And we have Albert Einstein to thank for splitting the beer atom to get carbonation!
That could be interesting.
I very rarely have canned beer. I much prefer to have it from a draft keg in a glass or from glass containers.
If you ever get to have beer from a wooden barrel, you would be in heaven.
Water going bad. I still can't get over that idea. Usually that would involve industrial run-off, murdered people upstream, etc.
Real reason is people will not buy it.
The glass bottle is half of what you are buying. It feels colder in your hand, smoother. Your not a snot nose kid any more, sneaking beer into the demolition derby. You deserve to carry around a deadly weapon while you drink your beer just like everyone else. Much more classy than a plastic soda bottle. See? You just got more of what you didnt even know you wanted.
I swear that the taste of soda in .glass bottles was better than the taste from the new plastic bottles. I don’t know what it was about the glass bottles, but it seems that when they went to plastic, the taste just wasn’t the same. Could be all in my mind, but I hated it when they switched to plastic
“...Well, as it turns out, beer tends to lose its carbonation and become stale in plastic bottles, whereas soda does not.”
Just this morning while looking through the pantry for the BIG bottle of Bailey’s (to refill the small bottle in the liquor cabinet - medicinal purposes dontcaknow) I uncovered plastic bottles of Diet Coke and Canada Dry Tonic - both with their sides caved in — clearly all of the fizz is gone from these bottles...
Can’t defend yourself with a plastic beer bottle in a bar fight.
The article is wrong regarding sodas. Soda drinks in plastic bottles is undrinkable swill. The plastic bottle expands and contracts with temperature change, which alters the carbonation and taste...it is flat. More so for beer unless it is a very rigid plastic bottle. Cans are not quite so bad, but the holy grail is soda made with real cane sugar in a glass bottle.
Besides a plastic bottle doesnt hack it in a bar fight .........
Soda and seltzer water does go flat in plastic bottles. Why do you think that they go so rdiculously cheap quite often, but beer does not?
“Plastic is simply not a good package for beer,” said Chuck Skypeck, the director of technical brewing projects at the Brewers Association. “The molecular structure of most plastics is not good at keeping carbonation in the package/product or keeping oxygen out to prevent staling.”
Putting it another way, soda and beer dissolve the plastic.
I saw BUD in plastic bottles sold at a NY Yankees game in 2012.
A more important question is why isn’t wine required to have calorie/nutrition info on the bottles LIKE EVERY OTHER FOOD OR BEVERAGE IS REQUIRED TO HAVE?
Thought I read on FR the benefit of glass is that it is more recyclable than plastic. Something along the lines of glass simply is melted down and formed into another product. But since I read that I’ve probably had a bunch of beers from glass bottles.
Cans just aren’t the same. Neither is plastic. That first Coke in a bottle with your friends set the precedent.
As for beer, there were those hot summer days as a kid when you visited grandparents for a cookout. All your cousins were there. Danny, the troublemaker, but always fun suggests going into the cellar and getting a bottle of beer from the fridge. “C’mon”, he says, “all the grownups are drinking. They’ll never miss it.” Ice cold Ballatine beer from a glass bottle on a hot summer’s day hit the spot. It reminds you of the independence you felt going to the filling station with friends to get a refreshing Coke. Same sweltering heat, same beads of perspiration on the bottle, but this was beer and you were getting away with something. It tasted terrible. But at later family gatherings, we would regale about this great moment and how grandpa asked us boys as we departed if we enjoyed our beer.
Later in in high school I learned beer has a metal taste coming from a can. It’s much better from a glass bottle or a keg. It was definitely preferable from a keg because you need a group to drink, and that’s a party.
To this day, I don’t buy beer in a can. Hopefully I never will have to buy it in a plastic bottle. As for Coke, I don’t buy it at all. They went woke.
I used to have a Mr.Beer kit and I saved up a bunch of A&W Root Beer bottles to put the beer in. I stored the beer in the refrigerator and it turned out fine. That might not be the same result for factory beer that is shipped and stored in various conditions before it gets to the customer.
I think that plastic is used almost exclusively at any of the ‘brew your own’ places that I’ve used in the past....
And we have Albert Einstein to thank for splitting the beer atom to get carbonation!
2 Liter bottles of beer are not a problem. Just drink it as soon as you get to the car.