[Closed] Drinking beer at home. 🍻

I have quite a few, mostly ones that have been discarded by people on the way back from the pub and I have picked them up.

HAHAH! Sure! Discarded 😀

I kind of like drinking from a bottle - as most of the best nights in my teens and early twenties were spent drinking from bottles.

I used to have friends who would drink ale from the bottle.

Very few beers in cans here, it's mostly bottles (with screw/pop tops, natch). I don't think I've got a pint glass at home. Bottles in a case, straight from the drive-thru bottlo, with a selection of stubby coolers.

Can't stand beers in a glass. Beautifully chilled bottle, then pour it into a room temperature glass? Nah man.

Was in a restaurant the other week and ordered an insanely expensive bottled beer as I thought hey, it's(apparently) a treat, let's enjoy it. I was already nervous that he'd mistreat my beer. Turns out I wasn't wrong.

The dude bought it over and sloshed it into a half glass and plonked it on the table without a hint of 'sensitivity' before I could say anything.

What should have been a full glass of slightly warmed beer in a kids glass at best, was essentially a quarter of flat beer and three quarters of foam.

His apologies didn't bring me a new beer 😐

They do the same with lovely chilled cans of Coke. Man I hate that shit ...and yes, I am fun at parties.. 😅

I have glasses at home, mostly vintage ones but I don't use them. I like the nice 660ml Estrellas etc, prepared in the freezer.

 was essentially a quarter of flat beer and three quarters of foam.

The pourer was doing you a favour unless you like drinking CO2

Always take pint glasses with us when going away. Generally drink beer rather than lager so half a degree's difference in temperature isn't noticeable and doesn't last long enough to be warmed by the glass anyway.

I like a 330ml tin at home. On very rare occasions ,I will have 4!
The decadence.
Never drink from an Ale bottle though , I do have some standards.

For t'ales i have some vintage half pint amber glass mugs.

The lagers tend to stay in the bottle although have a couple of narrow beer mugs.

If its bigger than a half pint it just gets kept cold in the bottle.

We use small glasses that I steal from honest burger branches - lovely little things straight from the freezer and not a big drinker so just right.

First time I put a glass in the freezer my mrs thought I was nuts, now a complete convert and will not accept anything else 🙂

Davenport's!

You wouldn’t drink from the bottle if you saw all the critters and slugs crawling over them in storageno doubt also laden with rat poison, before they are merely rinsed under a tap and served to you *

*At least in my local corner shop.

i drink beer out of a wine glass! i know!

I think pint glasses are only a 'thing' because Pubs in the UK are pretty terrible to beer in. IMO we lead the world in terrible ways to buy booze.

Anyway, I prefer a smaller glass, like the rest of the world.

I've picked this cheeky chap up in a snazzy little Scandinavian boutique I know.

Link

In the summer, if it's very hot I'll pop a few of them in the freezer for a bit, they hold a 330ml Heineken perfectly with enough room for a bit of a head.

Drinking beer at home

Never! Whenever I'm in the UK one of the few pleasures remaining is the trip to the pub. Drinking beer at home just seems sad in comparison.

2 choices here:
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Glasses? It has to be straight out of the can, surely?

I drink beer from either small whisky glasses, 2/3rd schooners or in porcelain tankards - German style <- they have a good thick body so insulate the beer

I make my own beer and pour it from my own taps - I have even set up a narrower gauge piece of beer line inline to restrict flow and increase fobbing. I also carbonate my own beers to the correct Co2 volumes and control the temperature for absorption/serving.

Generally I aim to pour 1/4 beer, 3/4 foam, which will settle to 2/3rds beer, 1/3rd foam/head. I love the smell and taste of the foam, and since it's coming from my own taps I can just go back and get another glass no problem.

I was very impressed with the Czech's beer pouring skills in all their bars. You can even request the amount of foam you want:

The guy in the video (Vaclav) explained it all to me

This is my goto beer glass at the moment. I love it, my wife...not so much 😁
Sorry I don't know how to post images from my phone, but I think this link will work.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/C1QbrEbdxJ7cP8VU6

How about a lager mitt?

