best way to serve a beer is with a small glass, about 8 ounces. you can pour a little beer — drink a bit — and pour some more. i find it so satisfying (yes this happened at dinner tonight)
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That was the standard way to serve bottled beer 60 years ago. My aunt explained that the bottle kept it cold, so just pour a half glass into the 8oz size.
(Also, a shout-out to Falk in “The In-Laws”, which highlights another strength: Establishing chemistry with other actors. Falk and Arkin play off each other so well.
There's this bar I used to go to back in my drinking days. they had 55 cent beer happy hour, and served 8 oz draft beers for 55 cents. they also had spaghetti for like 2 bucks. you could get a decent buzz and a decent dinner for like 5 bucks. good times.
Cassavettes was an enormously talented film maker. Peter Falk was always an under appreciated actor in my view. But his Cassavettes knew his capabilities. They were both amazing. I miss them both.
I hear you Jamelle. As I've gotten older, I find I only drink about 10 oz and desperarely wished craft beers came in mini cans, like some pop. Corona has mini bottles but I'm not a huge fan of Corona.
I’ve been doing this at my local sushi joint when I order a large Sapporo, simply because it’s what they give me. You’re right there’s something very nice and refreshing about it.
Yup. Nothing worse than the last sip of a big mug of beer. One of the most legendary beer drinkers I met would pour into a small glass; less bubbles drank so less burping and more room for beer.
That reminds me of beer at brown pubs in Amsterdam.
I have a thing for small regular shape glasses of house red at Italian restaurants. Feels like I'm in the Godfather.
This is how beer and most other alcohol (except for tsipouro and related drinks, those are in double shot glasses) is served at old-school restaurants and also at home in Greece. It’s the ideal way to do it.
this is especially good in Japan, where I am refilling your glass and you are refilling mine. smaller glass means we get to express care for each other more often in this small, ritual way
A 7oz bottled Corona from the refrigerator, in the freezer for 25 minutes
There will be ice crystals starting to form
Depending the ice may form after opening or after a few drops of lime are added
It will be the coldest possible beer
A beer slushy :D
This is the "American Glass", a traditional 6.5 ounces glass common in every bar in Brazil. It's called American because the Brazilian factory imported its machinery from the US, but it is based on a Soviet design by Vera Mukhina.
That's how they used to serve Newcastle Brown in the bars up in Newcastle upon Tyne.
They'd give you the opened bottle and a small glass.
And in those days, they wouldn't serve you at all if you had a woman with you. The pair of you would need to adjourn to a walled off section called The Snug.
For me it depends on the beer. Some are better right from the bottle. For cans, I prefer a pour, but again it depends on the beer. Shitty american mass-market... Yeah, I just don't.
Plus beer glasses are little pieces of art. An inexpensive way to collect. Each logo tells a tale. While you’re at it. Look up Tactical Nuclear Penguin for a great beer story.
Ha! My grandmother, who was born in 1900 and grew up behind a bar for German immigrants (her father was the owner), always drank her beer this way. Thanks for the memory.
That's a good way, but I prefer a 16-ounce glass into which you can pour the entire can/bottle at once. That's especially true with the darker beers: I find looking at the big foamy head so satisfying.
Heineken in Amsterdam - special small glass (maybe 6oz) that takes just enough time to drink while the light hop fragrance persists. Changed the way I thought about beer and Heineken specifically (that it must be drunk in Amsterdam)
Australians do it right, they have four sizes bc in the outback it gets so hot you can’t keep a beer cold for long. They have (I believe) 8 oz “pots” and they rule
Called something different and sized slightly different in every state! Which I never realised until I moved state. My favourite is Tasmania’s rather quaint “ten-ounce”
Back in the 90s (at least in Detroit), most places would set a juice glass next to your longneck. Not trying to make you feel old (because I sure as hell am), but we called that an "old-timer beer."
And it was fine.
John (the owner) went through so many cases of Carling's longnecks until the distributor ran out. Then he had to switch to double-deuces of Black Label for $4.99.
The regulars eventually drank the distributor out of them, too.
If knowing your way around cheap beer is a virtue, I'm so going to heaven
There was an old tavern between Rapids & Point that sold those with Point beer for 10 cents back in the day. Owner was quite blind & you could flash any ID & he’d believe you were of age 😂
There also was a place in Detroit where the owner, again, was blind as a bat. He kept us on the honor system, though, and our Jesuit educations forbid us from robbing him ... which was easy to rationalize because a round cost, like, $3.50.
