Unless of course you have a couch and a Nintendo and/or a Tivo, standing is best way to drink beer; everyone knows that. Some crazyness from across the pond:

City tries to ban drinkers from standing at the bar
It should be patently obvious. The principal drawback to vertical drinking is the danger of vertical falling over into horizontal befuddlement. Police in Preston, Lancashire, think it is not as simple as that. Vertical drinking, they believe, is one of the country’s main causes of public disorder and would like to see it banned in the city’s pubs. Vertical drinking is a new term for what used to be called standing at the bar, long regarded as the natural refuelling posture. Sixteen pints of lager slip into the tanks much more easily when the gullet is erect rather than kinked by the body being squeezed into a chair like a half-shut penknife. Drinking while standing in a like-minded group, police argue, is a contributor to booze-fuelled violence. When the mindless nerd next to you knocks the pint out of your hand, it’s much easier to go for him directly than having to get out of a chair to punch his lights out.

Brilliant! The whole thing is a great article, even if the subject matter is a might painful. I miss going to pubs, and reading the London papers, and knowing (and even sort of speaking, the words at least) modern British English. I’ll get back to London soon, possibly even paid for by my employer. . .

Language Side Note: in Britain the insult nerd is somewhat more powerful than it is here, connoting more of a “person completely lacking any social graces” than an “unpopular bookworm” as I think most Americans understand nerd to mean. Substitute idiot and/or asshat and that last sentence makes more sense to American ears.