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Why does beer from a tap taste better than beer from a bottle?

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It was Saturday, and I was drinking beer at a nameless bar in New York's East Village. Enter two 30-year-old frat bros (brotherhood lasts for life, dude), who took a seat at the bar next to me: “But wait 'til you taste it on tap,” Pastel Chino Bro said, as he motioned toward his friend's bottle. “Is it better on tap? read more

Too many beer snobs will claim that one beer on draft will always taste better than the same one from a can or bottle, but that is purely mind over matter (if I gave you a bottled beer poured into a pint glass and told you it was tap, you most likely wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. read more

Glass is a better insulator so a beer drunk slow will stay slightly colder in bottle than can. Second Beer does age differently in bulk than it does in the bottle, but I really only think this factors in when aging a heavy beer for many months or more than a year. read more

Other than these scenarios, there’s really no reason a beer fresh from the brewery would taste any different from a bottle than it would being pulled from a draft. I’ve aged bottled beers in cellars and have seen my industry friends hold on to barrel-aged kegs in their cellars much the same way. read more

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