drinking a beer over multiple nights with a wine stopper - odd question

Quit enabling this BA, if you can't drink a bottle of beer then you need to turn in your man card, period.

 

Has anyone ever tried these:

http://www.amazon.com/Beer-Saver-Reusable-Silicone-Bottle/dp/B00467QN54/ref=pd_sim_sbs_k_1

Just curious. I've used wine stoppers to drink a larger bottle over a couple days. I've even used a rubber band and plastic wrap to save a beer. Both seem to save enough to the carbonation to keep the experience enjoyable.

 

Those look just a viable as a rubber band and plastic wrap. I'm surprised more people don't break out the wing-capper and just recap.

 

I typically drink my bottles over 2-3 nights using a wine stopper. I agree that I prefer most high alcohol beers after 1-2 days. By the third day it has usually lost too much carbonation, but alcohol is always less pronounced. I always attributed this to some alcohol 'blowing off' because of evaporation while the bottle was open or into the head space of the closed bottle.
I have never felt that oxidation played a negative role over 2-3 days.

 

That's not true. I've been to plenty of wineries where they run their red's through the aerator rather than having it sit in a decanter when they are opening lots of bottles constantly.

However, I don't think they would help beer a ton. There would be some loss in carbonation by using it. Also, I don't find aeration to be nearly as necessary as it is with wine (obviously).

 

Yes, they do it at wineries, but in the vast majority of cases it is for your visual pleasure - not for the wine's benefit

One, might on rare occasion, see a vintner pull a sample of unfinished wine through a length of copper to mitigate reduction, but that's a different story.

 

I do this all the time
And not just with big abv and malt bombs; also sours and even IPAs
You def lose the carbonation fast anf to the experiec eis radically different
the carbonation in a beverage certainly seems to affect the perception of taste in a a general way
I drink lots of carbonate water so ive noticed this with many different flavors.
Some become more pronounced , others apparently lessened to the my palate with waning carbonation
My view of it is..i'll pretty much never drink more alcohol than i want just because it is in front of me (or rare or expensive or my last bottle or what have you...) so if i'm done, a cork or stopper goes in the top and into a fridge goes the bottle.
Some times i pour it pour the next time i want to drink it..(which is not always the next day or even within the same week) Sometimes i drink it and get a different experience.

But "flat" seems to me to be as much of an effect on the experience of what i perceive as flavor and odor as on any tacile sensations. So though i don't think too much of what you might expect to happen chemically with "aging" is occurring i can certainly understand if some beers taste radically different.