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So. I have been working at the beer window lately at my local waterpark.
What Qualifies as domestic and what qualifies as imported? Because we have two Beers on Draft(Shock Top and Sieera Nevada) that are more.
But both are made in the US? I got chastised by a guest for calling them Imported when that is what we sell them as.

Generally speaking from most of the "bars" I've frequented, A-B products (and Coors if they actually have it) are domestic. Pretty much everything else is an import.

It doesn't make a lot of sense.

A-B Products?

Ah, sorry. I live literally in the shadow of the brewery and forget the abbreviation isn't universal. Anheuser Busch. Budweiser, Bud LIte. Busch. Michelob stuff.

Amber bock is tolerable, but usually they're the cheap go-to beers for anything that's not mid to upscale bar type place.

I'd think that Sierra Nevada and Shock Top would both be domestic.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
So. I have been working at the beer window lately at my local waterpark.
What Qualifies as domestic and what qualifies as imported? Because we have two Beers on Draft(Shock Top and Sieera Nevada) that are more.
But both are made in the US? I got chastised by a guest for calling them Imported when that is what we sell them as.

As a bar owner I will give you the lowdown. Your owner is lazy and calls them imports because they are more expensive than your common domestic beers. This practice is actually pretty common p if you just have one price for domestics and one price for imports, but its still wrong. They are however domestic, but they are high production quasi craft beers. They are more expensive than your typical domestics. Sierra Nevada and Shocktop are both brands with a few varieties of beer so I'm not sure which you are talking about. Sierra Nevada is probably their IPA as that is their most popular, its decent. You should pitch that they are more expensive because they actually have more complex flavor notes (unlike most big brand domestics whose best praise is that when they are really cold they almost taste like pissy water) and they most likely have a higher alcohol content.

Beer however is a matter of opinion, I can not just say they are better, I hate most regular domestics, but I know many customers that like their miller lights and hate beers that actually have taste.

Get to know your products and you will be able to sell them better. You can look them up on www.beeradvocate.com/beer/ but my preferred method is to just drink them.

Are you not like in college Hotsauace?

 Jihadin wrote:
Are you not like in college Hotsauace?

Not much of a drinker. I have shock top mostly when Im at home painting or plying video games.

Well you need to start, I say get your first disgrace (every one has one of these) out of the way by buying a 4ltr bag of goon (or cheap wine, whatever you like to call it) or tequila and plowing through as much as you can to get your first paraletic incident out of the way. Now that your body knows it's limits social drinking is a better known commodity.

Optionally play a fun game with a rotary clothesline. It's called wheel of fortune. Now get 2 bags of goon (see above) and peg them to the clothes line , with a group of friends swing the clothes line and who ever the clothesline lands on has to drink. * none of this is good advice, please do not follow it

Yeah, those are both Domestics.

Most common imports I see are Heineken and Corona. Maybe talk to management about labeling them 'Craft' and 'Domestic'.

Those two groups aren't mutually exclusive but it gets the point across.

If you plan on becoming a beer connoisseur, might I recommend the Untappd phone app. Tracks your drinking habits and recommends local beers or beers with similar styles. Lovely little app

 gunslingerpro wrote:
Yeah, those are both Domestics.

Most common imports I see are Heineken and Corona. Maybe talk to management about labeling them 'Craft' and 'animal piss disguised as a beverage'.

Those two groups aren't mutually exclusive but it gets the point across.

If you plan on becoming a beer connoisseur, might I recommend the Untappd phone app. Tracks your drinking habits and recommends local beers or beers with similar styles. Lovely little app

Fixed.

Other good category names might be "Traditional" and "Flavorful".

 Lordhat wrote:

 gunslingerpro wrote:
Yeah, those are both Domestics.

Most common imports I see are Heineken and Corona. Maybe talk to management about labeling them 'Craft' and 'animal piss disguised as a beverage'.

Those two groups aren't mutually exclusive but it gets the point across.

If you plan on becoming a beer connoisseur, might I recommend the Untappd phone app. Tracks your drinking habits and recommends local beers or beers with similar styles. Lovely little app

Fixed.

