Beer in cans vs. beer in bottles -- the great debate

so I was drinking nice german lager from a bottle the other day in a shopping mall. took one swig, it was alright, took another swig, when I lowered the bottle, all of a sudden there was a groundswell of carbonation and beer came shooting up out of the top and all around me! luckily noone got hit but I felt embarrassed as hell. why does this happen?

see also: belgian beers which overflow as soon as you open them, despite you not having touched them for a good 36 hours.

beer spouting out of the bottle is super embarrassing

People who drink beer from cans are disgusting savages.

Everything tastes better out of a bottle but cans always seem to be bigger and better value.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:37 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's not better value if it's not as good, is it?

i drink beer from cans, it's pretty good!

DALE'S

soooooooo good. right now.

i did not realize til i just went to their site that it's 6.5%, that's always a plus.

I don't think I've ever had an Oskar Blues beer, but there's a couple of local craft breweries here in Chicago (Half Acre, Finch's) that use cans exclusively for their year-round releases, so I no longer associate canned beer exclusively with shitty corporate lager. Ska's Modus Hoperandi is one that I see fairly often, too.

the new Deviant Dale's is pretty killer -- not sure how far & wide it's being distributed. i live down the street from the oskar blues brewery.

I've heard of Oskar Blues, but I don't recall ever having seen it locally. Maybe Jeff or askance johnson or t0dd sw1ss can correct me.

sixpoint was pretty much the nail in the coffin for my bottle snobbery. But I don't drink from the can, I pour it into a glass. Can taste is still gross.

I don't think cans taste any worse than bottles, honestly, but I pour into a glass whenever possible as well.

Surly really changed my mind on this, but i am also warming up to the 21st amendment brewery stuff too.

tbh I just like bottles because they are bottles

i thought this would be about the new miller lite can that makes it even easier to shotgun beers

tell me more

http://gizmodo.com/5905591/miller-lites-punch-top-can-is-a-shotgunners-delight

I hope they have an ad campaign that ends with a message to shotgun responsibly and know your limit

psh, whole point of shotgunning is drinking the beer out of anywhere but the top of the can.

love dale's and surly and i totally get why cans would be better for transporting/storing beer, but i still like drinking out of bottles better (hurting otm, you can taste the aluminum). if it's good beer in a can, i'll decant too.

even bad cheap beer tastes way better out of a bottle than straight from a can. in fact sometimes it stops tasting so bad.

Vessel matters not to me.

me neither. oskar blues convinced me a few years back. don't think any beer nowadays tastes different out of a bottle than out of a can. definitely used to, back in the old days, before they started lining the cans w plastic or whatever.

ha, very timely -- a friend just sent me news of this, the latest oskar blues beer, in an aluminum bottle
http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/assets_c/2012/05/B%20Stiff%20Root%20Beer%20Can-thumb-180x335.jpg
more info: http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2012/05/nice_package_oskar_blues_packa.php

can debate ends here btw:

http://www.thefiftybest.com/content/beer/best_beers/images/alchemist_heady_topper_can.jpg

also

http://liquiddiets.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/hop_ottin_avbc0311.jpg

whoah sorry about huge img