Posted on 08/24/2004 8:03:26 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
PITTSBURGH - How much would you pay for a bottle of beer that stays cold nearly an hour longer? Pittsburgh Brewing Co., maker of Iron City Beer, is asking an additional $1 per case.
The brewery has partnered with Alcoa Inc., the world's largest aluminum maker, to produce aluminum bottles that keep beer colder for as much as 50 minutes longer than a glass bottle, Alcoa officials said.
About 20,000 cases of the new aluminum bottle beer are en route to as many as 28 states and should be on shelves this week, Alcoa and Pittsburgh Brewing said Tuesday.
The bottles have three times the aluminum of a typical beer can. That gives them superior insulation, Alcoa spokesman Kevin Lowery said.
It's not the first time Alcoa has teamed up with the local brewery to put out a new product. In 1962, the two put the first pull-tab beer cans on shelves, freeing beer drinkers of the need to carry openers with them.
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Pull-tabs - Man's greatest gift since air conditioning.
Might that be transparent aluminum, laddie?
They need to market beer in quart recyclable hdpe bags with a poke straw.
So these will be 2lb curls?
Carrying an opener is a small price to pay drink superior tasting beer.
Before these boys spend too much money, somebody should clue them in: You can already buy beer in alumnum containers -- they are called cans.
Glass bottle or on tap!
And therein lies the rub. I'll take glass, thanks, and if I need a non=breakable light alternative, I'll take the original cheaper aluminum can in a chest of fresh ice..LOL>
Ya beat me to it!
Ever have Guinness?
Looks like some girly-man shampoo.
Aluminum is one of the best thermal conductors available, it's not obvious how any aluminum contaimer can be better insulated than a glass one.
Who takes an hour to drink a bottle of beer?
They're a bitch when you smash them against your head though...
"Some people say they can taste the difference between beer in cans and bottles."
You know what's worse than beer out of a can...........it's the beer they serve in plastic cups at ball-parks. YLllllllCCCCCCCH!! You can taste the plastic everytime, at least I can.
The author is clearly not a science editor. Aluminum does NOT have better insulating properties than glass. The thermal conductivity for Aluminum is 200X greater than glass (247 W/mK vs 1.4 W/mK)
The author is clearly not a science editor. Aluminum does NOT have better insulating properties than glass. The thermal conductivity for Aluminum is 200X greater than glass (247 W/mK vs 1.4 W/mK)
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