I like Beer in a glass

I've always drank my beer out of a bottle (or can when I like to live up to my redneck reputation). I always thought that pouring your beer into a glass was for sissies and people who give a shit about etiquette (who, by their nature, are usually sissies). Unfortunately, this foundation upon which my entire beer drinking redneck viewpoint was based on has been shaken to its core recently. When Kristin and I were at the Budweiser brewery, I was blown away by the aroma in the fermentation room during the tour. It was an amazing blend of sweet and bitter beer aromas that made me want to tap one of those giant tanks open and chug right from the nozzle. After the tour I was able to enjoy a fresh draft beer, and I was clearly able to notice a less powerful version of that same wonderful aroma coming from the beer in my glass. Why hadn't I ever noticed this before!? Oh yeah... I always drank out of cans and bottles, which don't let the aroma escape.

So now I pour my beer into a glass. I enjoy my beer quite a bit more now. It smells better, which makes it taste better. It also helps get rid of a lot of the carbonation, so it drinks easier... more like a draft beer. And that's the thing... beer out of a can or bottle tastes a hell of a lot more like it does on draft when I pour it into a glass first.

So next time you see me pour my beer in a glass, rest assured that I haven't turned into some sort of tea-drinking tinker-bell, but in fact I've found a way to take my Man drink to an entirely new level of manly goodness.