glass? Some in a Bottle? and some in a can?
Actually some tastes like crap from a keg and good poured from a bottle into a can. I am so confused!
…and some taste best in a Captain Kangaroo sippy cup.
Who pours beer from a bottle into a can?
I have never tasted beer from a can that tasted really good. Having said that, beer can taste like crap coming from any of the three containers (keg, bottle or can) if it hasn’t been handled properly, or if it was bad to begin with.
People, people! Beer is to be drunk draft, from a tap, poured by a good looking bartender in a neighborhood bar where, on a Sunday afternoon such as this one, they have a selection of football games playing on the TVs and a selection of deep fried snacks on the menu.
Draft is best, but I’m such a slob, if draft isn’t available, I never drink my beer out of a glass. It seems to work for me.
-Lil
“I have never tasted beer from a can that tasted really good.”
hm
Maybe because you’ve never had it poured into a can from the bottle…
That would explain it.
I just realized though that the Guinness in cans isn’t bad, so I need to retract that part of my post.
Guinness in cans is (the only beer that’s) better than the bottled. I think I need to go to the pub.
No, no, no!! Well, actually yes. I agree with you except for the good-looking bartender part. We’re here for the beer. The bartender should be ancient, warty, and grumpy. They pull the best beers, and they don’t keep you waiting. And if you become a regular at that bar in the eyes of the other staff and customers after say, a few months, then after three years, that old bartender will possibly smile slightly when you come to the bar. That moment means you have truly arrived as a regular. But even as a bar newbie, you’ll be given the best beer in town, right from the start.
Any bar with pretty young things who feel they need to dance constantly behind the bar is worth avoiding, IMHO. I don’t care if you can toss a bottle of vodka behins your back, bounce it off your dick, and catch in in your left nostril. I bet you can’t pull a decent pint.
TLD – Is there beer? Is there football? Is there deep fried heart-attack inducers? Most importantly, is there someone to sit next to and bullshit with, someone who makes you laught but also understands the importance of silence when it’s fourth down and short? (Not sure what the Down Under equivalent is to fourth and short in American football, but I think you take my meaning.)
If yes, then I’ll grant you the superfluity of the bartenders’ sex appeal. If, however, the game is dull and the company duller, having a cute bartender never hurts. But! Most importantly, we are in agreement on the issue of Beer. 
Hmmm. Is a sorta serious answer being looked for?
Some beers are just different brews, such as the guinness already mentioned. The one in the can has a floating widget to dispense the nitrogen necessary to create the right head when poured, so this one attempts to mimic draft guinness. The bottled stuff, while also named guinness is in fact a whole different beer, so obviously it will taste different.
Sunlight affects the flavour of beer. Usually it makes it taste absolutely terrible, but in some beers (some of the Mexican lagers go for this, I believe), a mild case of light-affectedness is actually desired. Anyway, light could affect the taste of bottled beer.
Lines on a kegged beer can go skunky. I’ve had them really skunky on occasion, and the beer was undrinkable. But again, very mild cases could add flavours to the brew. The oft-mentionned guinness, for instance, uses 2% soured beer, sterilised and added to the brew. I have tried this in a homebrewed stout, and it tasted good initially but went bad in a hurry.
Anyway, there’s two cases where the beer is just starting to go bad, but in some cases a little badness might taste either better or just different than the beer normally would. However, if you find that you consistently prefer some brews from certain containers, I’d suspect it more along the lines of the first option, namely that they are actually slightly different recipes brewed for the different packaging options
If kirkdevlin wants a real answer from beer snobs, then he needs to list the beers in question. This will not, of course, improve upon the anwer given by viking. But it will give us the chance to snobbishly discuss his flawed beer choices, which beer snobs like to do.
Wine snobs are a well established bunch, but we beer snobs are just starting to get a foothold in the US. We need snob practice.
I am going to leave the “bottle to can” scenario alone as just odd.
However, the reason that most beers taste better from a glass container than from a metal container is that glass is a more inert substance. Metal reacts with one’s lips and tongue (to say nothing of the beer, itself), to alter the taste of the beer. Plastic, although more inert than metal, still interacts more than glass. Keystone developed a coating on their cans a few years ago to prevent that interaction and tried to sell their beer as tasting as good as from a bottle while only costing as much as a can. (Unfortunaately, Keystone would not have been a wonderful beer even from a bottle or on tap, so removing the can factor had only marginal success.) Guiness is using a similar technology on their cans, in addition to which, they insert a little nitrogen capsule into their cans that goes all foamy when the pressure is released, simulating the draft experience. They have not (yet that I know) begun inserting the same capsule into their bottles.
On the way BoringDad!
I think the reason that we think beer tastes bad in cans is because the beers we associate with cans (BudMilCo) taste bad in bottles and on draft as well ;).
But really…I think it’s the can itself. There’s a bit of disflavoring from the can itself. This may not be obvious with a can of pop since there’s so much sugar that any off-tastes will be easily masked, but with the beer, the metallic taste is going to show up more clearly.
(Personally, my current favorite can beer is Wittekerke; if I could find Rodenbach in cans, it would still be better than 90% of bottles!)
ok, it was supposed to be “bottle to glass” not can. oops.
hmmm, MGD tastes better in a bottle than on draft. but it tastes like crap either way.
Molson Candian import tastes good both in Bottle and on Draft. All Budweiser beers suck ass no matter how they are stored.
Heineken tastes better in bottle than on draft.
I am drawing a blank here…haven’t drank much this year.
Fat tire is better on draft but still good bottled.
All the Deschutes brewery beers are better on draft.
Coors is better on draft.
Rainier is a thousand times better on draft.
Oly sucks ass no matter how you do it.
K, there are about 15 beers I drink and I am drawing a blank on most right now. aaaargh
could be because it is 1245 am. dunno.
Red Stripe tastes alright when its cold but let it start to get a little warm and it has a definite tint of blood.
Thanks, TLD. You made me laugh.
Can you say, “.sig waiting to happen”?