Pint - Glass or Plastic?

This is the question that should never be asked in any self-respecting pub or bar anywhere. But I found it to be the standard in a lot of pubs I visited in the UK recently.

If it was a weekend night or if you were sitting outside in the beer garden then you were given no choice but to drink your brew from a plastic pint “glass”.

A glass pint has a major benefit over the plastic equivalent – it keeps the beer cool.

Admittedly it also can be used as a dangerous weapon ala “Trainspotting” but most people that drink Best Bitter or Guinness would not risk wasting any of their beer just to glass somebody – such time would be much better spent going to the bar and ordering another brew.

Beer served in a plastic pint just feels wrong.