Other good category names might be "Traditional" and "Flavorful".

I was trying to divide them without applying judgement, but the notion is unopposed

 gunslingerpro wrote:

 Lordhat wrote:

 gunslingerpro wrote:
Yeah, those are both Domestics.

Most common imports I see are Heineken and Corona. Maybe talk to management about labeling them 'Craft' and 'animal piss disguised as a beverage'.

Those two groups aren't mutually exclusive but it gets the point across.

If you plan on becoming a beer connoisseur, might I recommend the Untappd phone app. Tracks your drinking habits and recommends local beers or beers with similar styles. Lovely little app

Fixed.

Other good category names might be "Traditional" and "Flavorful".

I was trying to divide them without applying judgement, but the notion is unopposed

I don't think mine apply judgement, per se. All the people I know who like "traditional' beer, like it because of the lack of flavor.

 Lordhat wrote:
"Flavorful".

Flavorful isn't always good. I had a scotch once that was billed as the "Most Flavorful Scotch in Scotland." It was like somebody smacked me in the face with an oak branch, and not in the good way.

 daedalus wrote:

 Lordhat wrote:
"Flavorful".

Flavorful isn't always good. I had a scotch once that was billed as the "Most Flavorful Scotch in Scotland." It was like somebody smacked me in the face with an oak branch, and not in the good way.

I rest my case. Note, I didn't use "Delicious" or "Disgusting".

Wait, your waterpark serves beer? Jesus, the lifeguards most LOVE that.

 Jihadin wrote:
Are you not like in college Hotsauace?

To be fair, most college/university students are not noted for their refined beer-drinking palate.

 curran12 wrote:
Wait, your waterpark serves beer? Jesus, the lifeguards most LOVE that.

We also serve Margeritas

Yeah they are typically only thinking about how fast they can chug it

Those two are definetly not imported, and I'm somewhat surprised that nobody filed any kind of complaints about false advertisement yet (this is California after all).

I agree that Domestic and Craft, of just Beer and Craft Beer, would be the way to go with labeling.

Bullockist wrote:
Well you need to start, I say get your first disgrace (every one has one of these) out of the way by buying a 4ltr bag of goon (or cheap wine, whatever you like to call it) or tequila and plowing through as much as you can to get your first paraletic incident out of the way. Now that your body knows it's limits social drinking is a better known commodity.

Optionally play a fun game with a rotary clothesline. It's called wheel of fortune. Now get 2 bags of goon (see above) and peg them to the clothes line , with a group of friends swing the clothes line and who ever the clothesline lands on has to drink. * none of this is good advice, please do not follow it

I played this game for the first (and only time) back in 2001 or so. Yes, I led a sheltered existence - I had no knowledge of "goon" nor of "passion pop" (aka Panther P*ss) at the time. I was 32 or so.
Only they did it with 3 goons - 2 "not horrible" ones and a goon of PP. Spin the clothesline, The players directly under one have to drink.

Had my first taste of PP. Went and gargled with makers mark afterwards (bourbon makes me hurl no matter "how good"). Even that aftertaste was better. Almost as good as Karloff rotgut.

 d-usa wrote:
Those two are definetly not imported, and I'm somewhat surprised that nobody filed any kind of complaints about false advertisement yet (this is California after all).

I agree that Domestic and Craft, of just Beer and Craft Beer, would be the way to go with labeling.

Maybe they're branding it the same way Chrysler did

Definitely label those two as craft. "Quality" is also okay, as compared to the other swill. Sorry, becoming kind of a beer snob. My dad makes his own, and I have a nice Vanilla Bourbon stout waiting for me, as well as a Belgian. Couple bottles of each. So yeah, I get spoiled by good beer.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
What Qualifies as domestic and what qualifies as imported?

Bottom Line:

Domestic beer is made in your country, imported beer is made in another country.

That is how you tell the difference.

Spaten Oktoberfest (Brewed in Munich, Bavaria, Germany) is an Import beer if you are in the U.S.A.

Sam Adams Boston lager (Brewed in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) Is a domestic beer if you are in the U.S.A.