Drinking at home

corblimey

What do people do when drinking at home? Drink straight from the can/bottle, or pour it into a pint glass and pretend they're in the pub? Does it make any difference, or is it just a matter of personal taste? Since I started drinking as a student, I was unreliably informed that you should pour lager into a glass, as it gets more air and tastes better, or is that just nonsense?

Alkers

It's always nicer to drink out of a glass I think. Crappy plastic cups in the student bar are the worst thing ever. It's also easier to drink faster if you want to but out of a can is the worst imo.

tman

i'd usually pour cans into a pint glass, but always drink from the bottle. it just feels nicer somehow... (must be the taste of rats feet or something)

The Sweeper

I tend to have a bad habit of drinking out of the can or bottle if I'm at home (apart from wine of course, where I do stretch to a glass). I have plenty of appropriately-shaped glasses for lagers, bitters, ales etc. and I really should use them - it's sheer laziness.

crosstownk

tman wrote:

i'd usually pour cans into a pint glass, but always drink from the bottle. it just feels nicer somehow... (must be the taste of rats feet or something)

Yeah - this what I do too - I find the last few swigs of a can can be a bit nasty.

noby

I hope I don't sound too much like a beer snob, but most if not all the time I pour into a glass. A lot of the drinking experience is lost when drinking straight from a can/bottle - the colour of the beer, the head, the aroma etc. These days when I drink at home (which is becoming more frequent, what with the price of going out) I try to buy some nice, interesting beers, and you have to use a glass to appreciate them properly.

Granted there are always times when you rough it, and drink straight from the bottle, and if I'm at afriends house and I'm offered something like miller, I don't refuse (out of politeness) but that kind of stuff doesn't deserve to be decanted (no colour, no aroma, no flavour; I'm not missing out on anything when drinking from the bottle).

rubadub

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

apart from wine of course, where I do stretch to a glass

ohhhh Mr La-De-Da
I do drink beer from the bottle mostly, since I like it quite fizzy. Cans go in small glasses in 2 pours.
noby is right about the aromas from a glass.

Borzoi

noby wrote:

I'm offered something like miller, I don't refuse (out of politeness) but that kind of stuff doesn't deserve to be decanted (no colour, no aroma, no flavour; I'm not missing out on anything when drinking from the bottle).

Anything sold in a can is not going to improve by pouring into a glass - all you're doing is creating washing up.

Some bottle beers, esp Belgian and Germans, really must be served in a glass, to get a head, and in some cases to avoid drinking the filings.

rubadub

Borzoi wrote:

Anything sold in a can is not going to improve by pouring into a glass - all you're doing is creating washing up.

I disagree for the reasons he gave already. Many prefer to drink milk from a glass rather than a carton if it is near the end. It is a more suitable receptical that drinking from a narrow little hole that lets no aroma out. I hate drinking from those palstic pint glasses due to the feel/taste of the plastic. If you mouth is directly on aluminium some do not like the sensation.

Some people value presentation and would not eat microwave meals directly out of the plastic tray, but pefer it on a plate.

I pour cans into small glasses in 2 goes. I find you do not get the "end of the can" undrinkable slops this way. When raising and lowering a can over and over it sloshes around a lot and goes flat. With a wide short glass it doesnt happen as much.

BUT be sure you wash your glass with boiling water and then rinse well with cold. Any trace of washing up liquid will kill the head.

Blisterman

Will boiling water not crack the glass?

rubadub

Blisterman wrote:

Will boiling water not crack the glass?

I have only had very old glasses crack, years ago. Pour in a tiny bit and swirl it around to gently heat the glass, Then a bit more to heat more. Once it is hot it will not be stressed and you can pour in more.

Zebra3

I'd always pour a can into a glass and sometimes with a bottle.

Looking forward now to some decent weather during the summer for drinking out in the back garden though there'll be plenty of indoor drinking this summer with the WC on.

xzanti

I find cans a bit awkward to drink from myself... Id usually just pour it into a glass.. Having said that, I would rarely drink beer or cider at home, Im more a wine woman And if I was to drink that from the bottle I may aswell put a brown paper bag around it and sit out on my steps

Blub2k4

xzanti wrote:

And if I was to drink that from the bottle I may aswell put a brown paper bag around it and sit out on my steps

Would Madame Like to see ze wineleest?

Melange d'Antifreeze 1995 ees excellent.
Chateau de pis is also a cheeky leetle number.

I see madame has ow we say, ze high standards oui?

:P