Bottled V canned Beer

[User169]

One of God's greatest creations is a bottle of Timothy Taylor Landlord, closely followed by an Orval. Bottles. I'm a bottled ale man.

Unless the offy's doing 6 cans of Zywiec for a fiver.

Good choice!

 

[Bromptonaut]

All things being equal prefer bottled. Side by side blind testing with Pelforth Blonde (camping holiday) detected a definite metallic edge to the canned product.

OTOH I have a can of Parkins Special (Sainsbury) open at the moment anf it tastes excellent. Cannot stand widget products; if I'm on canned Guinness it has to be the original.

 

[toekneep]

Bottled, poured quickly to get rid of the gas. Ignore all those people saying, "Ooh you've made a right mess of that haven't you?"

 

[Saddle bum]

The stuff that comes out of cans is not beer but some acid inducing puke.

Bottle conditioned beer is pretty good, but only when draught is not available.

Never seen bottled mild...........

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Cannot stand widget products; if I'm on canned Guinness it has to be the original.

Yes, widgets seem to have the sole purpose of extracting all the flavour and character and replacing it with nitrogen. "Draught beer in a can", my arse.

 

[slowmotion]

pression anybody?

Bottled beers are a complete rip-off. Cans weigh nothing, and offer better value, but may contain utter kidney irrigation.

 

[Globalti]

pression anybody?

Bottled beers are a complete rip-off. Cans weigh nothing, and offer better value, but may contain utter kidney irrigation.

Not at all a rip-off. My local Booths has bottles at around £1.50 a pint and every week there's something on promotion at £1.00 a pint. Mrs Gti is trained now to check first the price, then the OG then the description, looking out for session beers at around 3.8 with any description like golden, hopped, light, fresh, and so on.

Even the cask beer in some of our local micro-brewery pubs has exceeded £1.50 a pint now - and Joseph Holts bitter must be up at around £1.65 a pint, I guess, though I haven't drunk it for a while.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Never seen bottled mild...........

The wonderful Hook Norton Brewery used to produce a bottled mild (small bottles) - lovely stuff too, shame when they stopped making it.

 

[Debian]

Bottles win for me.

Always tastes better

Depends if you mean beer or lager.

If it's beer then it has to be bottled, tinned beer just tastes nasty whether drunk out of the can or poured into a glass.

If it's lager then either, because it tastes just as nasty either way.

As for the American tat - I'd rather drink water.

 

[toekneep]

Not at all a rip-off. My local Booths has bottles at around £1.50 a pint and every week there's something on promotion at £1.00 a pint. Mrs Gti is trained now to check first the price, then the OG then the description, looking out for session beers at around 3.8 with any description like golden, hopped, light, fresh, and so on.

Even the cask beer in some of our local micro-brewery pubs has exceeded £1.50 a pint now - and Joseph Holts bitter must be up at around £1.65 a pint, I guess, though I haven't drunk it for a while.

Globalti, please tell us where you drink. £1.50 a pint! I remember those days but a long time ago. I can't get a decent pint if real ale around here for less than £2 a pint in a club or more like £2.50 in the pubs.

Agree about Booths, fantastic choice and some real bargains when they do the £1 bottles. We don't generally shop there but always pop in and scan the beers when in the vicinity.

 

[Globalti]

I was thinking of the Porters' pubs - the Griffin in Haslingden is where they brew the beer and the last time I was there, about 5 years ago, it was about £1.40. How much is a pint of Joey Holts now?

Here: http://www.eastlancscamra.org.uk/files/breweries_porter.php

 

[threebikesmcginty]

As for the American tat - I'd rather drink water.

Don't be too dismissive, there's some fine American micro-breweries.
I know that for a fact!

 

[Lizban]

I always thought ale tasted better from bottle than a can. However a mate said I was made and we blind tasted 5 beers tin v bottle (that was our excuse) and 5/5 the can won.

I was shocked for example try Bomabardier in a can poured into a glass and I promise it's better than the bottle

This coming from a die hard bottle lover as well

 

[Saddle bum]

Don't be too dismissive, there's some fine American micro-breweries.
I know that for a fact!

True, but not widely available over here.

 

[darkstar]

I don't care tnh as long as it's cold and poured into a decent glass.