bottle share
English
Noun
bottle share (plural bottle shares)
- A gathering to which each participant brings a rare or unusual beer, especially craft beer, to share with the other attendees.
- 2016, Lucy Burningham, My Beer Year[1], →ISBN, page 151:
- I'd been to bottle share parties before, the kind of party where people gather to share hard-to-find beers, many of which are aged.
- 2016, Jeff Rice, Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetoric of Beer[2], →ISBN, page 223:
- I opened a 2013 Dark Lord at a bottle share during the same year and heard no complaints.
- 2023, Michael Ian Borer, “Pop, Pour, Pass: Bottle Shares as Public Rituals”, in Daina Cheyenne Harvey, Ellis Jones and Nathaniel G. Chapman, editors, Beer Places: The Microgeographies of Craft Beer[3], →ISBN, page 245:
- Beyond the sharing of often hard-to-find or limited-release beers, public bottle shares have two other characteristics: (1) they take place in open and accessible places like bars, restaurants, or shops, and (2) participants are usually expected to bring products that aren't available in their local market.