Perfect Size Beer Container

I have several 16 oz tulip glasses and 20 oz imperial pint glasses.

 

Boy, three pages deep and no mention of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keg#Beer_ball yet? For shame.

Also if you have 16 oz of beer and a 12 oz glass, you can always mainline the remaining 3-4 ounces into your gullet. Problem solved

 

I have about a dozen pint glasses that all hold 16oz. Because, well, a pint is 16oz. Thus the name "pint glass."

 

I would love to see high ABV beers (12% and above) in 8 oz. bottles... as long as the prices goes down accordingly. 12 oz. bottles are fine but sometimes I want more than 1 per night and I'm not going to open another 12 oz., 12% beer only to drink half of it so the 8 oz. bottle would be perfect here!

 

The whole 12oz glass but 16oz can sounds like a math problem to me...

The solution is to open 3 cans (3x16=48) and pour them into 4 glasses (4x12=48). Now let's hope you're thirsty or have three friends...

 

12 and 16 oz cans are my favorite. But I can never deny the elegance of a 750 mL champagne bottle.

 

I love painstakingly pouring slowly so as to eliminate all head from my beer, and then perching the glass on the edge of my counter-top and slurping the first couple sips from the edge of my "pint glasses" so as to avoid spillage. Alternatively, I hold the "pint glass" above my head and have a friend pour the beer normally. I then look up and open my mouth and hope that the cascading beer doesn't get all over my clothes and floor.

 

Actually consumers get screwed on price per oz in smaller vessels than 12 oz ad the larger ones. Agree with otheres, 12oz format is best priced for consumer and best size for most all drinking options. Get a 18% D'Extra or WWS from Dogfishhead? You can either drink one yourself and get a little buzz and be done, or share it with 1-2 others fine as well. Drinking 5% pilsner? You can have 1 and still go out and do stuff, or slug down several if needed.

12oz rules for the consumer. All other formats are pretty much just for marketing and profit maximizing.

 

If it's actually priced by brewer material cost. Considering that should be true for 22 oz bottles, but instead consumers see "market pricing" that is higher per ounce.

 

"12oz rules for the consumer. All other formats are pretty much just for marketing and profit maximizing."

 

Except the so-called "Shaker" or "Mixer" pint glass was not designed to be a beer drinking vessel, but a bar mixing glass. As such, it does not have adequate "head space" for a US beer pour of 16 ounce plus a standard (and desirable) ½"-1" collar - which any true beer glass should have.

The shaker pint contains one pint only if the liquid is right to lip. Measure 1 inch down (leaving room for the head) and that's the 12 ounce mark.

 

For most beers I'd say the 16oz cans are ideal. But I do like the idea of a smaller bottle for really boozy beers. 8oz or .25L sounds about right. 120 Minute IPA is excellent, but one 12 oz bottle and your DONE.

 

Buy more European imports!

 

I think that my dislike the way we measure items is not a good enough reason to uproot my family from a place I've lived for 40 years. Your statement screams of the "love it or leave it" mentality. I think I'll stay and just every once in a while have a difference of opinion on how we do things in this great country. By the way I was reciting god bless America through this entire post. I only wish I had typed slower.

And to answer your question about why the metric system is better, it's just that it makes more sense.

 

36D cup

 

But, it's FRENCH!

 

I'm with the 12 oz. bottle/can crowd.

 

The 12 ounce is my go to,fills my glass,keeps the fridge tidy, and when it comes down to it fits my hand like a glove for a weapon.

In my dreams the perfect container involves plumes of diesel and a cool handle like the Beer Bandit. I always wake up before figure out how to cold store my tanker of Brew

 

"Obviously better" because "it's just that it makes more sense". That doesn't make much sense. not a very educated answer. That's about equal to the "It just is" or "That's how we've always done it" or "Because I say so" type answers.

 

"Lake, Big Lake"