Bottles or Cans?
Cliff_Forster
Icrontian
I read this interesting article today. Apparently Sam Adams spent a pretty penny to design a can worthy of good beer.
What does Icrontic think? I've always preferred popping a can on a summer day. It's easier to carry a suitcase of cans from the store, easier to store, easier to dispose of (recycle). Can's get cold faster, it's just got this stigma to it, like, if it's in a can, it must be swill... (because often that's the case). Most good beer was packaged bottle only but this is changing.
I've seen what for me is a positive trend to cans. They are just a better way to package beer. Cans don't allow light in, they are lighter, easier to transport, create less waste, not to mention less dangerous. I've seen a few nasty cuts from beer bottles. Flying Dog in Maryland recently started canning a few varieties. It's great, and it tastes just as amazing.
Now that some micro-brew's are canning, will it change the way you drink? Will you role up to your next cookout with a cooler of Boston Beer Company's Summer Ale in cans? If your favorite micro-brew started canning, would you prefer it that way, or still stick with bottles?
What does Icrontic think? I've always preferred popping a can on a summer day. It's easier to carry a suitcase of cans from the store, easier to store, easier to dispose of (recycle). Can's get cold faster, it's just got this stigma to it, like, if it's in a can, it must be swill... (because often that's the case). Most good beer was packaged bottle only but this is changing.
I've seen what for me is a positive trend to cans. They are just a better way to package beer. Cans don't allow light in, they are lighter, easier to transport, create less waste, not to mention less dangerous. I've seen a few nasty cuts from beer bottles. Flying Dog in Maryland recently started canning a few varieties. It's great, and it tastes just as amazing.
Now that some micro-brew's are canning, will it change the way you drink? Will you role up to your next cookout with a cooler of Boston Beer Company's Summer Ale in cans? If your favorite micro-brew started canning, would you prefer it that way, or still stick with bottles?
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If you're drinking from the container it probably matters whether you are a sipper (either will work) or a chugger (wide mouth can is probably best here).
If you're pouring into a glass and there's sediment you're trying to avoid (homebrew and some craft/micro brews), glass would certainly be easier to see whether things have settled and when you're approaching the non-clear liquid. Otherwise it's probably a tossup.
But acutally, I would love to see some one my favorite micro brews sell in cans... As long as the pandas dont get cancer.
http://www.craftcans.com/db.php?reg=Colorado
I've tried a large number of canned beer out here from stouts to pils and they are all delicious.
In essence, I'm entirely for it. I think canned beer simply has a bad rep because of BUD. When I bbq on my deck, and it's a beer day, I choose can. 'Merica.
If it's good beer (Finch's Secret Stache Vanilla Stout is one particularly well put together example), the container starts to become irrelevant.
That said, I'm more about tradition. Sam Adams going to cans irks me. But I know they put a ton of money into making their own can so I probably would drink it
I prefer bottles simply for the fact that cans pull my mustache hairs.
@Mertesn My experience is opposite. Chugging is easier from a bottle (for me at least).
@BobbyDigi also has a valid point for us manly men.
After a side-by-side, I can confirm the beer tastes just as good out of a can. I had a sort of placebo effect at first, I was convincing myself that there had to be a difference, but after a few of them it's straight up the Boston Lager we all know. Lots of other CA micro/craft brews come in cans as well, and they all rule. Stouts to Wheat ales, I've never had a beef. I still like glass bottles though for certain things.