Incredible facts
How do you drink beer? For a long time, savoring every sip or quickly, in a couple of minutes, or even faster? Probably in different ways, depending on the mood and degree of thirst. Also, don't be surprised, the rate of beer consumption largely depends on the shape of the mug from which you drink the intoxicating drink.
This conclusion was made by researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK. British scientists, whose study was published online in PLoS ONE, claim that a person empties an irregular, curved mug faster than a regular straight mug.
In order to find out how the shape of the mug affects the rate of beer consumption, scientists conducted an experiment in which 159 volunteers took part. Each of them was asked to drink 0.3 liters of beer, and the participants in the experiment were given different mugs: some drank beer from ordinary straight mugs, while others were poured into curved mugs.
Scientists recorded the time it took volunteers to empty the dishes and found that those who poured beer into a regular mug drank an intoxicating drink in an average of 11 minutes. But those who drank beer from a curved mug emptied the vessel much faster — in an average of 7 minutes!
Why do people savor beer from ordinary mugs longer than from “curves”? Scientists suggest that a curved mug complicates the assessment of the amount you drink. That is, when drinking beer from an irregularly shaped mug, a person can hardly determine how much of the drink is left in the mug: more or less than half. Accordingly, it is more difficult for a person to control himself.
Interestingly, the shape of the glass does not affect the rate of consumption of soft drinks in any way. People drink, for example, lemonade as quickly from a straight glass as well as from an irregularly shaped glass.
The study's leader, Dr Angela Attwood, doesn't see this as a surprise. The fact is that when consuming a soft drink, a person does not try to restrain himself. Accordingly, a person does not monitor how much drink is drunk and how much is left.
However, scientists believe that it is too early to draw final conclusions. The thing is that the experiment was carried out under laboratory conditions. It is not yet clear whether the shape of the mug affects the rate of beer consumption in real, so-called “field” conditions, for example, at home, or in a bar, with friends.