Bottles every time.....I hate the taste of 'can'. Sure cans go cold quicker in the fridge, but they warm up faster than a bottle. Personally I like beer served in a nice glass with ice.

I think bottled beer tastes better.  However it is more likely to be ruined by exposure to light.

 

The metal cans are coated on the inside to prevent the liquid from reacting with the metal.

 

I say do a blind taste taste between the two and see if you can tell the difference.

6 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Me too.  I especially like the big ones.

I drink my beer from a glass. The imported US affectation of drinking directly from a dirty bottle is a result of watching too much TV. (dives for cover......)

Bottles for indoors cans for outdoors 

1 hour ago, EVENKEEL said:

So, aside from beer snobs (you know who you are) I suppose most like bottles, some because of taste. Years back the can gave off a taste but I haven't got that metal taste from Heinekin cans which is all I drink unless it's free.

 

I'm still of the opinion that you can draw a longer, more satisfying first couple of pulls off a can. Aaahhhh. Walking in the surf, drinking an ice cold beer, man it's heaven.

If your beer was 'ice cold' would it not be solid in the can?

2 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

If your beer was 'ice cold' would it not be solid in the can?

You tink too mutt.

Bottles.

 

With modern cans the tab goes INTO the drink, so whatever was on it from fingers, insects, rats, etc. goes into the drink and into you.  Yes, you can clean it first, but that takes time and destroys the spontaneity.  

With bottles the outside bit is removed, giving clean beer.

 

I prefer a glass if indoors with aircon, but outside here it gets hot way too fast - and no "beer condoms" for glasses.

 

As an aside if you drink Heineken you would not notice any difference, it is flowery enough now.

When available glass/bottle for me

5 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

can: wrong, Heinekin: wrong

 

Decent beer needs a glass:

 

 

 

Weitzen beer?.........never did take to it.....pils and dunkel for me.

Cans give me wind (well, more wind). From a bottle into a glass for me.

3 hours ago, Thomas J said:

Maybe my imagination but I always thought the taste of beer from a glass bottle was better than a can. 

I agree and have always found bottled beer tastes better - but in the interest of the environment, why oh why isn't there a deposit on beer bottles?

49 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

If your beer was 'ice cold' would it not be solid in the can?

No.  Water freezes at a higher temperature than Alcohol.

Can, bottle or breast. Who cares ?

1 minute ago, rwill said:

No.  Water freezes at a higher temperature than Alcohol.

Assuming both are at the same pressure........ of course.

1 minute ago, Deli said:

Can, bottle or breast. Who cares ?

Breast beer.....you could be onto something there.......

5 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

I tend to buy bottles simply because they are better value. For example, in my local shop a large can of Chang (490ml) is 50 baht where as a large bottle of Chang (620ml) is 55 baht.

It's a bit of a no brainer really.

 

 

And canned Chang doesn't taste the same as the bottled to me.

20 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

Weitzen beer?.........never did take to it.....pils and dunkel for me.

Yes, some of them are also pretty good.

 

 

 

Don't forget kegged or fresh beer as they call it here.

Several years ago I conducted a blind taste test of Singha beer from bottle and from can with 2 beer drinking friends.  We all chose the canned beer as tasting better—big surprise to us.

1 minute ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Yes, some of them are also pretty good.

 

 

 

Saliva glands just kicked off......

4 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

Saliva glands just kicked off......

ok, one more

 

Just now, OneMoreFarang said:

ok, one more

 

This and Koenigsbier........top dollar....actually went to a party night at the Warsteiner brewery in Warstein.......free food and beer from 8pm to 12pm...........rough the following the day.

6 hours ago, KannikaP said:

You can buy a 'can crusher' on Lazada which makes them down to almost nothing.

Easy enough to do without the gadget: squeeze in the sides a bit and then crush them vertically underfoot

6 hours ago, SymS said:

Cans AND bottles.

 

 

and plastic bags with ice in them as well, just as long as it contains beer!

I like a nice glass with my beer, we used to go to a pub in Phuket town before the ban, which ever beer you order they have all the different glass's, they had a special on Heineken buy 2 pints get one free  

10 minutes ago, peterdarby said:

Easy enough to do without the gadget: squeeze in the sides a bit and then crush them vertically underfoot

My cleaner just jumps on them 

Always drink from a glass, straight from the freezer.

 

Where possible, we use cans - they get sold to the recycling people.

We save the tabs and donate them to the local hospital. There is a higher aluminium content (?) and they are recycled to make artificial limbs. Many of the 7/11's and Familymarts have collection points for the tabs.

8 hours ago, KannikaP said:

don't need bottle opener

 

one can usually find an option elsewhere..........

 

 

2 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

Personally I like beer served in a nice glass with ice.

Ice in beer - Noooooooo ????

It might just be in my mind but beer in a can has a slight metallic taste. Mind you, if canned is all that's available I won't turn my nose up, but given a choice, it's always bottled beer.