[ogre_codes]

This is why I avoid buying beer in growlers. My wife and I just don't drink enough to kill a bottle before it's done. If I have friends over, it goes fast, but that's not really a thing right now.

They do make cans of wine... I know it's a crazy idea, but my friend who likes wine loves the single serving size.

[mey]

In Oregon at least yes. https://www.cannedoregon.com/

Pretty sure that isn't the only brand I have seen.

[ogre_codes]

Huh. I didn't realize this was a local/ Oregon thing and had assumed it was country-wide.

[jeromenerf]

Bag-in-box style of containers are pretty good regarding oxydation. Up to 6 weeks after opening it says on the label.

A bottle is obviously better long term.

[williamdclt]

There's perfectly good bagged wine in France, but they get pretty bad rep in other countries, it's often terrible wine in these boxes sadly

[mark-r]

I thought the 750ml bottle was a single serving size?

For a joke, my family got me a 750ml glass a couple of Christmases ago. I have yet to use it.

[cperciva]

750 ml has nothing to do with how much wine people are expected to drink at once; it's an artifact of glass-blowing. A typical medieval glass-blower's lungs allowed them to create bottles of 700-800 ml with a single long breath.

[mark-r]

That's a very cool piece of useless trivia. Thanks.

[jasone]

Is there something about glass blowing which makes it air-inefficient? My vague recollection from my time as a low brass player in college is that the prof's lung capacity measuring apparatus (yes, really) put most of us in the 3-4L range, with one outlier around 5L. Granted, we were trained for such magnificent feats of blowing hot air, but so too must glass blowers be.

[ZiiS]

It is more about the pulmonary strength needed to start the bubble in sufficent glass for the bottle size.

[Arech]

I'd guess that it's also relates to a pressure that glass blower had to create. Then the total volume would be less than free volume.

[myrandomcomment]

Sounds like something you should aspire to :)

I can drink a bottle myself lunch to bed on a weekend, but not every weekend.