I came across an interesting article I thought I’d share with our readers -Some researchers at the University of Bristol have shown that the shape of your glass can determine how quickly someone drinks.
Angela Attwood and her colleagues devised a test (disguised as a language test) to see how quickly 160 undergraduates (80 men and 80 women) would drink beer or lemonade from a straight glass or a flute. They found that a straight glass of beer took 11 minutes on average to polish off, while a flute was gone in 7…and the lemonade was gone from either one at an average of 7 minutes. If the glass was only half full of either beer or lemonade, it was gone in an average of 5 minutes.
Dr. Attwood’s hypothesis is that the person drinking beer would be trying to pace themselves throughout the night, by judging where the halfway point of the glass is. It is obviously more difficult to judge the halfway mark of the flute, which was demonstrated when Dr. Atwood called her volunteers back a week later to ask them to estimate from pictures how full various glasses were. Based on this, her final observations were that the shape of a glasscan affect how quickly someone drinks.
What do you think? Does the shape of the glass affect how fast you drink your beer?
Source: The Economist
