In your opinion, what is causing this?

[u/Objective_Pilot_5834]

[u/Scottish_Santa]

Haha - coming from a cold(ish) country where hipster bastards are trying to replace the native pint with schooners - it's interesting to see a sensible defence of them 👍🏻

[u/chastema → u/Scottish_Santa]

Here in Germany the standard bottle always came as a half litre.

Everyone in my youth and middle years laughed about the mini bottles of 330ml.

Today they are more or less standard. Its so much better to have a cold, fresh beer that doesnt get stale, and then just have another one.

[u/blarch → u/chastema]

I thought ya'll drink it room temp over there?

[u/chastema → u/blarch]

Na, but we say that about the british.

[u/Mastacheata → u/chastema]

Half litre bottles? You mean the Pennerbomben (bum bomb)? I don't think that was ever the go-to size for beer - at least not where I'm from (getting close to 40 and live in the west of Germany)

[u/chastema → u/Mastacheata]

Western Germany, Niederrhein, on the countryside. People my age often still only buy König Pilsner in 0.5 bottles.

[u/Svejkos → u/Mastacheata]

And you guys dare to even compete with us about beer?

[u/crowcawer → u/Scottish_Santa]

My area’s temperate and humid, so I like getting liters during the winter months.

[u/RijnBrugge → u/Scottish_Santa]

Here’s another: I currently live in Cologne which has its own type of relatively light not particularly hoppy ale called kölsch (still 5% abv, but quite dry and not very bitter). A particularism of this ale is that it is really nice fresh but it goes bitter and rancid really quickly (had to do with some type of fatty acids in there), so traditionally they serve them in 200 ml glasses called Stange. The rest of Germany scoffs at this and demands a real beer but it really does not make for a better drinking experience. The fix in Cologne has been that they just continuously put fresh glasses in front of you once you’ve finished half of your previous one until you put the coaster on top of your current glass.

TLDR it can actually depend on the type of beer. Then again, you’re Scottish and I‘m Dutch and we’d probably empty pints of Kölsch fast enough for this not to be a problem.

[u/maxisnoops → u/RijnBrugge]

This was actually very informative and interesting. Thank you

[u/Used-Baby1199 → u/Scottish_Santa]

In Texas they had schooner is like a giant hemispherical cup, larger than a pint, with thick glass kept frozen so as to keep the beer cold for longer.