Beer Consumption Too High? This May Work For You !

[Pumpy]

I normally drink my beer from half litre (500ml ) glasses

However I recent bought some nice Pilsner glasses (320ml)

My kegs are in the garage and I am finding if I drank three glasses 1500ml of beer a night

I still have three glasses and I am now consuming (960 ml) per night . 'Over a third less' !!.

I am thinking is part of the satisfaction of drinking your home brewed beer actually 'Pouring the beer into the glass from your beer taps' ?

(This may apply beer from 375ml bottles instead of 750ml bottles ).

It may seem an over simplistic theory. but it appears to work for me .

Does reducing the size of the beer glass lead to reduce beer consumption over a period of time ?

Pumpy

 

[braufrau]

That's why i bottle in stubbies and not long necks. Hwmbo drinks 1 unit of beer a night, so if i bottle in stubbies he drinks less. Presumably, if i kegged, he'd drink a keg a night!

There's a book called "mindless eating" written by a guy whose job it is to study these things by giving people bottomless bowls of soup and seeing how much they eat.

My favourite was the experiment they did on people they gave a free trip to the movies. They made popcorn and stored it in plastic bags until it was soft and squeaky. It was so revolting one woman forgot it was free and demanded her money back.

None the less, those with bigger cups of popcorn ate more!

 

[Pumpy]

That's why i bottle in stubbies and not long necks. Hwmbo drinks 1 unit of beer a night, so if i bottle in stubbies he drinks less. Presumably, if i kegged, he'd drink a keg a night!

There's a book called "mindless eating" written by a guy whose job it is to study these things by giving people bottomless bowls of soup and seeing how much they eat.

My favourite was the experiment they did on people they gave a free trip to the movies. They made popcorn and stored it in plastic bags until it was soft and squeaky. It was so revolting one woman forgot it was free and demanded her money back.

None the less, those with bigger cups of popcorn ate more!

Yes, I must give that a read Braufrau,

On my figures it results in a saving $206 per year which equates to another 3.75 bags of malted grain saving per year .

Reducing my 'carbon footprint' too .

Pumpy

 

[mwd]

Too True I think once you open a 750ml bottle got to finish it off. Leaving half a bottle tastes like muck the next day.

My problem is I get down 1.5L easy when doing a nice Black and Tan mixing Stout + Ale thats 2x750ml bottles used.

 

[peas_and_corn]

I've tried this and I have found that I just make more trips to the keg- since then I have just gone for the 500mL (or so) glasses because I am lazy...

 

[Muggus]

Interesting you bring this up, because I bottle everything I brew and generally just use whatever bottles I have on hand at the time (330, 375, 500, 750 normally). But recently, through a bit organisation in the brewery, I have specific bottles setup for beers months in advance, so I bottle beers in the size of bottles that seems appropriate.
Basically I try to bottle all strong/ultra premium stuff in 330ml bottles, and 'sessionable' beers in 500ml and 375ml bottles. I keep around 4 longnecks of the each brew for special occasions.
That way if I wanna crack open a bottle of 10% imperial stout, I only have contend with 330ml of beer, as opposed to a boozing my way through 750ml and 6 standard drinks in the one bottle.

 

[durgarth]

I also used to drink from a 500ml glass. However recently I got given some beautiful 330ml glasses for my birthday and opened them last month. The glasses are lovely to drink from and I still drink the same amount of "refills" 2-3 a night. So it must be true.........except for last night when a mate (neighbour)came over and we hooked into a lovely APA in the 500 ml glasses whilst watching the footy. Now I have a sore head and wished I used the smaller glasses.

 

[sqyre]

Obvisously its all relative to the distance you are away from the Taps.
I too have found that if i use my 325ml glasses i get no where near as smashed as i do when i use my 570ml glasses but only when i'm drinking downstairs.
However when i have a session upstairs at the bar it doesn't matter if i'm drinking out of a thimble..i'm gunna get hammered as its only 2 steps to the right for a refill. :icon_drool2:

Sqyre.

 

[durgarth]

Obvisously its all relative to the distance you are away from the Taps.
I too have found that if i use my 325ml glasses i get no where near as smashed as i do when i use my 570ml glasses but only when i'm drinking downstairs.
However when i have a session upstairs at the bar it doesn't matter if i'm drinking out of a thimble..i'm gunna get hammered as its only 2 steps to the right for a refill. :icon_drool2:

Sqyre.

LOL........so true

 

[jojai]

I agree with the bottling thing, I find that even using PET bottles, once you open a longneck, it's gotta be drunk otherwise it'll go flat. Obviously crown seal bottles are even worse for this. I'm not really too concerned with how much I drink on average (I tend to binge every now and then though), but I hate having flat beer so I reckon I'm going to acquire some stubbies to bottle into.

 

[quantocks]

smaller glasses just mean I have to keep walking back and forth much more to refill the glass

 

[rimrunner]

if smaller sizes kept you satisfied there would be less tears in the world.

 

[joecast]

smaller glasses just mean I have to keep walking back and forth much more to refill the glass

exactly right! and that means more exercise. its the perfect balancing act really. more drinking = more exercise. and everyones happy :icon_cheers:

 

[paul]

Ive started making my beer with lower alcohol in an effort to drink the same, yet consume less alcohol. The cold, wet winter makes me consume less also.

 

[SJW]

I am thinking is part of the satisfaction of drinking your home brewed beer actually 'Pouring the beer into the glass from your beer taps' ?

It does mate. I found this during the big July Dry, I had a keg of Ginger Beer and keg of Soda water and it seamed to fill some iner hole by just pouring a drink from the system.

Steve

 

[blackbock]

Presumably, if i kegged, he'd drink a keg a night!

:lol:

 

[matti]

you are one funny Pommy Pumps.
Well. it doesn't work for me.
I've drained my keg of Bitter in 10 days on my own .19l/10. thats at almost 2L a day.
Oh shit, I worked 3 of those.

I foregotten how many I drank this arvo.

I believe its time to go on a dry spell..... ^_^

 

[SJW]

I've drained my keg of Bitter in 10 days on my own .19l/10. thats at almost 2L a day.
Oh shit, I worked 3 of those.

HOLY POWERS OF CRAP!

 

[Cortez The Killer]

I had a case swap beer on friday night followed by a session with a middy glass - 250ml - gosh there was a lot of walking back and forth to the keg fridge (approx 20m away and down 5 steps) it was a killer

Next time back to the pints!

Actually it's what I'm using now!

Cheers

 

[chefeffect]

Beers just Beer so drink it anyway you like it... But I do tend to drink a pint as fast as a glass funny its just a mental thing i guess!!! but at the end of the day if you want to tell your mrs you had two beers today, I know what size beer I will be drinking!!