Posted: 3/23/2011 7:15:38 AM EDT
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Bottles or cans?
Always been a bottle drinker, recently discovered cans have their advantages. |
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Canning technology has made significant advances in the past 5 years. It's entirely possible to get fantastic, high quality beer in a can.
Cans are better in every way. They're impervious to light and, more importantly, oxygen (hot tip: crown caps DO leak just ever so slightly, about the same as a cork). They're better for the environment (if you're into that sort of thing), they're lighter (and thus cost less to ship and are easier to carry wherever you want to go), they're more resistant to damage, and, perhaps most importantly, they're significantly cheaper. The only advantage of bottles are aesthetics, reusability (good for us homebrewers, of no benefit to anyone else), and it's cheaper/easier for a startup brewery to buy a bottling line than a canning line. Very few beers benefit from the small amount of air exchange while aging, and those beers are almost always corked. Draft is still best, and directly from the bright tank is pure heaven. But I understand that not everyone brews their own, lives next to a brewery, and/or runs draft equipment in their house. So my standard advice is - if the beer you want is available in both bottles and cans, get the cans. As always, beer should be poured into a clean, dry, room-temperature glass before consumption. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Glass or bottle. There isn't any beer worth drinking that comes in a can. Perhaps that was true 15 years ago. It is no longer correct. http://www.shoppersvineyard.com/store/pc/catalog/06389_698_general.jpg Ten Fidy!? You be out yo mind! I give ya about... Tree fidy. |
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I lean slightly towards cans. Lot's of really good beer only comes in bottles though. That's the reason in production beers. Not the container, but the fact the contents usually only come in that container. The can is supposedly a better option for perservation, so long as you poor it into a glass. Drinking it directly from the can taints the odor, which in turn taints the flavor. My vote is bottles, though. Mainly because I can't can my own beer 
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Glass or bottle. There isn't any beer worth drinking that comes in a can. Perhaps that was true 15 years ago. It is no longer correct. http://www.shoppersvineyard.com/store/pc/catalog/06389_698_general.jpg You work for ALCOA??? 
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Canning technology has made significant advances in the past 5 years. It's entirely possible to get fantastic, high quality beer in a can. Cans are better in every way. They're impervious to light and, more importantly, oxygen (hot tip: crown caps DO leak just ever so slightly, about the same as a cork). They're better for the environment (if you're into that sort of thing), they're lighter (and thus cost less to ship and are easier to carry wherever you want to go), they're more resistant to damage, and, perhaps most importantly, they're significantly cheaper. The only advantage of bottles are aesthetics, reusability (good for us homebrewers, of no benefit to anyone else), and it's cheaper/easier for a startup brewery to buy a bottling line than a canning line. Very few beers benefit from the small amount of air exchange while aging, and those beers are almost always corked. Draft is still best, and directly from the bright tank is pure heaven. But I understand that not everyone brews their own, lives next to a brewery, and/or runs draft equipment in their house. So my standard advice is - if the beer you want is available in both bottles and cans, get the cans. As always, beer should be poured into a clean, dry, room-temperature glass before consumption. I will disagree with you on a few minor points, but THIS! |
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Screw top cans FTMFW! They are starting to show up here in LA. They are pretty common in the Austin, TX area. LC I drank a Sapporo black label in Yokohama back around 2002. I had to buy it because it came in a screw-top, wide-mouthed, half-liter, aluminum bottle. I'll never forget the inscription, in English, on the side. "The taste you have grown up to love, now in a cap-able bottle for today's active lifestyle!" I read that, and promptly rost. |
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Canning technology has made significant advances in the past 5 years. It's entirely possible to get fantastic, high quality beer in a can. Cans are better in every way. They're impervious to light and, more importantly, oxygen (hot tip: crown caps DO leak just ever so slightly, about the same as a cork). They're better for the environment (if you're into that sort of thing), they're lighter (and thus cost less to ship and are easier to carry wherever you want to go), they're more resistant to damage, and, perhaps most importantly, they're significantly cheaper. You grab a beer can in a knock down drag out A1bar fight and go to work on some motherfucker's head with it. Let me know how it works out for you. Bottles are still around because like 2A carry, everyone is armed. The only advantage of bottles are aesthetics, reusability (good for us homebrewers, of no benefit to anyone else), and it's cheaper/easier for a startup brewery to buy a bottling line than a canning line. Very few beers benefit from the small amount of air exchange while aging, and those beers are almost always corked. Draft is still best, and directly from the bright tank is pure heaven. But I understand that not everyone brews their own, lives next to a brewery, and/or runs draft equipment in their house. So my standard advice is - if the beer you want is available in both bottles and cans, get the cans. As always, beer should be poured into a clean, dry, room-temperature glass before consumption. |
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You grab a beer can in a knock down drag out A1bar fight and go to work on some motherfucker's head with it. Let me know how it works out for you. Bottles are still around because like 2A carry, everyone is armed. Have you ever hit anyone in the head with a bottle? I have, and it doesn't work like in the movies. |
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Canning technology has made significant advances in the past 5 years. It's entirely possible to get fantastic, high quality beer in a can. Cans are better in every way. They're impervious to light and, more importantly, oxygen (hot tip: crown caps DO leak just ever so slightly, about the same as a cork). They're better for the environment (if you're into that sort of thing), they're lighter (and thus cost less to ship and are easier to carry wherever you want to go), they're more resistant to damage, and, perhaps most importantly, they're significantly cheaper. You grab a beer can in a knock down drag out A1bar fight and go to work on some motherfucker's head with it. Let me know how it works out for you. Bottles are still around because like 2A carry, everyone is armed. The only advantage of bottles are aesthetics, reusability (good for us homebrewers, of no benefit to anyone else), and it's cheaper/easier for a startup brewery to buy a bottling line than a canning line. Very few beers benefit from the small amount of air exchange while aging, and those beers are almost always corked. Draft is still best, and directly from the bright tank is pure heaven. But I understand that not everyone brews their own, lives next to a brewery, and/or runs draft equipment in their house. So my standard advice is - if the beer you want is available in both bottles and cans, get the cans. As always, beer should be poured into a clean, dry, room-temperature glass before consumption. While that may be true, I prefer to avoid those particular types of establishments. And in any case, you're supposed to pour that can into a beer glass when one is available. And while I have no empirical experience to comment on the face-busting properties of a taper pint, I'd wager that they're comparable to a bottle. |