Why drink beer from a bottle?

[Pevenseagull]

Nipped into a bar on the way back from town for a swifty in the dry whilst waiting for my bus and ended up drinking bottled beer - from the bottle - as no glass was fothcoming and I was in a bit of a rush.

I have not done this for years, I shall not be doing it again. Apart from lazy bar staff not wanting to do the glasses what is the point of drinking from the bottle - you can't smell the beer so the taste is diminished, you end up with loads of backwash, the beer is overly gassy as the air goes in whilst you drink, the neck is too narrow to drink from unless you pout like Larry f-ing Grayson, the neck of the bottle isn't clean, if the bottle is wet you get gunk from the label on your hands,

WHY?



that's more like it

 

[Benny Seagull]

still prefer drinking from a bottle than can. loses something in a can - mainly its taste

 

[Lush]

Everyone warns me against this for hygiene reasons, but I quite like drinking beer from a bottle.

I think it's because I am a child of the 80's and can remember when you drank from the bottle as a fashion statement; to show that you were drinking a cool brand - Becks, Bud, Rolling Rock, Steinlager - rather than draught Fosters. And there's nothing like a Sol with a wedge of lime in the neck.

 

[rool]

still prefer drinking from a bottle than can. loses something in a can - mainly its taste

Surely not, the flavour is enhanced by all the rat piss it picks up in the warehouses

 

[alan partridge]

hmm have to say i like drinking out of a bottle. nice chunkiness about the glass and always tastes colder for some reason. probably psychological like triangular sandwiches

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Gimme a glass any day. Glasses break more easily when you have to stick it in the face of a P*l*ce fan.







(Joke)

 

[Benny Seagull]

also if you need to throw up and have no time, a glass can be quite convenient - a bottle or a can however, can make a very nasty accident

 

[Van der Gully]

The main reason behind not drinking from a bottle is that you can get Vials disease, if the bottles have been kept in a cellar it is likely that rats may have been around them, the disease is passed on through their urine.

I think the main reason people started drinking beer from bottles was to say "look at me, I am drinking some foreign pissy lager that I have paid well above the odds for when I should have bought a decent pint of bitter and supported the British brewing industry"

 

[BensGrandad]

Drinking out of a bottle became popular in the gay clubs of London in the late 70s /early 80s when AIDS first started as people were unaware as to whether or not AIDS was transmitable through a glass. At the time I did the accounts for a well known Leicester Square Night Club who held a gay night on Sundays and they sold bottles and bottles of Dansk Low Alcohol Lager as a councillor on Westminster Council had found an old law which prohibited the sale of Alcohol in Music Venues on Sundays. These were all drunk straight from the bottle. Approx 200 dozen each week.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I thought drinking from the bottle was all about preventing people dropping unwanted "additives" into your drink. Mainly a club thing, not a pub thing.

 

[Fluffster]

Bottles are ok, apart from the shit froth at the bottom, tinnies are just f***ing horrible.

 

[Sonic]

I really don't see the point. Apart from the health concerns already mentioned, you're paying about £4 a pint! Imagine how quick people would be to complain if they were charged £4 for a pint of lager pulled and served in a pint glass. Daylight robbery.

 

[alan partridge]

I really don't see the point. Apart from the health concerns already mentioned, you're paying about £4 a pint! Imagine how quick people would be to complain if they were charged £4 for a pint of lager pulled and served in a pint glass. Daylight robbery.

quite right. have to add to my earlier comment that i would never buy a bottle of beer over one in a glass if it costs twice as much. like to drink them at home though