kpr121
Well-Known Member
Except at ball parks, why?
Likely cost but could be because packaging can hurt marketability.
Would you be more likely to buy an expensive premium craft beer that comes in a 6-pack of sexy looking glass bottles or in basic aluminum cans?
Can's make it look like a low quality beer...plastic would do the same thing.
What do you mean? Just about every mega brewery has plastic bottles.
You can find them at my grocery stores....especially in the summer for "beach enjoyment."
Most beer drinkers who prefer what the market calls "import" or "premium" beer have always come packaged in pop top glass bottles. Even twist cap glass bottles "cheapens" the packaging to many consumers and makes them wonder if the beer they just spend $10+ for a sixxer was worth the investment.
I think the OP is maybe asking why there isn't a similar movement to bottle craft beer in PET like there is with canning these days.
I really love how folks read different things into the same 13 words.... He doesn't mention craft beer. Just beer....Anything else is an assumption.
I really love how folks read different things into the same 13 words.... He doesn't mention craft beer. Just beer....Anything else is an assumption.
Jayhem said:Likely cost but could be because packaging can hurt marketability.
Would you be more likely to buy an expensive premium craft beer that comes in a 6-pack of sexy looking glass bottles or in basic aluminum cans?
Can's make it look like a low quality beer...plastic would do the same thing.
I think the fact that this is a homebrewing forum leads many to assume he meant "craft beer".
I'd actually prefer cans to bottles...
I think this perception that craft beer needs to be in bottles is slowing changing. In Michigan here, there are several microbreweries that are selling in cans.
I'd LOVE a home aluminum can setup!
I have no answer. I would guess it's all market research findings related to perceived quality. Same for wine.
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I think this perception that craft beer needs to be in bottles is slowing changing.
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Honestly, it was mostly just a thought that popped into my head as I bought a Diet Coke out of the vending machine.
Bet you lived in Japan, not dontja....
I'm going to suggest recycle-ability... You can't just wash out a can or plastic bottle the way you can a re-usable glass bottle.
In this order, it's:
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
I'm going to suggest recycle-ability... You can't just wash out a can or plastic bottle the way you can a re-usable glass bottle.
In this order, it's:
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Originally Posted by hughmac View Post
I'd LOVE a home aluminum can setup!
Me too! I've considered buying the Bud/Bud Lights in the aluminum bottles and a bench capper, since that would be the closest us homebrewers could get.
Revvy said:Bet you lived in Japan, not dontja....
Aluminum is the most efficient from a recycling perspective, and personally I prefer glass, then can, then plastic if I'm drinking from the packaging. Although style matters too: an American Light Lager somehow just tastes 'right' from a can.
With my renewed interest in bottling (doing lotsa small batches), I've been considering PET quarts. Somehow I just can't pull the trigger though. I wish 2.5-3 gal cornie keg prices weren't so ridiculous these days! Shoulda stocked up in the '90s.
I'd LOVE a home aluminum can setup!
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