Drinking beer from the bottle?

I usually enjoy beer in a glass, but I don't obsess over it. Sometimes it is best just not to overthink things.

 

Put on your most comfortable pair of house slippers, and pour yourself a tall palate wrecker out of the bottle and into the glass of your choice. After you drink two of them, whatever your drinking it out of won't matter anyway..

 

Well said (though I do think there is some merit to considering proper glassware and fresh beer). But your second point is spot on. It's exactly why I put zero stock in beer ratings.

 

I drink it out of whatever my company wants to drink it out of. My wife prefers it from the bottle, my friends like good beer and pour into glass.

Some of the cheaper light beers are actually only meant to be "shot-gunned" straight from the can. Pretty sure the flavor drastically changes if you let it in any contact with air...or something like that.

 

I like drinking out of the bottle. Then glass. Finally can. I really don't like drinking out of a can. I also don't really have any "beer" drinking glassware. I should invest in some.

 

Session beers usually (though not always) work well straight from the bottle for me.

 

Slight re-work of statements others have said:
Try the beer as "appropriately" as possible to form an "educated" opinion.
Break any rule of "appropriateness" as you see the need to do.
If you enjoy the beer, no one else should care other than to perhaps ask if you've had "more properly". If they do (and you do), and you followed step 2, you can say everything you said in the OP.
If you haven't already, follow step 2 as you see fit (you might enjoy it more if not tried).

Regardless of any steps followed to this point, if you are enjoying your beer you can always respond with (as tactfully as you desire) "F you, why do you care?!?"

 

There should be something in the rules about committing such an offense

 

Always from a glass. I think it's a better tasting experience overall, but I also just don't like drinking from a bottle or a can.

 

doing that as we speak! I'm not sure if I'm imagining it, or if it really does concentrate the hop flavor.

 

I'm jk man i drink from the bottle too

 

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believe the proper vessel for serving Yuengling is a funnel. That's the best way I found to drink it!

 

What he said... but even Yuengling I will usually pour into a glass just because that's the way I like it.

Very occasionally I will drink an IPA or something similar from the bottle but usually only if there are no glasses around or it would be too snobby or weird to ask for one. In those cases is does not diminish the drinking pleasure. I will always ask a restaurant for a glass but not always a bar, in some bars it's just safer to drink from the bottle.

 

The narrow neck concentrates the flavor, and IPA's are pretty much "one trick (flavor) ponies". It's also more carbonated and therefore tastes more prickly out of a bottle, which goes well with the bitterness.

A beer drank from the bottle/can will retain more aroma/flavor longer than one poured into a glass, too. As carbonation is released and dissipates, so does flavor.

 

I've been in bars where the only thing clean enough to drink out of was the bottle!

 

I truly am to the point where drinking it out of a glass makes such a huge difference I just prefer it that way. That being said, if it's an old favorite then I have no problem drinking it out of the bottle. My wife frustrates me because we'll share an awesome brew and she'll intentionally drink hers out of the bottle...kills me lol

 

Drinking fresh beer is bullshit? What magical land do you live in...