# Cold beer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-beer/774407>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** beer\
**Created:** [December 11, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-beer/774407 "2016-12-11T01:32:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-beer/774407/21 "2016-12-12T13:41:35Z")

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> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> I admit to this happening to me on occasion, but I usually have enough ales or hard ciders to tide me over until the store opens the next morning.

Two xmases ago my gf’s brother Jimmy drove down from Vermont to spend a weekend with us. He likes crap beer, and it was my job to pick up a couple of cases on my way home from running errands that day.

Well, Jimmy arrived early and thirsty. His sister told him to help himself to my beer. I had four bottles chilling; the cheapest was a $22 _Pliny The Elder_ which is nearly impossible to find around here. There was a Belgian sour (_Carillon_) that was “priceless”. There was a bourbon barrel aged stout I’d _won the right to purchase_ in a raffle (yeah, $20 worth of raffle tickets for the opportunity to spend money).

Jimmy drank them all.

I got home with the crap beer. Jimmy was trashed, drunker than I’d ever seen him. I then got to hear about how crappy my beer was, although “it sure packed a kick”.

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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-beer/774407/22 "2016-12-12T14:25:20Z")

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Justifiable homicide. No jury in the world would convict you.

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**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-beer/774407/23 "2016-12-13T01:54:16Z")

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No humane judge would even let it get that far Doc.

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**Author:** ![cardinal\_fang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal_fang/32/15316_2.png) [@cardinal\_fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cardinal_fang)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-beer/774407/24 "2016-12-13T02:13:06Z")

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I have nothing to add, but did find this [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEvQOPUHGH8) of several scientists discussing the subject. (I assume they’re scientists.)

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**Author:** ![witzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/edb3f5/32.png) [@witzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/witzel)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-beer/774407/25 "2016-12-13T20:33:40Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> Two xmases ago my gf’s brother Jimmy drove down from Vermont to spend a weekend with us.

- You didn’t instruct him to pick you up some of the lovely offerings in Vermont that might be hard to come by in PA (Hill Farmstead, Lawson’s, Alchemist, etc…)? That certainly would have softened the blow.
- You paid $22 for Pliny the Elder? I hope it was not the standard 500ml bottle at that price, especially if you went to Philadelphia to pick it up.
- Which _Cantillon_? (At least there was one beer that wasn’t strong.)

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