On a side note, we have some property in rural WV. We visit on vacation and long weekends.
Last time we were there, I got some gentle ribbing from the neighbors for drinking beer in bottles.
After a little thought, it occured to me why.
There's no city/county trash service in middle-of-nowhere WV. You pay by the bag for pickup or you find a way to recycle/dispose of it on site.
You can fit a heckuva lot of crushed aluminum cans in a trash bag compared to the same amount of empty bottles. Alternatively, you can get $$ for the aluminum cans - there's no money to be had for empty beer bottles.
Since we have to haul our trash off the property, I can live with canned beer if it save finding space for an extra trash bag on the way out.
Although I've recently found a pretty good IPA (Avery, IIRC) that comes in a can. Best beer I've ever had in a can.
I need to stock up before our next visit.
That makes perfect sense. We used to use beer bottles to make college folk art.
Our best use was after a huge party (400+ people). We collected all of the bottles and smashed them up into large chunks. We had an old table we were gonna throw out. I covered it in an epoxy resin and poured the glass chunks all over it. Once the resin dried, I covered the exposed shards and let it dry for about a week.
That table went everywhere with me until a young friend of the family asked if he could take it with him to college. It’s still in someone’s living room in Tallahassee, FL, likely a testament to hungover college shenanigans and ingenuity.
And FWIW, I cannot do IPAs. I’ve yet to find an IPA that doesn’t give me a headache. I don’t know what it is, but I cannot tolerate them like I can most other beers.