Davwingman
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I very seldom drink beer, but if someone offers one it doesn't matter too much what kinda container it is in.
Beer: Bottles or cans?
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I voted Bottles... But then again.. I drink Scotch.. 
Hmmmm Scotch in a can..... intriguing..
Hmmmm Scotch in a can..... intriguing..
tripledipper
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Nothing like draft but bottles over cans. I like to pour it into a frozen mug anyway.
OK Hog Shooter
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I agree with Harrison... and furthermore - most microbrews only come in bottles... the darker the better - the beer, not the bottles!
cass
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The only time I drink beer is on the deer lease. We have a camp rule of no glass bottles, so it's cans or plastic. Doesn't matter, around a campfire, kerosene would taste good.
rburg
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Free is good.
I belong to a club that owns a gravel pit. We have a no glass bottles rule, and its a good one. I hate cut tires, especially my own. Worse is kids with cut feet. If there are enough bottles around, one or more eventually ends up on the ground, in pieces.
A friend's wife used to manage a big liquor store. Long ago, and we're talking mid 1980s or so, some wine salesman wanted to put some samples of wine in the store. They were free to her, so it wasn't a big problem. But the wine came in cans! Yep, little suckers, like the 8 ounce cokes, ginger ale, etc. (by the way, Diet Bud/Bud Light comes in mini cans, too.) When she had them on display for months and no one bought them, the woman instantly thought of me and her husband and gave them to us. That's how we solved the lack of wine in the gravel pit. We had a bucket of chicken, we drank white wine out of cans. We were cooking burgers, we drank red wine. There were even a few 4 packs of pink wine. Hey, it was alcoholic and a beverage.
With beer, cold is good. In the hot summer, cold is really good. And really cold is even better. Cans seem to get icy faster (but how would I know, not bothering with glass.) One of the tricks of life was my "experimental" beer. When many heard the term, they kind of got shy. In fact, the folks who'd been exposed to our other antics in the past ran an hid at the idea of us experimenting with anything. But it was a simple experiment. We just dumped several times as much beer (cans) in the oversize cooler as common sense would dictate. Then we dumped in a few big bags of ice. Picture one of the giant size Igloo's. Then with it already in the back of the jeep (you can't lift that much weight) I'd head over to the winters salt supply. Those of you in places where its hot all year need to understand ice forms in winter. We use salt to melt it.
It only takes a few big double handfuls to start the experimental process. Salt on top of the ice allows more ice to be dumped in, too. Then it was off for the 30 minute drive to the gravel pit in August. Think heat, like 95-100 degrees with the humidity in the same range. You can tell when a brewski is ready to be consumed. Your had sticks/freezes to it.
Another way to test it is you pull the tab and ice forms. Kind of like a beer slushy. When you get brain freeze in the first drink, its right.
I belong to a club that owns a gravel pit. We have a no glass bottles rule, and its a good one. I hate cut tires, especially my own. Worse is kids with cut feet. If there are enough bottles around, one or more eventually ends up on the ground, in pieces.
A friend's wife used to manage a big liquor store. Long ago, and we're talking mid 1980s or so, some wine salesman wanted to put some samples of wine in the store. They were free to her, so it wasn't a big problem. But the wine came in cans! Yep, little suckers, like the 8 ounce cokes, ginger ale, etc. (by the way, Diet Bud/Bud Light comes in mini cans, too.) When she had them on display for months and no one bought them, the woman instantly thought of me and her husband and gave them to us. That's how we solved the lack of wine in the gravel pit. We had a bucket of chicken, we drank white wine out of cans. We were cooking burgers, we drank red wine. There were even a few 4 packs of pink wine. Hey, it was alcoholic and a beverage.
With beer, cold is good. In the hot summer, cold is really good. And really cold is even better. Cans seem to get icy faster (but how would I know, not bothering with glass.) One of the tricks of life was my "experimental" beer. When many heard the term, they kind of got shy. In fact, the folks who'd been exposed to our other antics in the past ran an hid at the idea of us experimenting with anything. But it was a simple experiment. We just dumped several times as much beer (cans) in the oversize cooler as common sense would dictate. Then we dumped in a few big bags of ice. Picture one of the giant size Igloo's. Then with it already in the back of the jeep (you can't lift that much weight) I'd head over to the winters salt supply. Those of you in places where its hot all year need to understand ice forms in winter. We use salt to melt it.
It only takes a few big double handfuls to start the experimental process. Salt on top of the ice allows more ice to be dumped in, too. Then it was off for the 30 minute drive to the gravel pit in August. Think heat, like 95-100 degrees with the humidity in the same range. You can tell when a brewski is ready to be consumed. Your had sticks/freezes to it.
Another way to test it is you pull the tab and ice forms. Kind of like a beer slushy. When you get brain freeze in the first drink, its right.steveno
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thankfully you can only get draft beer at Oktoberfest. bottles if draft isn't available then bottles. never cans
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JcMack
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So far 58 to 17 pro bottle, butt: 75 votes only 31 posts. Could be ghost voting from Illinois, or hanging chads, or...underage drinkers. I may demand a recount depending on congressional inquiry. 
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Canned beer is a tool of the devil!
arch stanton
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I don't always drink beer but when I do...
It usually Shiner Bock out of a frosty mug.
It usually Shiner Bock out of a frosty mug.
bobelk99
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True for indoors, but any container will do when active outdoors. (Something better than nothing
)dragonslayer808
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when plinkin, cans can be reused, but bottles make a much more impressive hit.
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Given the option I think glass bottle is the best idea for any beverage. Well, glass jars have their place but that's a different beverage. Plastic lined cans can give off a chemical taste that can alter the flavor. You get used to the flavor of Coke and everything in a plastic bottle and then find one with a glass bottle and it's like a sudden explosion of proper flavor. I feel the same about most beer. When I'm being cheap or don't want glass for some reason then I keep mugs in the freezer and pour from the can to the mug. But cheap beer isn't a stellar flavor to start with. So when I want a good beer that I want to actually enjoy and not just sit around with friends drinking something I could really care less about then I stick with bottles. But never travel to anywhere in Europe and drink a few beers. You will be spoiled for life. Even the Budweiser we ship there is better tasting than our own. The Stella or Warsteiner here shouldn't even have the same label. I may be spoiled but if you taste it from where it was invented then you may become spoiled as well. But in the basic war over bottle vs. can I vote bottle.
