What's better than bottles? Fresh out of the tap.
Cans may be fine for Budweiser or Keystone or some other pi$$water beer but not for my Polygamy Porter!
One feature of Asian societies that is seldom acknowledged is that they all HATE each other and look on each other as subhuman. The Vietnamese hate the Montagnards and the Cambodes and the Chinese. Everyone hates the Japanese. The Japanese hate everyone indiscriminately. Ond on and on. The Japanese may be the worst for this but the other countries aren’t much better. The Norks and Chinese might tolerate each other for various reasons but underneath it all they truly detest each other. Worse than they do us. I picked this up during my 3 years in the West Pacific in the Navy and have seen nothing since that would change my opinion.
I am a lifelong beer drinker and was once a bottle snob but I can honestly say that I prefer today’s cans to bottles. There is no metallic taste whatsoever in cans. (Have you ever heard anyone complain of a metallic taste in a can of Coca-Cola or 7-Up? Or of an aluminum taste in food wrapped in or even cooked in aluminum foil?). On the other hand, I frequently detect a metallic taste in bottles that comes from the metal bottle caps. The caps lack the thick plastic lining that they once had. Cans are also easier to carry and dispose of. And, as a pool owner, they are a lot safer.
My favorite cans are the 16 ounce (pint) sized cans with the screw tops. They are a perfect size and feel great in your hand. Unfortunately, they do not seem to be used by the better breweries at this time, but that will change. My only pet peeve with cans are the ones that have labels glued on to them. These are becoming more common but they look cheap and do not feel right in your hand.