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.

bluering

Trad climber

Santa Clara, CA

Jul 11, 2011 - 02:07pm PT

I wouldn't drink it, but then I always have plenty of my own.

But if I was out, or was a dirtbag, I'd probably hit that.

adikted

Trad climber

Jul 11, 2011 - 02:20pm PT

its much better to just finish the beer.....non finished beer...now thats just criminal...

hagerty

Social climber

A Sandy Area South of a Salty Lake

Jul 11, 2011 - 04:00pm PT

I really don't understand this entire concept of partial beers.......

kev

climber

A pile of dirt.

Jul 11, 2011 - 04:05pm PT

Disrespectin the beer!

Now that's just wrong :(

caughtinside

Social climber

Davis, CA

Jul 11, 2011 - 04:09pm PT

just buy a bigger beer and split it. Problem solved.

BrianH

Trad climber

santa fe

Jul 11, 2011 - 04:09pm PT

I agree with Mr. Baba, I thought this whole thread was an elaborate post for golden shower enthusiasts.

Captain...or Skully

climber

or some such

Jul 11, 2011 - 05:46pm PT

I'm all in, Phylp. Hey, it's BEER!

phylp

Trad climber

Millbrae, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 11, 2011 - 09:40pm PT

I knew this post would be good for getting some laughs back! Thanks...

Jay Wood, I may have simplified the leftover beer situation. I think she had 5/8 of a beer left and I had 7/16th. The post was written after I came home from a wonderful Italian dinner in SF where I had consumed about 418 ml of good red wine, so I was a bit mathematically impaired at the time.

mike m

Trad climber

black hills

Jul 11, 2011 - 10:54pm PT

Sam I Am would drink green beer and ham.

ms55401

Trad climber

minneapolis, mn

Jul 11, 2011 - 11:22pm PT

what kind of sick fux drink beer in one-half and two-third volumes??

ladyscarlett

Trad climber

SF Bay Area, California

Jul 12, 2011 - 03:55am PT

This sounds like another case where I'm glad I am more of a smoker than a drinker.

LS

Jay Wood

Trad climber

Land of God-less fools

Jul 12, 2011 - 11:30am PT

Did your party finish the bottle of wine?

Just checkin' how deep this issue runs....

phylp

Trad climber

Millbrae, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 12, 2011 - 12:33pm PT

Jay- The wine ALWAYS gets finished! This is only a beer issue with me. Beer is only about a twice a year thing for me. It's just too darn filling. I admit to being a total lightweight in the beer department. To me, it's is more like a food group than an alcoholic beverage, and I'm just not a big eater, so if I had a whole beer and some cheese or some bar nuts, that would essentially be dinner.

Not that I'm a big drinker either, but when you think about it, beer may be the only alcoholic beverage that you have to drink in integers. Beer Integers may be OK for a real woman like Tami but too much for a wimp like me. I'm stickin' with beer fractions!
Phyl

SCseagoat

Trad climber

Santa Cruz

Jul 12, 2011 - 12:54pm PT

I'd made beer bread. Susan

nature

climber

2006 Toyota Tacoma Wherever US, 00000

Jul 12, 2011 - 01:14pm PT

(not to Nature, it would be silly to ship an open beer to Arizona)

It's the thought that counts!

Jay Wood

Trad climber

Land of God-less fools

Jul 12, 2011 - 01:41pm PT

Phyl,

I'm glad we've had this little talk.

Actually, i know several (all women) fractional beer drinkers.

For the record, I would have been fine with the combined beer. It pains me to see unfinished pints tossed at the brewpub, especially since this is the best stuff, not something from a bottle.

I thought it was funny that your husband is more backwash-phobic than you, since us guys are often slobs. We all can have our pet issues- for instance I am slightly grossed out by finger licking page turning (and money counting!).

Jay

nature

climber

2006 Toyota Tacoma Wherever US, 00000

Jul 12, 2011 - 03:55pm PT

Throwing away perfectly good beer is the definition of alcohol abuse.

phylp

Trad climber

Upland, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Nov 30, 2016 - 06:05pm PT

I have just consumed an entire bottle of beer. Yes it's only Corona, but I think this is an accomplishment. To my recollection, this is the first beer I have had in 2016.

Those who know my love of wine may require an explanation: I got up at 5 AM and flew cross country. Wanted some help with the shift in time zones and a wee glass of something is useful. One bottle of beer was all the alcohol in my sister's house.
Good night !

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Nov 30, 2016 - 06:21pm PT

Sounds like yer sister has a drinking problem. I know I would in her house!

this just in

climber

Justin Ross from North Fork

Nov 30, 2016 - 07:01pm PT

Haha Phyl. Awesome thread. As long as your pinky was up while drinking it, you haven't forsaken your love of wine.

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

Nov 30, 2016 - 07:24pm PT

Missed this the first time around, so I didn't comment then, but, since it's back on the front page...

It always baffles me that humans who will cheerfully engage in all kinds of sharing of body fluids get all worried about taking a sip from a bottle of beer someone else's lips have touched.

Weird.