bottle share

plural bottle shares

1. A gathering to which each participant brings a rare or unusual beer, especially craft beer, to share with the other attendees.

   I opened a 2013 Dark Lord at a bottle share during the same year and heard no complaints.

   2016, Jeff Rice, Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetoric of Beer, →ISBN, page 223

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   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, Lucy Burningham, My Beer Year, →ISBN, page 151

   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.

   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, →ISBN, page 245