Maxwayne's post prompted this poll.

Question:
Do you prefer your beer in bottles or cans?

Choices:
Bottles
Cans

 

On tap is best, the biggest can.
Then bottles.
Cans are almost as good as bottles now so for home use, I pour cans into a glass and I'm a beer snob.
I'm drinking Bell's Two Hearted out of a can into a Bell's glass atm.

Bottles for me.

However, if it is cold, I will drink it.

I'm with dsiets.

Draft -first.

From there... growler (which is draft), poured into a glass.

Given the option of the same beer in a bottle or a can, I choose the can 90% of the time because I can't tell a huge difference once I've poured it into a glass, which I do most of the time.

I don't prefer to drink most beers from a can, so if I'm drinking directly from the packaged container then I'd choose a bottle, all other choices being the same.

I nearly never consume a single drop of alcohol away from my home, so the option doesn't come up very often. I don't drink at friends houses, and I don't drink at restaurants. I don't frequent bars, and haven't been to one in many years.

So, as of this post, I'm the single vote for "cans"

Beer out of cans always tastes worse out of a can than out of a bottle. I would rather drink anything out of glass than aluminum.

Bottle. Not for the taste, but for the drinkability.

When I used to drink beer, If it came in a can, I would always pour it in a glass as it seems to go down smoother, less clug clug as it goes down

quote:

Originally posted by Nismo:
Bottle. Not for the taste, but for the drinkability.

When I used to drink beer, If it came in a can, I would always pour it in a glass as it seems to go down smoother, less clug clug as it goes down

Yes. The prime reason I pour into a glass is to reduce the amount of Co2 I'm consuming. A good pour in a glass and the beer does go down smoother, particularly if a little bit warmer.
The colder a solution, the more gas it keeps in solution. I like cellar temps much more than the frozen glasses.

I've seen what monkeys do in a barrel...

A beer can is a tiny barrel.

Pass that bottle to me.

-sigmonkey haiku.

(It doesn't rhyme, the phrasing is off, it's out of tune, you can't dance to it, but it's damned catchy!)

Bottles always if I have a choice

Maybe a result of my old age, but many years ago canned beer tasted bad (metallic or tinny) so I've been buying bottled beer forever.

On tap is best.

In cans is next, though most of the beers I drink aren't available in cans. (Mainly German Hefeweizens and Marzen/Wiezen festbiers, as well as Belgian Wits.) However, there's been a small but noticeable uptick in fancier imported beers available in cans over the past few years.

Bottles third.


My favorite summertime beer in cans for places like the beach/river/lake where glass isn't the best idea is Blanche de Bruxelles, an excellent Belgian Wit that happens to be available in 16 oz cans.

No vote. I’d rather see the comments in member maxwayne‘s thread. The original thread on this subject.

I like to see ‘em all in one place.

Is this a euphemism?

Frankly I think a beverage should overcome the taste difference to be worth drinking either way, or of such utility it doesn't matter.

For me, bottle or can boils down to whether I have to haul it to the curb for recycling if I'm drinking for utility. Or, for enjoyment and social interaction.

Well for my favorite soda Big Red, I prefer it in glass bottle rather than cans, but either of those over plastic.

I prefer bottles, though they make a lot of noise when I drop them into the recycle bin the following morning.
Makes me feel like I have to shout at the neighbors, "I'm not an alcoholic!"

Cans all day long.

Bottles if available. But will never turn down a free beer, draft,can, bottle !

As long as it's beer I don't care where it comes from, bottle or can.

I do tend to buy cans as they are easier to deal with when recycling them.

Beer to me seems better from a can nowadays. More carbonation, no chance of skunkiness. The days of a can making the beer taste bad/funny are long gone now as they all have a liner that prevents beer from ever touching metal.

Interesting note: I looked up why you never see beer in a plastic bottle and this is the primary reason why:

Plastic is a great deal more porous than glass (which itself is almost impermeable to oxygen and carbon dioxide). In lay terms, this means your beer (or soft drink) will go flat sooner in a plastic bottle than it would in a glass one because the carbon dioxide that makes it fizzy in the first place can more easily escape

No real preference either way. The local breweries is usually buy are can only. Either way, it usually goes into a thick pint glass [have a few from local breweries].