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Bottled vs Canned Beer

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  • #32
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    It annoys me that I can't get 500ml cnas over here and everything is 330ml bottles. Bottles are always more expensive too.

    THall04 wrote: »
    Glass Bottles got to go to the bottle bank , most waste companies won't accept glass in the recycling bin.......and you're an enemy of mother earth if you leave them go to landfill.

    glass has gone in the recycling bin for the last 7 or 8 years.


  • #33
    -=al=-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,328 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    wazky wrote: »
    Wrap a wet kitchen tissue around a bottle and leave in the freezer for about 10 minutes, pretty damn cold.

    That little life hack works so well!

    I don't mind either once they're cold it's ok... If they're poured into an appropriate glass properly it's fine too. Cans of Punk IPA are lovely though but so are the bottles!

    Recycle responsibly :pac:


  • #34
    THall04
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭THall04


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »



    glass has gone in the recycling bin for the last 7 or 8 years.

    Thorntons Recycling
    Greyhound Recycling
    The City Bin Company
    and Wastepal......represent a fair chunk of the waste collection market in Ireland and none of them accept glass in the bin.

    Then again Greenstar might.......


  • #35
    LizzieJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    yawhat! wrote: »
    Is it just me or does bottled beer taste 10 times nicer than cans of beer?

    I'm not a beer drinker but I think anything in bottles tastes much better then in a can.
    Cans have a weird tinny aftertaste.


  • #36
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    I can't think of a beer I would drink where I even have the option of a can.


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  • #37
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    You can't glass someone with a can. Not that I have ever done or would condone that type of behaviour. Just Saying. If it's for drinking only then a bottle.


  • #38
    Sugarlumps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,068 ✭✭✭Sugarlumps


    It depends, beers of the same brand will taste different in a can or bottle, at least that's what I find. Usually can's win out for me.


  • #39
    Gannicus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭Gannicus


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    If your chilling them, yeah. If your not, better from the can.
    seamey beag84 wrote: »
    Spot on.. A warm bottle of beer is too foamy, cans aren't as bad..

    Any warm beer tastes like p!ss fermented under a radiator regardless of the container.

    If we're going like for like but I'd take bottles over can any day.


  • #40
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Bottles every day, cans leave a manky after taste.

    Although thankfully it's rare to see cans these days, usually just the cheap 30 cent a can crap :)


  • #41
    Gannicus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭Gannicus


    jester77 wrote: »
    Bottles every day, cans leave a manky after taste.

    Although thankfully it's rare to see cans these days, usually just the cheap 30 cent a can crap :)


    Cans have a horrible metally during taste aswel.


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  • #42
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    In the words of James Hetfield....
    "Beer Good! Napster Baaaaaaad!"


  • #43
    earlytobed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭earlytobed


    Big Steve wrote: »
    Cans have a horrible metally during taste aswel.

    Only when drank (drunk?) straight from the can.
    Pour it in a glass and its fine


  • #44
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Bottles, much better, no metallic taste that you get from a can.

    Also, I've recently turned my back on lagers/pilsner in favour of ales.

    Get to OBriens, pick up a bottle of some of the following.

    Oharas Irish pale ale (osheas in Aldi is basically same stuff)
    All day session ale (delicious)
    Coopers sparkling ale. (Australian, fermented in the bottle, so cloudy with a bit of sediment)

    You'll never look back.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,773 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cans as they are better value and bigger. Outside the pub I rarely drink anything except Bavaria and its delicious from either a bottle or a can so unless the bottles are cheaper I get cans.


  • #46
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Seaneh wrote: »
    Cans get cold quicker and stay cold longer.
    Really?

    I would have thought that the physical properties of a can which make the first part of your sentence true would also mean the second part couldn't be true?


  • #47
    The Mig
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 2,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Mig


    Bottled for me


  • #48
    Green Mile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭Green Mile


    I would love a beer right now


  • #49
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    awec wrote: »
    Bottles all the way.

    They are a nuisance to get rid of though.


    Begby them.


  • #50
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,644 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Dark brown bottles.

    Every bottle of Heineken sold in Ireland ever has been skunked.


  • #51
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,827 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Oh, bottled all the way.

    I made the mistake of buying a few cans of Heineken at Christmas cos they were dirt cheap.
    Well holy God, they were vile.

    Bitter and acidic and just absolutely disgusting.
    Bottled tastes 100% different and so much nicer.


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  • #52
    Speak Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,894 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Dont mind either once i have a glass to pour them in. Dont like drinking from bottles at all.


  • #53
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    I'd drink beer out of a smelly welly to be honest.

    If it's lager you're hoovering down the hatch then I don't really think it matters that much.


  • #54
    Gannicus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭Gannicus


    earlytobed wrote: »
    Only when drank (drunk?) straight from the can.
    Pour it in a glass and its fine

    Why pour a can into a glass when you can drink the beer straight from the glass bottle?


  • #55
    MonstaMash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭MonstaMash


    ted1 wrote: »
    where stocks it?

    I get it on draught in the harbour bar in bray. Great beer.
    Hollands off license in Bray stock Punk IPA in cans ;)


  • #56
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,535 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    As someone who brews beer, there's absolutely no difference. Aluminium cans are coated internally with plastic, so anybody who says they get a metal taste off cans is imagining things.

    I guarantee you that the vast majority of people couldn't tell you whether a beer's come from a can or bottle in a blind taste test.


  • #57
    Blitzkrieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,676 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    Maybe the metallic taste is from the rim of the can rather than the beer itself? I prefer bottles because glass (as long as it's clean) doesn't affect the taste. Rarely drink cans "scumbag style" though; just pour it into a pint glass.


  • #58
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Drinking from the can or bottle means you don't get the full flavour of the beer anyway because flavour is only about 15 what you taste and then the rest is made up of smell, texture, mouth feel, etc.

    I explaind this recently in the Beer, Wine and Spirits forum here.

    The reason people like thinks like Bud, Heiniken, Corona, Coors Light, etc from bottles more than cans is because the bottles have a much smaller opening and you actually taste far less of the beer, which in the case of main stream lagers is probably a good thing.


    Buy a can and bottle each of Punk IPA, taste them both from the can and from the bottle and then do a blind tasting from two glasses.

    They beer will taste slightly different depending on whether you drink it from the can or the bottle but both will taste identical from the glasses.


  • #59
    mopey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭mopey


    depends, certainly for cider it does, tap is always vile, pint bottles yum, and can tastes like can

    but with beer ive not noticed a difference between turborg and bavaria between can and tap, with the exception that sometimes the pint tastes the way feet smell

    but that can be said for all beer


  • #60
    Jamsiek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Jamsiek


    I think it depends in what's in the can/bottle.
    I find that cans in Ireland or the UK tend to be 500ml and intended for pouring into a pint glass.
    In Canada or the US, cans are smaller and it's much more common to drink from a can and not look pikeyish.
    I still pour it into a glass though. Same goes for bottles.


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  • #61
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    hfallada wrote: »
    In Germany beer is usually sold in brown bottles and never really cans. Even through the bottles are emptied into glasses anyways

    Budweiser was the first US beer company to sell cans of beer. They were being hammered by low cost beer sellers. To reduce their costs they switched to cans and budweiser rapidly increased in popularity( A harvard business review reading for college)

    Mentioning Germany. Big retailers, such as Aldi and Lidl sell beer is plastic bottles :confused:

    But for me it's usually glass bottles, I'm a bit of a traditionalist.


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