Good video YGH, I love a fresh pint of PU in Prague. It would be hysterical to see the landlord at my local put a milk pour in front of one of the regulars and tell him it's for the connoisseurs 😂😂

I take my own mug to the pub for my cup of tea as their mugs are too thick.

A nice stemmed beer glass is yhe way to go, like the europeans do, I bought some good quality chalices a while back and just use those. Pint glasses get used for a big drink of squash.

P-Jay, you were doing well on the beer snob ratings until you went to Heineken as the beer of choice! 😉

I bought some glasses from Northern monk on my last visit, money paid for them supports a local charity so I did genuinely buy them not lift them. They are my current favourites. All my pint glasses are from various years at the Cambridge beer festival, with the occasional exception of a Whitby brewery glass and 2 from Big Mountain in Chamonix.

Prefer a smaller glass, regularly topped up, especially fresh beer from the growler at our local proper beer shop.
Like the sweet shop when you were a kid

I think we only have one pint glass, it gets used for water mostly.

I like smaller / half pint glasses at home. Currently using the ones that came with a flavourly order, which are quite nice.

I used to have friends who would drink ale from the bottle.

The "used to" is quite telling here 😉

My current vessel of choice for a home pint - gets taken camping and various other places as well.

Keeps a nicely chilled beer cool and doesn't warm up a room temp one too quickly

Can’t stand beers in a glass. Beautifully chilled bottle, then pour it into a room temperature glass? Nah man.

I mean.....If you like zero taste and a bloated stomach then that's your choice.

I mean…..If you like zero taste and a bloated stomach then that’s your choice.

I was thinking of how to put it but you nailed it - well done

I like a cooled, stemmed glass, continental stylee. Rarely drink beer from a pint glass at home, the pint glasses are sued for water and squash.

Holland is great for this - the local supermarket near my MIL always has a load of special offer beer packs with 1 or 2 glasses included free. They really nice continental stemmed glasses normally and perfect for a Trappest Tripel!

everything tastes better out of a Duvel glass!

I prefer a stemmed schooner for drinking beer at home. I have a tall wheat beer glass for getting the big fluffy head right on a bottle of wheat beer.

Whenever I’m in the UK one of the few pleasures remaining is the trip to the pub. Drinking beer at home just seems sad in comparison.

You'll have to explain this to me. That lonely bloke sat on the same barstool every night, knows the bar staff by name - not sad? Last time I went into the pub with a lady, we couldn't hear each other cos of all the local young people SHOUTING to each other a the top of their voices. Pleasure?
Drinking beer in front of my own telly is far less sad and infinitely more pleasurable.

P-Jay, you were doing well on the beer snob ratings until you went to Heineken as the beer of choice! 😉

Ha ha, I have a real dislike for snobbery in most things, but food and drink especially.

I drink a couple of Heinies on a Saturday night to get mildly pissed enough to tolerate 'Strictly', if it didn't contain alcohol there's not a chance I'd drink it.

rode around to a cycling buddy's house on Sunday arvo just to talk bike shiz and sample his Timothy Taylor homebrew. He had it all kegged up and pressurised and inside an old fridge with a hole drilled in the top and the hose with tap coming out through the hole.

It was still a bit cloudy but a few pints went down okay. Had a bit of a headache the next day.

On the subject of bottles v glasses I'm a pint-glass man through and through. Can't stand drinking from bottles or even worse from cans.

I used to have friends who would drink ale from the bottle.

The “used to” is quite telling here 😉

Yep, I can't be friends with those that do that to beer. Unless it's lager but that's basically flavoured water with chemicals in it in most cases so doesn't count as beer, so drink it out of anything you like it certainly won't make the taste any worse.

I like to drink bottle conditioned beers so pint pots are essential for pouring in one go (for 500ml bottles). I've probably got 20 or so pint glasses of different shapes/branding. It's also nice, but not essential, to drink certain beers from their own branded glasses, Kwak, Westmalle etc.

