

OP fantasizing about swapping (chick)spit. Whatevs.

Karl Baba

Trad climber

Yosemite, Ca

Jul 11, 2011 - 03:15am PT

Glad this thread wasn't what I thought it might be

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_therapy

couchmaster

climber

pdx

Jul 11, 2011 - 10:11am PT

The slugs in my garden don't complain, why should anyone else?

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Jul 11, 2011 - 11:35am PT

I guess my mind works along the lines of Karl's, up to a point. :-)
Honestly, his prolly works better in general.

I went to the fridge Sunday morning to get the OJ and discovered a Chimay
with an inch and a half left in it! I feel so shamed. Forgive me, father.

Jay Wood

Trad climber

Land of God-less fools

Jul 11, 2011 - 11:56am PT

1/2 + 1/3= 5/6,

So if she gave 'a very full beer', something is fishy here....

Maybe there WAS a lot of backwash.

OTOH, I have heard that 4/3 of people are bad at fractions.

Studly

Trad climber

Jul 11, 2011 - 12:02pm PT

Backwash beer, we've all had it, more happy about it at some times then others. As long as no cig butts, then usually palatable. Kind of a mean trick though to combine two leftover beers into one, and then give it to somone as a full beer. Nasty and uncool, especially if you don't explain what it is and give it to them like it s nice new brew you just popped the top on.