You're not a beer geek unless...

So, 16 oz., 500ml., quart bottles and 40's are all "bombers" under this definition? I think the majority of people mean only 22 oz. bottles when they use the term "bomber" - most would probably expand the definition to Sierra Nevada's 24's - but that's about it.

Also, "growlers" themselves can be any size - while 64oz./2l are the most common, 1 gallon and 1 qt./1 liter are sold as well. (Seems I've read of some places filling 16 oz. flip-tops for high abv beers, too.)

 

Bombers to me are anything between 500 mls and 750 mls. They are not "anything over 12oz" Growlers are any to-go container for beer. I've seen them from 16 oz. to 64-68 oz.

You're not a beer geek unless you know the proper terminology for bottles.

 

You're not a beer geek unless you know the proper terminology for bottles.

Since when does "to me" equate proper terminology?

I have done research. Bomber is for 22 ounce bottles, an American term, also the American standard large format bottle once upon a time.

 

You're not a beer geek unless you get a text and multiple calls from Alewatcher at 7:45 in the morning telling you to get your ass up and go to Three Floyds to get DLD tickets because they tweeted they had a couple hundred for sale.

 

You walk in your favorite bottle shop and the beer guy walks up to you and immediately starts telling you what is new and before you can speak lets you know that he still hasn't heard anything about when Hoptimum will hit the shelves.

BTW there is a collaboration between Mikkeler and Three Floyds that will hit the shelves here in Oklahoma next week, and seeing as we don't get FFF, I am excited about this release.

 

Beer geekdom is achieved when you are known by name in all the liquor stores....

 

I agree that bombers are 22 oz. I'm willing to forgive a description of a bomber as any size between, but not including, 500 mL and 750 mL (which I don't recall ever seeing, but would be visually indistinguishable).

 

22 oz. bottles were used by some brewers on the West Coast in the 30's and 40's, but saying they were "standard large format bottle" is a bit of a stretch. The quart bottle was long the dominant large bottle (even being used by the breweries that did 22's) from the late 1930's to, at least, the 1980's or so. I'd say that the majority of breweries once put at least some of their beers in quarts at some point. (I suppose one could make a case that quarts themselves were eventually supplanted by 40's).

For that matter, the 16 oz. (aka "half quart") bottles and cans that began becoming popular in the late 40's and early '50's, were marketed by breweries as containing "two glasses of beer" so they, too, could be considered "large format" or at least larger than a single serving at the time.

You've never seen 750 ml bottles? Dozens of craft brewers use them- they're champagne-bottle shaped, closed with crowns or corked and caged.

The imported version of a 22 oz. bomber is (or was) the 650 ml. (650 ml. = 21.98oz). A number of imports came in that size bottle starting in the '70-'80's (IIRC) and were usually labeled as 21 oz. when sold in the US. Some Australian imports in "select" style bottles (think- Anchor's), and Japanese and German beers in long necks similar to US 22's of today. Beck's even used the term "Bomber" on their label and ads, circa late 80's.

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750ml bottles are also often labeled 1 pint 9.4 ounces.

 

There was a singer named after the Beer Hunter?

 

Hops and cannabis are both in the Cannabaceae family, but I wouldn't recommend this

 

Uh, no. A US quart is 32 ounces. 750ml is 25.4 oz.

I was referring to your statement that "Bomber is for 22 ounce bottles, an American term, also the American standard large format bottle once upon a time." Granted, "once upon a time" isn't too specific, but it implies something other than currently. I agree that today for craft breweries it is the standard large format bottle.

The quart beer bottle's heyday was pretty much the 1940's and after. They were promoted heavily by the breweries during WWII because they used less metal (crowns) and obviously fewer bottles to return and clean (less labor, energy, fuel, etc). They lasted well into the 1980's and are still around from some breweries today (I know Yuengling still uses them, and I guess AB and MC in some markets?). Nothing particularly "underground" about them.

 

too many posts in between, In Western Europe, the big 750s are referred to as quarts.

I said technical, NOT the word I meant there.

 

My guess is that she meant that a 750 is a fifth, which is pretty close to 750 mL.

 

Yea I know I read about it. Hops are from the same family but wouldn't get you high.

 

you wife mentions mirror mirror this weekend. you get momentarily excited thinking about the barleywine, and then sadly realize she meant a movie

 

Bumping this one back up...

You've taken price per oz into consideration when shopping for beer.

 

Too True! I do that all the time