Proper pint glass with an handle for me & Mrs Db gets upset if I pour my own beer too, never used to drink at all at home till I met her.... on special occasions I have a musical tankard that plays auld lang syne whilst I sup 😀

To be fair, as lagers go, Heineken is pretty good IMO.

lager but that’s basically flavoured water with chemicals in it in most cases so doesn’t count as beer,

I think we can all agree that Budweiser is nasty, and the light versions of American beers have all the flavor and body of carbonated water. But dismissing all lagers on that basis is like dismissing all ales because Tetley's extra cold smoothflow is like drinking refrigerated vomit with a biscuit aftertaste.

, knows the bar staff by name – not sad? 

100% not sad, knowing someone's name is normal human interaction. You can't help but know my landlords name, if a stranger walks through the door he holds his hand out for a shake and says " my names Martin what can I get you"

You’ll have to explain this to me. That lonely bloke sat on the same barstool every night, knows the bar staff by name – not sad? Last time I went into the pub with a lady, we couldn’t hear each other cos of all the local young people SHOUTING to each other a the top of their voices. Pleasure?
Drinking beer in front of my own telly is far less sad and infinitely more pleasurable.

😂 I was about to post similar. Pubs are fine with friends but the epitome of ‘sad’ when you’re alone.*

I’m happy to lounge on my comfortable sofa, watching, reading or listening to my choice of entertainment, wandering occasionally to the fridge. And not paying a fiver* a pint for some poorly kept local beer that I can get from the local supermarket for a fraction of the pub price.

* Swansea prices!

lager but that’s basically flavoured water with chemicals in it in most cases so doesn’t count as beer,

Are you for real fam?

Ale is for those who do not have the sensitivity of palate to appreciate the nuances of good lagers. A bit like folk who never drink tea, only coffee. They need an overpowering taste to compensate for lack of sensitivity. 😉

Chilling does not destroy the taste, it enhances it. The only way I can stomach that hoppy, malty syrup is if it's nicely chilled.

I like my cold drinks cold and my hot drinks hot. To hell with room temperature drinks!

To be fair, as lagers go, Heineken is pretty good IMO.

TBH I don't pretend to have a very sophisticated palette, but I didn't choose it by luck.

They ran a campaign years ago (akin to what Carlsberg are doing now) admitting, not in so many words, they they sold their brand to one of the big Brewers in the UK, the sort of place that bangs out the UK Fosters, UK Carling etc, it's just 'generic' Lager sold using foreign brand for a bit of 'exclusivity' (although long gone now). I don't have a problem with that, but somewhere about the age of 25 I had my first 'proper' hangover and by 30 they'd render me useless for 24-48 hours.

With a nudge and a wink the claim was by following the German Beer Purity Law, so only using the basic ingredients of beer and no 'chemicals' you'd feel it less in the morning, and for me at least it's sort of true. I can have a few pints of it in the Pub and be fine the next day, my Quarterly binge drink with my mates is tolerable the next day too. If I drink the stuff that comes with preservatives and the like I feel much worse, and will often find myself feeling pretty rough whilst I'm drinking it too, something doesn't agree with me anyway.

I like other stuff too, there's a Rasberry beer that sell in Sainsburys I like one of, and some of the wheat beers too. I've been known to enjoy a small glass of Mutzig before now too.

My cousin and his wife have his and hers drinks cabinets by their bed. She was moaning to me that he was drinking vodka out of a mug. Not fussed about drinking vodka in bed ,fussed about a mug.

Good to see that some people still have standards.

100% not sad, knowing someone’s name is normal human interaction. You can’t help but know my landlords name, if a stranger walks through the door he holds his hand out for a shake and says ” my names Martin what can I get you”

Yeah, cos that was the whole point I was making about the bloke who is in the pub nursing a lonely pint every single day of the week. Course it was.

Ale is for those who do not have the sensitivity of palate to appreciate the nuances of good lagers.

Some of us appreciate both. Chilling right down is guaranteed to kill the flavour though. No bad thing for most commercial lagers...

thisisnotaspoon

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To be fair, as lagers go, Heineken is pretty good IMO.

Just killed any credibility you had. 😆

Well I usually go in with fam or friends, but perfectly happy to go in alone and sit reading tbh; if that's sad then drinking on your sofa doesn't really give much grounds for claiming superiority! But apart from that, why are you going to pubs like this? Are there no good ones left?

