This is just in general, but if you guys want additional polls regarding specific beers, I can do that too
Bottles for anything over 12 oz. They are easily resealable if I don't drink the whole thing. I do buy 12 oz cans because some of my everyday beers come that way, and that's my standard dose. But I'd prefer bottles if available.
Great idea! I actually conducted this poll over a year ago, and while cans were still in the lead, the results were considerably different from what they were in this thread. I myself have always preferred bottles, but it seems like more and more brewers are leaning towards the can.
Oh, oh! Do "Kids (and/or) Dogs at Breweries" and "Tipping" next! Everybody loves nostalgic Golden Oldies thread topics.
In the late '70s, when my grandmother lived in this senior citizen high-rise in a small NYS city (I guess it was "assisted living"? Everyone kept their doors open and it made it feel like one of those cinder block dorms in a big state college), she wanted cans, because they made less noise going down her floor's garbage chute. I was running a small general store nearby, with a very limited beer selection (I did carry Genesee 12 Horse Ale, Ballantine Ale and Matt's Premium in returnable bottles but I was the only one who bought them) and the only cans I carried, for one specific customer, was Pabst Blue Ribbon, which the locals called Blue, as in "Gimme a sixpack o' Blue." In bottles, it was my best selling beer. The first time someone asked me for "Blue" I figured they meant Genesee Beer, which was local-ish and came in blue wrap-around sixpack packaging. So Granny got Pabst Blue Ribbon when I visited.
If I'm not pouring the beer into a glass I like drinking from bottles rather than cans. SNPA is a good example.
Seven-ounce refillable brown glass bottles for everything, no exceptions. #It'sTime. And those aluminum bottles can suck it. Stupidest damn thing I've ever seen.
Generally speaking I drink beer from a glass but yesterday I enjoyed drinking Heady Topper as per the brewery owners suggestion: "DRINK FROM THE CAN". An advantage of cans over bottles as regards direct drinking is that some aroma escapes from the can opening during the sipping/drinking process. Cheers!
For me, it's more of nostalgia thing. When you're having a shifty while cleaning up, at a party or bbq, or doing yardwork, you're more likely to be drinking directly from a can than a bottle.
I voted bottles because I do tend to amass a large quantity of high ABV beers and sometimes I want to stopper 'em up to finish later. These aren't every day drinkers. For the every day and lower ABV stuff, I'd prefer the 12 ounce format in either can or bottle.
On one end I don't think I have a preference and it really is just dictated by what the beer I want is available in. Lately more of the beers in my fridge are bottles, but that is entirely because that is what they come in for six pack format. On the other hand I feel like I've come to enjoy bottles more because I find them more satisfying to pour. I think this is purely an aesthetic thing for me as I'm just as happy with my can pours as I am with my bottle pours, just feels nicer to pour from glass. I don't think that aesthetic satisfaction warrants me to have a true preference though, so I didn't vote.
I used to collect beer bottles (I had 4000), so strongly favored bottles, but the industry has strongly moved to cans. My wife insisted I get rid of the collection, so I’m now more neutral. I thought it was a done deal.
Both, because either way it's going into a glass 99% of the time although as someone else said, if it's a high ABV/barrel-aged stout/barley/strong/etc. I'd prefer it in was bottled. What, no keg choice? And speaking of nostalgia (and not for the first mentioned time), anybody else remember that early 1960's cartoon commercial with the marching can, bottle and keg & the slogan: "BLATZ! In cans, bottles and kegs!" ?