I went to a wedding in Youngstown, Ohio, about 30 years ago and the only beer at the bar at the rental hall were little squatty Miller High Lifes. It was cute as could be ... and we damned near drank them out of them.
Damnit Jamelle yes sometimes a beer only deserves 8oz but NO NO NO you go to a beer bar & befriend the bartender and then get a 12oz pour of the 8oz beer AND THEN you get a reasonable ABV 16oz and THEN you get another 12oz of something different AND then you get another 16oz Pilsner AND THEN YOU GET
I do same with wine. Just a small splash at a time. Means I drink less. Can always have more but don't feel obliged to finish the glass as its less of a waste.
You would LOVE drinking pots in the outback. You leave your change on the bar and get your little glass refilled as soon as it's empty, the bar staff taking just the right amount from the change each time. They are responsible for that, you are responsible for having a good time.
Same principle applies to spirits. A glass for whiskey that maxes out at 1 or 1.5 oz that you can load up partway and add a touch of water is the ideal manner to force moderation on an innately immoderate drink.
Same principle applies to spirits. A glass for whiskey that maxes out at 1 or 1.5 oz that you can load up partway and add a touch of water is the ideal manner to force moderation on an innately immoderate drink.
One of my favorite surprises about living in Portugal is all the teensy (6oz) beer bottles everywhere. Still cold and fizzy, right to the last drop. And waaaay more ergonomic to hurl in a bar fight...
whenever I go to microbreweries I buy their branded "sampler" glassware. Usually 4-6oz in size, they're the perfect vessel for enjoying beer.
Downside, I have at least 50 of them in my cupboard 🤣
this doesn’t seem right. those shorty 8oz glasses are a nightmare for filling without getting mostly foam - weren’t designed for beer. pouring out of a growler? forget about it. now you have 3oz in an 8oz glass and you’re left feeling like a lush every time you take a sip and ask for a refill.
Same. I like beer cold and dislike warm dregs at the bottom of a pint. So I use a small glass, pour half, and stick the rest in the fridge for a cold refill.
When I visit my in-laws in China I have a lunch with my brother in law and some of the friends he has known since kindergarten. This his how we consume mass quantities of beer and baijiu.
I learned this on a visit to Hugo Chavez era Venezuela - we would get served little teeny bottles of Polar, which would not get warm in the Carribean heat. 🍻
The Chinese way to drink beer is to get a really big bottle of weak beer and a like 4 oz glass so you can constantly cheers as a table. I think it’s delightful.
I’m not doing that at the table with my uncle-in-law. He get his baijiu direct from a factory in Sichuan and brings it everywhere in a liter Nongfu Spring bottle!
If you want to try different beers, especially the fancier ones with higher abv, that is just the correct way to go. And if you’re having a normal beer , 8 oz hurts nothing! Go 8 oz
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Later, when I saw his work with Cassavetes, I realized I had been watching a God-tier actor at work.
(And this is from someone who's never smoked and rarely drinks these days)
Where?!?!
Gimme that mineral beer!
Thats a gassy uncomfortable drink
Pour it in an oversized glass and achieve a massive head of total foam to remove the gas then enjoy
Colder the better
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I have a thing for small regular shape glasses of house red at Italian restaurants. Feels like I'm in the Godfather.
There will be ice crystals starting to form
Depending the ice may form after opening or after a few drops of lime are added
It will be the coldest possible beer
A beer slushy :D
They'd give you the opened bottle and a small glass.
And in those days, they wouldn't serve you at all if you had a woman with you. The pair of you would need to adjourn to a walled off section called The Snug.
Of course, I kind of inhale it. 😂
And it was fine.
You always got a juice glass.
The regulars eventually drank the distributor out of them, too.
If knowing your way around cheap beer is a virtue, I'm so going to heaven
Everybody won.
Pilsner in a Pilsner.
Chamay in a broad stemmed glass.
A stout in a pint glass.
Or a mason jar.
you have to sort of squeak it. PFIFF!
A small draft beer you can drink before it gets hot.
Downside, I have at least 50 of them in my cupboard 🤣
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Small glasses are ideal!