Right translation of 'mit Bierflaschen anstoßen' ?

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I find only translation such as clink glasses but it seems quite wrong to me. How do English speaking people call it if they do it with beer bottles?

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Yes to each other once you are doing it. But how do you call to do so? 'Clink bottles' seems a bit wrong to me.

In English, it's a part of what's called toasting, basically a mutual expression of solidarity about a shared event (in words) followed by touching wine glasses. However, this is mainly a reference to wine and wine glasses. Also, it is not necessary to touch the glasses; in some cases raising glasses above the level of your eyes is done.

Mit Bierflaschen Anstossen implies the same with beer bottles, which is more of an unspoken expression of solidarity, such as a bump of the fist (except, we're too lazy to put down the beer bottle...). This often is practiced in US "redneck" circles, in which the word "toast" would be absurd.

OK. Sounds to me like you are missing an expression like 'anstossen' (give a bump on) in opposite to 'raise glasses on ...' ('die Gläser erheben auf ...') because it's a quite common thing to do it. Germans call it 'anstossen' on something if doing it with glasses, mugs, cups, bottles aso. To 'bump the bottles' or glasses on something sounds not as bad I think.

I guess if you are writing a theme paper, or writing a letter to a person in an English speaking country you could just call it "toasting with beer bottles".

But yeah. I don't know of a specific expression that specifically means "toasting with beer bottles".

You could just say "lets drink to that" (whatever the cause is that you're drinking to).

You can "toast", or you can "clink glasses", or you can "raise a glass".

I suppose you could say "let's raise our bottles" and folks might get it.

Oh Yeah it's just called toasting or "let's have a toast" even with beers

Thanks. I'll keep it as 'toasting with beer bottles' then.