How do you drink your beer?

[Zeke]

I don't sip anything including coffee. Hand me a bottle of beer and half is gone before it leaves my mouth. Well, the coffee until has to cool off a bit. Then I chug it.

If I drink a soda, I only have to pick it up 3 times (12 oz. can). I usually don't finish a soda though. So, maybe twice and then if it's warm, it hits the trash. Beer never gets warm if I have anything to do with it. I'll just wait awhile and then down another. I hardly ever open another right after finishing one off until some time has passed.

Sodas? Maybe one a day at the most and I skip days frequently.

I chug everything I drink including water. Especially water. I'll do a whole small bottle at once.

How do you drink your beer?

[Dave Nordhoff]

I also chug all fluids. You are not alone..............

- Dave

[Jeff Higgins]

Depends on when and why, and to some extent, what kind. On a really hot day with a light lager or ale, it's bottoms up, just like you describe. Hanging out on the deck in the evening, with a heavier porter or stout, I sip them rather slowly. The stouts start out warm, so it doesn't matter how long they sit. The porters can warm up and still be good. Even a heavier German lager or pilsner is good this way.

Sometimes it's right out of the bottle (no cans here under any circumstances). The more flavorful, heavier beers are in a mug or stein if one is available. It all depends on the mood...

[slodave]

What Jeff said.

[legion]

This is why I drink stouts and ales. I can drink most lagers (other than the crap) in one gulp.

[emcon5]

[LWJ]

I chug as well. It took me a few takes to learn to alternate alcohol/water or alcohol/water/water. Got that dialed in a little better now.

[masraum]

I'm a chugger too. I guess that's why the first time I ever drank beer was such an educational experience. My next experience with Seagrams 7 wasn't any better, but was again very educational. In my college days, I could put the beer away, fortunately that's long behind me.

I'm not a big chugger of wine or beer these days, but anything else gets chugged. I don't drink coffee, and haven't had a soda in 7 or 8 years. These days it's mostly water, with a little juice and a little tea. Occasionally a beer or two or a glass of wine with food.

[HardDrive]

[M.D. Holloway]

I chug but it depends on what has happened a few minutes prior.

I don't chug Rusty Nails...poor form.

[kconway]

Wierd, thought it was just me but yeah; I'm right there with you Milt. Beer/soda/water, all goes down quickly. Eating out at resturants was bad since they refill the sodas all the time, I stopped drinking soda almost entirely now and only ask for water in resturants.

[450knotOffice]

Water in a glass is taken down in one shot.

Water in a bottle - usually takes a while (unless I'm hot as hell)

Beer - drink from the bottle, almost always a good ale, so I usually sip it (to savor the taste, it's certainly not a thirst quencher)

Wine - sip, of course (picture the alternative - guzzling a nice glass of wine...)

[jyl]

I sip, and it's usually a stout, porter, or a darker ale. I seldom drink a lager. Do have a weakness for black and tans. I never drink crap beer (bud light etc) and don't drink beer to hydrate or cool down. Basically I drink beer in circumstances where I might also drink wine. Otherwise, it's water or coffee. At home, add green tea to the choices.

In college we used to drink huge amounts of beer. Chugging contests. Not glasses - we chugged pitchers. I frequently won. Around the same time, I started going to the old Co- op in Berkeley and sampling from the vast imported beer selection. We'd take a handful of beers home and taste them like wines. For a bunch of guys brought up on chugged pitchers, this was quite an eye opener.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by jyl

...drink beer to hydrate...

Sort of counter-productive don't ya think?

[slodave]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Sort of counter-productive don't ya think?

News flash!
Good News Re: Dehydration

Of course, this week, it'll be bad for you again.

[HardDrive]

For the record, I'm a siper. Rarely drink beer. Too filling. Red wine mostly. A bit of Scotch/rye/port thrown in for good measure. All sipping drinks to my mind.

I'll guzzle Gatorade after/during a hard ride. Water, not so much.

[VINMAN]

Chugger

[carambola]

somewhere in between a sip and a chug, usually one mouthful at a time.
and with a cigarette.
and after a few beers i usually light up a joint.
i haven't chugged beer since the infamous killacase incident back in 99

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by 450knotOffice

Wine - sip, of course (picture the alternative - guzzling a nice glass of wine...)

I guess I'd agree, especially in the company of others or in a restaurant. But, really, what's the diff? A big hearty swallow of wine will wash down whatever you're eating. I've been known to take a gulp of wine. Which, in a bar, one of those tiny 4 oz. wine glasses holds about 2 gulps if you're gulping.

I'll say this, if I'm called for my table and there's a half glass of wine sitting in front of me, it goes down the hatch rather than carrying the stupid 2 ozs. to my table.

[lane912]

i drink with my mouth...