Beer share etiquette

This. Unless someone says take the beer with you, it gets left. It is like the gift for hosting, cooking, organizing, cleanup etc.

 

Dont think theres any etti you own this beer do what u want with it yolo

 

I think it's situational. Mostly, I'm a leave it behind guy. But, if it's something really hard to get, or it's likely I'll never get another bottle/growler, I'll take it for safe keeping, and bring it to the next one.

 

I wouldnt care if it was me. He bought it. Its fine. He doesn't HAVE to share it. Myself, id leave it.

 

I generally push to open what I bring to avoid this. Most of my really good stuff I have one bottle that I traded for. Maybe it's selfish but if it's my only bottle that I can't replace, I want to at least try it. Leaving my only bottle of Huna at some guys house would really suck. I want to share it with friends, not give it away.

Maybe I shouldn't bring it then but I want to share it.

If I'm with people I regularly hang with then it's different. I have a number of good beers at my friend Eric's house that I know he won't open unless I'm there.

 

depends on the bottle and how much i brought to be consumed/how much others brought to be consumed.

 

I would never take back unopened bottles that I brought. I also would not bring an extra nice, special beer unless I was sure that it would be shared. I do not have a problem sharing, but if nobody opens it, I see the point that you might have a dilemma about leaving it..

 

Yeah, no I've had too many beers I've spent time and effort getting get drank without me when I leave them. I bring my own cooler and they come out of my cooler when I open them. When it's time to go, I take my cooler.

 

Anything I bring with me is no longer mine once I hit a share and I'd be fine leaving it behind as a thank you to the host. That being said, my share groups aren't quitters - we leave no beer undrank.

 

We never have anything left.

 

If you brought a cake on a serving platter to a party and no one ate it you would want your platter back even if you leave the cake behind. But in the case of a growler, it's not se easy to separate the two. In that case I think it's incumbent on the host to offer the growler back to the person who brought it. However, I have left serving ware at the party to have it returned to me later sans the food but freshly washed. So, it can be worked out but I think it's the job of the host to make the offer.

In the situation of the op, I think if that's the only beer the person brought to the share he should have offered to leave it. But if had had brought several other brews and they had been consumed I think it's acceptable for him to have claimed his unopened beer. But I also think it's whatever is the norm for your group. So, my answer is really a non answer, lol.

 

Make it a point to drink their beer first in the next share?

 

Eloquently put. You're like some modern day beer poet.

 

The responses here kinda surprise me... almost every share I've been to in various states, people take their unopened beer home with them.

 

I have a regular group I share with and if bottles do not get consumed they just carry over to the next share. It works out pretty well.

 

With some of you I'd just have you bring good beers over and delay all night so you'd leave and I could keep your beers since that would be stingy and selfish if you took your beer(s) home.................

 

I've only been to a few shares and we've opened everything I brought. I bring mine in a cooler, so if we didn't drink it all, I'd probably just grab my cooler and go.

The thing is, like I said earlier, I save all my best stuff to share, so when I take it to a bottle share I'm really itching to open it up.

 

Based on the responses here, I going to require that everyone bring at least ten bottles to the next share that I host.

 

Maybe he was offended that his beer wasn't good enough for your share

 

I think it is situational, and the guy at least said something so if you wanted him not to you could have replied.

A lot of things depend on your relationship with the people you are sharing with and the understanding you all have.