Do you usually drink bottles of beer when at a bar or do you drink pints on draught?

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1. When I’m at the bar I prefer a pint of beer on draft, if the particular beer I want only comes in bottles sometimes they have chilled glasses I can pour it into, if not bottle it is.

2. Completely depends on the beer.

   If the beer I want isn’t on draft, I’ll get a bottle.

3. Most bars will have a selection of beers on draft and then a different number sold in bottles. So really it is up to the bar patron.

   Personally I usually drink bottled beer at bars because they don’t usually have the cheap beers on draft and I don’t like beer enough to pay a premium for it lol.

4. Depends on the bar. The one down the street from where I used to live only had bottles and cans, and a lot of places don’t have have Heineken on draft.

5. Most bars or restaurants will have 1-5 taps available and any number of bottles/cans.

   Some bars will only have bottles/cans. Some will also have far more taps . There are bars in my city with over 100 to choose from.

   Cider is increasing in popularity. you can find it in most groceries and package liquor stores, and maybe a bar will have one bottled version of it. Some local breweries even concentrate on making their own cider. Usually hard cider is used to cater to the gluten free crowd.

6. Draft unless I’m somewhere with a poor draft selection but better bottled or canned beer.

   I’ll want a glass to drink it out of either way though.

7. Usually draft beer. Some of the places I go to specialize craft beer and only sell what I drink (Bud Light) in bottles though. Also sometimes I’ll get whatever is on a special (bucket of bottles).

8. They drink out of bottles because it’s product placement. If they’re drinking out of a glass, then no company paid to have their product displayed for that scene. Next time you’re watching an American film, be sure to pay attention more and see if you notice that the label is pointed outwards, toward the camera, so you can see the brand.

   However, because of Covid-19, I’m hesitant to drink beer from glasses as I don’t know how well they clean them between customers, both abroad and in the US. So, I’ll order beer in a bottle.

9. I always try the local IPA which is usually on tap.

10. Depends on the bar. Most I go to have a great selection on draft, so I go with draft. Other bars will only have the basics on draft (like Miller Lite) and I’ll have to order bottles if I want something else.

11. Depends on the bar. I’ve been to ones in restaurants where they didn’t have drafts or the equipment to get them. Also bottles in media make it easier to show paid sponsors and/or easier to maintain continuity.

    As for your side question, Prohibition did a number on the cider industry and I think I remember reading that some American cider tree varieties went extinct due to prohibition. Cider is still well behind where beer is over here.

12. I prefer draft, but depending on the bar and what you prefer they may only have bottles available.

    I like a lot of local beers, but in bars just over the Georgia or Alabama line you’re less likely to find things like Landshark or any of Funky Buddha or Cigar City’s brews on draft. Cheap dives are also likely to just have macro brews on draft, and while I love my bud, sometimes you want something different.

    As for cider, we call non-fermented apple juice cider. British ciders would be called hard ciders here due to being alcoholic, like hard tea or hard lemonade. Brands like Angry Orchard or Strongbow have their fans, but hard cider is significantly less popular than beer.

13. Draft beer for the win!

14. Depends if they have good beer on drought. Many times they only have good stuff in a bottle.

15. If they have the beer I want on draft I will get that. If they only have it in a bottle I will get that. If it’s in a bottle I am not going to pour it in a glass.

16. Depends on what is offered on tap.

17. The question is really drafts or cans for me. Most good craft beer these days comes in cans, not bottles. As for which one, probably close to 50/50 for me. I prefer draft when I’m out at a bar, but often I’ll want to try something that they have only in cans.

    > do you have a cider/beer divide like we do in the UK?

    Cider is far less popular here than in the UK. It exists, and most good bars will have a cider option or two, but it’s consumed nowhere near as much as beer.

18. I prefer draft since it tastes different and I cant get it at home but some bars don’t have much of a selection or any

19. Both are extremely common, as well as cans

    Edit: I mostly drink bottles and cans because I drink cheap swill. A beer and a shot for $6 or less, that’s a citywide baby

20. I don’t go out drinking all that often but most of the bars I’ve been to only had beer in bottles. If you want beer in a glass you gotta go somewhere fancy like Applebee’s.

21. Television misrepresentation aside, what’s the divide between cider and beer? There’s no argument against the idea that they are different beverages

22. > do you have a cider/beer divide like we do in the UK?

    Yes, most bars (unless they specialize in cider) will have 1-2 ciders and dozens of beers. Cider is MUCH more popular in the UK. [Germans and Prohibition killed cider in the US](https://www.tastingtable.com/913338/the-reason-hard-cider-almost-disappeared-in-the-us/).

    Cider is gaining in popularity, but it’s not even marginally close to being even with beer. It’s a niche beverage here.

23. It’s more of a personal thing than a cultural thing. I personally refuse to drink bottled beer outside of the house because I can have bottled beer at home just the same.

    Movies and TV shows usually use bottles because it’s easier to stage than having a working tap around.

    No idea what this cider/beer divide you are talking about it. We have hard ciders but they aren’t nearly as popular as beer.

24. The reason you see that on tv is because they took the opportunity to do “product placement” and got paid by the beer company. You can’t generally have a label on a draft beer.

    Most people prefer draft, but I mostly just choose based on whatever beer I most feel like after looking at the list. We generally now have 20+ options (and in many places 50+) so it’s a broad range.

25. Draft is generally preferred, but bottles allow a place to offer a greater selection.

    We also don’t call them pints, but often they coincidentally are. You can get all kinds of sizes for draft depending on the glassware the place chose to buy.

26. You see people drinking out of dark brown bottles in a lot of movies and TV, because those are easier to deal with for continuity. You don’t want to film a scene six times, from different angles, and have the final cut showing a mug that’s half full, full, then almost empty, then almost full, then back to empty. With a dark bottle, it’s probably empty the whole time, and if you reshoot a scene, nobody can tell.

    In real life, people drink both, depending on what that bar has and what they want.