Do you prefer your drink in Plastic, Glass or Can?

the_syco

So, what do you prefer your beverage, alcoholic or not, in? A glass bottle, or a can?

Personally, I say can, as a can of coke seems to taste nicer than a plastic bottle of coke, and similair with my cider (Koppaberg, Bulmers, etc), it seems to be nicer in a can than when in a glass bottle.

Ruu_Old

Plastic bottles for soft drinks (as I don't drink zee alcohol). Tastes more carbonated or something in a can.

Gandhi

Glass bottles beat the pants off cans or plastic.

Sean7

Coke, etc. in cans, beer in bottles, unless it's draught but I only drink Guiness from the tap anyway and if someone puts that in a plastic glass I cry.

Blub2k4

Glass, I dont understand actually how this could be debatable.

noby

I was about to say glass, when I re-read the poll. If we're talking strictly glass bottle here, then I would have to say none of the above. If you mean any glass container, then glass it is.

The Sweeper

Can I edit the poll to add an option for "my belly"?

byte

For alcohol, definitely glass.

happy_acid_face

Glass bottles for beer, etc. but i do agree that coke (and most other soft drinks) tastes nicer from a can...

Theta

Soft Drinks taste crisper or something from a can!!!

Creamy Goodness

soft drinks taste nicer from a can.

beer though, it's got to be from a bottle

Blisterman

Soft Drinks - Can
Lager - Can
Ale - Glass bottle

Dont be at yourself

A nice big 3 litre plastic bottle of cider, a can of coke and a glass bottle of beer!

beardybrewer

Actually I usually pour my beers in to a pint glass. Somehow it just tastes better.

Oh, and a pet peeve of mine is coke in those overpriced plastic bottles. They have no insulation... I always feel like its warm from the first slug

ninty9er

Beer - Pint Glass

Shots - Small pub glass

Alcopop - Glass Bottle

If pint glass not available, beer in a can

Kinetic^

Everything out of a glass.

*Tripper*

Glass all the way aside from the odd few cans of dutch gold!

irlirishkev

Sean7 wrote:

Coke, etc. in cans, beer in bottles, unless it's draught but I only drink Guiness from the tap anyway and if someone puts that in a plastic glass I cry.

I was in a pub during the August Bank Holiday. Ordered a Guinness at around 3pm, at the (pretty empty) bar, and the barman poured into a plastic glass.

ME: 'can I have a proper glass please?',
BARMAN: 'no, only plastic glasses during the (greystones) festival'.
ME: 'I'm just going to sit at the bar'
BARMAN: 'no'
ME: Right.
....I walked out.

Alcohol out of a glass for me. Soft drinks out of a can or plastic bottle. Coke out of a bottle, to me, tastes rotten.

cashback

Definitely a glass bottle for beer. You don't seem to get that warm watery bit at the end that you get in cans.
For soft drinks though, definitely cans.

sonic juice

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

Can I edit the poll to add an option for "my belly"?

and why not also from the tanned glassy texture of sunglasses?

rubadub

Blub2k4 wrote:

Glass, I dont understand actually how this could be debatable.

Same here.
Are these people pouring the can into a glass? Or do they really prefer drinking beer from a can rather than a bottle. If they do pour it in a glass are they doing the same with the bottles?

When drinking from a can or bottle you are not getting the full aroma of the drink which adds greatly to the taste. I could therefore see some people prefering a can poured into a glass, rather than a bottle drunk by the neck. But a poured bottle will always beat a poured can IMO.

As for soft drinks- its the beer, wine, spirits forum.

The Sweeper

The original question was vague, but it asked whether you preferred your drink in a plastic bottle, glass bottle, or a can.

Not whether you liked to drink out of a glass.

Blub2k4

Glass anyway, be it in a bottle, in a glass poured from a bottle or in a glass, always beating the can option in any form, and alcohol doesn't tend to be in plastic.

The Sweeper

You say that, but supermarkets over here are starting to do wine in a 75cl plastic bottle with a screw cap. The kind you'd associate with water.

rubadub

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

You say that, but supermarkets over here are starting to do wine in a 75cl plastic bottle with a screw cap. The kind you'd associate with water.

Yes, I hear the experts at Dom Perignon tried for years to get that authentic polyethylene terephthalate taste from their grapes, hopefully they will learn their lesson and just go with old reliable 2 litre plastic bottle

oblivious

One reason for the shift to plastic, is that a lot of table wine there can be a little as 15 cents of wine in it, the bottle alone can coat up to one euro. Also most wine sold in supermarkets are designed to be drunk fresh, not to be laid down for years. Glass is more impervious to oxygen that plastic and it remove the need for corks which are in short supply.

The Sweeper

I thought they'd done away with the need for corking wine bottles with the introduction of a suitable screw cap?

oblivious

I believe capping to be better, less chance of reaction with the wine; I think cork is still kept for wine that is going to be laid down IMHO.

Mantel

Glass followed by metal. Pastics for alcohol.... if it's a pint shape fair enough, bottles.... eh, only if your going to a pub and don't want to buy.