Serving Sizes and High ABV Beers

I never ever have more than 2 beers if I'm out, doesn't matter if it's Miller Lite, or an IPA. I don't see many brews much over 7% on tap here, but if I do have a big beer say over 9 it's only one if I'm driving.

 

That would be awesome though. Its an incredible beer. I think you'd be ok if that was your only beer for the day, but if you were already buzzing and than had one I agree it could be bad.

 

I got a 16.5% Odell Ignorance is Bliss served to me in a 8oz pour the other day. It was just the right amount.

 

Drives me crazy when bars offer certain beers ONLY in 10-, 8-, and even 5-oz. glasses!

 

For me, it's all win. Sure it can be pretty irresponsible and dangerous to be over pouring big beers, but it's not my concern. Usually the over pours are a one-time mistake, new bartender, or new beer. I love a deal. $2.5 for a pint of stuff like FBS and Double Jack = me happy. Now I do prefer really big beer in small servings. But again, I have no qualms with larger servings, you could always ask for a half pour. I've on numerous occasions asked for a half pour for stuff like BCBS on tap in 12oz pours. Not once have I been denied a half pour and the pricing usually works out better than if they priced it originally to a 10oz pour or less.

The only time I was like "woosah..." was when a bar had a Bruery tap event with a bunch of high gravity stuff (like BT and variants) and were doing 12oz pours and it started at 11:00am. That seemed like an accident waiting to happen, but I convinced the bartender to allow us half pours on everything (they don't normally).

 

You can get pitchers of lots of big beers and those are 48 to 60 ozs that seems more reckless to me.

 

It is completely the bartenders first, and then the management is second, and the owner is next.
Serving alcohol is just like prescribing medicine, and can be just as dangerous.

I am implicating the bartenders first because they are the ones that are working for the tip. They think they're cool, and that nobody's watching, and that they can get away with anything. What is happening is their favorite customers end up getting DUIs or worse.

 

It's because those kegs are more affordable and therefore the establishment can sell $5 pints while still making a profit.

 

This is fine, but if your wife/kid/friend is killed by some fuckwit who didn't take that responsibility, wouldn't you kinda wish maybe someone else had been given some responsibility—even if by mandate of the big evil gubmint? Not to get too bleeding heart liberal here, but the presumption that people can and will behave responsibly given the freedom is... optimistic, to put it kindly. I'm not suggesting some glass-size-measuring Gestapo, but maybe something that acknowledges that good decision-making and alcohol have a bit of an oil-and-water relationship.

 

That is only correct for tap rooms operated by breweries rather than bars in general.

 

In Ca, there is no law regarding serving size. I work for a distributor and one time we got 4 ounce cans for samples but we were not allowed to serve them in Ca, I don't know why, but we returned them to the brewery. California must have a law regarding free samples as these cans were brought into our warehouse for that purpose.

 

Hey, I was just going to ask a similar question.... for other beer apps, like ones that start with untap##, do you check in according to what would be an appropriate serving size in a bar? So If I crack a bomber of something with a high ABV, I'll check that in twice, as the normal bar pour would be 10 oz. For a grunt, I'd check it in three times. Likewise if it is something that is normally available in 16 or 20 oz pours, I do the math....once for a bomber, twice for a grunt. Just wondering....and probably overthinking....

 

I rarely check in a beer on Untappd more than once, unless it's a different vintage of a seasonal or special release beer, so serving size doesn't really matter to me in that regard.

 

Since I have a plethora of local breweries (18) I like to keep track of who my faves are....

 

I had a local brew pub serve me a Maibock last year in a ten oz tulip. That's not right, they justified it because of the higher abv. I don't go there often, they are always pulling some bs like that.