Last time I went into the pub with a lady, we couldn’t hear each other cos of all the local young people SHOUTING to each other a the top of their voices. Pleasure?
Drinking beer in front of my own telly is far less sad and infinitely more pleasurable.

And not paying a fiver* a pint for some poorly kept local beer that I can get from the local supermarket for a fraction of the pub price

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It is interesting that the folk who drink from bottles, cans and cold glasses are drinking the worst beers.

Quality beer needs air and some of the gas removed. Look at how the Germans and the Czechs serve beer to see how those varieties should be drunk.

i like beer from a tulip or a snifter. Each to their own, I suppose

i drink beer out of a wine glass! i know!

Me too. A big red wine glass suits Belgian beers admirably.

Half pint glass for Broon though.

You’ll have to explain this to me. That lonely bloke sat on the same barstool every night, knows the bar staff by name – not sad? Last time I went into the pub with a lady, we couldn’t hear each other cos of all the local young people SHOUTING to each other a the top of their voices. Pleasure?
Drinking beer in front of my own telly is far less sad and infinitely more pleasurable.

Depends where.

I love having a pint in the French House or Cafe Boheme in Soho by myself during the early asfternoon because of all the weird and wonderful old world Londoners I get chatting to. I've made two or three good friends this way now, if I had been single I could have gone home with a few good looking women as well.

Don't knock having a cheeky pint or two by yourself in a pub, it's only sad if it's a dead and soulless pub.

I think we can all agree that Budweiser is nasty, and the light versions of American beers have all the flavor and body of carbonated water. But dismissing all lagers on that basis is like dismissing all ales because Tetley’s extra cold smoothflow is like drinking refrigerated vomit with a biscuit aftertaste.

I'll dismiss all the hipster beer that purports to contain hints of fruit & flowers too. The only flowers in beer should be hops

Good lager

No such thing, lager's sole purpose is to cool the mouth whilst eating curry. This has the added advantage that you can't taste the lager that's doing the quenching

The only flowers in beer should be hops

Hops are a newfangled innovation, brought over by the Belgians in the fifteenth century. A traditionalist such as yourself would surely prefer wormwood for flavouring.

Can’t stand beers in a glass. Beautifully chilled bottle, then pour it into a room temperature glass? Nah man.

Chilling kills the flavour, which is why most commercial lagers are served chilled, to cover up the fact that they’re virtually flavourless. A quality lager should be served just like a properly brewed ale, at cellar temperature, cool, not chilled, that way you get to properly appreciate the wide range of flavours available.
As for all the bollocks about fancy stemmed glasses like the continentals drink from, that’s cafe culture, in a bierhaus you’ll be drinking from litre steins!
Myself, I’ve got a bunch of different glasses, mostly sleeves, but a couple of lovely glass tankards, one a Fullers ESB, the other plain, that I actually paid for from the pub, cos they cost £6 a time to replace, most of the rest have been ‘liberated’ from various drinking establishments where they’ve been left perched on walls or on tables, the others are a Pete’s Wicked Ales glass from a retailer, and a Chris King glass from John’s Bikes in Bath.
I enjoyed a nice glass tankard full of Wickwar Brewery’s Falling Star golden ale with my dinner this evening, and exceptionally tasty it was, too, went very well with the veggie stew.
I have no qualms about drinking from the bottle, but it’s very easy to knock a bottle over, my glass tankards are very heavy, with a thick base, not so easy to knock over.
Like this one:

Drinking in the pub by yourself is fine.
As long as, like the beer, it's the right pub.

I'm liking ones with newspapers, no phone signal, dogs and other patrons in on their own but you can get a chat with if you'd like. And a decent beer selection mix of classic Brit beers, some old world Europeans and a couple of newer craft beers

To be fair, as lagers go, Heineken is pretty good IMO.

Many years ago I was switched on to Heineken after visiting and taking part in the factory tour in Amsterdam.  As you go round you collect your little half pint samples, poured and scraped the Dutch way and by god if it wasn’t the freshest cleanest lager I’d ever experienced.  The tour guide explained never to drink canned lager as the process and storage of lager in a can detracts from its quality.

