Veg Stout - a tale of desperation
I haven't got time to compose something lengthy or terribly witty today, so I'll fall back on a beery anecdote I was told recently. It's about a chap who earned the nickname "Veg Stout", due to a particularly rancid display of tickeritis. A few of you will already know what a ticker is: they collect beers in the way others might collect postage stamps. Whereas philatelics can boast of catalogues filled with their paper prey, tickers end up with beer guts and a bad case of wind.
Veg Stout earned his nickname after an incident at a beer festival. Nearing the end of the session, one particularly rare stout was tapped. He knew he'd had enough, but needed that final "tick", so dutifully ordered his half pint measure. Just as he was about to raise the glass to his lips, his guts revolted, expelling their contents at high velocity. Chunks of his lunch flew into the beer. Ordinarily you'd expect a person to stagger away embarrassed, begging forgiveness and abandoning his glass. Not this chap. Undeterred, he took a swig of his own, very special, Veg Stout. And so a legend was born, a sorry tale of desperation and obsessive compulsive behaviour.
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'Tis all true. Thing is, you usually smell him before you see him (and he can't see you as he's blind as a post) which gives you time to make good your escape.
He also got shot with an air rifle near the Market Porter years back, prompting a special beer "Who shot veg stout?".
It's all true.
http://www.scoopergen.co.uk/Scoopers/vegstout.htm
Is that link supposed to act as an alarm to beer lovers who don't eat their own vomit, or some kind of tribute to a sad and desperate man?
-- Boggle
You confirm this tale Gazza? Oooeer.
But to semantics: I believed a "ticker" to be one that habitually asked for little tasters in order to "tick the boxes" rather than one who actually paid for a half in order to get horrendously (and admirably, if illegally these days) drunk (and tick the boxes). I'm sure there's a meaningful difference.
Oh, "sad and desperate". Thanks Sid.
"I believed a "ticker" to be one that habitually asked for little tasters in order to "tick the boxes"
You believed wrong. That's what "Pete 2 sips" does, but most of us have a full half... some even have a full pint! I shall be at Reading beer fest tomorrow practising my ticking, if anyone is around find the scoopers and say hello (there will be a LOT of us there, it's probably the best ticking fest of the year).
Veg Stout should be on Heroes.
Okay...ticking is a most detestable phenomenon. We certainly have it here in the US (look at say...ratebeer) but you guys over the sea seem to ratchet it up a notch or two.
I love trying out new beers,probably a dozen or two a month, but nothing compares to sitting down at the pub and drinking pint after pint of an old favorite.
Nice one Stonch. And to think some said I was unkind to tickers in my blog!
Do you think this guy is a member of the Veg stout club Stonch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ha60UBj2e4&feature=related
Why does anyone find Veg Stout's behaviour weird? Seeems perfectly raional, to me.
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