General / Off-Topic A question for bartenders...

[Buglet]

...or anyone who goes to bars a lot.

Hey guys.

so I'm a bartender and I'm not toooo bad at it, still learning though.

Tonight a man came in and sat down, was drinking for a while (I reckon he was pretty intoxicated, not ok to drive) and he said to me "Lager in the bin".

In all my time being a bartender, or even being alive, I've never heard anyone use the phrase "...in the bin" - for anything, let alone Lager.

Does anyone know this man meant by "lager in the bin"?

He got very cross when I asked him to explain and thus never got a definition! lol

 

[Asp Explorer]

Drunks hardly ever make much sense, but perhaps it was a local equivalent of "pint on tap?" i.e he was offering to buy you a beer "on tap" for you to pour when you finished work?

 

[Cody]

'One in the bin' implies 'one for later' - but who knows. As Asp so rightly says, drunks don't always make sense.

 

[Surfinjo]

Perhaps he was referring to what his body needed to do next.

After all, I'm pretty sure that that's what Lager is anyway.