Imported Heineken in bottles is what you need to look for, chill to 4 degrees and then pour as per the video on page 1.

Chilling kills the flavour, which is why most commercial lagers are served chilled, to cover up the fact that they’re virtually flavourless.

Not the case at all.

small cartoon cans are all the rage, took me a while to accept but im a convert. especially the ones from aldi and lidl for a quid!

otherwise i have a Northern Whisper goblet style glass that was from the Hemlshore Beer Festival that i like to use a lot.

there are still half a dozen old pint pots in the cupboard that ive acquired over years tho...

Grandad used to work for the brewery going round the pubs to check how they were doing and make sure everything was in order (food and drink). When I was a kid he always used to tell me to never drink beer out of the bottle as they were likely covered in rat wee/poo down in the cellars and the bottle top could get chipped when the cap is removed.

It's always stuck with me and I think of him whenever I even contemplate drinking out of the bottle.

Even though I will drink wine out of a tumbler (much to the OHs disgust) I do like to enjoy a drink from an "appropriate" glass. I have a stemmed beer glass for nice artisan style beers, a nicely profiled (not pub shape) pint glass for more run of the mill beers, a thatchers stemmed glass for light and sweet ciders and I like to use just a normal straight tumber for normal ciders. If I am drinking with dinner I normally use a smallish tumbler (2/3rd pint size) for a bottled beer. No rigid rules, just drink out of whater feels appropriate as it is part of the whole drinking experience in my mind. And a good head to get the CO2 out is important.

but im a convert. especially the ones from aldi and lidl for a quid!

Aldi and Lidl both do lots of very good quality stuff. Their wine can be excellent. But the little beers are pretty average. IMO of course. 😁

boxelder wrote:
Prefer a smaller glass, regularly topped up, especially fresh beer from the growler at our local proper beer shop.
Like the sweet shop when you were a kid

Ooh, didn't know that existed - and right opposite the brewery as well. Next time I'm up home they're getting a visit...

Local pub to me does this:

3 third of a pint glasses on a board. They usually have 6 ales/stout/lager on at any one time so 2 rounds covers them all, gets you nicely warm inside and covers that awkward time between leaving work and getting home too early meaning you need to help cook...........

Great pub and one I'm very happy to frequent on my own, sad it is not - just look at the name:

https://www.laughingfishisfield.com/

Anyway, this thread has inspired me to order some malt and yeast. ESB brew this weekend, should be ready for Christmas.

Not the case at all.

A bit of a chicken/egg scenario.

Lager's are conditioned in a cold cellar/cave, so naturally would be cold. They also don't (typically) have hops other than for bittering, and the fermentation is supposed to ensure there are few/no byproducts so there's less aroma and taste anyway. So the two go hand in hand.

Last time I went into the pub with a lady, we couldn’t hear each other cos of all the local young people SHOUTING to each other a the top of their voices.

Flat roof was it?

The contents of 440ml cans of Heineken are brewed in the UK. 330ml cans are from Amsterdam.

A bit of a chicken/egg scenario

It's always the egg first.

talking Belgian beers i also have a set of Kwaremont glasses that I like to use.

I was introduced to the beer and the glasses after riding the Flanders sportive. Not only is it on sale everywhere in Oudenaarde grand place but the glass is a classic:

- beer named after one of the famous cobbled climbs: check
- engraving of cyclist riding up a climb on the stem; check
- ABV of beer at 6.6% matches the average gradient of the climb; check
- base of the glass is a cobble design; check
- beer tastes goooood after riding 174km; check

Flat roof was it?

Can't say I noticed the roof, but I'll have a look on google if it's important to you.

[edit] No, it's pitched.
Not sure what reference I've missed, if there was one.

Heineken.... pffft.
Anyhow, I’m drinking some beer at home tonight, just had a 4 kid play date dumped on me. & I have to cook “tea” for three fussy eaters. Aggghhh.

redstripe

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2 choices here:

That’s one choice, with two options.

I have a Kwaremont glass and had never thought about it that closely before, so thank you MTB-idle.