It has happened to the best of us. You crack open a bottle of beer and drink it, only to find you’ve hit your threshold. What to you do with your remainder?

I recommend keeping a swing-top bottle handy for such an occasion. The earlier you realize you’ve hit the wall the better. More volume in the bottle means the longer the beer will survive in the bottle.

The beer you transfer won’t last forever, but it will survive for a few days or oven a few weeks. The bottle you transfer to needs to be clean.

Scratch that. It needs to be super clean and disinfected.

I had a beer in a bottle I thought was clean. In about a day it was gone to the ravages of bacteria and shoggoth and whatnot. YMMV.

When traveling by air in the U.S. you will find a sparse sampling of beers to chose from. Here are my recommendations:

1. Ask for a local beer: presuming the place you’re in has them they probably know what they are.

2. Don’t go for the typical beers, Budweiser or Miller or Coors. Sam Adams in any flavor is better than the majors.

3. If you have to go with the majors, go lite. There is little discernable between the regular and the lighter offerings. You might as well save the calories since the taste is roughly the same.

4. If you’re not sure on the above, go with what you don’t know.

As with many things in life: your mileage may vary