We love bottles, we hate cans and draught you never know

Beer is so popular all over the world and there is a good reason for it. It's a large, refreshing drink in reasonable price, economic factor does the job here.

There is so much beer on the market it actually is overwhelming to cover it all, so I'm not going to focus on actual product but on the package and ways of serving it. 

We love bottles.
We simply adore them so much that we are willing to pay about 30% more (in some bars even a double) than for the same amount of golden goodness from the tap.

Bars in UK offer you 330ml bottles for roughly the price of a pint (imperial pint 568ml), and still there is many that will go for a bottle. Me personally I have strong feelings for a green glass bottles, I cannot explain why is that and what causes it but sometimes fresh, well chilled, bottle of Peroni or Heineken can deliver indescribable refreshment. It might be specific aroma that pulls the refreshments trigger in my brain connected with a good memory from the past, but if so I want to have that aroma in every single beer. Serving bottles of beer it's a difficult topic. Beer sommeliers will tell you to always pour it into a glass and make large foamy top as this will release hoppy aromas and keeps rest of our liquid away from deadly oxygen. It sounds great and sophisticated but I still love my Peroni in a green bottle, and there is not much I can change about it.

We hate cans.

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How many bars have you been to that you could order a canned beer ? Were these places any good ? I recon that cans in the bars will be the next hipster thing, but so far I haven't noticed that happening yet (or maybe I'm just not hanging out in Hackney enough).
For some reason people think that canned beer taste worse that bottle or draught. I guess this popular opinion is alive because of the canned drinks from 1930s, when it was a new technology and metals uses to produce cans were not perfected. Metallic taste was difficult to overcome in that times. These days on the other hand cans don't really affect taste anymore and I challenge anyone who says he can tell the difference for a blind tasting. Still opinion in people's minds is something really difficult to change probably way more difficult that metallic aftertaste.

Draught you never know.
When I'm going for a draught beer, first thing that I check is pints around, if glasses are full of life and bubbles are running from the bottom of the glass crowded like a London marathon, I will most certainly get a pint. But that is not always the case. Draught beer installations come in many different types and shapes, but always you have to have a right gas pressure and temperature. It may vary depending on style of a beer, but your supplier will always be able to provide you with accurate information. Make sure that what comes out of your tap is what is recommended, have a little taste of your beers every day, check the gas pressure and temperature if necessary. 
Maintaining clean beer pipes requires you to clean them at least weekly, and also often use all of the lines you have got. If one of your beers isn't really selling well you may consider changing it or having it in the bottles. This obviously comes with costs, and if a bar is not making good money people will look for a savings. That's why in two neighbor bars the same beer from the same supplier can taste different coming out of two different taps.